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Or 7927

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032-003375305
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Or 7927
Title:
Collection of chronicles
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
107 folios (i+107+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 al-Fath ibn Abi al-Hasan, al-Samiri, fl. 1355
Eleazar ben Amram
Isaac HaKohen
אבו אלפתח בן אלחסן
אלעזר בן עמרם
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Or 7927

Collection of chronicles

Contents

A collection of chronicles.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1v-18v
Author: Eleazar ben Amram אלעזר בן עמרם
Title: תולידה
Title: Tolidah

A genealogy of the Samaritan priests and associated history.

In Samaritan Hebrew and Aramaic with marginalia.

Colophon: f. 18v.
Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

References

Neubauer, Adolf, 'Chronique samaritaine' Journal Asiatique14 (1869), pp. 385-470.
Bowman, J. Transcript of the Original Text of the Samaritan Chronicle Tolidah (Leeds: University of Leeds, 1954).
ff. 19r-103r
Author: Abu al-Fath ibn Abi al-Hasan, al-Samiri, fl. 1355 אבו אלפתח בן אלחסן
Title: כתאב אלתאריך
Title: Kitab al-Tarikh
Language(s): Arabic

An extended version of the chronicle also called Sefer ha-Yamim, written in the 14th century at the instigation of the High Priest, Pinhas ben Joseph.

Cf. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Hunt. 350.

F. 55r: Samaritan alphabet.

In the main text Arabic is written in black, Samaritan in red ink.

References

Stenhouse, Paul, The Kitāb al-tarīkh of Abū ʾl-Fatḥ (Sydney: Mandelbaum Trust, University of Sydney, 1985).
ff. 104r-107r
Author:
Title: שלשלת הכהנים
Title: Shalshelet ha-kohanim

A genealogy of the high priests.

In Arabic an Samaritan Hebrew.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: 'EXTRA HARD SIZED VELLUM' (e.g. f. 13).
Extent: 107 folios (i+107+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 390 × 244 mm.
Dimensions (written): 260 × 162 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 30

Written lines: 30

Text in 1 and 2 columns.

Ff. 1v-18v: text in double ruled frame in red ink.

Marginal notes.

Ruling is visible.

Ff. 104r-107r: tables.

Hand(s)

Samaritan and Arabic script of the 20th century; in black and red ink. Scribe: Abisha b. Pinhas b. Isaac b. Salama b. Tabya b. Isaac b. Salama b. Tabya, Levitical Priest.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Samaritan Chronicle. Hebrew& Arabic. Brit. Mus. OR. 7927.'

History

Origin: 1911 West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

Note on back flyleaf (i)v: "Bought of Isaac Ha-Kohen. October 11, 1913."

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_7927 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    בנימים צדקה, א. ב. - חדשות השומרונים (חולון) גליון 473 15.11.1988 עמ’ 30, מס’ 136
    Crown, Alan David, Samaritan Scribes and Manuscripts (Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, c2001), p. 29.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 22.

Funding of Cataloguing

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