Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Samaritan Torah Scroll.
[ספר תורה שומרוני]

Authors

• Yaacob I ben Aaharon ben Shalma, 120th Samaritan High Priest, -1916
  יעקב בן אהרן ב‏ן‏ שלמה
• Annenberg Research Institute

Other related names

• Solis-Cohen, Solomon, ǂd 1857-1948, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 76
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924311513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1299442847
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3f47h80v

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew (Samaritan charachters; derived from the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet)

Origin

Date

3052 le-moshav Bene Yiśraʼel Erets Kenaʻan 1913

Place

Be-ʻir Shekhem :

Summary

Samaritan Pentateuch (Torah) scroll, written by a known scribe.

Notes

• Ms. roll.
   
• Scroll unsupported; green paper copy of the colophon pasted to bottom of scroll at center.
   

Extent

1 roll (50 sheets) : 35 x 2210 cm

Support

Paper

Layout

Written in 148 columns of mostly 60 lines; three columns per sheet (with the exception of one sheet close to the beginning).

Script

Written in a Samaritan cursive script (typically of later hands), with some majuscule charachters, in the hand of Yaacob I ben Aaharon ben Shalma, 120th Samaritan High Priest (romanized Yaʻaḳov ben Aharon ben Shelomoh ha-Kohen).

Provenance

• Deposited by Dr. Solomon Solis Cohen to Dropsie College.
   

Subjects topical

• Samaritans--History--20th century--Sources
• Nablus--20th century--History--Sources

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