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Harley MS 5481
- Record Id:
- 040-003948065
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-003948065
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100124336765.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100145090988.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5481
- Title:
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Defter.
- Scope & Content:
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Language: Latin
Samaritan hymns and prayers interspersed with short extracts from the Pentateuch.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-003948065", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5481: Defter." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-003948065 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5481 : Defter. - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7874]/040-003948065
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 62 folios (8+iii+54+iii, plus three modern leaves at the beginning and the end that serve as fillers)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100145090988.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Latin - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin
Samaritan - Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 1500-1599
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
62 folios (8+iii+54+iii, plus three modern leaves at the beginning and the end that serve as fillers).
Format: codex. Material: paper.
Binding: Harleian parchment binding. Boxed.
54 folios. Dimensions (leaf): 206 x 148 mm. Dimensions (written): 155-160 x 110 mm.
Format: codex. Material: paper.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Collation: Indeterminable. Catchword on every verso, written diagonally.
Condition: Water damage, usage stains.
Layout: Columns: 1. Layout is not uniform.
Hand note: Samaritan.
Number of hands: 4.
Script: Samaritan and Arabic script of the 15th-16th century. There are at least four hands displayed from differing eras.
8 folios. Dimensions (leaf): 184 x 144 mm.
Format: codex. Material: paper.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with previous part BUT FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, and located at the beginning of the manuscript. F. 62v is blank.
Collation: A single quire of 8 leaves. Catchword on every verso.
Condition: Usage stains.
Layout: Columns: 1. Uniform layout.
Additions: Latin note on f. 55r: 'Vide 5481. pars prima - 5495 pro parte 2da. Fasten this.'
Hand note: Samaritan.
Script: Latin cursive script of the 17th-18th century.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance: From the Damascus genizah. Note on front flyleaf (i)r "Ex dono Reverendissi viri Amicique mei maxime honorandi Magistri Wheelock, Arabici in Cantabrigia professoris. Oct. I. 53.".
- Source of Acquisition:
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Acquisition: The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (owner) (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (owner) (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts. Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (owner) (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (owner) (b. 1715, d.1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
Date of origin: 16th century.
Date of origin: 15th-16th century.
Date of origin: 17th-18th century.
- Appraisal:
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Condition: Water damage, usage stains.
Condition: Usage stains.
- Administrative Context:
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Date of origin: 16th century.
Provenance: From the Damascus genizah. Note on front flyleaf (i)r "Ex dono Reverendissi viri Amicique mei maxime honorandi Magistri Wheelock, Arabici in Cantabrigia professoris. Oct. I. 53.".
Date of origin: 15th-16th century.
Date of origin: 17th-18th century.
- Finding Aids:
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Record history: Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the handlist called 'Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (published and unpublished inventories)'
- Publications:
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Wanley, Humphrey, et al. (eds.), A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum. With indexes of persons, places, and matters ... (London: [G. Eyre and A. Strahan], 1808-1812), vol. III, p. 272.
Gesenius, Carmina Samaritana: e codicibus londinensibus et gothanis. Leipzig, 1824.
Kirchheim, Raphael, Karme Shomron = Introductio in librum Talmudicum 'de Samaritanis'. (Frankfurt am Main, 1851), pp. 93-102.
Heidenheim, Moritz. Die samaritanische Liturgie. Bibliotheca Samaritana, vol. II (Leipzig, 1885), no. III, V, VI, VII, VIII and IX.
Margoliouth, George, ed., Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British Museum. (London, 1893), p. 90.
Heidenheim, Moritz. Der Commentar Marqah's des Samaritaners. Bibliotheca Samaritana, vol. III, no. 5/6 (Weimar, 1896).
Rosenberg, J., Lehrbuch der samaritanischen Sprache und Literatur. (Vienna, 1901), pp. 128-131.
Gaster, M., 'Samaritan Phylacteries and Amulets'. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology (1915): 163-174 [Reprinted in Studies and texts in folklore, magic, mediaeval romance, Hebrew apocrypha and Samaritan archaeology. vol.1, pp. 409-420].
Cowley, A. E. (ed.), The Samaritan Liturgy. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909), vol. 2., p. xii.
Brown, Solomon. 'A critical edition and translation of the ancient Samaritan Defter (i.e.liturgy) and a comparison of it with early Jewish liturgy', Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Leeds, 1955.
(Fraser, James Garfield, 'The History of the Defter of the Samaritan Liturgy' Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Melbourne, 1969), pp. 196-218.
Fraser, James Garfield, 'Documents from a Samaritan Genizah in Damascus' Palestine Exploration Quarterly. 103 (1971): pp. 85-92.
Ben-Hayyim, Z. Tibat Marqe: A Collection of Samaritan Midrashim (Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1988).
Source: Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the handlist called 'Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Library (published and unpublished inventories)'
Credit: The National Library of Israel.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Credit: The National Library of Israel.