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Or 12257

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Or 12257
Title:
Samaritan miscellany
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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:
149 folios (viii+149+iii)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1840
End Date:
1873
Date Range:
1840-1873
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Abraham al Ayya
Abū ʾl-Ḥasan al-Ṣūrī
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
אבו אלחסן אלצורי
אברהם אלעיה
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Or 12257

Samaritan miscellany

Contents

A collection of Samaritan writings.

Language(s): Arabic, Samaritan

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 149 folios (viii+149+iii)

Collation

16 quires: i8-1 (unfoliated blank leaves), ii-vi10 (unfoliated blank leaf + ff. 1-9, 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49,), vii-viii12 (ff. 50-61, 62-73), ix10 (ff. 74-83), x8-1 (ff. 84-90), xi12 (ff. 91-100), xii12 (ff. 101-112), xiii-xvi10 (ff. 113-122, 123-132, 133-142, 143-149 + unfoliated blank leaves).

Hand(s)

Arabic and Samaritan scripts of the 19th century; black and red ink. Three main scribes.

Binding

Islamic flap-binding, red leather blind-tooled.

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; and the fore edge is called back flyleaf (v)r.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1840-1873 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1160; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 8 December 1931.

I

Contents

Language(s): Arabic, Samaritan

ff. 1r-122r
Author: אבו אלחסן אלצורי Abū ʾl-Ḥasan al-Ṣūrī
Title: כתאב אלטבאך
Title: Kitab at-Tabakh

Ff. 1v-8v: list of the titles of the chapters and the page numbers of the contents.

Colophon: Colophons on ff. 1r and 122r.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, tre-lune watermark (e.g. ff. 1, 2), countermarks: 'G. P.' (e.g. ff. 4-5).
Extent: 49 folios (ff. 1-49)
Dimensions (leaf): 221 × 163 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel foliation in Eastern Arabic numerals; continuous with previous part.

Collation

See quires i-vi.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 19

Written lines: 19

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Arabic and Samaritan scripts of the 19th century; black and red ink.

Ff. 10r-49v: completed by Amram b. Salama b. Ghazal in 1256 AH.

History

Origin: 1840-1841 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance

II

Contents

Language(s): Arabic, Samaritan

ff. 122v-142r
Author: אבו אלחסן אלצורי Abū ʾl-Ḥasan al-Ṣūrī
Title: כתאב פי שרח על עשר כלימאת
Title: Kitab fi Sharh al ʿasr Kalimat

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, tre-lune watermark (e.g. f. 110), countermark: 'F.F. PALAZZUOLI (e.g. f. 73).
Extent: 93 folios (ff. 50-142r)
Dimensions (leaf): 226 × 163 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel foliation in Eastern Arabic numerals; continuous with previous part.

Collation

See quires vii-xv.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Arabic and Samaritan scripts of the 19th century; black and red ink.

Ff. 50r-143v: completed by Jacob v. Aaron on 1 Rabi II 1284 AH.

History

Origin: 1867-1868 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance

III

Contents

Language(s): Arabic, Samaritan

ff. 142v-149v
Author: אברהם אלעיה Abraham al Ayya
Title: תפסיר סורט אל קיאמא
Title: Tafsir surat al Qiyama

Colophon: Colophon on f. 149v.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, tre-lune watermark (e.g. ff. 147-148).
Extent: 8 folios (ff. 142v-149)
Dimensions (leaf): 227 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with previous part.

Parallel foliation in Eastern Arabic numerals; continuous with previous part, but added by a modern hand in pencil (perhaps by Gaster?).

Collation

Text starts on f. 142v, that is the last leaf of quire xv.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Marginal notes in Samaritan script.

Hand(s)

Arabic and Samaritan scripts of the 19th century; black and magenta ink.

Ff. 142r-149v: completed by Nimr b. Salama b. Ishmael b. Salih Sadaqa on Rabi I 1289 AH.

History

Origin: 1872-1873 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance

Additional Information

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).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12257 (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.
    Steinschneider, M., Die arabische Literatur der Juden (Frankfurt, 1902). Anhang III: Samaritaner, pp. 319-334. [Reprinted Hildesheim, Georg Olms, 1964].
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger,Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection.(Jerusalem, 1960), p. 93, no. 975.
    Shunnar, Zuhair,Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I.(Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 87, no. 51.
    Wedel, Gerhard, 'Kitab at-Tabbah des Samaritaners Abu ʾl-Hasan as-Suri' (D. Phil. dissertation, Freie Universitat, Berlin, 1987), p. 26.
    Bóid, I. R. M., Principles of Samaritan Halachah. Studies in Judaism and Late Antiquity (Leiden: Brill, 1989), p. 27, his MS 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. 44.

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