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Or 10722

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Or 10722
Title:
Samaritan liturgy
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
56 folios (i+56+i)
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Samaritan
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Hebrew
Samaritan
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10722

Samaritan liturgy

Contents

Samaritan liturgy for Passover.

Language(s): Samaritan, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-56v
Title: תפלה מנהג שומרונים לפסח
Title: Tefilah minhag Shomronim le-Fesaḥ

Including Penitential prayers for the Sabbath and prayers for the festival of Matsot.

Colophon: Ff. 2r, 17r, 35r, 48v, 53v.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the early 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; Crown: the paper has a range of watermarks of the 18th century (see Nikolaev, Watermarks, no. 364 of 1721, no. 415 of 1730 and no. 423 of 1731-1732).
Extent: 56 folios (i+56+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 157 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 2v, 54v are blank.

Collation

Condition

Usage stains.

Collation is falling apart, loose leaves and bifolios.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Not uniform layout: several hands, various types of ink, and page layout.

Hand(s)

Samaritan scripts and Arabic scripts of the 18th century; various hands (see Crown).

Ff. 1-2: dated 1163 AH (1750).

Ff. 13-17: copied by Ghazal b. Ishaq b. Ibrahim b. Ishaq b. Sadaqa b. Ghazal, the Levitical priest. He completed his sections on 12 Dhu'l-Hijja 1165 AH (October 1752).

Ff. 3-7, 11-12, 21-53: copied by Ibrahim b. Ismail b. Ibrahim b. Yaqub, Mufarrij family. According to his colophon he completed his sections on 17 Rabi'a II 1118 AH (July 1706).

Decoration

Additions:

Modern notes in pencil providing references added in margins.

Binding

Post-1600. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '840 מימרי ... שומרוני - צלות פסח וכ''.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1700-1799 Various parts of the 18th century West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 840; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 27 March 1930.

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

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Bibliography

    Gaster, M., Catalogue of Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts, in the Gaster Collection, Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts [Photographic reproduction of entries for the British Museum (now British Library) manuscripts as extracted from the original Gaster Handlist), p. 108.
    Gaster, M., Handlist of Gaster Manuscripts held mostly in the British Library (formerly British Museum) London and in the John Rylands Library, Manchester [preface by Brad Sabin Hill (London, Hebrew Section, Oriental and India Office Collections, The British Library, 1995) (handlist, limited distribution), p. 64.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger, Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection.(Jerusalem, 1960), p. 77, no. 811.
    Shunnar, Zuhair,Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I.(Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 67, no. 35.
    Crown, Alan David, A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library.(London: British Library, 1998), no. 108.
    Nikolaev, Vsevolod, Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire vol. 1. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1954.

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