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Add MS 19790
Title:
Memar ashamah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
72 folios (ix+72+iv)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1732
End Date:
1733
Date Range:
1732-1733
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Add MS 19790

Memar ashamah

Contents

A collection of hymns for festive occasions (e.g. weddings, circumcisions and birthdays).

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1r-72v
Title: מימר אשאמה: תפלות לנשואין ולברית מילה וכו’
Title: Memar ashamah: tefilot le-niśuʼin ṿeli-verit milah ṿe-khu’

Also contains a list of Torah passages read as part of the liturgy of each ceremony.

Incomplete at the end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Coloured paper leaves: yellow, pink, orange.
Extent: 72 folios (ix+72+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 151 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 100 × 62 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; in black and red ink.

Collation

Indeterminable due to tight binding.

Catchword on every verso; running diagonal to the text.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Hand(s)

Samaritan minuscule script and Arabic script of the 18th century; in black and red ink. Scribe: Sadaqa b. Abraham b. Sadaqa, the Danfi.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, brown leather binding, blind-tooled. Boxed.

Spine is damaged, fragments of title.

History

Origin: 1732-1733 West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Purch.d of J Finn, Esq. Consul at Jerusalem. Received May 1854'.

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=Add_MS_19790 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Cowley, A. E. (ed.), The Samaritan Liturgy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909), his MS L 20.
    Hill, Brad Sabin, Carta Azzurra: Hebrew Printing on Blue Paper: an Exhibition in the King's Library, July-November 1995 (London: British Library, 1995) ｢Exhibition notes｣
    Crown, Alan David, A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998), no. 76.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL