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Or 5039

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Or 5039
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch (Genesis-Exodus)
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
151 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5039 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Samaritan
Scripts:
Samaritan
Start Date:
1876
End Date:
1877
Date Range:
1876-1877
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Or 5039

Samaritan Pentateuch (Genesis-Exodus)

Contents

First volume of a Samaritan Pentateuch (Genesis-Exodus)

Language(s): Samaritan

ff. 1v-151r
Title: תורה שומרונית
Title: Torah Shomronit (Bereshit-Shemot)

First volume of a two-volume set; for volume 2, see [BL] Or 5040.

After each book there is a list of lections for the annual cycle of reading the law.

Copied by Jacob ben Aaron, who became the High Priest in 1875 in succession to his uncle.

The colophons at the end of both volumes indicate, that this is Jacob ben Aaron's fifteenth Torah. Since the scribe was exceptionally prolific in restoring and renovating manuscripts, as well as in copying older manuscripts and composing new works, he may not always have counted his restorations as beging from his pen.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, tre-lune watermark with 'FF. PALAZZUOLI' countermark (e.g. ff. 32, 67)..
Extent: 151 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 144 × 109 mm.
Dimensions (written): 110 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Front pastedown is foliated as f. 1(verso), thus there is no f. 1r or front pastedown in the digital surrogate.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves.

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains, smudged ink, mould.

Some leaves have been fixed.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 25 28

Uniform layout.

Justified left margins.

Hand(s)

Samaritan script of the 19th century. Scribe: Jacob b. Aaron.

Binding

Post-1600; Islamic flap binding.

Title on spine: 'Samaritan-Hebrew Pentateuch. Vol. I. Brit. Mus. OR. 5039.'

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

History

Origin: West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Owner: Ishmael ben Israel ben Ishmael, Danfi family.

date of accession July 1896.

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).

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5039 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 134.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL