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Or 2684

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Or 2684
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch (Exodus)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
85 folios
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Languages:
Samaritan
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Samaritan
Start Date:
1780
End Date:
1871
Date Range:
1780-1871
Era:
CE
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Or 2684

Samaritan Pentateuch (Exodus)

Contents

Samaritan Pentateuch.

Language(s): Samaritan

ff. 1v-85r
Author:
Title: תורה שומרונית (שמות)
Title: Torah Shomronit (Shemot)

The MS has been reconstructed in the 19th century by Jacob b. Aaron from an 18th century core.

Colophon on fol. 85r.

It was prepared for sale to the London MS market through Jacob B. Aaron and Jacob es-Shelaby. However Jacob b. Aaron gives no indication of the reconstruction in his colophon. Instead, he notes that he wrote it in the name of his two sons Joseph and Ozzi who, he hoped would learn Torah and wisdom from God.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: 18th-century part: paper with laid lines and chain lines; tré-lune watermark and; 19th-century part: paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: F.F. PALA[ZZUOLI].
Extent: 85 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 214 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 142 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

10 quires: i10 (fols. 1-10), ii4 (fols. 11-14), iii10 (fols. 15-24), iv8 (fols. 25-32), v6 (fols. 33-38), vi8 (fols. 39-46), vii-viii10 (fols. 47-56, 57-66), ix10 (fols. 67-76), x10-1 (fols. 77-85).

Quires added by Jacob b. Aaron in 1871: i-ii (fols. 1-14), iv-v (fols. 25-38), vii (fols. 47-66), and 77-85.

Signatures in Eastern Arabic numerals at the beginning and end of quires of the older, 18th-century part.

No catchword.

Condition

Usage stains, smudged ink, water damage.

Fol. 46 is damaged, only the inner left corner has left.

A few holes in some of the leaves (e.g. fols. 53, 84).

Layout

Columns:1

Older and newer parts are clearly distinguishable. Older parts: brownish ink, larger characters, narrower outer margins; newer parts: black ink, smaller characters, wider outer margins.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule scripts of the 18th and 19th century.

Scribe of the 18th-century part is not known; scribe of the 19th-century part: Jacob b. Aaron, the High Priest.

Decoration

Additions:

Notes in Arabic characters on fols. 83v, 85r.

Fol. 85v: scribbles in Arabic and Samaritan characters.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Exodus. Samaritan. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2684.'

History

Origin: 1780-1871 The reconstruction was completed in 1871 (Thursday, 1 Shawwal 1288 AH). West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'B[ough]t of Yakub al. Shalabi 9 Nov. 1883'. Date of accession July 1884: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)r.

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=Or_2684 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Margoliouth, George, ed., Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British Museum (London, 1893), p. 93.
    Derenbourg, Hartwig, 'Les manuscrits judaïques entrés au British Museum de 1867 à 1890'Revue des études juives, no. 45 (1891), pp. [99]-116, [279]-301.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 132.

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