Country of Location: |
Country of Location
Switzerland
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Location: |
Location Fribourg/Freiburg |
Library / Collection: |
Library / Collection
Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek
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Shelfmark: | Shelfmark Ms. L 2057 |
Manuscript Title: | Manuscript Title Samaritan Pentateuch |
Caption: | Caption Parchment · 264 ff. · 37 x 31 cm · Damascus · 1495 |
Language: |
Language
Hebrew |
Manuscript Summary: | Manuscript Summary This manuscript contains the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible. The Samaritan community, an Israelite community that still lives in the West Bank and the Israeli city of Holon, recognizes only these five books as holy scripture. The Hebrew text is written in Samaritan characters and features various cryptograms. One of them contains the name of the copyist, Ya'akov ben Yossef ben Meshalma, who completed his work in the year 901 of the Hegira (1495 AD) in Damascus. Some pages of this neat manuscript have stains (e.g., f. 132r, 170r), which were caused by a special ritual during which the parchment is touched with bare hand. The origin of this manuscript is partly unknown: it was sold in Cairo in 1902 and not until 2000 did it reappear in a private collection, whereupon the Cantonal Library of Fribourg acquired it. |
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | DOI (Digital Object Identifier 10.5076/e-codices-bcuf-L2057 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5076/e-codices-bcuf-L2057) |
Permanent link: | Permanent link http://e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bcuf/L2057 |
IIIF Manifest URL: |
IIIF Manifest URL
http://e-codices.ch/metadata/iiif/bcuf-L2057/manifest.json
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How to quote: | How to quote Fribourg/Freiburg, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. L 2057: Samaritan Pentateuch (http://e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bcuf/L2057). |
Online Since: | Online Since 12/10/2020 |
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Document Type: |
Document Type
Manuscript |
Century: |
Century
15th century |
Dated: |
Dated
1495 |
Liturgica christiana: |
Liturgica christiana
Bible |
Binding: |
Binding
20th century |
Restored: |
Restored
Yes |
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Le Pentateuque samaritain de Fribourg : un manuscrit médiéval originaire de Damas en Syrie retrouve une nouvelle jeunesse / [resp. éd. Innocent Himbaza, Romain Jurot, Leonardo Pajarola, Andreas Dom] = Der samaritanische Pentateuch von Freiburg : eine mittelalterliche Handschrift aus dem syrischen Damaskus erstrahlt in neuem Glanz / [Hrsg. Innocent Himbaza, Romain Jurot, Leonardo Pajarola, Andreas Dom], Fribourg 2017.