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Or 2683

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Or 2683
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
271 folios (ii+271+iii)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1357
End Date:
1357
Date Range:
1357
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Yaʿḳub ash-Shalabī
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Or 2683

Samaritan Pentateuch

Contents

Samaritan Pentateuch.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1r-450r
Title: תורה שומרונית
Title: Torah Shomronit

The manuscript has undergone several restorations by the Samaritans and perhaps one after acquisition by the BM. Ff. 7-36 and 96 were restored in the late 18th-early 19th century. Ff. 47, 56, 67-69 and 265-268 are in a 19th century hand; ff. 238-264 are in an 18th century hand.

At the end of Deuteronomy a colophon in Arabic followed by two lines of Samaritan Hebrew gives the name of Shelaby b. Jacob, the Samaritan of Shechem, and dates 1801.

The beginnings of Genesis and Exodus are missing, i.e. Gen 1:1-14 and Exodus 1:1-17.

Cf. London, BL, Add MS 22369.

ff. 1v-69v
Title: Genesis
ff. 70r-124r
Title: Exodus
ff. 124v-161v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 162r-216v
Title: Numbers
ff. 217r-271v
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 271 folios (ii+271+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 294 × 245 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 173 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Water damage, iron gall ink corrosion, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Number of written lines per page varies.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script and Arabic script of the 14th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

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

Title on spine: 'Pentateuch. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2683.'

History

Origin: 1357 ; with late 18th-early 19th century restaurations Cairo or Gaza

Provenance and Acquisition

Two deeds of sale at the end of Exodus (f. 124r). The first records the purchase of the manuscript in 924 AH (1518 CE); the second records the purchase of the manuscript in 939 AH (1532/3 CE).

Undated deed of sale at the end of Leviticus (f. 161v).

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Bought of Yaʿḳub ash-Shalabī, 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: British Library, 1998).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2683 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Derenbourg, H., 'Catalogue des manuscrits judaiques entres au British Museum de 1867-1890', Revue des études juives 23 (1891).
    Margoliouth, G. Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1893), p. 93.
    Von Gall, Agust Freiherrn, Hebräische Pentateuch der Samaritaner (Giessen: Alfred Töpelmann, 1914-1918), Gothic XXX.
    Crown, Alan David,A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library.(London: British Library, 1998), no. 131.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL