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Or 10115

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Or 10115
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch (Exodus)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
42 folios (iii+42+iii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1812
End Date:
1812
Date Range:
1812
Era:
CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10115

Samaritan Pentateuch (Exodus)

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-42v
Author:
Title: תורה שומרונית (שמות)
Title: Torah Shomronit (Shemot)

Incomplete at the beginning. F. 2r start at the end of Ex. 22:6.

Lacuna after f. 31v: it ends with Ex. 33:16 and f. 32r starts with Ex. 36:38.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 42 folios (iii+42+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 213 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 114 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel foliation in Eastern Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

4 quires of 10 leaves (ff. 2-41).

Ff. 1 and 42 are later additions.

Signatures in Eastern Arabic numerals at the end and beginning of quires. Signatures: 6 (ff. 2-11), 7 (ff. 12-21), (ff. 22-31). Signature on f. 31v announcing the quire to follow is 9, but signature on f. 41v announcing the quire to follow is 11: one quire is missing from in between.

Signatures suggest that 5 quires are missing from the beginning.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Paper slip containing information about the treatment of the MS is glued onto front flyleaf (ii)r.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 21

Uniform layout.

Left margins are justified.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script of the 19th century. Scribe: Salama b. Tabya b. Isaac(?): M. Gaster's note on f. 1r: 'This copy reputed to have been written by Tabyah H. Priest father of Shalma, of Amram of Ishaq XVIII cent.' Crown: "on examination of the script it looks more like that of the son, Salama, and the manuscripts must then be dated to c. 1812-1813'.

Decoration

Additions:

Later addition on f. 2r contains Ex. 21:37-Ex. 22:6; later addition on f. 42r: .

Binding

BL in-house binding.

Title on spine: 'Exodus. Hebrew. British Library O.R. 10115'

History

Origin: 1812 West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

Owner's inscription on ff. 41v and 42r: '42 fols M.G. 20 Aug 906'.

Most probably bought from Moses Gaster in 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: The British Library, 1998).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10115 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 138.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL