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Or 6461

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Or 6461
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
199 folios (ii+199+ii)
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Languages:
Samaritan
Scripts:
Samaritan
Start Date:
1339
End Date:
1340
Date Range:
1339-1340
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Or 6461

Samaritan Pentateuch

Contents

Language(s): Samaritan

ff. 1v-199r
Title: תורה שומרונית
Title: Torah Shomronit

Colophon:
ff. 1v-50v
Title: Genesis
ff. 51r-92r
Title: Exodus
ff. 92v-120v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 121r-162v
Title: Numbers
ff. 163r-199r
Title: Deuteronomy

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 199 folios (ii+199+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 430 × 350 mm.
Dimensions (written): 280 × 240 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Indeterminable due to tight binding.

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains, holes in the parchment, lower margin of the leaves is often incomplete.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 30 31

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Justified left margins.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script of the 14th century. Scribe: Abraham ben Jacob ben Tanya ben Saʿadia ben Abraham, Pijma family.

Binding

Post-1600, dar red leather binding, blind-tooled. Boxed.

Title on spine: 'The Pentateuch in the Samaritan Recension. A.D. 1339. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 6461.'.

History

Origin: 1339-1340 Syria (Damascus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Deeds of sale: on f. 50v, the contract is witnessed by the High Priest in Damascus, dated, 807 AH (1404/5 CE); on f. 162v, the contract was written in Damascus in 874 AH (1469/1470 CE); on f. 199r the contract was written in Damascus in 986 AH (1578/9 CE); on f. 199v the record of purchase is dated 1214 AH (1799/1800 CE).

Bought from the Samaritan priest, Isaac ben Amram ben Salama (d. 1916) in London, during his visit there at the beginning of the 20th century ; date of accession November 1902.

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), and on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_6461 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Margoliouth, G. 'An Early Copy of the Samaritan-Hebrew Pentateuch' JQR 15 (1903), pp. 632-639 (https://archive.org/details/jstor-1450415).
    Von Gall, A. F. Der herbaische Pentateuch der Samaritaner (Giessen: Töppelmann, 1914-1918), pp. xxi-xxiii.
    Anderson, Robert T., 'Clustering Samaritan Hebrew Pentateuchal Manuscripts', in J-P. Rothschild and G.D. Sixdenier, Études samaritaines: Pentateuque et Targum, exégese et philologie, chroniques, Les manuscrits samaritains. Problemes et methodes, Acte de la table ronde (Louvain-Paris: Peeters, 1988), pp. 57-66.
    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 135.
    https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/samaritan-pentateuch

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