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Or 11606

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Or 11606
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch (Genesis)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
83 folios (ii+83+ii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_11606 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
Era:
CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 11606

Samaritan Pentateuch (Genesis)

Contents

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1r-83v
Title: תורה שומרונית (בראשית)
Title: Torah Shomronit (Be-reshit)

Incomplete at the beginning, starts with Genesis 4:2.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 83 folios (ii+83+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 191 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 158 × 106 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains, liquid damage.

Damaged leaves, many of them have been fixed.

Undergone restoration in the 19th and in the 20th century.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script of the 17th-18th century; with later additions from the 19th-20th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'Genesis. Samaritan Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 11.606.'

Accompanying Material

Notes in Samaritan and Arabic script on front flyleaf (ii)v and both sides of back flyleaf (i).

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquired in 1936; date of accession 16 September 1936.

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).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_11606 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Crown, Alan David,A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library.(London: The British Library, 1998), no. 147.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL