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Notice sur deux fragments d'un Pentateuque hébreu-samaritain rapportés de la Palestine par M. le sénateur F. de Saulcy. [Translated: Note on two fragments of a Hebrew-Samaritan Pentateuch brought from Palestine by Senator F. de Saulcy]

Bargès, Jean Joseph Léandre, editor and translator · Paris

Author: Bargès, Jean Joseph Léandre, editor and translator
Date: 1865
Place: Paris
Publisher: Imprimerie Polyglotte Édouard Blot
Language: English
Binding: [6], 91, [1] pp. Text in French, Hebrew and Latin. With folding facsimile leaf of the Song of Moses in Samaritan. 24.2x16 cm (9½x6¼"), modern marbled boards, morocco cover label lettered in gilt; fresh endpapers. No. 60 of 200 copies printed. First Edition.
Format: Uncommon, OCLC locates only 9 copies held by institutions worldwide. Ownership label of George Williams on title page, he served as Vice-Provost of King's College Cambridge from 1854 to 1857. Minor nicks and edge-tears to a few pages, occasional creasing and smudging throughout, marginal repair to two leaves, text unaffected; very good. The Samaritan Torah ( Tōrāʾ), also called the Samaritan Pentateuch, is a text of the Torah written in the Samaritan script and used as sacred scripture by the Samaritans. It dates back to one of the ancient versions of the Hebrew Bible that existed during the Second Temple period, and constitutes the entire biblical canon in Samaritanism.
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Title: Notice sur deux fragments d'un Pentateuque hébreu-samaritain rapportés de la Palestine par M. le sénateur F. de Saulcy

Translated from French: Note on two fragments of a Hebrew-Samaritan Pentateuch brought from Palestine by Senator F. de Saulcy

Small 4to. [6], 91, [1] pp.1865. Bargès, Jean Joseph Léandre, editor and translator. Paris: Imprimerie Polyglotte Édouard Blot. Text in French, Hebrew and Latin. With folding facsimile leaf of the Song of Moses in Samaritan. 24.2x16 cm (9½x6¼"), modern marbled boards, morocco cover label lettered in gilt; fresh endpapers. No. 60 of 200 copies printed. First Edition. Uncommon, OCLC locates only 9 copies held by institutions worldwide. Ownership label of George Williams on title page, he served as Vice-Provost of King's College Cambridge from 1854 to 1857. Minor nicks and edge-tears to a few pages, occasional creasing and smudging throughout, marginal repair to two leaves, text unaffected; very good. The Samaritan Torah ( Tōrāʾ), also called the Samaritan Pentateuch, is a text of the Torah written in the Samaritan script and used as sacred scripture by the Samaritans. It dates back to one of the ancient versions of the Hebrew Bible that existed during the Second Temple period, and constitutes the entire biblical canon in Samaritanism.

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