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Or 1450

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Or 1450
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch with Arabic translation
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
451 folios (iii+451+ii)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1759
End Date:
1760
Date Range:
1759-1760
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Yaʿḳub ash-Shalabī
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Or 1450

Samaritan Pentateuch with Arabic translation

Contents

Samaritan Pentateuch with Arabic translation.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

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

Right column: Samaritan, left column: Arabic translation, with some unique transcriptions of personal names.

ff. 1v-118v
Title: Genesis
ff. 119v-229r
Title: Exodus
ff. 230v-292v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 293v-378r
Title: Numbers
ff. 378v-450r
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 451 folios (iii+451+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 157 × 99 mm.
Dimensions (written): 122 × 70 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 1r, 119r, 229v, 230r, 293r are blank.

Collation

No catchword.

Condition

Water damage, smudged ink, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:2 3

Written lines: 28 31

Ff. 378v-423r look as if it was written in three columns but the text runs continuously through the right and middle columns.

Hand(s)

Samaritan and Arabic script of the 18th century. Scribe: Tabya b. Ab Zehuta (i.e. Ghazal b. Abuʾl Sarur b. Ghazal), al Ghazi, Meter family.

Decoration

Additions:

F. 451r: a comment in Arabic by Salama b. Jacob b. Murjan b. Ibrahim, the Danfi dated 1174 AH (1760/1 CE) noting that the scribe of the manuscript, Salama's uncle died in the month of Rajab 1173 AH (1760). Before his death the scribed left this copy to the synagogue.

Binding

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

Title on spine: 'Pentateuch. Hebrew-Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1450.'

History

Origin: 1759-1760 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Bought of Yaʿḳub ash-Shalabī, 3 Nov. 1877'; date of accession November 1877.

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).

Availability

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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. 35 no. 53.
    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), esp. vol. 1, pp. 319-320.
    Rothschild, J-P and G. D. Sixdenier, Études Samaritaines: Pentateuque et Targum, exégèse et philologie, chroniques. Actes de la table ronde: «Les manuscrits samaritains. Problèmes et méthodes Paris, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, 7-9 octobre 1985. Series: Collection de la Revue des Études Juives, 6 (Louvain : E. Peeters, 1988), p. 213 n27-28.
    Derenbourg, H., 'Catalogue des manuscrits judaiques entres au British Museum de 1867-1890', Revue des études juives 23 (1891), pp. 99-116, 279-301
    Crown, Alan David,A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library.(London: British Library, 1998), no. 160.

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