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Or 10777
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch
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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:
496 folios (i+496+iii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10777 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Samaritan
Scripts:
Samaritan
Start Date:
1902
End Date:
1902
Date Range:
1902
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
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 10777

Samaritan Pentateuch

Contents

Samaritan Pentateuch

Language(s): Samaritan

ff. 1r-496v
Title: תורה שומרונית
Title: Torah shomronit

Crown: A double version, the Samaritan text compared with the Massoretic Text. There is also a list of the readings for each week of the year, given according to the normal year and the leap years.

With notes in Arabic.

ff. 1r-125v
Title: Genesis
Colophon: F. 125v.
ff. 126v-228r
Title: Exodus
Colophon: Ff. 227r and 228r.
ff. 229v-297r
Title: Leviticus
Colophon: F. 297r.
ff. 298v-405r
Title: Numbers
Colophon: F. 404v.
ff. 406v-496v
Title: Deuteronomy

Ff. 426r-435v: tashqil.

Colophon: F. 495r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the early 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper without laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 496 folios (i+496+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 188 × 125 mm.
Dimensions (written): 122 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

No catchword.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, smudged ink.

Layout

Columns:2 4

Ruled lines: 40

Written lines: 38 40

Uniform layout.

Verse numbers in outer margins in Eastern Arabic numeral in red ink.

Hand(s)

Samaritan and Arabic script of the 20th century; in black and red ink. Scribe: Av Ḥasda ben Jacob ben Aaron.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Islamic flap-binding, red leather, blind-tooled; with Arabic inscriptions. The inscriptions are the same as those are on Quran bindings. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'תורה עברי ושמרני 804'.

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

History

Origin: 1902 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 804; 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)

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10777 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    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. 61.
    Shunnar, Zuhair,Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I.(Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 39, no. 8.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger,Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection.(Jerusalem, 1960), p. 82, no. 866.
    Crown, Alan David,A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library.(London: British Library, 1998), no. 144.
    On Arabic inscriptions on Islamic bindings, see http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2017/07/some-bindings-from-tipu-sultans-court.html

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