Service book (Samaritan)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0103 MS MOCATTA 8 |
Held at | : University College London Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll › |
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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