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Or 10140 B

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032-003391454
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Or 10140 B
Title:
Polemical treatise, Samaritan
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
8 folios (i+8+i)
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Languages:
Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1500-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10140 B

Polemical treatise, Samaritan

Contents

A polemical treatise in defense of the Samaritan direction and form of prayer.

Language(s): Arabic

ff. 1r-8v
Title: Polemical treatise

The targets of the polemics are the Rabbanites and the Karaites, and to a lesser extent the Muslims.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, tre-lune watermark (e.g. ff. 2, 7)
Extent: 8 folios (i+8+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 167 × 117 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 94 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

A single quire of 8 leaves.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, worm damage.

Very fragile leaves. Outer upper corner of all the folios is missing.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 11 13

Uniform layout.

Not ruled, written lines are slanted.

Hand(s)

Arabic script.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, brown cloth binding. Boxed.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1500-1799 16th-18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1779; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 6 June 1932.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10140_B (digital images currently unavailable)

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