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Title:
Samaritan prayer book
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
folios
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1770
End Date:
1770
Date Range:
1770
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 19007

Samaritan prayer book

Contents

Samaritan prayer book

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1r-143v
Author:
Author:
Title: Tefilot minhag Shomronim la-Shabat ha-sheniyah la-ḥodesh ha-rishon: be-ʿIvrit uve-ʿArvit
Title: תפלות מנהג שומרונים לשבת השניה לחדש הראשון : בעברית ובערבית

Defter. The internal rubric says: 'The second part of the liturgy being prayers for the Sabbaths, festivals and months' (fol. 1r).

Fol. 26v: prayers for the eve of Passover; f. 102v: prayers for Passover.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper, glossy, with chain and laid lines; tré-lune watermark and a star countermark.
Extent: folios
Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Catchword on every verso.

Signatures in Samaritan characters at the beginning of each quire.

Collation

14 quires of 10 leaves and 3 additional leaves at the end.

Condition

Folio 1 is patched.

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Text is 1 and 2 columns.

Even left margins.

Light brown ink.

Hand(s)

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

Scribe was Marhib b. Joshua b. Marhib b. Jacob, Marhib family.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Brown sheepskin Islamic flap case, blind-tooled. When it was gold blocked in the Library, it was recased, since the sewing is not Samaritan but European, and the spine became a hollow back.

Spine: 'Ordo Precum pro Festis Sabbatorum Etc. Samaritan. Mus. Brit. Jure Empt. 19,007.'

In the digital surrogate the front binding board with the flap closed is called back flyleaf (vi)r, the back binding board with the flap hidden is called back flyleaf (vi)v, and the fore edge is called back flyleaf (vii)r.

History

Origin: 1770 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

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

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19007 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Heidenheim, Moritz. Die samaritanische Liturgie. Bibliotheca Samaritana, Bd. II (Leipzig, 1885).
    Margilouth, George, ed., Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British Museum (London, 1893), p. 90.
    Steinschneider, Moritz, Die arabische Literatur der Juden (Frankfurt, 1902), I.
    Cowley, A. E. (ed.), The Samaritan Liturgy. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909), his MS L 2.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 63.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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