St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. II 881.15

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TitleThe Book of Blessing (Levi ben Yefet ben ʿEli)

AuthorLevi ben Yefet ben ʿEli

MaterialPaper

Persons referenced

Levi ben Yefet ben ʿEli
[...] ben Menasseh, the physician

Places referenced

Baṣra

Works referenced

St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. I 1903
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. I 2759
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. I 922
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. I 996
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. II 1005.05
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. II 2542
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. II 3020
The Book of Blessing (Levi ben Yefet ben ʿEli)

Content

Summary

The Book of Blessing by Levi ben Yefet ben ʿEli

Text 1

Folios

23r–23v

Title

The Book of Blessing (Levi ben Yefet ben ʿEli) (fols. 23r–23v)

Author

Levi ben Yefet ben ʿEli

Incipit

פליס הו כאלתואב אלד̇י לא יחסן אן יפעל לא עלי ג̇הה אלאסתחקאק

Explicit

לאנה ת'ע יפעל פי מלכה מא ישא ואג̇אז עליה

Codicology

Manuscript type

Composite manuscript

Book form

Codex

Manuscript join

Yevr.-Arab. I 922, fols. 1r–1v

Yevr.-Arab. II 1005.5, fols. 7r–8v

Yevr.-Arab. I 2759, fols. 1r–1v

Yevr.-Arab. II 2542, fols. 1r–1v

Yevr.-Arab. II 3020, fols. 1r–1v

Yevr.-Arab. I 1903, fols. 1r–3v

Yevr.-Arab. I 996, fols. 1r–36v

Material

Paper

Extent

1 fols.

Foliation

Modern foliation. Modern pencil foliation in Arabic numerals at the bottom of the recto page.

Note

Generally well preserved, minor damages.

State of writing

Visible. Legible.

Layout summary

Text on recto and verso. Right-justified single column layout, mostly even interlinear spacing, no straight line of writing.

Written lines

21 lines.

Columns

Line justification

Left-hand margin is not even. Space fillers. Extended letters.

Ruling

No ruling.

Pricking

No pricking.

Text layout

Paragraph marks and textual dividers.

Text layout note

Colon and colon with a semi circle used to mark the end of paragraphs and also used within a paragraph followed by blank space. Chapter headings written in a separate line.

Paleography

Script

Hebrew, oriental, square, careless

Hand 1

Scribe

[...] ben Menasseh, the physician

Place of production

Baṣra

When

1020

Diacritics

Mostly unpointed.

Paleography note

A small horizontal dash above a letter is used to mark abbreviated words. A circle indicates the place of corrections written in the margin possibly by a secondary hand.

Colophon included in Yevr.-Arab. II 3020.

David Sklare, Levi ben Yefet and his Kitāb al-Niʿma: selected texts, in A common rationality: Muʿtazilism in Islam and Judaism, ed. Camilla Adang, Sabine Schmidtke, and David Sklare, Istanbuler Texte und Studien 15 (Würzburg: Ergon Verlag in Kommission, 2007), 157–216, https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783956506895-157/levi-ben-yefet-and-his-kitab-al-ni-ma-selected-texts, page: 165.

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. II 881.15. In Digital Handbook of Jewish Authors Writing in Arabic, edited by Ronny Vollandt et. al. Accessed 15 September 2026, https://jalit.org/manuscript/1577

Change Log

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