Samaritan-Hebrew Manuscript Culture: Codicology and Paratexts of Samaritan Pentateuch Manuscripts (11th-15th century)

本项目旨在对保存最古老的撒玛利亚摩西五经手稿进行全面的法典分析和描述。此外，它的目的是提供对这些手稿中包含的所有外围和墓志铭的访问，并以学术版本呈现它们，以及翻译和随附的评论。整个语料库包括87份保存完好的手稿和349份支离破碎的手稿，可追溯到11 - 15世纪。在项目的第一阶段（2019-2022年），对42份保存完好的手稿和在不同收藏中分别发现的碎片部分进行了分析和编目，并对这些手稿中包含的322份文本制作了学术版本。制作这些描述和版本的数字数据库“撒玛利亚五世手抄本目录”已经可以在网上访问并且功能齐全。除了手稿本身的详细描述外，它还提供了广泛的数字搜索功能，其中首次提供了新撒玛利亚希伯来语文本的综合数字语料库。此外，该项目还根据数字版本所载的手稿完成了该书的初步版本，其中包括目录和副文本的学术版本，其印刷版将随数字数据库一起出版。该项目的第二阶段（2022-2025）是目前申请继续进行的重点，目的是对剩余的45份保存完好的手稿及其残片部分进行法典分析和描述，完成数字数据库，包括所有副文本的数字学术版本，以及编制目录的书籍版本和准备印刷的版本。

The present project aims at a comprehensive codicological analysis and description of the oldest preserved manuscripts of the Samaritan Pentateuch. In addition, it aims to provide access to all peri- and epitexts that are contained in these manuscripts and to present them in scholarly editions, together with translations and an accompanying commentary.The whole corpus comprises 87 fully preserved and 349 fragmentary manuscripts dating to the 11th–15th century. In the first stage of the project (2019-2022), 42 fully preserved manuscripts together with the fragmentary parts of them that are found separately in different collections were analyzed and catalogued, and scholarly editions were prepared for the altogether 322 paratexts contained in these manuscripts. The digital database "Katalog samaritanischer Pentateuchhandschriften" which makes these descriptions and editions is already online accessible and fully functional. Besides the detailed descriptions of the manuscripts themselves, it offers a wide array of digital search functions within the analyzed data provided there, among them for the first time a comprehensive digital corpus of texts in the Neo Samaritan Hebrew language. In addition, the project accomplished a preliminary version - in accordance with the manuscripts contained in the digital version - of the book, comprising the catalogue and the scholarly editions of the paratexts, whose publication in print will accompany the digital database. The second stage of the project (2022-2025), which is in the focus of the present application for continuance, aims at the codicological analysis and description of the remaining 45 fully preserved manuscripts and the fragmentary parts thereof, the completion of the digital database including digital scholarly editions of all paratexts, as well as the preparation of the book version of the catalogue and the editions ready for print.