GB 0103 MS MOCATTA 8 - Service book (Samaritan)

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GB 0103 MS MOCATTA 8

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Service book (Samaritan)

Date(s)

  • [1788-1789] (Création/Production)

Niveau de description

Étendue matérielle et support

1 volume containing 176 folios

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Notice biographique

An account of the Samaritan service book (known as Defter, an Arabic word for book) in its different forms was given by A Cowley, Jewish Quarterly Review (Oct 1894).

Histoire archivistique

Formerly held with other Jewish collections in the Mocatta Library of University College London.
GB 0103 MS MOCATTA 8 [1788-1789] Collection (fonds) 1 volume containing 176 folios Unknown
An account of the Samaritan service book (known as Defter, an Arabic word for book) in its different forms was given by A Cowley, Jewish Quarterly Review (Oct 1894).

Formerly held with other Jewish collections in the Mocatta Library of University College London.

Transferred from the Mocatta Library (subsequently the Jewish Studies Library) of University College London.

Manuscript Samaritan service book [1788-1789].

Open.

Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Hebrew or Aramaic with Arabic translation, mainly in Samaritan characters.
Paper. Written by at least two scribes, and the latter portions are in a much better hand than the earlier parts. Some leaves misplaced in binding; a few leaves missing.

Reginald Arthur Rye, Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts forming the library of F D Mocatta (Harrison & Sons, London, 1904), 437-8, gives a more detailed description.

University College London Special Collections also holds various other service books (Ref: MS MOCATTA 1, 3-4, 7, 9, 12, 23, 25, 35). The Defter is rare, but the British Library has a large portion of the oldest known copy (13th century); Manchester University, John Rylands Library, has two copies.

Several of the hymns have been published by M Heidenheim, 'Die Samaritanische Liturgie', Leipzig (1885).

Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Oct 2001 Documents Information sources Religious activities Religious doctrines Religious groups Religious practice Religious texts Samaritans Theology Translations

Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert

Transferred from the Mocatta Library (subsequently the Jewish Studies Library) of University College London.

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Portée et contenu

Manuscript Samaritan service book [1788-1789].

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Mode de classement

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Conditions d'accès

Open.

Conditions de reproduction

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Langue des documents

  • anglais

Écriture des documents

  • latin

Notes de langue et graphie

Hebrew or Aramaic with Arabic translation, mainly in Samaritan characters.

Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques

University College London Special Collections also holds various other service books (Ref: MS MOCATTA 1, 3-4, 7, 9, 12, 23, 25, 35). The Defter is rare, but the British Library has a large portion of the oldest known copy (13th century); Manchester University, John Rylands Library, has two copies.

Instruments de recherche

Reginald Arthur Rye, Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts forming the library of F D Mocatta (Harrison & Sons, London, 1904), 437-8, gives a more detailed description.

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University College London

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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  • anglais

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