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Or 5037

Record Id:
032-003431964
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032-003431964
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Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5037
Title:
Samaritan liturgy for Passover
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
130 folios (i+130)
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5037 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1705
End Date:
1706
Date Range:
1705-1706
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Joseph-Ange Durighello
Pinhas ben Isaac
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5037

Samaritan liturgy for Passover

Contents

Samaritan liturgy for Passover.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1r-130v
Title: תפלות מנהג שומרונים לפסח
Title: Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-Fesaḥ

Colophon: Colophons on ff. 52v and 126v.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; unidentified watermark.
Extent: 130 folios (i+130)
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 142 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120/140 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

13 quires: i10-1 (ff. 1-9), ii-xii10 (ff. 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80-89, 90-99, 100-109, 110-119), xiiieleven (ff. 120-130). Last quire(s) is not determinable due to tight binding.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, worm damage.

Iron gall ink corrosion, earlier restorations, loss of text is places.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Not uniform layout.

Number of written lines per page varies.

Marginal notes in Samaritan and in Arabic script.

Hand(s)

Samaritan and Arabic script of the early 18th century; in black and red ink. The name of the scribe is presented differently in several places including the title page, as Abd Yahweh, the Danfi, in majuscule script as Abd Yahweh b. Murjan b. Ishmael, the Danfi and in the colophon as Abd Allah ibn Murjan ibn Ibrahim ibn Ismail.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 128-130 are 19th-century insertions by Pinhas ben Isaac.

Binding

Post-1600; hybrid of an original Islamic flap-binding with a tail band and a reinforced spine and European tooling. Title in Arabic on the front cover.

Title on spine: 'Passover Services. Samaritan. Brit. Mus. OR. 5037.'

In the digital surrogate the front binding board with the flap open is called back flyleaf (ii)r; the back binding board with flap extended is called back flyleaf (ii)v; and the fore edge is called back flyleaf (iii)r.

History

Origin: 1705-1706 West Bank (Shechem/Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Joseph-Ange Durighello (d 1924): French collector and dealer: according to the Arabic note on f. 126v, he bought the manuscript from the Samaritans in 1893 (see Crown).

Acquisition note on back pastedown: 'Bought of J. A. Durighello, June 23, 1896' date of accession July 1896.

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_5037 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Crown, Alan David,A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library.(London: British Library, 1998), no. 84.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL