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Or 1448

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Or 1448
Title:
Samaritan liturgy for Passover
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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:
68 folios (68+i)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1872
End Date:
1872
Date Range:
1872
Era:
CE
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Or 1448

Samaritan liturgy for Passover

Contents

Samaritan prayers for Passover

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1v-68v
Author:
Title: תפלות מנהג שומרונים לפסח
Title: Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-Fesaḥ

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; tré-lune watermark (e.g. fol. 3) with the countermark: F.F. PALAZZUOLI (e.g. fols. 2, 12).
Extent: 68 folios (68+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 213 × 142 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140/145 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Fols. 1r, 42r and 57r are blank. Unfoliated blank leaf after fol. 41.

Collation

7 quires: i12, ii-v10, vi8, vii10-9.

Quire iv includes the blank, unfoliated leaf after fol. 41; quire vii includes the unfoliated leaf after fol. 68.

Catchword on almost every verso.

Condition

Water damage, usage stains, smudged ink.

Numerous leaves have been conserved, patched.

Layout

Columns:1

Text in 1 or 2 columns.

Uniform layout.

Even left margins.

A few marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Samaritan script and Arabic script of the 19th century, in black and red ink.

Scribe: Benjamin b. Jacob b. Shelaby/Tsedakah b. Jacob, Danfy family.

Fols. 43-46, 48-50 are written by a different hand than the rest of the MS.

Decoration

Fol. 4r: chart with pen decoration.

Fols. 21v-22r: text is written in the shape of geometrical design (carmina figurata).

Additions:

Binding

Islamic flap-binding. Red leather spine and marble paper cover.

Spine: 'Service-book. Samaritan. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1448.'

In the digital surrogate the fore edge is called back flyleaf (ii)r.

History

Origin: 1872 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Bought of Ya'kūb ash-Shalabī 13. October 1877'.

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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1448 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Crown, Alan David, A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998), no. 79.

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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