St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. I 3539

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TitleCommentary on the Book of Hosea

AuthorAnonymous

MaterialPaper

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Commentary on the Book of Hosea

Content

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Folios

1r–153v

Title

Commentary on the Book of Hosea (fols. 1r–153v)

Author

Anonymous

Incipit

[...] והיה אדירו [ממנו] ומשלו מקרבו יצא ומת[...כ]ן ולא יכון שפטים ושטרים אלא מנהם כק תתן לך ב[כל] שעריך

Explicit

וקאל פי האולי אלג̇איין אלי אשור אלד̇י ענהם קאל וילך אפרים אל אשור והוא לא יוכל

Note

Commentary composed in 367 AH (fol. 56v). The text is not identical with "An Anonymous Karaite Commentary on Hosea from the Cairo Genizah" (Niessen/Khan, 2021). Maybe it can be identified by comparison with Yefet ben Eli's commentary on Hosea published by Polliack/Schlossberg , 2009.

Codicology

Manuscript type

Single manuscript

Format

vertical-rectangle

Book form

Codex

Material

Paper

Extent

153 fols.

Foliation

Modern foliation. Modern pencil foliation in Arabic numerals at the bottom or on the lower inner margin of each recto page.

Collation

Catchwords at the end of pages.

Note

Frayed edges, some pages torn at the top, partly worm-eaten with some loss of text, stained in places.

State of writing

Visible. Mostly legible.

Layout summary

Text on recto and verso. Right-justified single column layout, even interlinear spacing, line of writing irregular (slanting upwards or downwards, curved), left margin mostly straight.

Written lines

24-25 lines.

Columns

Line justification

Space fillers. Extended letters.

Ruling

No ruling.

Pricking

No pricking can be seen.

Text layout note

First line of new paragraph indented, sense dividers (dot followed by blank space, dotted circle).

Paleography

Script

Hebrew, oriental, square, current

Hand 1

Divine-names

Yods with symbols/abbreviation signs.

Diacritics

Sparsely dotted. Dot above a letter also marks abbreviations, three dots arranged in a triangle above the letter indicate numbers.

Vocalization

Sporadic use of Tiberian vowel signs.

Paleography note

Small drawings in the margins in the second half of the manuscript, see fols. 106-120.

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General bibliography

Credits

Project:

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

Principal Investigator(s):

Ronny Vollandt

Associate Researcher(s):

Jonathan Beise, Jasper Bernhofer, Maurizio Boehm, Lukas Froschmeier, Annabelle Fuchs, Nathan P. Gibson, Lea Gzella, Polina Lakteikina, Sara Mattutat, Maximilian de Molière, Lea Poralla, Maxim Roozen, Gregor Schwarb, Masoumeh Seydi, Jakob Shub-Oseledchik, Ezra Stadler, Peter Tarras, Nadine Urbiczek

Funded through:

ERC: European Research Council (Europäischer Forschungsrat)

General Editor(s):

Ronny Vollandt

Suggested Citation

St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. I 3539. In Digital Handbook of Jewish Authors Writing in Arabic, edited by Ronny Vollandt et. al. Accessed 15 September 2026, https://jalit.org/manuscript/1553

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(24 June 2026): Locus folio data updated (apply_locus_fixes.py): 1 locus text value(s) added from @from/@to.

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jbeise (4 February 2026): Add folios and material

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rboehm (3 September 2024): work title

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mmoliere (27 March 2025): Updated scan link.

St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. I 3539

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Content

Text 1

Codicology

Paleography

Script

Hand 1

Bibliography

Reproductions

General bibliography

Credits

Suggested Citation

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