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Add MS 19010

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Add MS 19010
Title:
Tefilah Shomronit le-Yom Kipur
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
82 folios (ii+82+i)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1770
End Date:
1770
Date Range:
1770
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Finn, James, British consul, 1806-1872
Finn, James, British consul, 1806-1872
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Add MS 19010

Tefilah Shomronit le-Yom Kipur

Contents

Samaritan prayer book for Yom Kipur.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1v-82v
Author:
Title: Tefilah Shomronit le-Yom Kipur
Title: תפלה שומרונית ליום כפור

F. 1r in Samaritan characters: בשם יהוה הגדול.

Samaritan note on f. 3r says that 'Part eleven of the liturgy being supplications for the seven days of Sukot and prayers for the Sabbath falling during Sukot and these are from the writings of the priests and elders'.

F. 13r: morning prayers for the seven days of Sukot; f. 34r: prayers for the Sabbath during Sukot; f. 82v: prayers for the ending of the said Sabbath.

Colophon: Colophons on ff. 58r, 82v.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; tre-lune watermark (e.g. f. 54).
Extent: 82 folios (ii+82+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 158 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

F. 1r is blank.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves. Quire i includes the front pastedown and flyleaves.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains.

Some leaves have been repaired.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 35

Written lines: 35

Text in 1 and 2 columns.

Hand(s)

Samaritan and Arabic script of the 18th century; black and red ink. Scribe: Murjan b. Ibrahim, the Danfi.

Ff. 1-5, 6, 37-43, 81-82: scribe of these additions was Amram b. Salama. On different, whiter paper.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 1-5, 37-43 and 81-82 are later additions dated to 1850.

Note in English and in Arabic in pencil on front pastedown. English note: '200 pias - Circumcision'

Binding

Oriental flap-binding, red leather, blind-tooled. Boxed.

Title on spine: 'Rituale Samarit. Mus. Brit. Jure Empt. 19,010.'

In the digital surrogate the front binding board with the flap open is called back flyleaf (ii)r; the back binding board with flap extended is called back flyleaf (ii)v; and the fore edge is called back flyleaf (iii)r.

History

Origin: 1770 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

James Finn (1806–1872), an Arabic and Hebrew scholar, consul at Jerusalem: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Purchased of John (sic!) Finn Esq. Consul at Jerusalem March 1852'.

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=Add_MS_19010 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Heidenheim, Moritz. Die samaritanische Liturgie. Bibliotheca Samaritana, Bd. II (Leipzig, 1885), p. 23..
    Margoliouth, George, ed., Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British Museum (London, 1893), p. 90.
    Steinschneider, Moritz, Die arabische Literatur der Juden (Frankfurt, 1902), I.
    Cowley, A. E. (ed.), The Samaritan Liturgy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909), his MS L 17.
    MacDonald, John, 'A Critical Edition of the Text of the Samaritan Yom-haKippur Liturgy with a Translation thereof and Comparison with the Corresponding Jewish Liturgies' (PhD Dissertation, University of Leeds, 1958).
    Crown, Alan David. A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998), no. 66.

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