COLLECTION NAME:
Hebraica Collection
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Manchester~10~10
Hebraica Collection
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Image Number:
Bookreader Samaritan MS 2
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Bookreader Samaritan MS 2
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Reference Number:
Samaritan MS 2
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Samaritan MS 2
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Parent Work Title:
Pentateuch
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Pentateuch
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Creator:
Mashlamah
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Mashlamah
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Creator Role:
Scribe
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Scribe
Creator Role
false
Date Created:
1328 CE [729]
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1328 CE [729]
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Description:
Samaritan manuscript of the Pentateuch: the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Bilingual text: Hebrew and Arabic in parallel columns, the Hebrew being on the right hand side. Both columns are in written in Samaritan majuscule character. The manuscript begins with 41 lines to a page but from folio 11 the number of lines increases until at later stages it reaches 50-51. The manuscript was written in 14th century. The scribe was Mashlamah (or Meshalmah) the Physician, son of Jacob, the Ascetic, son of Mashlamah, the Nazirite. The manuscript has been bound in brown levant morrocco (goatskin) with ornamental blind-tooling.
description
Samaritan manuscript of the Pentateuch: the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Bilingual text: Hebrew and Arabic in parallel columns, the Hebrew being on the right hand side. Both columns are in written in Samaritan majuscule character. The manuscript begins with 41 lines to a page but from folio 11 the number of lines increases until at later stages it reaches 50-51. The manuscript was written in 14th century. The scribe was Mashlamah (or Meshalmah) the Physician, son of Jacob, the Ascetic, son of Mashlamah, the Nazirite. The manuscript has been bound in brown levant morrocco (goatskin) with ornamental blind-tooling.
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Language Code:
heb
Language Code:
sam
Language Code:
ara
Subject:
Religion
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Religion
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Category of Material:
Manuscripts
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
Codex
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Codex
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false
Technique Used:
Handwriting
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Handwriting
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false
Technique Used:
Blind tooling
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Blind tooling
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false
Medium:
ink
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ink
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Support:
Vellum
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Vellum
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Support:
Goatskin
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Goatskin
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Item Height:
342.5 mm
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342.5 mm
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Item Width:
300 mm
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300 mm
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Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Provenance
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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
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References:
Robertson, Edward, Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, 2 vols (Manchester, 1938 & 1962)
references
Robertson, Edward, Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, 2 vols (Manchester, 1938 & 1962)
References
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2012-04
Metadata Language:
eng-GB