Author
MaterialPaper
Persons referenced
Places referenced
- Jerusalem
Works referenced
- St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. II 376
- The Comprehensive Book
Content
Summary
The Comprehensive Book by Yosef ha-Roʾe
Text 1
Title
Author
Incipit
מתי כאן עמרה מאיה סנה אן יכון חט̇ זיד פי אלוג̇וד כחט̇ה
Explicit
למא לם יכן פי פעלה מא הו ט̇לם ולא גיר תעאלי אללה ען ד̇לך עליא כבירא
Codicology
Manuscript type
Single manuscript
Format
vertical-rectangle
Book form
Codex
Manuscript join
Material
Paper
Extent
168
fols.
Foliation
Modern foliation. Modern pencil foliation with Arabic numerals at the top left corner of each recto page. Secondary pagination starting from the back of the text and written upside down in the lower outer corner of every page.
Note
Well preserved, slightly stained.
State of writing
Visible. Legible.
Layout summary
Text on recto and verso. Right-justified single column layout, left margin not perfectly justified; even interlinear spacing; mostly straight line of writing.
Written lines
17 lines.
Columns
1
Line justification
.
Ruling
There is ruling.
Pricking
No pricking can be seen.
Text layout
Enlarged titles and incipits.
Text layout note
Chapter headings written center-aligned in a separate line; sense dividers (colon).
Paleography
Script
Hebrew, oriental, square, current
Hand 1
Incodicated Documents
1
Colophon, fols. 168v
Transcription
תם אלכתאב אלמחתוי ואלחמד
ללה רב אלעאלמין:
וכאן אלפראג מן נסכ̇ה פי די
אלקעדה סנה אחד [ע]שרה
וארבע מיה באלקדס:
Credits
Project:
MAJLIS: The Transformation of Jewish Literature in Arabic in the Islamicate World
Principal Investigator(s):
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:
General Editor(s):
Suggested Citation
Budapest, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Ms. Kaufmann A 280. In Digital Handbook of Jewish Authors Writing in Arabic, edited by Ronny Vollandt et. al. Accessed 15 September 2026, https://jalit.org/manuscript/458
Change Log
Change log:
admin (3 December 2025): test
Change log:
mmoliere (2 July 2024): Updated heritage data introductions and quotations, and provenance descriptions to extended tag set.
Change log:
mmoliere (14 May 2024): Converted Zotero data into TEI-File.
Change log:
external (14 May 2024): Checked by Friederike Schmidt.
Change log:
mmoliere (27 March 2025): Updated scan link.
