Shelfmark
MS 229
Title
Fragment from a Samaritan Pentateuch [manuscript].
Publication, distribution, etc.
Gaza, 1300-1400.
Physical description
[2] leaves (1 bifolium) ; 108 x 103 mm.
Language
Written in Samaritan Hebrew.
Note
Material: membrane.
Note
Format: fragment (bifolium torn from codex).
Note
Written space: 79 x 62 mm.
Note
Page preparation: ruled in dry point; no pricking visible.
Note
Mise-en-page: single column (24-25 lines) written on ?first ruled line.
Note
Decoration: none present in this fragment.
Note
Handwriting: one hand.
Note
Correction: none present in this fragment.
Note
Marginalia, later additions: none present in this fragment.
Note
Host volume: Statius, Sylvarum libri V. Achilleidos libri XII. Thebaidos libri II. Orthographia et flexus dictionum Graecarum omnium apud Statium cum accentib. et generib. ex uariis utriusq[ue] linguae authoribus. Printed in Venice by Aldo Manuzio in January 1519. Now: Eton, College Library, Gk.6.21.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Fragment from the Book of Numbers in the Samaritan Pentateuch.
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 229
Provenance
Origin: fragment associated with Paris, BnF, Sam. 15, a codex containing the Pentateuch. This copy was completed in Gaza for Abraham bar Abi Nis'an ben Hab Seerah bar Ab Hisda bar Abi Eliyon Harari, in the year 770 AH (1368/1369 AD). The manuscript was acquired on 1 April 1870 by bookseller Pierre Lefort, rue du Pont-Royal in Paris, and was listed in the Register of Acquisitions as no. 6218.
Provenance
Provenance: a handwritten note on second leaf verso (upside down) reads: "Part of an Old Samaritan Bible -- P. Marmaduke 1863 given him by a Samaritan High Priest by Jacob Shellaby" i.e. Jacob esh-Shelaby. Jacob was a well-known figure who travelled no less than three times to England (1855, 1877, 1888) where he stayed mainly in London, giving lectures on the Samaritans and selling Samaritan manuscripts. The bifolium was at some point inserted as a loose leaf in ECL Gk.6.21, which had been owned by British consul at Venice Joseph Smith (1674-1770). Before being donated to Eton College by Joseph Burrell in 1983, the book also belonged to Colonel Sir Charles Forbes-Leith (1859-1930). There is no clear connection between the fragment and the volume in which it was found.
Subject
Bible. Pentateuch. Hebrew Versions Samaritan.
Subject
Manuscript fragments 14th century Palestine.
Added entry--name
Esh Shelaby, Jacob former owner.
Added entry--place
Palestine Gaza.
Identifier
B52042