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Samaritan Hebrew letter card, 1500?-1699?.
עברית-שמרונית כרטיס-הדרכה
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Room CAJS: RAR MS 85.126.28
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Samaritans--Middle East--17th century--History--Sources.
- Samaritans.
- Samaritans--Egypt--17th century--History--Sources.
- Manuscript fragments--Specimens.
- Manuscript fragments.
- Samaritans--Writing.
- Samaritans--Education.
- Genre:
- fragments (object portions)
- Hebrew alphabet
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly held in the Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College).
- Transferred to the Cairo Genizah Collection (Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania).
- Physical Description:
- 1 leaf : paper?
- Contained In:
- Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Place of Publication:
- 1500?-1699?.
- Language Note:
- In Samaritan characters (Paleo-Hebrew).
- Summary:
- Fragment of a letter card demonstrating Samaritan Hebrew script, showing scribal practices with letter formations; for example, the majuscule and minuscule letters ל (recto side, upper right) and ס (recto side, below double horizontal bounding-lines at bottom margin). Original straight lines of a grid survives; written in Samaritan Hebrew square and semicursive letters; possibly originated in Egypt or Syria in the 16th or 17th centuries.
- Cited as:
- UPenn CAJS: RAR MS 85.126.28.
- OCLC:
- 1335039639
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