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Or 12269

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Or 12269
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch (Numbers)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
61 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12269 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1350
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1350-1399
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 12269

Samaritan Pentateuch (Numbers)

Contents

Samaritan Pentateuch (Numbers).

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 2v-58v
Author:
Title: תורה שומרונית (במדבר)
Title: Torah Shomronit (ba-midbar)

F. 2v: text completed by a late hand.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 61 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 222 × 203/210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 158 × 142 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 59v and 60r are blank.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Condition

Usage stains

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24 26

Written lines: 28

Ruling in hard point is visible.

Justified left margins.

Ff. 1-2 and 59-61 are paper leaves.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script of the 14th century. Scribe from the Shechem scribal school.

Additions:

Arabic and Samaritan notes on ff. 1r, 1v, 2r, 59r, 60v, 61r, 61v.

Binding

Oriental flap-binding. In phase box.

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: 1350-1399 Mid-late 14th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Deed of sale on f. 58v: it was inherited by the vendor who had shares in it from his aunt in 839 AH, that is, 1435 CE. The manuscript was acquired by Matanah ben Negamah of the Ḳabasah family from Rabatun, the daughter of Abraham ben Sadaḳah of Gaza. Rabatun had inherited 60% of the manuscript from her father. (for more details, see Crown, pp. 201-202).

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 806; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 14 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).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12269 (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. 105.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger,Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection.(Jerusalem, 1960), p. 94, no. 987.
    Shunnar, Zuhair,Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I.(Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), no. 11.
    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. 62.
    Crown, Alan David,A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library.(London: British Library, 1998), no. 150.

Funding of Cataloguing

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