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Add MS 19656
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- 032-003377884
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- Add MS 19656
- Title:
- Collection of Samaritan genealogical and halakhical texts
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 237 folios (ii+237+i)
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19656 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Samaritan - Scripts:
- Arabic
Samaritan - Start Date:
- 1785
- End Date:
- 1786
- Date Range:
- 1785-1786
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 19656
Collection of Samaritan genealogical and halakhical texts
Contents
Language(s): Arabic, Samaritan
ff. 1r-28rTitle: שרח כתאב אלאסטירTitle: Sharh Kitab al AsatirA commentary on the Asatir, a genealogy and chronicle of the patriarchs, and is ascribed to the prophet Moses.
Colophon: Colophon on f. 28r.ff. 30r-235rTitle: כתאב אלכאפיTitle: Kitab al KafiA work intitled Al-Káfí, or "the Sufficient," being a Samaritan exposition of the laws of Moses.
Colophon: Colophon on f. 235r.Physical Description
Paper codex of the 18th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; tre-lune watermark (e.g. ff. 5, 35)Extent: 237 folios (ii+237+i)Dimensions (leaf): 213 × 154 mm.Dimensions (written): 125 × 100 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Collation
24 quires: I8, ii12, iii8+1 (?), iv-xxiii10, xxivnine.
Catchword written diagonally on every verso.
Condition
Liquid damage, a few usage stains.
Finger print on f. 30r.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 15
Written lines: 15
Uniform layout.
Wide margins
Hand(s)
Arabic and Samaritan script of the 18th century. Scribe: Salama ibn Sarur ibn Yusuf ibn Sarur ibn Ishaq, Qabassah family.
Decoration
Additions:Ff. 28v-29v, 235v-237v: later additions.
Binding
Oriental flap-binding, brown leather, blind-tooled. The titles of both works are written on the bottom edge.
Title on spine: 'Šarḥ Kitāb al-Asāṭīr. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Additional MS 19656.'
In the digital surrogate the front binding board with the flap open is called back flyleaf (iii)r; the back binding board with flap extended is called back flyleaf (iii)v; and the fore edge is called back flyleaf (iv)r.
History
Origin: 1785-1786 West Bank (Shechem)Provenance and Acquisition
James Finn (1806–1872), an Arabic and Hebrew scholar, consul at Jerusalem: inscribed on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Purchased of J. Finn Esq. Consul at Jerusalem, 17 Jsn. 1853.'. Received 1. Nov'.
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_19656 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Rieu, Charles,Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices Arabicos amplectens (Londini: : Impensis curatorum Musei Britannici, 1838-1871), v.2, p. 518, no. 1140.Leitner, M. 'Die samaritanischen Legenden Mosis. Aus der arabischen Handschrift des Britischen Museums übersetzt',Deutsche Vierteljahrschrift für Englische Theologische Forschung4 (1868): pp. 185.Margoliouth, George, ed., Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British Museum (London, 1893), p. 91.Gaster, M.,The Asatir; the Samaritan Book of the Secret of Moses (London: Oriental Translation Fund, NS vol. 26, 1927).Ben-Hayyim, Z., 'The Asatir with Translation and Commentary' [Hebrew]Tarbiz14&15 (1943).Noja, Sergio, Il Kitab al-Kafi dei Samaritani (Napoli: Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 1970).Bóid, I. R. M., Principles of Samaritan Halachah. Studies in Judaism and Late Antiquity (Leiden: Brill, 1989).Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998), no. 36.Funding of Cataloguing
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