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Add MS 19791

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032-003377941
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Add MS 19791
Title:
Samaritan prayers for festivals
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
90 folios (iii+90+iii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1739
End Date:
1740
Date Range:
1739-1740
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
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 19791

Samaritan prayers for festivals

Contents

Prayers for the Ten Days of Penance and other occasions.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 3v-89r
Author:
Title: תפלות מנהג שומרונים לחגים
Title: Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-ḥagim

From the night concluding the feast of the seventh month: f. 3v; prayers for the night concluding the Sabbath of the Days of Penance: f. 27v; evening and morning prayers for the Tabernacles: f. 34r; prayers for the night concluding the Sabbath of the Tabernacles: f. 55r; various hymns.

F. 84r: the letter of Meshalmah ben Ab Sechnah (משלמה בן אב סכוה) to the supposed Samaritan congregations of Europe.

Colophon: Colophons of Mufarrij/Murjan on ff. 27r, 33v, 54r; colophon of Ab Sakhwa b. Abraham b. Ishmael b. Abraham, Danfi family is on f. 83v.

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. ff. 48-49).
Extent: 90 folios (iii+90+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 158 mm.
Dimensions (written): 142 × 108 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

19 quires: i2, ii8+1, iii-viii10, ix12, x4.

Condition

Usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion, slight liquid damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Text in 1 and 2 columns.

Uniform layout.

Justified left margins.

A few marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Samaritan and Arabic script of the 18th century. Scribe: Ghazal ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Oriental flap binding, leather, blind-tooled.

Title on spine: 'Preces Variae. Samarit. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis 19,791.'

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

History

Origin: 1739-1740 West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

James Finn (1806–1872), an Arabic and Hebrew scholar, consul at Jerusalem: inscribed on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Purchased of J. Finn Esq. Consul at Jerusalem. Received 1 May 1854)'.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the handlist called 'Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (published and unpublished inventories)'.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19791 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Margoliouth, George, ed., Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British Museum (London, 1893), p. 92.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 77.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL