Lexicography of Sa'adia ben Joseph's translated Emunot ṿe-deʻot, 1840.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Steinschneider, Moritz, 1816-1907.

Contributor:

Steinschneider, Moritz, 1816-1907, scribe, former owner.

Malter, Henry, 1864-1925, former owner.

Delitzsch, Franz, 1813-1890, associated name.

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Language:

Arabic

German

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942. Amānāt wa-al-iʻtiqādāt--Hebrew--Commentaries.

Saʻadia ben Joseph.

Jewish philosophy--Translations--Commentaries.

Jewish philosophy.

Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, European.

marginalia (annotations)

lexicons.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Moritz Steinschneider (inscription inside front board: "Moritz Steinschneider, Berlin").

Formerly owned by Henry Malter (Dropsie College files), donated to the Dropsie College Library.

Physical Description:

1 item (55 leaves) : paper ; 180 x 110 mm.

Other Title:

title of manuscript : Commentar zu Saadia אמונות ודעות

Place of Publication:

1840.

Language Note:

In German; quotations in Hebrew; one note in Greek (f. 39r) and one in Arabic (f. 16v).

Summary:

This is a manuscript of a lexicography of Judah ben Saul Ibn Tibbon's 13th century translation of Sa'adia ben Joseph's Amānāt wa-al-iʻtiqādāt to Hebrew, titled Emunot ṿe-deʻot (אמונות ודעות; title translated to English as the Book of Doctrines and Beliefs), containing Moritz Steinschneider's notes, translations, and cross references to Hebrew terms in Ibn Tibbon's text. Notes include underlining, crossthroughs, numbering, and sideways text, perhaps indicating that Steinschneider wrote this over a period of time. Franz Delitzsch authored an edition of Aaron ben Elijah of Nicomedia (14th century), Ets ḥayim (Leipzig, 1841) in which this manuscript was used (Malter; ibid., p. 13). Mostly written in a German cursive script (Kurrentschrift) and Hebrew charachters in a 19th century cursive script; paper thicknesses and grains vary; binding limp pasteboards, with contemporary shelfmark and title plate on front board. Probably written in Berlin, subsequently to UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 231 (written in Prague in 1840).

Cited in:

Malter, Henry, "Saadia Gaon His Life and Works" (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1942), 376 (refers to this manuscript).

Aaron ben Elijah, and Franz Delitzsch. ʻEts Ḥayim =: Ahron Ben Elia's Aus Nikomedien, Des Karäers, System Der Religionsphilosophie ... Leipzig: J.A. Barth, 1841, p. 13.

Cited as:

UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 232.

OCLC:

1371330078