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Or 10309

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Or 10309
Title:
Samaritan prayer book for Passover and Sukot
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
112 folios (i+112+v)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1899
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1899
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
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 10309

Samaritan prayer book for Passover and Sukot

Contents

Samaritan liturgy for Passover, Harvest (קציר) and Sukot.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1r-112r
Author:
Title: תפלות מנהג שומרונים לפסח ולסוכות : בערבית ובעברית
Title: Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-Fesaḥ ule-Sukot : be-ʻArvit uve-ʻIvrit

Rubrics indicate the following prayers: f. 1v: liturgy for the Festival of Matsot; f. 66v: Harvest festival; f. 90v: Sukot; f. 98r: morning prayers for Sukot.

Colophon: Colophons on f. 66r, 89v and 112r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 112 folios (i+112+v)
Dimensions (leaf): 161 × 109 mm.
Dimensions (written): 100 × 70 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; pagination in Eastern Arabic numerals in red ink.

F. 90r is blank.

Collation

11 quires: i-ix10, x12, xi6. Quire i includes the front flyleaf; quire xi includes the back flyleaves.

Catchword on every verso, vectored diagonally.

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

A few marginal notes in Samaritan and in Arabic script.

Hand(s)

Samaritan script and Arabic script of the 19th century, in black and red ink. Scribe: Amin b. Jacob b. Shelaby.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Islamic flap binding; red leather, blind-tooled. Boxed.

Spine: 'תפלות שומרונים פסח קציר סוכות'.

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

History

Origin: 1899 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 837; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 27 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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10309 (digital images currently unavailable)

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. 108.
    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.64.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 35, no. 400.
    Z. Shunnar, Katalog Samaritanischer Handschriften, I (Berlin: Seitz, 1974), p. 49, no. 17.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 90.

Funding of Cataloguing

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