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Or 1444

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Or 1444
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
119 folios (no flyleaf)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1444 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Samaritan
Scripts:
Samaritan
Start Date:
1495
End Date:
1496
Date Range:
1495-1496
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Or 1444

Samaritan Pentateuch

Contents

Language(s): Samaritan

ff. 1r-119r
Title: תורה שומרונית
Title: Torah Shomronit

Colophon: The colophon of the original scribe is on f. 118r.
ff. 1v-30v
Title: Genesis
ff. 31r-55r
Title: Exodus
ff. 55v-72r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 72v-97r
Title: Numbers
ff. 97v-118r
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 119 folios (no flyleaf)
Dimensions (leaf): 449 × 319 mm.
Dimensions (written): 315 × 235 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

F. 119 is the back pastedown, so it does not have a verso side.

Collation

12 quires: i-iv10 (ff. 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40), v8 (ff. 41-48), vi-xii10 (ff. 49-58, 59-68, 69-78, 79-88, 89-98, 99-108, 109-118). Structure of last quire is 10-1+1 leaves. F. 119 is the back pastedown.

Condition

Manuscript has been restored; all the leaves have been reinforced with paper.

Usage stains, creased leaves, water damage, loss of text in places (e.g. f. 117v).

Missing parts of ff. 1-2 have been completed.

Ff. 22, 31, 51, 86 and 109 were supplied later.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 40

Written lines: 40

Uniform layout.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script of the 15th century. Scribe: Jacob b. Joseph b. Jacob, Qedmah family. The scribe's eighth Torah. Restored by Jacob b. Sadaqa, the Danfi, in 1848.

Decoration

Very simple geometric decorations at the end of the biblical books (ff. 30v, 55r, 72r, 97r, 118r).

Additions:

Binding

Oriental flap-binding, brown leather. Boxed.

In the digital surrogate the front cover with the flap open is called back flyleaf (i)r, with the flap extended is called back flyleaf (i)v, and the fore edge is called back flyleaf (ii)r.

History

Origin: 1495-1496 Restored in 1848.

Provenance and Acquisition

F. 119r: deed of sale dated 1869 (12 Ramadan 1286 AH) witnessed by Binyamin b. Jacob b. Sadaqa.

Erased note on f. 119r.

Bought from Jacob es-Shelaby; 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_1444 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Jacobs, J. and Lucien Wolf, Catalogue of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition Royal Albert Hall (London, 1887), p. 193.
    Derenbourg, H., Catalogue des manuscrits judaiques entres au British Museum de 1867-1890, Revue des études juives 23 (1891), pp. 99-116, 279-301.
    von Gall, A. F. Der Hebraische Pentateuch der Samaritaner (Giessen, 1918), his MS S.
    Crown, Alan David, A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library. (London: British Library, 1998), no. 130.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL