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Or 1381

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032-003433511
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Or 1381
Title:
A letter of the Samaritans to Queen Victoria
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 sheet
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1875
End Date:
1875
Date Range:
1875
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1381

'A letter of the Samaritans to Queen Victoria'

Contents

Samaritan document.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1r-1v
Title: אגרת מהשומרונים של שכם אל ממשלת אנגליה
Title: Igeret meha-Shomronim shel Shekhem el memshelet Angliyah

According to Crown, the letter is addressed to the English government (see Crown, The Samaritans, p. 109); the note on the verso side of the document says that it is to 'Queen Victoria'.

Crown: 'The sheet is of particular interest since this indicates the size of the mould available to the Samaritans.'

Signatures are accompanied with round black stamps.

In Samaritan Hebrew and Arabic.

Bound together with: Add MS 21409.2, Add MS 21531.1-2, Add MS 22166, and Or 4543.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper without laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 1 sheet
Dimensions (leaf): 695 × 500 mm.
Dimensions (written): 410 × 470 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Condition

A few usage stains, smudged ink, folding lines.

Layout

Columns:1

First 29 lines in Samaritan script, followed by 16 lines in Arabic script.

Hand(s)

Samaritan and Arabic scripts of the 19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

In melinex; bound with other documents in a large light blue postbinder.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1875 West Bank (Nablus)

Provenance and Acquisition

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).

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1381 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Montgomery, James A., The Samaritans, the Earliest Jewish Sect: Their History, Theology and Literature (Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co, 1907), p. 9.
    Crown, Alan David, The Samaritans (Tubingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1989), p. 109.
    Crown, Alan David, A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998), no. 34.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL