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Or 10876

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Or 10876
Title:
Kitab al-Kafi by Al-Askari
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
148 folios (148+i)
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Languages:
Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1906
End Date:
1906
Date Range:
1906
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Al-Askari, Yusuf ibn Salama
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
אלעסכרי, יוסף בן שלמה
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Or 10876

Kitab al-Kafi by Al-Askari

Contents

Samaritan legal work.

Language(s): Arabic, Arabic

ff. 1v-148v
Author: Al-Askari, Yusuf ibn Salama אלעסכרי, יוסף בן שלמה
Title: כתאב אלכאפי
Title: Kitab al-Kafi

Colophon: Colophon on f. 148r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 148 folios (148+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 212 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 132 × 88 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel pagination in Eastern Arabic numerals in pen, by the scribe.

Collation

Catchword on every verso.

15 quires: i-xiv10, xv10-1.

Condition

Usage stains.

Collation is cracked in several places.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 25

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Samaritan minuscule script of the 20th century, in black and red ink. Scribe: Aduʾl Hasan b. Jacob b. Aaron b. Salama b. Tabya b. Ishaq, the Priest.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Islamic flap binding, red cloth spine, blue paper covers.

Spine with M. Gaster's label: 'ספר הדינים והמנהגים של שומרונים [...] יוסף אלעסכרי'.

In the digital surrogate the front binding board with the flap open is called back flyleaf (i)r; the back binding board with flap extended is called back flyleaf (i)v; and the fore edge is called back flyleaf (ii)r.

History

Origin: 1906 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 821; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 24 March 1930.

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).

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10876 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Cohn, Naphtali, Die Zaraathgesetze der Bibel noch dem Kitab al-Kafi des Jusuf ibn Salama. Ein Beitrag zur Pentateuchexegese und Dogmatik der Samaritaner (Frankfurt am Main, 1899) [Reprint of his inaugural dissertation under a different title].
    Steinschneider, Moritz, Die arabische Literatur der Juden (Frankfurt, 1902), p. 328, no. 22.
    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. 107.
    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. 63.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 91, no. 965.
    Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 85, no. 49.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 42.
    Crown, Alan David: A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998).

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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