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Or 10249

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Or 10249
Title:
Memar ashamah
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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:
88 folios (i+88+i)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1693
End Date:
1739
Date Range:
1693-1739
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10249

Memar ashamah

Contents

Liturgy for marriage, birth and circumcision.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1v-88v
Title: מימר אשאמה: תפלות לחתונה, ללידה ולברית מילה
Title: Memar ashamah: tefilot la-ḥatunah, le-ledah ṿeli-verit milah

Colophons on ff. 39v, 48v, 72r, 78v and 88r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper of various colours, with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 88 folios (i+88+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 150 × 105 mm.
Dimensions (written): 105 × 65 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Indeterminable,

Catchword on most versos.

Condition

Usage stains, brittle leaves, water damage, iron gall ink corrosion.

Some leaves have been fixed.

Ff. 11 and 76 are damaged.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Number of written lines per page varies.

Leaves are of various colours.

Hand(s)

Samaritan script and Arabic script of the 17th-18th century.

Additions:

Ff. 15, 22, 25, 35 and 79 seem to be later additions.

F. 1r: scribbles and doodles.

Binding

Post-1600, red cloth binding.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '828 ספר השמח וכ' Samarit'.

Accompanying Material

Paper slip glued onto back pastedown: 'This is the collation of ms. with corresponding text published by Cowley in his Samaritan Liturgy, Vol. II, the pages of which are given here in second column.'

History

Origin: 1693-1739 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 828; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 26 March 1930.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and Alan David Crown: A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998).

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Surrogates

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Bibliography

    Cowley, A. E. (ed.), The Samaritan Liturgy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909), v. II, pp. 818-848.
    Gaster, M., Catalogue of Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts, in the Gaster Collection, Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts [Photographic reproduction of entries for the British Museum (now British Library) manuscripts as extracted from the original Gaster Handlist), p. 108.
    Gaster, M., Handlist of Gaster Manuscripts held mostly in the British Library (formerly British Museum) London and in the John Rylands Library, Manchester [preface by Brad Sabin Hill (London, Hebrew Section, Oriental and India Office Collections, The British Library, 1995) (handlist, limited distribution), p. 64.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 30, no. 340.
    Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 47, no. 15.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 88.
    Pummer, Reinhard and Abraham Tal, Samaritan Marriage Contracts and Deeds of Divorce (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1993-1997), v. 1, p. 17.

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