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Or 14895

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032-003459115
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Or 14895
Title:
Samaritan Book of Genesis (fragment)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
47 folios (no flyleaves)
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14895 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Samaritan
Scripts:
Samaritan
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Elias Assad
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 14895

Samaritan Book of Genesis (fragment)

Contents

A fragment of a Samaritan Book of Genesis (Gen. 29:2-end).

Language(s): Samaritan

ff. 1v-47r
Title: תורה שומרונית (בראשית, קטע)
Title: Torah Shomronit (Bereshit, ḳeṭa)

Contains Genesis 29:1-end of Genesis. From Gen. 46:2 is 19th-century addition.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: five-pointed star and cresents (e.g. ff. 35, 36).
Extent: 47 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Text starts and ends on the pastedowns called f. 1v and f. 47r (consequently there are no ff. 1r or 47v).

Collation

Indeterminable.

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains, tears, foxing.

Collation is falling apart.

Boards of the binding were done by pasting paper manuscript waste together. By now the glue gave away, and boards are falling apart making some of the waste paper visible (these leaves are digitised and called flyleaves in the digital surrogate).

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 27

Ff. 1v-37v: uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Samaritan majuscule script of the 18th century with 19th-century additions to complete the text. Amram ben Salama ben Tabya ben Isaac (active 1806-1822) was the scribe who oversaw the restauration, and wrote the majority of the nineteenth-century portion.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 38r-45v: 19th-century addition.

F. 46r-47r: inscriptions in Arabic and Samaritan script.

Binding

Islamic flap-binding. In phase box.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century West Bank (Nablus?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Black round stamps on f. 45v.

Label on back cover reads 'No. 1162 de l'Enregist & no 34', indicating that it once belonged to a French collection. See also Or 14894, Or 14896, Or 14897.

Bought of Elias Assad as part of a lot of four manuscripts (Or 14894-Or 14897), 1 June 1994.

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).

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14895 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Crown, Alan David, A Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 1998), no. 153.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL