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Or 14961

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032-003434494
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Or 14961
Title:
Samaritan liturgy for Passover (incomplete)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
40 folios (no flyleaf)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14961 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1701
Date Range:
1600-1701
Era:
CE
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Or 14961

Samaritan liturgy for Passover (incomplete)

Contents

A fragment of a mansucript containing Samaritan liturgy for Passover.

Language(s): Samaritan, Arabic

ff. 1r-40v
Title: תפלות מנהג שומרונים לפסח
Title: Tefilot minhag Shomronim le-Fesaḥ

Colophon on f. 40r dated 1112 AH (1700/1701 CE) is added by a second hand, thus the bulk of the manuscript must have been completed before that date.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Various kinds of paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 40 folios (no flyleaf)
Dimensions (leaf): 142 × 91 mm.
Dimensions (written): 114 × 70 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil. Foliation begins on the first extant leaf.

Collation

Signatures in Eastern-Arabic numerals on ff. 21v, 22r, 28v, 29r. According to this, quire vii starts on f., quire viii

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Beginning of the manuscript together with the front cover is missing.

Several leaves have been torn out.

Water damage, usage stains, tears, iron gall ink corrosion.

Ff. 3 and 4 are loose.

Layout

Columns:1

Layout is not uniform.

Hand(s)

Samaritan scripts of the 17th - early 18th century; brown, red and black ink.

Binding

Spine and back cover of brown leather binding, blind-tooled. In phase box.

History

Origin: 1600-1701 17th - early 18th century (not after 1701) West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

Deposite 1218 dated 17 April 1978 brought in by Mr Peter Bridge of 15 Claremont Rd., Highgate, London.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Alan David Crown: A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library. (London: British Library, 1998).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14961 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Crown, Alan David, A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library. (London: British Library, 1998), no. 119.
    Crown, Alan David, Samaritan Scribes and Manuscripts (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001), pp. 71 and 349.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL