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Or 10354

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Or 10354
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch
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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:
491 folios (491+iv)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1903
End Date:
1903
Date Range:
1903
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Abisha ben Pinḥas ben Isaac ben Salama b. Ghazal
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10354

Samaritan Pentateuch

Contents

Samaritan Pentateuch with Arabic translation.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1v-491v
Author:
Title: תורה שומרונית
Title: Torah Shomronit

Right column: Samaritan text; left column: Arabic translation.

Ff. 487r-487v: the date of production is embedded into a liturgical composition.

Colophon: Colophons on ff. 407r-407v, 488r-488v.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the early 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper without laid lines and chain lines; watermark: WISCONSIN BOND (e.g. ff. 438, 482)..
Extent: 491 folios (491+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 162 × 109 mm.
Dimensions (written): 94 × 73 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 and 10 leaves.

No catchwords.

Condition

damaged leaves between ff.2-3, 4-5, 6-7,27-28, 34-35,54-53,101-102,102-103,192-191,370-371,395-394,469-468,487-486,489-490

One bifolium (ff. 100-101) is detached.

Tear: f. 107.

Missing corner on f.376.

Smudged ink.

Layout

Columns:2

Main text in two columns in red frame.

Wide margins.

Hand(s)

Samaritan script of the early 20th century, in black and red ink. Scribe: Abisha ben Pinḥas ben Isaac ben Salama b. Ghazal, the Priest.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Red leather Islamic flap binding; blind-tooled.

M. Gaster's label on the spine: '809 תורה שומרוני עם תרדום ערבי'.

History

Origin: 1903 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 809; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession: 14 March 1930.

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

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Bibliography

    Steinschneider, Moritz, Die arabische Literatur der Juden (Frankfurt, 1902), p. 333, no. 34.
    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. 105.
    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.62.
    Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 35, no. 5.
    Crown, Alan David, Samaritan Scribes and Manuscripts (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, c2001), p. 368.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 166.

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