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Or 1442
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- Or 1442
- Title:
- Samaritan Targum
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 42 folios (ii+42+ii)
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1442 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Samaritan
- Scripts:
- Samaritan
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 1300-1399
- Era:
- CE
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Or 1442
Samaritan Targum
Contents
A fragment of the Samaritan Targum containing parts of Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers.
Language(s): Samaritan
ff. 1r-42vTitle: תרגום שומרוני על התורה (קטע)Title: Targum Shomroni ʿal ha-Torah (ḳeṭaʿ)Incomplete at the beginning.
Other fragments from this manuscript are found in other libraries; for details see Avraham Tal, Ha-Targum ha-shomroni le-Torah: mahadurah biḳortit (Uniṿersiṭat Tel-Aviv, 1980-1983).
ff. 1r-13vTitle: GenesisContains Gen. 24:3-30:13, 33:1-36:14, 49:2-till the end.
ff. 14r-24vTitle: ExodusText is not continuous, numerous lacunae. Contains Ex. 1:1-8:4, 20:25-32:4, and 33:1-37:8.
ff. 25r-42vTitle: NumbersText is not continuous, numerous lacunae, from Num. 3:4 until Num. 19:8.
Physical Description
Parchment codex of the 14th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentSupport:Extent: 42 folios (ii+42+ii)Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 162 mm.Dimensions (written): 160 × 125 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Blank unfoliated paper leaf is inserted after ff. 20 and 24.
Collation
Condition
Usage stains, faded ink, loss of text, mould.
Most of the leaves are incomplete and all of them have been fixed.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 34
Written lines: 32
Uniform layout.
With numerous notes in Samaritan, in black ink.
Ruling is visible.
Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable.
Hand(s)
Samaritan majuscule script of the 14th century, brown ink. Abisa ben Pinhas ben Joseph ben Ozzi ben Pinhas ben Eleazar wrote the basic text and unidentified scribes have written the marginalia (Crown).
Decoration
Additions:Binding
BM in-house binding.
Title on spine: 'Samaritan Targum. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1442.'
History
Origin: 1300-1399 14th centuryProvenance and Acquisition
Note in Arabic in the lower margin of f. 1r.
Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'B[ough]t of Mos[es] W[ilhel]m Shapira, 24 Nov. 1877. Foll. 9-11 presented by Dr W[illia]m Wright, 9 Jan. 1878.'; date of accession November 1877.
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).Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1442 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the British Library (London, 1894), p. 34 no. 51.Rothschild, J-P. and G. D. Sixdenier, Etudes samaritaines: Pentateuch et Targum, exégése et philologie, chroniques (Louvain-Paris, Peeters, 1988), p. 125 n17, 133 n.8, 137, 143, 144, 147.Goldberg, Lea, Das samaritanische Pentateuchtargum: eine Untersuchung seiner handschriftlichen Quellen Bonner Orientalischen Studien XI (Stuttgart, 1935)Tal, Avraham, Ha-Targum ha-shomroni le-Torah: mahadurah biḳortit (Uniṿersiṭat Tel-Aviv, 1980-1983), his MS M.Tal, Abraham, 'The Samaritan Targum to the Pentateuch, its Distinctive Characteristics and its Metamorphosis' Journal of Semitic Studies, 21, nos. 1-2 (1976), pp. 26–38, esp. p. 28 n4 (https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/XXI.1-2.26).Crown, Alan David,A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library.(London: British Library, 1998), no. 158.Funding of Cataloguing
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