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Service book (Samaritan)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS MOCATTA 8
Held at: University College London
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Full title: Service book (Samaritan)
Date(s): [1788-1789]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume containing 176 folios
Name of creator(s): Unknown

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

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).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript Samaritan service book [1788-1789].

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
Hebrew or Aramaic with Arabic translation, mainly in Samaritan characters.

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Finding aids:

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.

Archival Information

Archival history:

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

Immediate source of acquisition:

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

Allied Materials

Related material:

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.


Publication note:

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

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
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.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Oct 2001

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