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Or 10557
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:
199 folios (i+199+vi)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
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Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1906
End Date:
1906
Date Range:
1906
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Hijri-qamari
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Abisha b. Pinhas
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10557

Samaritan liturgy

Contents

Samaritan liturgy for Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1v-199r
Author:
Title: סדר תפלות מנהג השומרונים לפסח, קציר וסוכות
Title: Seder Tefilot minhag ha-Shomronim le-Fesaḥ, Ḳatsir ṿe-Sukot

Incomplete at the beginning, and with some lacunae.

According to the colophon on f. 198v, it was written to Abisha b. Pinhas, the priest.

ff. 1v-91v
Title: Evening prayers for Passover
ff. 92v-147r
Title: Hymns and evening prayers for Pentecost
ff. 147v-199r
Title: Liturgy for the evening of Sukkot

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper without laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 199 folios (i+199+vi)
Dimensions (leaf): 174 × 109 mm.
Dimensions (written): 115 × 83 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 1r and 92r are blank.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves.

No signatures; catchword on every verso.

Condition

Smudged ink stains due to slight water damage? (e.g. f. 85r).

Layout

Columns:1

Text mostly in 1 column.

Uniform layout.

Even left margins.

Hand(s)

Samaritan script and Arabic script of the 20th century, in black and red ink.

Scribe: Shalom b. Shalom b. Abd Allah b. Meshalmah, Danfi family.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Islamic flap red buckram binding, tight-back.

Spine: 'לילות פסח קציר סכות.'

History

Origin: 1906 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Gaster's note on f. 199v: 'M.G. XI '910'

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1111: inscribed with his name on fol. 199v; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 16 November 1931: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v.

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

    Gaster, M., Catalogue of Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts, in the Gaster Collection, Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts [Photographic reproduction of entries for the British Museum (now British Library) manuscripts as extracted from the original Gaster Handlist), p. 146.
    Gaster, M., Handlist of Gaster Manuscripts held mostly in the British Library (formerly British Museum) London and in the John Rylands Library, Manchester [preface by Brad Sabin Hill (London, Hebrew Section, Oriental and India Office Collections, The British Library, 1995) (handlist, limited distribution), p.91.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 58, no. 645.
    Crown, Alan David, A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998), no. 100.

Bibliography

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