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Or 1441

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Or 1441
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch (fragment)
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
8 folios (ii+8)
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Languages:
Arabic
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Samaritan
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Samaritan
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
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CE
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Or 1441

Samaritan Pentateuch (fragment)

Contents

A fragment of a Samaritan Pentateuch.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic, tmr-Samr

ff. 1r-8v
Title: תורה שומרונית (קטע)
Title: Torah Shomronit (ḳeṭaʿ)

Contains Genesis 32:18-35:11 and 36:28-38:28.

The Samaritan text is accompanied with Aramaic and Arabic translation, all in Samaritan script, in three parallel columns.

An incomplete manuscript which has been idenified by Avraham Tal as being a fragment of MS Shechem Synagogue (Nablus) 4 (see Tal, ha-Targum, vol. 3, pp. 32-34).

Other fragments from the same manuscript: London, BL, Or 5036, f. 25; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Sam. b. 6. ff. 1-2; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Sam. c.2, ff. 10-11 (see Crown); see also cf Abraham Tal, Ha-Targum ha-shomroni le-Torah: mahadurah biḳortit (Uniṿeriṭat Tel-Aviv, 1980-1983), p. 33.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 8 folios (ii+8)
Dimensions (leaf): 370 × 314 mm.
Dimensions (written): 265 × 235 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Numerous blank fillers at the end (not displayed in digital surrogate)

Collation

Condition

Usage stains.

F. 8: two holes.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 47

Written lines: 46

Uniform layout.

Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable.

Pricking and ruling are visible.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script of the 15th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house binding.

Title on spine: 'Samaritan Pentateuch. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1441.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Nablus?

Provenance and Acquisition

Date of accession March 1879.

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_1441 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition (London, Catalogue of Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, 1887), p. 193.
    Bloch, J. Die Samaritanisch-arabische Pentateuchübersetzung, Deuteronomium IüXI, nach Handschriften in Berlin, Gotha, Kiel, Leyden und Paris mit Einleitung und Noten (Berlin, 1901), p. 35.
    Shehadeh, Haseeb, 'The Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch' (Ph.D. dissertation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1977), pp. 324-325.
    Tal, Avraham, Ha-Targum ha-shomroni le-Torah: mahadurah biḳortit (Uniṿersiṭat Tel-Aviv, 1980-1983), vol. 3, his MS B.
    Crown, Alan David,A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library.(London: British Library, 1998), no. 157.

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