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Or 10133

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032-003376348
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Or 10133
Title:
Samaritan Torah scroll fragment
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
2 membranes and the fragment of a third one.
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10133 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10133

Samaritan Torah scroll fragment

Contents

A fragment of a Samaritan Torah containing Deuteronomy 26:18-32.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-1v
Author:
Title: תורה שומרונית (דברים כו:יח-כו:לב)
Title: Torah shomronit (Devarim 26:18-32)

Physical Description

A fragment of a parchment scroll of the 15th century.
Form: scroll
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 2 membranes and the fragment of a third one.
Dimensions (leaf): 235 × 965 mm.
Dimensions (written): 205 × 133/138 mm.
Foliation:

N/A

Collation

N/A

Condition

Upper and lower margins are damaged.

Mould.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruling is visible.

First membrane contains 4 columns, second membrane contains 2 columns of text.

Text is written on the flesh side.

Hand(s)

Samaritan script of the 15th century. Crown: the same hand as the Barberini Triglot, that is, by Jacob b. Joseph b. Meshalmah b. Joseph.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Stored in a phase box.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century (Crown: 1482-1495?) Damascus?

Provenance and Acquisition

Perhaps it came to M. Gaster through a genizah.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, but no Gaster number; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924.

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: British Library, 1998).

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10133 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 21, no. 224.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 176.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL