Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??


Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...

Add MS 19652

Record Id:
032-003344602
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003344602
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100035379344.0x000002
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 19652
Title:
Samaritan prayers for the dead
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Hierarchy Tree:
[{ "id" : "032-003344602", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 19652: Samaritan prayers for the dead" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003344602
Is part of:
not applicable
Hierarchy:
032-003344602
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
196 folios (iii+53+viii)
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19652 (digital images currently unavailable)
Thumbnail:
Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1784
End Date:
1784
Date Range:
1784
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
Access:

Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.

Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.

Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.

If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.

This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.

User Conditions:
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Finn, James, British consul, 1806-1872
Finn, James, British consul, 1806-1872
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 19652

Samaritan prayers for the dead

Contents

Samaritan prayers for the dead

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1v-53v
Title: Tefilot minhag Shomronim : tefilot le-teḳes ha-ḳevurah
Title: תפלות מנהג שומרונים לאבלות : תפלות לטקס הקבורה

Colophon: ff. 26r, 33v, 45r and 53r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with chain and laid lines; watermark: tré-lune.
Extent: 196 folios (iii+53+viii)
Dimensions (leaf): 214 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

6 quires: i-vi10 (first quire includes blank unfoliated leaf before fol. 1; last quire included 5 unfoliated blank leaves at the end)

Catchword on every verso; signatures in Samaritan characters as well as in Eastern Arabic numerals.

Condition

Usage stains.

Extensive water damage.

Layout

Columns:2

Even left margins.

Text is written in 1 and 2 columns.

Catchwords are diagonal.

Written in black ink.

Hand(s)

Samaritan minuscule script and Arabic script of the 18th century. The scribe was Salama ibn Sarur ibn Yusuf ibn Sarur.

Decoration

Additions:

At the end of the MS on fol. 53v there is a page of calendar calculations for the year 1249AH (1833)

Binding

Brown leather binding, blind-tooled; probably originally an Islamic flap binding, but the flap was cut off(?) (boxed).

Spine: 'Ordo Precum Pro Mortuis. Samaritan. Mus. Brit. Jure Empt. 19,652. Plut. CCXIII. D.'

History

Origin: 1784 West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

1852-11

James Finn (1806–1872), an Arabic and Hebrew scholar, consul at Jerusalem: inscribed on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Purchased of J. Finn Esq. Consul at Jerusalem 13 Nov. 1852 Received 1 Nov. 1853'.

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

WARNING: Under current circumstances, not all items are available for consultation and orders can only be placed within Reading Rooms. Please contact Reading Room staff at the British Library for information on availability and for help with placing orders.

Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19652 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Heidenheim, Moritz. Die samaritanische Liturgie. Bibliotheca Samaritana, Bd. II (Leipzig, 1885), no. CXIX.
    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 19.
    Crown, Alan David, 'A Critical Edition and Translation of the Samaritan Burial Liturgy and a Comparative Study of the Cognate Jewish Liturgy' (MA Dissertation, University of Leeds, 1958).
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 73.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

BL