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Or 10861

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Or 10861
Title:
Kitab al-tarikh
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
289 folios (i+289+ii)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1911
End Date:
1911
Date Range:
1911
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Abu 'l-Fath
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Pinḥas ben Yitsḥaḳ ha-Kohen, d 1898
Pinḥas ben Yitsḥaḳ ha-Kohen, d 1898
אבו אלפתח בן אלחסן מדנפה
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Or 10861

Kitab al-tarikh

Contents

A Samaritan historiographical work.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1v-289r
Author: Pinḥas ben Yitsḥaḳ, ha-Kohen, -1898 פינחס בן יצחק בן שלמה, הכהן
Title: כתאב אלתאריך
Title: Kitab al-tarikh

It seems to be an extended form of Kitab al-Tarikh of Abu 'l-Fath (אבו אלפתח בן אלחסן מדנפה.

From f. 281 onwards there is a list of priests with substantial detail about the later ones.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 289 folios (i+289+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 213 × 151 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 88 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Slight liquid damage caused some of the text to be imprinted on the opposite facing pages (especially ff. 1-8).

Collation is loose, some f. 9 is entirely detached.

Some tears.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16

Written lines: 16

Uniform layout.

A few marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Samaritan and Arabic script of the 20th century. Scribe: Ghazal b. Pinhas b. Ishaq.

Binding

History

Origin: 1911 West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1143; 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).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10861 (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. 90, no. 950.
    Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 94, no. 58.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 26.

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