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Or 10874
Title:
Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-ḥodesh Nisan u-Fesah
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
56 folios (no flyleaves)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10874 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1909
End Date:
1909
Date Range:
1909
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 10874

Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-ḥodesh Nisan u-Fesah

Contents

Samaritan prayer book for Nisan and Passover.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1v-56r
Title: תפלות מנהג שומרונים לחודש ניסן ופסח
Title: Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-ḥodesh Nisan u-Fesaḥ
Colophon: Colophons ff. 5r, 29r, 56r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; tre-lune watermark (e.g. fol. 23) with countermark: ' F.F. PALAZZUOLI' (ff. 12, 20, 21).
Extent: 56 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 212 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 138 × 96 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

7 quires: i-v10, vi4, vii2.

Catchword on every verso, diagonally to the text.

Condition

Usage stains, ink stains.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Written lines: 28 36

Justified left margins.

A few marginal notes in Samaritan and Arabic script.

Hand(s)

Samaritan minuscule script and Arabic script of the 20th century; in black and magenta ink.

Ff. 21r-28r in Samaritan majuscule script.

Decoration

Simple decorative panels in ink at the end of sections (e.g. ff. 8r, 17r, 38v).

Additions:

F. 1r: note in English in pencil: 'First month Nisan complete'.

Binding

Post-1600, Islamic flap binding, with red cloth covers and red leather spine and flap. Title written on front cover. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'תפלות שומרוני 846'.

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: 1909 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 846; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 28 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: British Library, 1998).

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10874 (digital images currently unavailable)

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. 107.
    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. 91.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection. (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 92, no. 966.
    Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I.(Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), no. 40.
    Crown, Alan David,A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library.(London: British Library, 1998), no. 113.

Funding of Cataloguing

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