St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. I 318

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TitleBook of the Examination of the Commandments

AuthorYosef ha-Roʾeh

MaterialPaper

Persons referenced

Yosef ha-Roʾeh

Places referenced

Works referenced

Book of the Examination of the Commandments
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. I 1794
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. II 881.11
Yevr.-Arab. II 2949
Yevr.-Arab. II 2951

Content

Summary

Book of the Examination of the Commandments by Yosef ha-Roʾeh (page one contains part of the fourth treatise on the Aviv, pages 2-9 contain a section of the third treatise on calendrical matters) .

Text 1

Folios

1r–9v

Title

Book of the Examination of the Commandments (fols. 1r–9v)

Author

Yosef ha-Roʾeh

Incipit

פאן תט̇נו ד̇לך לאני מקדם פי אללגה ריים בליג פיהא עריף באוזאן אלשער ואלקואפי

Explicit

אד̇א ראו אלהלאל [ימצ̇ון] [ולא יכון אלגרץ̇] אן תקבלו שהאדאתהמא מקאם שאהדין

Codicology

Manuscript type

Single manuscript

Book form

Codex

Manuscript join

Yevr.-Arab. II 2951, fols. 1r–1v

Yevr.-Arab. II 2949, fols. 1r–2v

Yevr.-Arab. II 881.11, fols. 17r–17v

Yevr.-Arab. I 1794, fols. 1r–114v

Material

Paper

Extent

9 fols.

Note

Frayed edges, stained and faded in places, fol. 9 containing many holes, torn on the outer edge with loss of text.

State of writing

Visible. Mostly legible.

Layout summary

Text on recto and verso. Right-justified single column layout, even interlinear spacing, line of writing occasionally slightly slanted, left margin varies.

Line justification

Space fillers. Extended letters. Anticipation.

Ruling

No ruling can be seen.

Pricking

No pricking can be seen.

Text layout

Paragraph marks and textual dividers.

Text layout note

Indentation of the first line of a new paragraph, chapter headings written center-aligned in separate lines, occasional use of a colon or a dot followed by blank space.

Paleography

Script

Hebrew, oriental, square, current

Hand 1

Vocalization

Rare use of Tiberian vocalization.

Divine-names

"Allah" written with Aleph-Lamed ligature followed by a horizontal dash with a dot above and below.

Diacritics

Sparsely dotted. A dot above the letter also marks numbers and abbreviations.

Paleography note

Elongated ascenders of Lamed in the first line of page, at the end of a line, or after a chapter heading.

Paul B. Fenton, A handlist of Judeo-Arabic manuscripts in Leningrad. A tentative handlist of Judeo-Arabic manuscripts in the Firkovic Collections -רשימת כתבי-יד בערבית-יהודית בלנינגרד: רשימה ארעית של כתבי-יד בערבית-יהודית באוספי פירקוביץ (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 1991), page: 101.

Credits

Project:

MAJLIS: The Transformation of Jewish Literature in Arabic in the Islamicate World

Principal Investigator(s):

Ronny Vollandt

Associate Researcher(s):

Gregor Schwarb, Nathan P. Gibson, Maximilian de Molière, Nadine Urbiczek, Peter Tarras, Annabelle Fuchs, Lea Gzella, Polina Lakteikina, Maurizio Boehm, Lea Poralla, Lukas Froschmeier

Funded through:

ERC: European Research Council (Europäischer Forschungsrat)

General Editor(s):

Ronny Vollandt

Suggested Citation

St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. I 318. In Digital Handbook of Jewish Authors Writing in Arabic, edited by Ronny Vollandt et. al. Accessed 15 September 2026, https://jalit.org/manuscript/1581

Change Log

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(27 June 2026): citedRange sync (biblRange_sync.py): regenerated 4 join-bibl(s) (4 citedRange element(s)) from referenced loci.