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Add MS 19654

Record Id:
032-003344804
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Add MS 19654
Title:
Samaritan prayers for Shavuot
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
55 folios (ii+55+iv)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1763
End Date:
1763
Date Range:
1763
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Finn, James, British consul, 1806-1872
Finn, James, British consul, 1806-1872
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Add MS 19654

Samaritan prayers for Shavuot

Contents

Samaritan prayers for Shavuot

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1r-55v
Title: Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-Shavuʻot
Title: תפלות מנהג שומרונים לשבועות
Colophon: Fol. 52r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with chain and laid lines; watermark: tré-lune.
Extent: 55 folios (ii+55+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 217 × 154 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 108 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Undeterminable (binding too tight)

Catchword on every verso; no signatures.

Condition

Usage stains.

Slight water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Even left margins.

Catchwords are diagonal.

Written in brown ink.

Hand(s)

Samaritan minuscule script and Arabic script of the 18th century. The scribe was Ghazal ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn Ishaq ibn Sadaqa ibn Ghazal, the Levitical Priest.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

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

Spine: 'Ordo Precum. Samaritan. Mus. Brit. Jure Empt. 19,654.'

History

Origin: 1763 West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

1853-01

James Finn (1806–1872), an Arabic and Hebrew scholar, consul at Jerusalem: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Purchased of J. Finn Esq. Consul at Jerusalem 17 Jan. 1853 Received 1 Nov.'

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_19654 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    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 22.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 74.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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