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Title:
Samaritan liturgy
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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:
118 folios (iv+118+iii)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1770
End Date:
1781
Date Range:
1770-1781
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Samaritan liturgy

Contents

Samaritan liturgy for the month Nisan.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1r-118v
Title: תפלות מנהג שומרונים לחודש ניסן
Title: Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-ḥodesh Nisan

Incomplete at the beginning.

Colophon: Colophons on ff. 57v, 112r, 118v.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; tre-lune watermark (e.g. f. 88).
Extent: 118 folios (iv+118+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 217 × 158 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 107 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

12 quires: i-ix10 (ff. 1-90), x8+2, x10, xi-xii4.

Signatures at the beginning of the quires in Samaritan characters. F. 1 is numbered as quire 8, so at least 7 quires are missing from the beginning.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 30

Written lines: 30

Justified left margins.

Hand(s)

Samaritan minuscule script and Arabic script of the 18th century.

Binding

Post-1600, brown leather Islamic flap-binding, blind tooled, with new spine.

Title on spine: 'Ordo Precum Pro Festo Paschates. Samaritan. Mus. Brit. Jure Empt. 19,020.'

History

Origin: 1770-1781 Ff. 1r-112r: written in 1770; ff. 112v-115r, 117r-118v: written in 1773; ff. 115v-116v: written in 1773.

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Purch｢ase｣d of J. Finn, Esq. Consul at Jerusalem, Sept. 1852.'

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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Bibliography

    Heidenheim, M., Die samaritanische Liturgie. Bibliotheca Samaritana, II (Leipzig, 1885), no. I.
    Margoliouth, George, ed., Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British Museum.(London, 1893), p. 91.
    Heidenheim, M., Der Commentar Marqah's des Samaritaners, III, no. 5/6 (Weimar, 1896) ｢Reprinted Amsterdam: Philo Press, 1971｣, p. 118.
    Cowley, A. E. (ed.), The Samaritan Liturgy.(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909), his MS L 3.
    Crown, Alan David,A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library.(London: British Library, 1998), no. 70.

Funding of Cataloguing

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