Five Samaritan manuscripts, including Samaritan machzorim for Pesach, seventh day of Pesach, Samaritan siddurim for weekdays and Shabbat, and a halachic book:
1. Passover machzor, including prayers for the day of the sacrifice of the Paschal offering and the following day, and prayers for Shabbat and Passover holiday, and songs for the days of the festival. [Jaffa], 1906-1907. Hebrew (Samaritan script) and some Arabic. Black and red ink on paper (with some pencil additions).
Four colophons.
[149] leaves. 22 cm.
2. Machzor for night and day of the seventh day of Passover. [Shechem], 1912. Hebrew (Samaritan script) and some Arabic. Black and purple ink on paper.
Two colophons.
[96] leaves. 15.5 cm.
3. Weekday and Shabbat siddur, with prayers for Rosh Chodesh, other occasions, and various additions. [Shechem], 1911. Hebrew (Samaritan script) and some Arabic. Black and red ink on paper (with additions in pencil).
Colophon.
[233] leaves. 19 cm.
4. Weekday and Shabbat siddur, with prayers for Rosh Chodesh and other occasions. [Shechem], 1945-1950. Hebrew (Samaritan script) and some Arabic. Black and red ink on paper (with later additions in blue ink).
Produced by several copyists. Four colophons. Some leaves bound out of order.
[304] leaves. 19.5 cm.
5. Al-Kafi, halachic work on Shabbat, forbidden foods year-round and on Passover, laws of purity, inheritance and more. [Shechem], 1878. Arabic, with some Hebrew (in Samaritan script). Black and purple ink on paper.
[137] leaves. 21.5 cm.
5 manuscripts. Varying condition, fair-good to fair-poor. Stains. Wear. Worming (much heavy worming to two of them, affecting text in many places). Tears, including open tears in several places. Detached leaves and gatherings in several places. Fading of ink. Old and original bindings (one volume in original leather bindings, some in bindings with leather spines). Wear and defects to bindings.
