Detail View: Hebraica Collection:
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Image Number:
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Bookreader_Samaritan_MS_1
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Reference Number:
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Samaritan MS 1
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Parent Work Title:
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Pentateuch
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Creator:
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Ab. Berakhathah
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Creator Role:
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Scribe
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Date Created:
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1211 [607]
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Description:
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Samaritan manuscript of the Pentateuch: the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. The text text occupies 303 folios. The manuscript has suffered damaged at both the beginning and the end, with loss of text. The manuscript is written in black ink, script being a large majuscule. There are 26 lines to a full page and c. 23 letters to a full line. The manuscript has been bound in brown Levant morrocco (goatskin) with ornamental blind-tooling.
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Language:
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Samaritan
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Language Code:
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sam
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Subject:
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Bible
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Subject:
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Religion
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Technique Used:
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Blind tooling
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Medium:
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ink
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Support:
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Goatskin
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Support:
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Vellum
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Item Height:
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293 mm
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Item Width:
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265 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester |
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References:
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Robertson, Edward, Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, 2 vols (Manchester, 1938 & 1962)
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2023-07
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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