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Or 2690

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Or 2690
Title:
Samaritan prayers for the month of Nisan and Passover
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
101 folios (i+101+v)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1881
End Date:
1881
Date Range:
1881
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Ya'kub al Shalabi
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Or 2690

Samaritan prayers for the month of Nisan and Passover

Contents

Samaritan liturgy for the month of Nisan and Passover.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1r-100v
Author:
Title: תפלות מנהג שומרונים לחודש ניסן ופסח
Title: Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-ḥodesh Nisan u-Fesaḥ

Colophon: Fols. 1r, 26v, 64r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: tre-lune watermark with human faces (e.g. fol. 33).
Extent: 101 folios (i+101+v)
Dimensions (leaf): 154 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 111 × 76 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

9 quires: i10, ii10-1, iii-iv10, v10-1, vi12, vii-viii10, ix12, x10-1.

Condition

Usage stains, smudged ink.

Fols. 62 and 95 are patched.

Layout

Columns:1

Text in one or two columns.

Ruling in hard point is visible.

Hand(s)

Samaritan script and Arabic script of the 19th century. Scribe: Salama b. Amram b. Salama b. Tabya b. Isaac.

Decoration

Additions:

Fols. 100v-101v: Arabic inscription by a different hand.

Binding

Islamic flap binding, half-bound with red leather spine and corners and green cloth side panels.

Spine: 'Service-Book. Samaritan. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2690.'

History

Origin: 1881 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Yakub al Shalabi: inscribed on front flyleaf (i)r upside down: 'B[ough]t of Yakub Shalabi 9 Nov. 1883.'

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_2690 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Cowley, A. E. (ed.), The Samaritan Liturgy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909), his MS L 7.
    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. 82.

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