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Add MS 17553
Title:
A collection of Samaritan texts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
17 folios (vii+17+vii)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
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Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1100
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1100-1599
Era:
CE
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Add MS 17553

A collection of Samaritan texts

Contents

A collection of Samaritan Pentateuch fragments and Samaritan liturgical poems.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

Physical Description

Composite codex of the 12th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: mixed
Support: Parchment and paper
Extent: 17 folios (vii+17+vii)

Binding

BM in-house, brown leather binding with marble paper pastedowns.

Spine: 'Pentateuchi et Hymnorum Fragmenta. Samar. Arab. Mus. Brit. Ex Dono J. Sillifant. Arm.'

History

Origin: 12th-16th century ; Cairo

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented to the British Museum 28 April 1848. Donors: Sillifant (S.), High Sheriff of Devonshire.

I

Contents

Fragment of a Samaritan Pentateuch with Arabic translation.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1r-10v
Author:
Title: תורה שומרונית
Title: Torah Shomronit

Contains Gen. 1:29-10:3.

They are the missing ff. 1-10 of [http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0001D1E300000000] Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Ms. or. fol. 534.

Contains Genesis 1:29-10:3 with an Arabic translation in Samaritan majuscule.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 10 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 365 × 289 mm.
Dimensions (written): 280 × 215 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

A single quire of 10 leaves.

No catchwords.

Condition

Upper margins of the leaves are damaged.

Water damage, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:2

Uniform layout.

Even left margins.

Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script of the 15th century. Scribe was Ab Nesana/Afif b. Sadaqa b. Jacob b. Sadaqa b. Ab Hasda b. Abd Yahweh.

Decoration

Additions:

History

Origin: 1485 Cairo

Provenance

II

Contents

Samaritan liturgcal fragment.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 11r-14v
Author:
Title: פיוטים כמנהג השומרונים
Title: Piyuṭim ke-minhag ha-Shomronim

Contains Samaritan liturgical poems in bilingual Samaritan and Arabic in Samaritan characters.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 4 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 298 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 203 × 139 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals, continuous with the previous part.

Collation

A single quire of 4 leaves.

No catchwords.

Condition

Outer lower corners of the leaves are damaged.

Water damage, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:2

Uniform layout. Section headings are in larger characters.

Even left margins.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script of the 15th century.

Decoration

Additions:

History

Origin: 15th-16th century ; Cairo

Provenance

III

Contents

Samaritan Pentateuch fragments.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 15r-17v
Author:
Title: תורה שומרונית
Title: Torah shomronit

Contains: Ex. 29:32-30-23 (fol. 15); Lev. 6:13-8:23 and a small tashqil (fol. 16); Deut. 13:12-14:19 (fol. 17).

Probably thet were not part of the same manuscript (slight difference in leaf-size, size of text block, colour of ink)..

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support: Parchment
Extent: 3 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 112 × 93 mm.
Dimensions (written): 72 × 57 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals, continuous with the previous part.

Since the size of these leaves is much smaller than the other two parts they are bound together, there are two leaves fixed on the guard paper on ff. 15 and 16, that is, there are five leaves altogether.

Collation

No catchwords.

Condition

Outer lower corners of the leaves are damaged.

Water damage, usage stains.

Fol. 17: leaf is damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Even left margins.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script of the 12th-14th century.

Decoration

Additions:

History

Origin: 12th-14th century ;

Provenance

Additional Information

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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_17553 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Margoliouth p. 219
    Shehadeh, Haseeb, 'The Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch' (Ph.D. dissertation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1977), p. 325.
    Von Gall, Agust Freiherrn, Hebräische Pentateuch der Samaritaner (Giessen: Alfred Töpelmann, 1914-1918), Gothic P.
    Crown, Alan David, A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998), no. 155.

Bibliography

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