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Kitab al-Khalaf by Munajja ibn Sadakah
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153 folios (i+153+v)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
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Start Date:
1909
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1909
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1909
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Munajja ibn Sadakah, fl 12th century
Munajja ibn Sadakah, fl 12th century
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Or 10863

Kitab al-Khalaf by Munajja ibn Sadakah

Contents

Halakhical treatise on the differences between Samaritans, Karaites, and Rabbanite Jews.

Language(s): Arabic, Samaritan

ff. 1r-153r
Author: מנג’ה בן צדקה Munajja ibn Sadakah
Title: כתאב אלכלף
Title: Kitab al-Khalaf

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: three crescents with eight-pointed star in them. In the stars the letters SM.
Extent: 153 folios (i+153+v)
Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 159 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel pagination in Eastern Arabic numerals by the scribe.

Collation

16 quires: i-xv10, xvi8. Quire xvi contains 4 blank, unfoliated leaves (these are called back flyleaves in the digital surrogate).

Catchword in every verso.

Condition

A few usage stains and ink stains.

Fingerprint on f. 144r.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 16

Written lines: 16

Uniform layout.

Justified left margin.

A few marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Arabic and Samaritan script of the early 20th century; in black and red ink.

Binding

Post-1600, marble paper cover, green cloth spine.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '1153 Munadjah מסאיל אל חלאף'.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1909 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1153; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 25 November 1931.

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_10863 (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. 150.
    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. 94.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger,Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection.(Jerusalem, 1960), p. 90, no. 952.
    Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 83, no. 47.
    Bóid, I. R. M., Principles of Samaritan Halakhah: Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity.(Leiden: Brill, 1989), p. 39, his manuscript L.
    Bóid, I. R. M., 'The Samaritan Halachah', in The Samaritans, ed. A.D. Crown (Tübingen: Mohr, 1989)
    Crown, Alan David,A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998), no. 40.

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