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- Kashif al-ghayahib ’ala ’asrar al-wahib by Ghazal ibn Abi l-Sarur
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- Extent:
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Samaritan - Start Date:
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Add MS 19657
Kashif al-ghayahib ’ala ’asrar al-wahib by Ghazal ibn Abi l-Sarur
Contents
Commentary on the Samaritan Pentateuch (Genesis and Exodus) in Arabic.
Language(s): Arabic, Samaritan
ff. 1r-313vTitle: Kashif al-ghayahib ’ala ’asrar al-wahib (Be-reshit Shemot) : be-ʻArvit. Perush ha-Torah (Be-reshit-Shemot)Title: כאשף אלגיאהב עלא אסראר אל ואהב (בראשית שמות) : בערבית. פרוש התורה (בראשית-שמות)Autograph.
The author revised the commentary on Genesis by Muslim ibn Murjan (see London, BL Or 7925) and also wrote the commentary on Exodus in this MS.
Ghazal's commentary on Leviticus and Numbers is recognised in standard works on the subject, whereas this MS is sometimes overlooked (see the article 'Commentaries' in Crown, Pummer, Tal, Companion. I. R. M. Bóid, Principles of Samaritan Halakhah gives a fair introduction to this work in his introduction, p. 23.)
Colophon: ff. 4v, 146v and 309v.Physical Description
Paper codex of the 18th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with chain and laid lines; watermark of tré-lune mill.Extent: 313 folios (iv+313+iii)Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 148 mm.Dimensions (written): 135/150 × 90/100 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals.
Collation
Quires of mostly 10 leaves.
Catchwords at the end of some quires, and sometimes within the quires.
Condition
Some folios patched, including folio.
Fol. 160 patched and the lower part of the leaf with the text is missing.
Smudged ink.
Usage stains.
Layout
Columns:1
Written lines: 17
Title written on the lower edge.
A few marginal notes in Arabic and Greek.
Hand(s)
Arabic script (main text) and Samaritan minuscule script (lemma) of the 18th century.
Written by the author, Ghazal ibn Abi Sarur ibn Ghazal ibn Abi el-Sarur ibn Saʾad as Safawi al-Ghazi, Meter family.
Decoration
Additions:ff. 2v-4v: different hand, brown ink.
Binding
Samaritan binding, blind-tooled; restored, recased, with new end papers added. The spine has become a hollow back.
Spine: 'Commentarius in Pentateuchum Arab. Sam. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 19,657.'
History
Origin: 1753-1754 Gaza?Provenance and Acquisition
Samaritan owners: Abraham ben Jacob ben Murjan, Danfi family.Ismail ibn Ibrahim ibn Ismail ibn Ibrahim, Danfi family (fol. 4v).
A reader's mark of Isaac b. Salama b. Tabya, the Levitical priest, who was asked, apparently, to testify to the validity and quality of the commentary and MS, for a purchaser, in 1834.
1853-04
James Finn (1806–1872), an Arabic and Hebrew scholar, consul at Jerusalem: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Purchased of MR. J. Finn Consul at Jerusalem 8 April 1853. 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
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19657 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Nutt, John, Fragments of a Samaritan Targum with an Introduction Containing a Sketch of Samaritan History, Dogma and Literature (London, 1874).Margoliouth, George, ed., Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British Museum (London, 1893), p. 91.Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the British Library (London, 1894).Bóid, I. R. M., Principles of Samaritan Halakhah: Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity (Leiden: Brill, 1989).Crown, Alan D., R. Pummer and A. Tal, eds., Companion to Samaritan Studies (Tübingen: Mohr, 1994).Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 30.Funding of Cataloguing
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