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Or 10754
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch in Arabic translation
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Extent:
161 folios (no flyleaf)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
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Arabic
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Start Date:
1382
End Date:
1383
Date Range:
1382-1383
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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
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Or 10754

Samaritan Pentateuch in Arabic translation

Contents

Samaritan Pentateuch in Arabic translation.

Language(s): Arabic, Samaritan

ff. 1r-159r
Title: תרגום ערבי לתורה השומרונית
Title: Targum ʿAravi la-Torah ha-Shomronit

Arabic text in Arabic script with the opening words for each verse in Samaritan Hebrew.

With marginal notes.

F. 159r is a later addition.

Colophon:
ff. 1r-36r
Title: Genesis
ff. 36v-65v
Title: Exodus
ff. 66r-89v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 90r-128v
Title: Numbers
ff. 129r-159r
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Oriental paper.
Extent: 161 folios (no flyleaf)
Dimensions (leaf): 297 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Western Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel foliation in Eastern Arabic numerals.

Collation

17 quires: i10 (ff. 1-10), ii12 (ff. 11-22), iii8 (ff. 23-30), iv12 (ff. 31-42), v8 (ff. 43-50), vi12 (ff. 50-62), vii8+1 (ff. 63-71), viii-xv10 (ff. 72-81, 82-91, 92-101, 102-111, 112-121, 122-131, 132-141, 142-151), xvi10-3 (ff. 152-158), xviithree (ff. 159-161).

Signatures in Eastern Arabic numerals in ink.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Arabic and Samaritan script of the 14th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Later hand added chapter numbers and running title in Latin script.

Binding

Brown leather binding, blind-tooled. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '1164 Pentateuch Arab. Samarit.'.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1382-1383 Damascus?

Provenance and Acquisition

F. 1r: Arabic inscription, 'Aux Capucins D'Alep', 'Pentateuch in Arabic written at Aleppo.'

F. 160r: note in Syriac saying that the MS was owned by Capucius; Latin notes referring to the same owner on note in Latin: 'Loci Alepi Capucinorum Catalogo Librorum Inscriptus' (f. 2r); 'Ex Libris Capucinorum alepensium' (f. 159r); his seal on f. 2r: red wax seal with Virgin Mary in the middle and partially illegible inscription around it: '...uc Alepien Sigil H. Minorum.

F. 161r: Arabic note of the previous owners Abdallah b. Ganima as-Syriani and Hanna b. Ata Allah as-Syriani from 1662.

M. Gaster's note in his handlist: 'Bought from [Way] sale 827MS - which originally belonged to Capucius in Aleppo whose wax seal is on f2. It had come into their possession before 1651 - came into hands of Capucius according to Arabic note at the end of Exodus.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1164; 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 Crown, Alan David: A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998).

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Surrogates

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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. 152.
    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. 80, no. 843.
    Shehadeh, Haseeb, 'The Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch' (Ph.D. dissertation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1977), p. 306-307.
    Shunnar, Zuhair,Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I.(Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 37, no. 7.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library. (London: The British Library, 1998), no. .

Funding of Cataloguing

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