Leipzig Universitätsbibliothek B. H. 27

From Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript
Reference Number Heb5
Location Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek
Siglum/Shelfmark B. H. 27 (Leihgabe Leipziger Stadtbibliothek) (Delitzsch cat. 21)
Page/Folio range 269-277
Standardised title of narrative משלי סנדבר (Mishle Sendebar)
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum) Mishle Sendebar
Language Group within Version Hebrew Mishle Sendebar
Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version Hebrew Group A
Further scholarly subgroup (1)
Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition Epstein (1967)
Scribe Johann Christoph Wagenseil
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production 1619
Source of date Manuscript Production https://handschriftenportal.de/search?hspobjectid=HSP-7b326c62-99b1-3ac7-9a4a-83081a4a3652
Material Paper
Language of Manuscript Hebrew
Regional or specific Language of Manuscript
Source for regional or specific Language of Manuscript
Prose or Verse Prose
Other texts in the Manuscript See Delitzsch, pp. 287-89; texts include:
  1. 'Fortalitium fidei'
  2. Physical and Kabbalistic explanations from Bechai's commentary on Genensi
  3. An 'offensive' text
  4. Another 'offensive' set of texts, including 'Hameshpeh Ha-Shafim (חמשפה השפים)', 'the Judgement of the Magicians'
  5. Naftuli’s Commentary on the Pentateuch
  6. - 8.: Wagenseil's (error-prone) translations and transcriptions of various short texts


9. Collection of short texts, previously printed in Constantinople 1516:

- Chronicle of Moses

- Death of Aaron

- Death of Moses

- The Book of Tuvia/Tobia t

- Eldad the Danite

- The Parables of Sendebar

- The Story of the Jerusalemite (Historia de Hierosolymitano)

- The Book of Enoch

- The Riddles/Fables of lsopit/Aesop

- The Proverbs of Solomon; and the poem Epher and Dinah.


Further ethical, moral, and religious texts.

Total pages/folios in Manuscript 361
Height 192.5
Width 145
Illustrations No
Digitisation https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990026256230205171/NLI#$FL55105711
Modern Editions
Catalogue https://handschriftenportal.de/search?hspobjectid=HSP-7b326c62-99b1-3ac7-9a4a-83081a4a3652&q=Leipzig+B.H.+27&hl=true#hsp-descriptionshttps://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990026256230205171/NLI#$FL55105711Delitzsch, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Qui in Bibliotheca Senatoria Lipsiensis Asservantur (1838)
Modern Research Literature Epstein (1967)
General Notes (Internal)