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Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch
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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:
266 folios (266+iv)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Samaritan
Start Date:
1509
End Date:
1510
Date Range:
1509-1510
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Samaritan Pentateuch

Contents

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1v-265r
Title: תורה שומרונית
Title: Torah Shomronit

With a Samaritan-Arabic translation.

Chapter numbers are added in pencil in the margins by a modern hand.

ff. 1v-71v
Title: Genesis
ff. 72r-131r
Title: Exodus
ff. 131v-168v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 169r-222r
Title: Numbers
ff. 222v-265r
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 266 folios (266+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 374 × 276 mm.
Dimensions (written): 283 × 207 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Unfoliated blank modern folio after f. 212.

Ff. 1r and 265v are blank.

Collation

27 quires: i-ii12 (front flyleaf (ii)+ff. 1-11, ff. 12-23), iii8 (ff. 24-31), iv12-1 (ff. 32-42), v-x10 (ff. 43-52, 53-62, 63-72, 73-82, 83-93, 94-103), xi10-1 (ff. 104-112), xii-xxi10 (ff. 113-122, 123-132, 133-142, 143-152, 153-162, 163-172, 173-182, 183-192, 193-202, 203-212), xii10-1 (ff. 213-221), xxiii-xxvi10 (ff. 222-231, 232-241, 242-251, 252-261), xxvii8-1 (ff. 262-266). In the middle of quire xxvii, between ff. 264 and 265, there is a unfoliated, blank bifolio (later, modern addition).

No catchword.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Some of the leaves are badly damaged (edges and corners are missing) and some text has been lost, but have been fixed (e.g. ff. 16-17, 265-266).

Text is faded in places.

Parchment of poor quality with numerous holes.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 40

Written lines: 39 40

Uniform layout.

Left margins are justified.

Ruling is visible in places.

Hair and flesh sides are distinguishable.

Hand(s)

Samaritan script of the 16th century. Scribe Ḥasevi ben Yosef ben Avraham (חצבי בן יוסף בן אברהם).

Decoration

Additions:

At the end of Exodus, on f. 131r, there are two deeds of sale dated to 1557 and 1558, in Samaritan and in Arabic script in black (see Crown, p. 211).

Date of the manuscript added in pencil on front flyleaf (iii)v.

Binding

BM in-house binding, half bound, blue marble paper pastedowns.

Title on spine: 'Pentateuchus Samaritanus. Cum Versione Arabica. Charact. Samar. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 19011.'.

History

Origin: 1509-1510 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Purchased of Mr John Finn Esq. Consul at Jerusalem. Received Sept. 1853'.

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: British Library, 1998).

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Bibliography

    H. Shehadah, The Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentuteuch (Jerusalem, 1989), pp. 209-210.
    Crown, Alan David, A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998), no. 156.

Funding of Cataloguing

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