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Title:
Sayr al-Qalb ’ala Ma’rifat al-rabb
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Extent:
65 folios (i+65+v)
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Start Date:
1902
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1902
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1902
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Names:
G.B.J. Cohen
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Qabaṣī, Ibrahim ibn Yusuf
אלקבצי, אברהים בן יוסף
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Or 12295

Sayr al-Qalb ’ala Ma’rifat al-rabb

Contents

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1v-65v
Author: Qabaṣī, Ibrahim ibn Yusuf אלקבצי, אברהים בן יוסף
Title: סיר אלקלב עלי מערפת אלרב
Title: Sayr al-Qalb ’ala Ma’rifat al-rabb

A commentary, which includes a list of the 613 commandments and was composed in 1532 in Damascus.

The work has an index on f. 65v.

Colophon: On f. 65r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper without laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 65 folios (i+65+v)
Dimensions (leaf): 246 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew pagination in ink.

Collation

7 quires: i-vi10, vii10-2.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

A few usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Samaritan and Arabic script of the early 20th century; in black and red ink. The scribe: Salama b. Ghazal.

Binding

Post-1600. Red cloth binding. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1902 West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

'Gaster note on f.1r: 'Presented to me by G.B.J. Cohen of Manchester. 1. Nov. 9[?]' (see Crown).

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 881; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 29 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).

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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. 111.
    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.68.
    Haran, M. 'Maimonides' Catalogue of Religious Precepts in a Samaritan piyut' (Hebrew), Eretz-Israel: Archaeological, Historical and Geographical Studies4 (1956): 160-169.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 96, no. 1013.
    Haran, M. 'The Liturgical Commandments of Aaron ben Manir, a Samaritan piyut for Yom Kippur on the 613 Principles of Maimonides' (Hebrew), Annual of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities4:15 (1971): 229-280. English version, Annual of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities5:7 (1974): 174-209.
    Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 91, no. 54.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 47.

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