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Or 7562

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Or 7562
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
198 folios (ii+198+iii)
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Languages:
Arabic
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Samaritan
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1200-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Isaac ben Amram Hakkohen
Sa'adia ben Joseph, Gaon, 882-942,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95159227
Sa'adia ben Joseph, Gaon, 882-942,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95159227
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Or 7562

Samaritan Pentateuch

Contents

Triglot in Arabic, Aramaic and Samaritan Hebrew.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic, tmr-Samr

ff. 1r-198v
Title: תורה שומרונית
Title: Torah Shomronit

Arabic, Aramaic and Samaritan Hebrew in three parallel columns are all in Samaritan majuscule script.

The Arabic translation is based on Saadia's translation.

Colophon:
ff. 1r-56v
Title: Genesis

ff. 57r-101r
Title: Exodus

ff. 101v-127r
Title: Leviticus

ff. 127v-166r
Title: Numbers

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 13th-14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 198 folios (ii+198+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 392 × 345 mm.
Dimensions (written): 325 × 275 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Quires mostly of 10 leaves.

Condition

Damaged leaves, usage stains, tears.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 57

Written lines: 55

Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable.

Ruling in hard point is visible.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script of the 13th-14th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 1-3, 5-6, 11, 190-198 are paper leaves and were supplied later during its restoration in 1894 by Salama b. Amram b. Salama b. Tabya, the priest.

Binding

BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'The Samaritan Pentateuch. Hebrew, Aramaic & Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 7562.'.

Accompanying Material

Photograph of the lower half of f. 56v fixed onto back flyleaf (i)v

History

Origin: 1200-1399 13th-14th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Deeds of sale: four at the end of Genesis on f. 56v, three of them undated, one is dated 818 AH (1415); one at the end of Leviticus on f. 127r; and one at the end of Numbers on f. 166r dated 1166 AH (1752). List of previous owners based on the deeds of sale: Seth b. Abd Yahweh, 1350?; Joseph b. Sadaqa, Segiana family, before 1360?; Sadaqa b. Joseph b. Ab Kiviti, c. 1364-1375?; Abdah b. Saʿadah, 1375?-1400?; Abraham b. Jacob b. Hido, Gerah family, 1400?-1415; Metuhiah b. Ab Nefusha, Metuhiah family, 1415-1419; Joseph b. Ishmael, to 1752; Tabya b. Ab Zehuta, Meter family, 1752? (for details of the deeds, see Crown).

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Bought of Isaac ben Amram Hakkohen, November 12, 1910.'; accession date November 1910.

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.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_7562 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 174.
    Hjelm, Ingrid, The Samaritans and Early Judaism: A Literary Analysis (Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, c2000), p. 86 n50.
    Anderson, Robert T. and Terry Giles, The Samaritan Pentateuch: An Introduction to Its Origin, History, and Significance for Biblical Studies (Society of Biblical Literature, 2012), pp. 172-173.

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