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Or 10875

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032-003393006
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Or 10875
Title:
Kitab al-Tarikh by Abū al-Fath ibn al-Ḥasan
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
83 folios (i+83)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1850
End Date:
1875
Date Range:
1850-1875
Era:
CE
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Names:
Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Abī al-Ḥasan, fl 1355
Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Abī al-Ḥasan, fl 1355
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Jacob b. Aaron
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Or 10875

Kitab al-Tarikh by Abū al-Fath ibn al-Ḥasan

Contents

Samaritan chronicle.

Language(s): Arabic, Samaritan

ff. 1v-83v
Author: אבו אלפתח בן אלחסן מדנפה Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Abī al-Ḥasan, al-Sāmirī, active 1355
Title: כתאב אלתאריך
Title: Kitab al-Tarikh

Crown: 'While the manuscript currently appears to be complete the text does not end appropriately and there might once have been a last folio with a colophon.'

Related manuscripts: Yale Beinecke Landsberg 663, JTS ENA 1356, and St Petersburg 19. All of them were written within the third quarter of the 19th century.

Colophon:

References

Vilmar, Eduardus, Abulfathi Annales Samaritani : quos Arabice edidit cum prolegomenis (Gotha: F. A. Perthes, 1865).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; tre-lune watermark (e.g. ff. 66), countermark: 'FF. Palazzuoli (e.g. ff. 39).
Extent: 83 folios (i+83)
Dimensions (leaf): 214 × 153 mm.
Dimensions (written): 142 × 84 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Ink stains, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Arabic script and Samaritan minuscule script of the 19th century. Crown: 'Not stated but almost certainly by Jacob b. Aaron who was responsible for the related manuscripts...'.

Decoration

Additions:

Note in pencil on front pastedown: 'Chronicle of Abu-l-Fath ibn Abu-l-Hassan ... Danafi from ... Nun ... Musa brother of Harun al Rashid.

Binding

Oriental flap-binding, red marble paper covers, red leather spine.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'Alu l'Fath - Anales Samarit - Arabic 824'.

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.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1850-1875 3rd quarter of the 19th century West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 824; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 24 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).

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10875 (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.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger,Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection.(Jerusalem, 1960), p. 86, no. 914.
    Shunnar, Zuhair,Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I.(Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 95, no. 59.
    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.63.
    A.D. Crown, A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library (London 1998), no. 27.
    Crown, Alan David,A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library.(London: British Library, 1998).

Funding of Cataloguing

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