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Or 10813

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Or 10813
Title:
Kitab al-Kafi by al-ʿAskarī
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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:
173 folios (ii+173+iv)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Yūsuf ibn Salāmah al-ʿAskarī, f. 1041
אלעסכרי, יוסף בן שלמה
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Or 10813

Kitab al-Kafi by al-ʿAskarī

Contents

Samaritan Halakhical work.

Language(s): Arabic, Samaritan

ff. 1v-173r
Author: אלעסכרי, יוסף בן שלמה Yūsuf ibn Salāmah al-ʿAskarī, f. 1041
Title: כתאב אלכאפי
Title: Kitab al-Kafi

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper without laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 173 folios (ii+173+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 83 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel pagination in Eastern Arabic numerals in ink.

Collation

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

A few usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Arabic and Samaritan script of the 19th century.

Binding

Post-1600, marble paper covers, cloth spine.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '1159 Al Kafi'.

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1159; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 8 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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10813 (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.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. 85 no. 902.
    Noja, Sergio, Il Kitab Al-Kafi dei Samaritani (Napoli, 1970).
    Shunnar, Zuhair, Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I (Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 81, no. 5.
    Bóid, I. R. M., Principles of Samaritan Halakhah: Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity (Leiden: Brill, 1989).
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library. (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 39.

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