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A 14th-century Karaite view of Jewish history and philosophy of religion 27*

Text: Yefet ibn Saghir’s Book of Commandments, Book One, chapters 3
and 4.

Sigla

Manuscripts:
‫ ג‬: Moscow, Günzberg manuscript 1021 (XV-XVI cent.).
The only other textual witness is a ms presumably of the same age, whose
fragments are now to be found under three different shelfmarks:
)‫ פ(א‬: St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Y.-A. 1.553, ff. 8r-17r, with
a lacuna after f. 15v. Content: ‫( אלפצל א ̇לתא ̇לת‬8r incipit) - ‫ומן כאן ה ̇דא סבילה‬
‫( פליס‬15v), then after a lacuna partly filled by the two following fragments,
‫( פי אלאצול מתחכמון פי אלפרוע‬f. 16r) - ‫( ואלאגתהאד אלבלי ̇ג ואלנ ̇טר אלסלים‬f. 17r
explicit).
)‫פ(ב‬: Y.-A. 1.2588, 1 f. Content: ‫( תת פחדך ויראתך‬incipit) - ‫̇תם סאל ישמעאל‬
(explicit). It continues directly with the following number.
)‫פ(ג‬: Y.-A. 2.389, 1 f. Content: ‫ אנא נומן באלוחדאני ̈ה‬:‫( פקאלו‬incipit) - ‫אמא אלקראיין‬
‫( פמגתהדיון‬explicit)

Other sigla:
‫נוסח המסורה = נ"מ‬
- = ‫ השמטות‬omission
+ = ‫ הוספות‬addition
< > = superlinear addition / correction
* = prima manus (reading of the first hand)
‫ = אב‬text marked for deletion by the scribe (by a strikethrough, supralinear
dots, etc.).
Left unmentioned in the apparatus: false starts in biblical quotes or
superfluous letters at the end of lines, different abbreviations (‫)נח' – נחוהא‬,
matres lectionis added or missing as against the Masoretic text.

Bibliography
‫ דקדוק‬,‫ = בלאו‬J. Blau, A grammar of mediaeval Judaeo-Arabic. 2nd ed.
Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1980.