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Title:
Samaritan liturgy for Shemini Atseret
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
62 folios (v+62+viii)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1684
End Date:
1759
Date Range:
1684-1759
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Finn, James, British consul, 1806-1872
Finn, James, British consul, 1806-1872
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Add MS 19017

Samaritan liturgy for Shemini Atseret

Contents

Prayers for Shemini Atseret

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1r-62v
Title: Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-Shemini atseret
Title: תפלות מנהג שומרונים לשמיני עצרת

Includes the Qataf for the Sabbath of the festival of the eighth month, and additional prayers composed by the scribes.

Salama b. Murjan describes his prayers as being for the morning of Shemini Atseret in Shechem.

Colophon: Brief colophons on ff. 3r, 56r, 60v and 62r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper; watermarks: a clover leaf over VC (see Nikolaev, Watermarks, no. 267, dated 1684).
Extent: 62 folios (v+62+viii)
Dimensions (leaf): 185 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

Undeterminable (has been rebound, most probably originally quires of 10 leaves).

Catchword in every verso; no signatures.

Condition

Usage stains.

Water damage.

Lower middle part of the leaves patched.

Layout

Columns:1

Text in 1 and 2 columns.

Even left margins.

Hand(s)

Samaritan minuscule script and Arabic script of the 17th-18th century.

The main part of the text, ff. 4v-56r, was written in 1684-1685 by Murjan b. Ibrahim, the Danfi.

ff. 56v-60v were written in 1739 by Salama b. JAcob b. Ab Sakhwa.

ff. 1-3 and 61v-62v were written in 1759 by Salama b. Murjan, who took credit for the entire work, describing it as a כנוש.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Brown leather binding, blind-tooled.

Spine: 'Ordo Precum in Octavis Festi Tabernaculor. Samaritan. Mus. Brit. Iure Empt. 19,017.'

History

Origin: 1684-1759 Later additions: 1151 AH (1739) and 1166 AH(1759) Shechem

Provenance and Acquisition

1852-09

James Finn (1806–1872), an Arabic and Hebrew scholar, consul at Jerusalem: inscribed on back flyleaf (iii)v: 'Purchased of John (sic!) Finn Esq. Consul at Jerusalem (Sept 1852)'.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and Crown, Alan David: A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19017 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Heidenheim, Moritz. Die samaritanische Liturgie. Bibliotheca Samaritana, Bd. II (Leipzig, 1885), no. I.
    Margoliouth, George, ed., Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British Museum (London, 1893), p. 91.
    Cowley, A. E. (ed.), The Samaritan Liturgy. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909), his MS L 10.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 67.

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