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Or 1449

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Or 1449
Title:
Samaritan prayer book for Sukot
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
53 folios (i+53+ii)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
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Arabic
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Start Date:
1872
End Date:
1872
Date Range:
1872
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Hijri-qamari
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CE
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Or 1449

Samaritan prayer book for Sukot

Contents

Samaritan prayers for Sukot.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1r-53r
Author:
Title: תפלות מנהג שומרונים לסוכות
Title: Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-Sukot

Liturgy for Shemini ʿatseret, the eighth day of Sukot, described in the rubrication as Moʿed ha-shemini.

Ff. 51-53: miscellaneous jottings, scribbles, doodles.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Various kinds of paper, with and without laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 53 folios (i+53+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 175 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

7 quires: i14, ii-iii8, iv-vii6.

Catchword on some verso sides.

Condition

Usage stains, smudged ink.

F. 10: small tear.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16

Written lines: 16

Text in 1 and 2 columns.

Uniform layout.

A few marginal notes.

F. 43v: paper slip is glued to the lower part of the page.

Hand(s)

Samaritan and Arabic script of the 19th century, in black and red ink. Scribe: Benjamin b. Jacob b. Ishmael b. Joseph b. Ishmael, Danfi family.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Service Book. Samaritan. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1449.'

History

Origin: 1872 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Dry stamp with Arabic inscription on ff. 11, 17, 22, 25, 26, 34, 35, 47.

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Bought of Yāḳūb ash-Shalabī, 13. October 1877; date of accession: November 1877.

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), and on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1449 (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. 93.
    Cowley, A. E. (ed.), The Samaritan Liturgy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909), his MS L 15.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 80.

Funding of Cataloguing

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