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Or 2687

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Or 2687
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch (Deuteronomy)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
63 folios (i+63+i)
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Languages:
Samaritan
Scripts:
Samaritan
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Ya'kub al Shalabi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2687

Samaritan Pentateuch (Deuteronomy)

Contents

Samaritan Pentateuch

Language(s): Samaritan

ff. 1r-63v
Author:
Title: תורה שומרונית (דברים)
Title: Torah Shomronit (Devarim)

In complete MS: lacking its beginning and part of its middle: Deut. 1:1-7, 12:11-14:21, 31:18-32:13.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, no traces of watermark.
Extent: 63 folios (i+63+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 150 × 103 mm.
Dimensions (written): 122 × 82 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

No catchword.

Condition

Usage stains, smudged ink, worm damage.

Extensive water damage.

Some folios are patched (e.g. fol. 63).

Fols. 25-28 have been torn out, new, blank leaves were fixed to their stubs.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Samaritan script of the 18th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Deuteronomy. Samaritan. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2687.'

History

Origin: 18th century ; West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'B[ough]t of Yakub al. Shalabi 9 Nov. 1883'. Date of accession July 1884: inscribed on fol. 63v.

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_2687 (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. 133.
    Credit: The National Library of Israel

Bibliography

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