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- Samaritan liturgy
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- Extent:
- 141 folios (vi+141+iii)
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Samaritan - Scripts:
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Samaritan - Start Date:
- 1782
- End Date:
- 1782
- Date Range:
- 1782
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
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Add MS 19650
Samaritan liturgy
Contents
Samaritan liturgy for Passover.
Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic
ff. 1r-138vTitle: תפלות מנהג שומרונים לפסחTitle: Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-Fesaḥ'Not the liturgy for Passover as indicated by Margoliouth and in the accessions register, but the services for the first (fol. 66r) and second of Nisan and the first(fol. 125v) and the second (ff. 133v and 137v) Sabbaths in Nisan. The text starts in the middle of the songs in praise of Moses and the associated ketafim.' (cf. Crown).
Incomplete at the beginning.
Colophons on ff. 5r and 138v. The upper half of the colophon on fol. 138v surrounded by a frame states that the copy was completed on Thursday 10 Rabī‘ I (= 1 Shubāṭ) 1197/13 February 1783 by Ghazāl ibn al-Marhūm Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm (غزال ابن المرحوم إسحاق ابن إبراهيم). The lower half of colophon also records records information about the patrons of the manuscript, namely one ‘Abduh Shalabī (?) ibn al-Marḥūm (عبده شلبي ابن المرحوم) and his sons Yūsuf (يوسف), Ya‘qūb (يعقوب) and ‘Abd al-Laṭīf (عبد اللطيف), and is dated 22 Jumādá (I ?) 1197/14 April (?) 1783.
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 18th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, tre-lune watermark (e.g. fol. 3).Extent: 141 folios (vi+141+iii)Dimensions (leaf): 222 × 150 mm.Dimensions (written): 135 × 100 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil in the lower outer margin.
Previous foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil, in the upper outer corner, from left to right.
Collation
20 quires of 10 leaves.
Signatures in Eastern Arabic numerals at the beginning and end of quires. Signature on fol. 1r shows that it is the beginning of quire 8, that is, 6 quires are missing from the beginning of the MS.
Catchword on every verso.
Condition
Usage stains, slight water damage.
Layout
Columns:1
Text in 1 or 2 columns.
Uniform layout.
Even left margins.
Ruling for justification lines and frame only.
Hand(s)
Samaritan script and Arabic script of the 18th century.
Scribe: Ghazal ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim.
Decoration
Additions:Arabic scribble on front flyleaf (v)r.
Binding
Brown leather binding, blind-tooled. Arabic inscription on top of front cover in black ink. Boxed.
Spine: 'Services for Passover. Samaritan. Brit. Mus. Additional MS. 19650.'
Accompanying Material
ff. 45-46 (a bifolium) are from another MS, catchword on fol. 46v does not match the text on fol. 47r.
History
Origin: 1782 West Bank (Shechem)Provenance and Acquisition
Ownership(?) inscription on fol. 139v dated 17 Rabī‘ I 1244/27 September 1828 mentions ‘Abduh and (عبده) his son Ibn ‘Abduh ‘Abd al-Laṭīf ibn al-Marḥūm (ابن عبده عبد اللطيف ابن المرحوم).
Fol. 140v: reader's inscription: undated, by ‘Abduh and his son Ibn ‘Abduh (عبده وابن عبده).
Fol. 141v: ownership inscription: undated, of ‘Abduh Shalabī (?) ibn al-Marḥūm (عبده شلبي ابن المرحوم).
1853-11-01
James Finn (1806–1872), an Arabic and Hebrew scholar, consul at Jerusalem: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Purchased for B.M. by John Finn Esq. Consul at Jerusalem. Nov. 1852. Received 1 Nov. 1853'.
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).Availability
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19650 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Heidenheim, M., Die samaritanische Liturgie. Bibliotheca Samaritana, II (Leipzig, 1885), no. I.Margoliouth, George, ed., Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British Museum (London, 1893), p. 91.Cowley, A. E. (ed.), The Samaritan Liturgy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909), his MS L 4, his principal MS for the Passover liturgy.Lerner, I., "Critical Investigation and Translation of the Special Liturgies of the Samaritans for their Passover and their Feast of Unleavened Bread" (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Leeds, 1956).Crown, Alan David, A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998), no. 71.Bibliography
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