COLLECTION NAME:
Hebraica Collection
Record
Image Number:
Bookreader_Samaritan_MS_1
Reference Number:
Samaritan MS 1
Parent Work Title:
Pentateuch
Creator:
Ab. Berakhathah
Creator Role:
Scribe
Date Created:
1211 [607]
Description:
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.
Language:
Samaritan
Language Code:
sam
Subject:
Bible
Subject:
Religion
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Technique Used:
Blind tooling
Medium:
ink
Support:
Goatskin
Support:
Vellum
Item Height:
293 mm
Item Width:
265 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
References:
Robertson, Edward, Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, 2 vols (Manchester, 1938 & 1962)
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2023-07
Metadata Language:
eng-GB