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Or 2689

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Or 2689
Title:
Samaritan liturgy for Passover
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
161 folios (i+161+ii)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1737
End Date:
1737
Date Range:
1737
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Or 2689

Samaritan liturgy for Passover

Contents

Samaritan liturgy for Passover.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1r-160v
Title: תפלות מנהג שומרונים לפסח
Title: Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-Fesaḥ

Incomplete at the end.

Colophon: Colophons on ff. 28r, 55r nd 88r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with chain lines and laid lines, tre-lune watermark (e.g. f. 76).
Extent: 161 folios (i+161+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 202 × 156 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 93 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

16 quires of 10 leaves. F. 161 probably used to be a back flyleaf.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, ink stains, smudged ink.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 29

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Samaritan and Arabic script of the 18th century; in black and red ink. Copied by Ab Sakhwa/Murjan b. Abraham, Danfi family.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 161r and 161v: Arabic notes.

Binding

Bm in-house binding.

Title on spine: 'Service Book. Samaritan. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2689.'

History

Origin: 1737 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Bt of Yakub al-Shalabi 9 Nov. 1883; date of accession July 1884.

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_2689 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Cowley, A. E. (ed.), The Samaritan Liturgy.(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909), his MS L 6. Derenbourg, 'Les manuscrits judaïques entrés au British Museum de 1867 à 1890', Revue des Etudes juives 1891.
    Margoliouth, G. Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1893), p. 69.
    Crown, Alan David,A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library.(London: British Library, 1998), no. 81.

Funding of Cataloguing

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