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Or 2686
Title:
Samaritan Torah scroll fragment
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Extent:
2 membranes and a quarter of a third one. Dimensions (leaf): 1330 x 357 mm.
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Samaritan
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Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
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CE
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Or 2686

Samaritan Torah scroll fragment

Contents

A fragment of a Samaritan Torah scroll containing Numbers 16:1-26:22.

Language(s): Samaritan

ff. 1r-1v
Title: ספר תורה שומרוני (במדבר, קטע)
Title: Sefer Torah Shomroni (Ba-midbar, ḳeṭaʿ)

According to Von Gall and Margoliouth, it dates to the 12th-13th century. Crown claims that the scribe was a 14th-century priest, Abisha ben Pinhas ben Joseph, and thus he dates the MS to 1340-1364.

Physical Description

Fragment of a vellum scroll of the 14th century.
Form: scroll
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 2 membranes and a quarter of a third one. Dimensions (leaf): 1330 x 357 mm.
Dimensions (leaf): 133 × 35 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Condition

Holes, usage stains, mould.

Mutilated upper and lower margins.

Layout

Columns:4

4 columns per membrane.

The width of the columns is 130mm.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Samaritan script of the 14th century.

Additions:

Inscription in Arabic on the verso side.

Binding

Boxed.

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century (Margoliouth: 12th-13th century) West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back of the scroll: 'Bought of Yaʿḳub ash-Shalabī, 9 Nov. 1883'.

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_2686 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Margoliouth, G. Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1893), p. 93.
    Gaster, M. Hebrew illuminated Bibles of the IXth and Xth centuries (Codices or. Gaster, nos.150 and 151); and a Samaritan scroll of the law of the XIth century (codex or. Gaster, no.350) (London, Printed by Harrison and Sons, 1901), p. 24.
    von Gall, August Freiherr, Der hebräische Pentateuch der Samaritaner (Giessen, 1914-1918), p. L.
    Crown, Alan David, A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library.(London: British Library, 1998), no. 173.

Funding of Cataloguing

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