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Title:
Samaritan liturgy
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
41 folios (iv+41+iv)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1804
End Date:
1814
Date Range:
1804-1814
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Samaritan liturgy

Contents

Samaritan prayers and liturgical poetry

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1r-41v
Author:
Title: תפלות, פיוטים, תחנות וקינות
Title: Tefilot, piyuṭim, teḥinot ṿe-ḳinot

Prayers for the Sabbath of the Zimmut of Sukkot, the festival of the Seventh Month and the Sabbath of the Ten Days of Penitence.

It was part of a series of seven MSS.

The rubric to the title page has many errors in copying.

Colophon: ff. 1r and 36r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with chain lines and laid lines, andtre-lune watermark.
Extent: 41 folios (iv+41+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 154 × 112 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

4 quires: i12, ii8, iii-iv10, no signatures.

Catchwords are vectored diagonally on the verso sides.

Condition

Smudged ink, water damage.

Several damaged leaves have been restored.

Finger print on fol. 12r.

Layout

Columns:1

Folios are without ruling.

Hand(s)

Samaritan minuscule script of the 19th century, in black and red ink.

Scribe: Isaac ben Abraham, Danfi family, who wrote it for himself.

Decoration

A few geometrical decorations in red and black ink (ff. 1r, 24v).

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house: brown blind-tooled binding.

Spine: 'Ordo Festi Tabernac., etc. Samaritice. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 25.880.'

History

Origin: 1804-1814 West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

1864-08-06

Purchased of the [...] of the Rev. W. Cureton [...] 6(?) Aug. 1864.

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: British Library, 1998).

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Surrogates

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Bibliography

    Cowley, A. E. (ed.), The Samaritan Liturgy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909), his MS L 14.
    Crown, Alan David. A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998), no. 78.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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