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Add MS 26118

Record Id:
032-003355691
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Add MS 26118
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch (Genesis)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
74 folios (vi+74+vi)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26118 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Samaritan
Scripts:
Samaritan
Start Date:
1487
End Date:
1520
Date Range:
1487-1520
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
F. C. Tischendorf
Tabya b. Joseph b. Tabya
Tischendorf, Lobegott Friedrich Constantin, Biblical scholar, 1815-1874
Tischendorf, Lobegott Friedrich Constantin, Biblical scholar, 1815-1874
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Add MS 26118

Samaritan Pentateuch (Genesis)

Contents

Samaritan Book of Genesis.

Language(s): Samaritan

ff. 1r-74v
Author:
Title: תורה שומרונית (בראשית)
Title: Torah Shomronit (Be-reshit)

Incomplete at the beginning, starts with Gen. 3:1.

No colophon.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support: Parchment
Extent: 74 folios (vi+74+vi)
Dimensions (leaf): 110 × 83 mm.
Dimensions (written): 77 × 60 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

Indeterminable (binding too tight).

Paper leaves have been inserted into the original parchment MS to complete the text: ff. 3-4 and 14-15. Paper has laid lines and chain lines, but no traces of watermark.

No catchword.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Parchment is of poor quality, with there are a few holes (e.g. ff. 19, 35).

Lower edge of leaves unevenly cut.

Fol. 74 is hardly legible.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruling is visible.

Even left margins.

Hand(s)

Samaritan script of the 15th-16th century.

Main scribe: Hassebhi/Tabya b. Joseph b. Tabya, the Levitical Priest (and 'acting' High Priest when the High Priest, Pinhas was in exile), who was active between 1487 and 1520.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Brown leather binding, blind-tooled.

Spine: 'Genesis. Samaritan. Brit. Mus. Additional MS. 26118.'

History

Origin: 1487-1520 West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

1865-07-11

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (iv)v: 'Purch[ase]d of Dr. A. F. C. Tischendorf 11 July 1865'. Perhaps identical with L. F. C. Tischendorf?

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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26118 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Margoliouth, George, ed., Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British Museum (London, 1893), p. 92.
    Crown, Alan David, A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998), no. 128.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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