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Or 10271
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
219 folios (219+i)
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Languages:
Samaritan
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Samaritan
Start Date:
1509
End Date:
1509
Date Range:
1509
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Hijri-qamari
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Amram ben Salama
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Jacob ben Aaron
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Or 10271

Samaritan Pentateuch

Contents

Language(s): Samaritan

ff. 1r-219v
Title: תורה שומרונית
Title: Torah Shomronit

'Gaster say 'Written in Egypt'. The manuscript was in Gaza, since it was written for a resident of Egypt (by which name both Gaza and Cairo could be designated), and was one of those taken thence in 1767 by the priest, Tabya.' (see Crown, Catalogue of Samaritan Manuscripts, p. 191).

ff. 1r-59v
Title: Genesis
ff. 60r-107v
Title: Exodus
ff. 108r-137v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 138r-183r
Title: Numbers
ff. 183v-219v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 219 folios (219+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 127 × 109 mm.
Dimensions (written): 92 × 78 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Quires mostly of 20-24 leaves.

Catchword on some of the pages.

Condition

Usage stains.

Text overwritten where it faded away (e.g. ff. 174v, 193v, 197r).

Some leaves are patched (e.g. ff. 23, 62, 146, 164).

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 29

Uniform layout.

Left margins are justified.

Ruling in hard point is often visible.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script of the 16th century. Scribe was Hassebhi ben Joseph ben Abraham, according to the main tashkil (acrostic writing) on ff. 183v-190r. The restoration was done in Safar 1284 AH (1867) by the priests, Amram ben Salama and Jacob ben Aaron.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 1-5, 150 and 215-219 are paper leaves supplied later to complete the text.

Note in Samaritan majuscule script on f. 183r, at the end of the book of Numbers

Binding

Islamic flap binding, red leather, blind-tooled. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '(800) I Sam. Pentat. Samarit. תורה שומרונית'.

History

Origin: 1509

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 800; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 13 March 1930.

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

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Bibliography

    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. 105.
    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. 61.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 32, no. 362.
    Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 34, no. 3.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library. (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 142.

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