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Or 12323
Title:
Tibat Marqeh (Memar Marḳah)
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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:
227 folios (227+iii)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
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Samaritan
Start Date:
1908
End Date:
1908
Date Range:
1908
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Hijri-qamari
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CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Marqah, fl 04th century,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/256754650
Marqah, fl 04th century,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/256754650
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Or 12323

Tibat Marqeh (Memar Marḳah)

Contents

Samaritan midrashic commentary on the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1v-227r
Author: מרקֶה Marqeh (Marḳah)
Title: תיבת מרקֶה
Title: Tibat Marqeh

In Arabic and Samaritan Aramaic, both in Samaritan characters. The right hand column is in Aramaic, the left hand column is in Arabic.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 227 folios (227+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 334 × 198 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190 × 116 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Catchword on every verso (sometimes for both columns).

Condition

Usage stains, ink stains.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 41

Written lines: 41

Uniform layout.

Very wide margins.

Hand(s)

Samaritan minuscule and majuscule script of the early 20th century, in black and red ink.

Binding

Oriental flap-binding, red covers. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'מקרה 1162'.

In the digital surrogate the front binding board with the flap open is called back flyleaf (v)r; the back binding board with flap extended is called back flyleaf (v)v; and the fore edge is called back flyleaf (iv)r.

History

Origin: 1908 West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1162; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 14 December 1931.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12323 (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. 151.
    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. 95.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger,Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection.(Jerusalem, 1960), p. 99, no. 1041.
    Crown, Alan David, A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library.(London: British Library, 1998), no. 29.

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