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Or 10543

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032-003375293
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Or 10543
Title:
Collection of miscellaneous texts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
66 folios (no flyleaves)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1860
End Date:
1873
Date Range:
1860-1873
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10543

Collection of miscellaneous texts

Contents

A collection of miscellaneous texts: Molad Mosheh, hymns, letters.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 66 folios (no flyleaves)

Binding

Post-1600. Half bound.

History

Origin: 1860-1873

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1132; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; 12 November 1931.

I

Contents

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

f. 1r
Author:
Title: Mystical combinations of letters

Colophon: f. 1r by Jacob b. Aaron.
ff. 1v-18v
Title: Poems for marriages and births

Not the formal liturgy for these events but a series of hymns giving personal genealogical notes at the beginning of each poem of the individual for whom the compostion was written.

F. 18v: a poem of Abraham el-ʿAyah copied by Amram b. Salama.

Colophon: f. 18r by Amin as Shelaby, 1290 AH (1873 CE).

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: a crescent moon face inside a double-rimmed shield (e.g. ff. 3-4), countermark: letters AC(?) (e.g. ff. 5, 6).
Extent: 18 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

2 quires: i6, ii12.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Worm damage, usage stains, smudged ink.

Layout

Columns:2

Ff. 1v-12v: text in frame in red ink; ff. 13r-: no frame.

Hand(s)

Arabic and Samaritan script of the 19th century; black, blue and red ink. Scribes: Jacob b. Aaron.

Decoration

Additions:

History

Origin: 1873 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance

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Contents

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 19r-64v
Author:
Title: מולד משה
Title: Molad Mosheh

Colophon: f. 64r.
ff. 65r-66v
Author:
Title: Poems

Colophon: f. 66v.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: a crescent moon face inside a double-rimmed shield (e.g. ff. 22-23), countermark: letters AC(?) (e.g. f. 24).
Extent: 48 folios (ff. 19-66)
Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Condition

Worm damage, usage stains, smudged ink.

F. 19: burnt hole.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruling in red ink.

Hand(s)

Arabic and Samaritan script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Ff. 19v, 64v: full-page decorative panels with embedded text.

Decorative initial-word panels (ff. 58r, 61v).

Ff. 20r-64r: full border around the text filled with geometrical decorations.

Grafic fillers coloured red.

Additions:

History

Origin: 1860 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance

Additional Information

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_10543 (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.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 57, no. 631.
    Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 56, no. 26 and p. 79, no. 44.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 25.

Funding of Cataloguing

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