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Or 12270
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- Or 12270
- Title:
- Lithography of a Samaritan Pentateuch (Exodus)
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Record Type (Level):
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- Extent:
- 55 folios (v+55+i)
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12270 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Samaritan
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- Start Date:
- 1864
- End Date:
- 1864
- Date Range:
- 1864
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- CE
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Or 12270
Lithography of a Samaritan Pentateuch (Exodus)
Contents
Samaritan Pentateuch (Book of Exodus), copy of an earlier manuscript.
Language(s): Samaritan
ff. 3r-52vTitle: תורה שומרונית (שמות)Title: Torah Shomronit (Shemot)Colophon in Samaritan characters.
A lithographic copy of an 11th-century Samaritan MS: Cambridge, UL, MS Add. 1846.
One of a series of lithographs produced in Jerusalem in 1859, and again in 1864 for the sale to tourists.
Filiation: See Cambridge, UL MS Add. 1846 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-01846/1)Colophon: 'ירושלים 1864' f. 52vPhysical Description
Paper codex of the 19th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 55 folios (v+55+i)Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 187 mm.Dimensions (written): 180 × 160 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals.
Collation
Catchword on every page.
Condition
Layout
Columns:1
Uniform layout.
Even left margins.
Chapter numbers in Arabic numerals are added on the outer margins in red ink, and on the upper margins in Roman numerals in pencil.
Hand(s)
Samaritan majusucle script of the 19th century.
Additions:English note on fol. 53r: 'Translation of Notes on opposite page. - This holy law (doctrine), has purhcased Metapuzek(?) the son of Methuchiah from his brother for twenty five shekels of his (own) money. ... (In the) year two thousand and seven hundred and fifty two from the Exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt. And this (is) the year five hundred and forty four of the kingdom of Ishmael. ....
Binding
Quarter bound.
Spine: 'ספר שמות בכתב עברי'.
Accompanying Material
Or 12270B-G are stored in the pocket attached to the front pastedown (these are called back flyfleaves 1b-1g in digital surrogate).
Or 12270B
Or 12270C: English translation of the notes at the end of Exodus.
Or 12270D: description of the MS: 'Samaritan MSS derive their value 1st from being written in the ancient Hebrew Character, and 2nd from agreeing in more the two thousand passages with the Septuagint where the Septuagint differs from the received text. The present fascimile of the book of Exodus is copied from a MSS purchased from the Samaritan Community in Nablus by Professor Levisohn on behalf of Russia. This MSS called the by the Samaritans "the fire ... is traditionally stated to have been written while the first temple still stood - to have been preserved from fire in Babylon - and to have been brought back from there to Shechem. It is complete from Gen.1:29 till xxxiiirdchapter of Deuteronomy. It contains three notes, one at the end of Genesis, and two at the end of Exodus. The note at the end of Genesis runs thus...'
Or 12270E: a copy of a letter written by Joseph Barclay, the third Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem (1831-1881), published in The Athenæum on 25 August 1886.
Or 12270F: paper slip with a note: 'This law the holy has established the wise daughter, valiant, great and leader good and dear, and the intelligent and the master of all knowledge from Solomon the son of [...] and the valiant one, and leader ofthe congregation, and the instructor of his generation as well with knowledge as his understanding, and he did well benefits, and interpret[...] of he doctrine the father of blessing who is from the sons of N[...] may the Lord forgive them, and he appointed it a consecration holy to the Lord that they should read in it with fear of [...] in the house of the high priesthood in the seventh month in the ten days, and this was (performed) in my presence, and i (am) Thamar, son of Aaron, son of Shamar, the High Priest'.
Or 12270G: the business card of Shafeek ibn El Kahen il Aoel Jacob Aaron, the son of the Samaritan High Priest.
History
Origin: 1864 JerusalemProvenance and Acquisition
M. Gaster's note on fol. 52: '8.6.1906 £1'.
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 867: inscribed with his name on front flyleaf (i)r; fols. 1r, 52v; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v.
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_12270 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Gaster, M., Catalogue of Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts, in the Gaster Collection, Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts [Photographic reproduction of entries for the British Museum (now British Library) manuscripts as extracted from the original Gaster Handlist), p. 110.Gaster, M., Handlist of Gaster Manuscripts held mostly in the British Library (formerly British Museum) London and in the John Rylands Library, Manchester [preface by Brad Sabin Hill (London, Hebrew Section, Oriental and India Office Collections, The British Library, 1995) (handlist, limited distribution), p.66.Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 94, no. 988.Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 43, no. 12.Crown, Alan David, A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998), nos. 169-170.Funding of Cataloguing
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