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Ketav ha-daʿat is an anonymous Hebrew translation of al-Fārābī's Risālah fīʾl-ʿaql (Epistle on the Intellect), preserved in a single manuscript (in Vienna). For the first time it is here distinguished from a similarly entitled text, also preserved in a single manuscript (in Paris), which is a commentary upon Ketav ha-daʿat , by the littérateur Yeda'aya ha-Penini (early 14th century). The paper offers the editio princeps of Ketav ha-daʿat , preceded by an introductive study. The philosophical vocabulary of Ketav ha-daʿat is unique: it is unknown from any other source and appears to be the translator's (mostly infelicitous) own creation. Ketav ha-daʿat is not merely a translation, for it contains many interpolations (not marked as such), by the anonymous translator, introduced with a view to clarifying the text. An analysis of the interpolations sheds some light on the author and shows that he was competent in philosophy and had some original thoughts, as e.g., identifying "the mover of the first heaven" with the Shekhinah. A study of the vocabulary, notably of the history of the term daʿat for "intellect," leads to the suggestion that the translation was done in the mid-12th century, probably in Provence. Ketav ha-daʿat is thus one of the earliest translations into Hebrew of a non-Jewish philosophical work. The annotated critical edition closely compares the Hebrew text with the Arabic original and signals the interpolations. Following upon it is an Arabic-Hebrew comparative glossary of the terms used in Ketav ha-daʿat , in the two other known medieval Hebrew translations of the Epistle on the Intellect , and in Yedaʿaya ha-Penini's commentary. An appendix recounts the history of the research on Ketav ha-daʿat in the 19th and 20th centuries as a comedy of errors and missed opportunities.
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