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Add MS 19013

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032-003345849
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Add MS 19013
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch (Genesis 1-28)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
55 folios (v+55+v)
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Languages:
Samaritan
Scripts:
Samaritan
Start Date:
1769
End Date:
1780
Date Range:
1769-1780
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 19013

Samaritan Pentateuch (Genesis 1-28)

Contents

Samaritan Pentateuch (Genesis 1-28)

Language(s): Samaritan

ff. 1r-54r
Author:
Author:
Title: Torah Shomronit (Be-reshit 1-28)
Title: תורה שומרונית (בראשית א-כח)

Colophon: Fol. 55r (probably though not by the scribe).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with chain and laid lines; tré-lune watermark
Extent: 55 folios (v+55+v)
Dimensions (leaf): 209 × 152 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

Collation is undeterminable.

No catchwords.

Condition

Leaves are in a very fragile condition and many of them patched.

Extensive iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

The MS has been put together from several paper batches but there is a continuity in the writing style across the batches.

Even left margins.

Brown ink.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script of the 18th century.

There is some doubt about who wrote this text. There is an undated colophon on the last folio (fol. 55r), in which Abd Allah b. Adballah b. Assad b. Salama b Sarur claims to have written 'this writing' on a Tuesday. However his handwriting is not similar to the other hands found in the MS.

The majority of the text is written by a late 18th-century hand on an 18th-century tré-lune paper.

Some folios (18-19) appear to be in a different hand.

The ḳitsah markings of ff. 1-28 are different from the general qissah mark found in texts and look as if they are identical with those of Salama b. Jacob b. Ab Sakhwa b. Abraham b. Ishmael (cf. Add MS 19012).

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Brown leather binding, western codex style, blind-tooled, probably prepared in the BM. Boxed.

Spine: 'Liber Genesis. Samaritan. Mus. Brit. Jure Empt. 19,013.'

History

Origin: 1769-1780 Nablus

Provenance and Acquisition

James Finn (1806–1872), an Arabic and Hebrew scholar, consul at Jerusalem: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Purchased of John (sic!) Finn Esq. 18 Sept 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).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19013 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Margoliouth, George, ed., Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British Museum (London, 1893), p. 90.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 122.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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