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Add MS 19651

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Add MS 19651
Title:
Samaritan prayers for Yom Kipur
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
196 folios (iii+196+iii)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1767
End Date:
1770
Date Range:
1767-1770
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 19651

Samaritan prayers for Yom Kipur

Contents

Samaritan prayers for Yom Kipur

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1r-196r
Title: Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-Yom Kipur
Title: תפלות מנהג שומרונים ליום כפור

Colophon: ff. 28r, 36v, 47r, 57v, 88v, 152v.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper, glossy, with chain and laid lines; watermark: tré-lune with the countermark AS.
Extent: 196 folios (iii+196+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 152 mm.
Dimensions (written): 134 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil, done in November 1884 (already in the British Museum).

Collation

19 quires: i-xviii10, xix8 (last quire included 2 unfoliated blank leaves at the end)

Catchword on every verso; signatures in Samaritan characters as well as in Eastern Arabic numerals. The first quire is numbered as 91 and the last is 109 indicating that the work was part of a series written for the annual liturgical cycle.

Condition

Usage stains.

ff. 78-82 are patched.

Layout

Columns:2

Even left margins.

Ruling is done with stylus for the frame and the central columns.

Catchwords are diagonal.

Written in black ink; from fol. 168r: black and red ink are both used.

Hand(s)

Samaritan minuscule script and Arabic script of the 18th century. The scribes were Salama b. Jacob . Murjan b. Ibrahim and Netanel b. Abd Yahweh b. Abd Zehuta. Changes in scribalpractice towards the end of the MS suggest that there may have been a third, unnamed scribed.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Islamic leather flap binding, blind-tooled; recased and restored with most of the original cover saved but with a new spine (boxed). On the front cover, Judeo-Arabic note about the content of the MS.

Spine: 'Services for the Day of Atonement. Samaritan. Brit. Mus. Additional MS. 19651.'

In the digital surrogate the front binding with the flap is called back flyleaf (iv)r, the back binding with the flap tucked in is called back flyleaf (iv)v, and the fore edge is called back flyleaf (v)r.

History

Origin: ff. 1-152r: 1767 (1181 AH); ff. 152v-196r: 1770 (1184 AH) ; Shechem?

Provenance and Acquisition

James Finn (1806–1872), an Arabic and Hebrew scholar, consul at Jerusalem: inscribed on back flyleaf (iii)v: 'Purchased of J. Finn Esq. Consul at Jerusalem in Nov. 1852 but not received till 1 Nov. 1853. [JM]'.

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).

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19651 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Heidenheim, Moritz. Die samaritanische Liturgie. Bibliotheca Samaritana, Bd. II (Leipzig, 1885), no. X, XII, XIV, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXIII.
    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 18.
    MacDonald, John, 'A Critical Edition of the Text of the Samaritan Yom-haKippur Liturgy with a Translation thereof and Comparison with the Corresponding Jewish Liturgies' (PhD Dissertation, University of Leeds, 1958).
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 72.

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