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Or 10558

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Or 10558
Title:
Samaritan prayers 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:
128 folios (128+i)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1901
End Date:
1924
Date Range:
1901-1924
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10558

Samaritan prayers for Passover

Contents

Samaritan liturgy for Passover.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1v-128v
Title: תפלות מנהג שומרונים לפסח
Title: Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-Fesaḥ

Allony and Loewinger state that the liturgy is both for the Feast of Weeks and Passover.

Colophon: Ff. 102v-103r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th-20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper without chain lines or laid lines.
Extent: 128 folios (128+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 234 × 166 mm.
Dimensions (written): 143 × 102 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals. Fols. 37r, 63r and 87r are blank.

Collation

13 quires: i-xii10, xiii10-9 (last quire includes the back flyleaf).

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:4

Written lines: 33

Up to four columns depending on layout.

Hand(s)

Samaritan Hebrew script and Arabic script of the 19th-20th century, black and red ink. Scribe was Hilmi ben Jacob ben Shelaby, the Danfi (Shunnar indicates that there is no scribe, but Hilmi gives his name twice).

Binding

Quarter bound, Islamic flap case in red leather, with paper side panels.

History

Origin: 1901-1924 1st quarter of the 20th century, the known active period of the scribe (Crown); Gaster dated it to 1281 AH (=1865 CE), which according to Crown is too early for the type of paper. Shechem

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Gaster's initials erased on fol. 128v.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1121; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 16 November 1931: 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: British Library, 1998).

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Surrogates

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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. 146.
    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. 91.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 58, no. 646.
    Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 59, no. 28.
    Crown, Alan David, A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998), no. 101.

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