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Or 10319

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Or 10319
Title:
Book of Joshua in Samaritan
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
49 folios (49+i)
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Languages:
Samaritan
Scripts:
Samaritan
Start Date:
1908
End Date:
1908
Date Range:
1908
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Abisha b. Pinhas b. Isaac b. Salama b. Tabya
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10319

Book of Joshua in Samaritan

Contents

The Book of Joshua in Samaritan.

Language(s): Samaritan

ff. 1r-49v
Author:
Title: Sefer Yehoshuaʿ: nusaḥ Shomroni
Title: ספר יהושע: נוסח שומרוני

The manuscript carries the title 'Hebrew chronicle' but on the first page the rubric says 'Av Sakhwa the Danfi's Book of Joshua bin Nun'.

Colophon: f. 49v.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; tre-lune watermark (e.g. ff. 19, 20), countermark: S. B. (e.g. f. 38).
Extent: 49 folios (49+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 163 × 105 mm.
Dimensions (written): 108 × 66 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel pagination in Samaritan characters by the scribe.

Collation

5 quires of 10 leaves (last quire includes back flyleaf).

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

F. 1r: text in red.

Hand(s)

Samaritan script of the 20th century. Scribe: Abisha b. Pinhas b. Isaac b. Salama b. Tabya, the Priest.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Green cloth binding.

History

Origin: 1908 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1141; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 25 November 1931.

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_10319 (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. 147.
    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. 93.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 37, no. 410.
    Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 94, no. 57.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 24.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL