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Or 1446

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Or 1446
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch in Arabic translation
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Extent:
187 folios (ii+187+ii)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
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Samaritan
Start Date:
1053
End Date:
1504
Date Range:
1053-1504
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Hijri-qamari
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CE
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Or 1446

Samaritan Pentateuch in Arabic translation

Contents

Language(s): Arabic, Samaritan

ff. 1r-187r
Title: תרגום ערבי לתורה השומרונית
Title: Targum ʿAravi la-Torah ha-Shomronit

An Arabic translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch divided into small sections in agreement with the division of the Samaritan Pentateuch.

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

Chapter numbers are added in the margin in Eastern Arabic numerals, by a later hand.

Incomplete at the beginning.

ff. 1r-47v
Title: Genesis
ff. 48r-86v
Title: Exodus
ff. 87r-111r
Title: Leviticus
ff. 111v-144v
Title: Numbers
ff. 145r-187r
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Ff. 72-83 is yellowish Oriental paper.
Extent: 187 folios (ii+187+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 315 × 206 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

19 quires: i12-1 (ff. 1-11), ii-vii10 (ff. 12-21, 22-31, 32-41, 42-51, 52-61, 62-71), viii12 (ff. 72-83), ix-xiv10 (ff. 84-93, 94-103, 104-113, 114-123, 124-133, 134-143), xv4 (ff. 144-147), xvi-xix10 (ff. 148-157, 158-167, 168-177, 178-187).

Signatures in Arabic characters at the beginning of the quires and sometimes at the end as well.

Catchword on almost every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, smudged ink.

F. 144 is damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Ruling is visible.

Last quire (ff. 178-187) is later addition with different layout: 21 written lines.

Hand(s)

Arabic and Samaritan scripts of the 16th century.

Ff. 1r-143v: 16th century scribe.

Ff. 178r-187r: more recent scribe.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 178-187 is a later addition.

Note in Arabic script on f. 187v.

Binding

Bm in-house binding, black buckram with blue marble paper pastedowns.

Title on spine: 'Pentateuch. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1446.'

History

Origin: 1053-1504 Damascus and Nablus

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Bt of Yaʿkūb al-Shalabi 3 Nov. 1877; date of accession November 1877.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

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Bibliography

    Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), p. 34 no. 51.
    Margoliouth, G. Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1893), p. 93.
    Shehadeh, Haseeb, 'The Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch' (Ph.D. dissertation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1977), pp. 316-317.
    Derenbourg, 'Les manuscrits judaïques entrés au British Museum de 1867 à 1890', Revue des Etudes juives 1891.
    Crown, Alan David,A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library.(London: British Library, 1998), no. 159.

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