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Or 5034

Record Id:
032-003410401
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003410401
MDARK:
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LARK:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5034
Title:
Defter
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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032-003410401
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Hierarchy:
032-003410401
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
72 folios (ii+72+ii)
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5034 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Samaritan
Scripts:
Samaritan
Start Date:
1175
End Date:
1258
Date Range:
1175-1258
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5034

Defter

Contents

Samaritan prayer book for Sabbaths and Festivals.

Language(s): Samaritan

Physical Description

Composite parchment codex of the 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 72 folios (ii+72+ii)

Collation

Quires of mostly 4 leaves.

No catchwords.

Binding

BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'Samaritan Liturgy XIIIth Century. Brit. Mus. OR 5034.'

History

Origin: 1175-1258 Late 12th century - mid 13th century (not after 1258) Nablus?

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquired in 1896; date of accession July 1896.

I

Contents

Language(s): Samaritan

ff. 1r-52v
Title: דפתר: תפלות שומרוניות
Title: Defter: tefilot Shomroniyot

Imcomplete at the beginning.

Gaster: this is the oldest-known dated MS. of Samaritan liturgy' (Gaster, Studies and Texts in Folklore, p. 397) Crown: the most important defter manuscript. See also London BL, Harley MS 5481 and Harley MS 5495.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 52 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 264 × 195 mm.
Dimensions (written): 205 × 135 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Condition

Stiff, uneven, damaged parchment leaves.

Ff. 1-7 are especially damaged, fragmentary, loss of text.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 32

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Pricking and ruling are visible.

A few marginal notes in Arabic.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script of the 13th century.

History

Origin: 1258 Nablus?

Provenance

II

Contents

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 53r-72v
Title: דפתר: תפלות שומרוניות
Title: Defter: tefilot Shomroniyot

Hymns with an Arabic translation in a parallel column; both in Samaritan characters.

Incomplete at the end.

Gaster: this is the oldest-known dated MS. of Samaritan liturgy' (Gaster, Studies and Texts in Folklore, p. 397) Crown: the most important defter manuscript. See also London BL, Harley MS 5481 and Harley MS 5495.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 20 folios (ff. 53-72)
Dimensions (leaf): 265 × 195 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Condition

Stiff, uneven, damaged parchment leaves.

Ff. 68-72 are especially damaged, fragmentary, loss of text.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Pricking and ruling are visible.

A few marginal notes in Arabic.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script of the 12th century.

Decoration

Additions:

History

Origin: 1181 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: The British Library, 1998).

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5034 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Margoliouth, G. 'An Ancient Manuscript of the Samaritan Liturgy', ZDMG 51 (1897), pp. 499- 507.
    Gaster, Moses, Studies and texts in folklore, magic, medieval romance, Hebrew Apocrypha and Samaritan archæology (London : Maggs bros., 1925-28), p. 397.
    Fraser, James Garfield, The British Museum Manuscript Or 5034 of the Samaritan Defter: An Introduction, and a Critical Edition of the Earlier Portion of the Text (Melbourne, University of Melbourne, 1965).
    Crown, Alan David,A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library.(London: The British Library, 1998), no. 83.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL