Parma Biblioteca Palatina Parm. 2294

From Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript
Reference Number Heb10
Location Parma, Biblioteca Palatina
Siglum/Shelfmark Parm. 2294 (De Rossi 194)
Page/Folio range 26r-35v
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) Constantinople 1516
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition Epstein (1967)
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production 1525 - 1575
Source of date Manuscript Production Epstein (1967)
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 From Richler and Beit-Arié, 'Hebrew Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma: Catalogue (2001), p 148. All the stories on ff. lr-53r are found in the Constantinople 1516 edition in the same order and format.

1. Ff. lr- 6 r : דבריהימיםלמשהרבעו Life of Moses.

2. Ff. 6 r-9 r: דרשלפטירתאהרן Homily on the death of Aaron.

3. Ff. 9r-17r: פטירתמשהרבעו Death of Moses.

4. Ff. 17r-23v: ספרטוביבןטוביאלבןחננאל Tale of Tobiah b. Tuviel, an adaptation of the apocryphal Book of Tobit.

5. Ff. 23v-25v: ספראלדדהדני Tale of Eldad ha-Dani.

6. Ff. 2 6 r 3 5 ־־v: משליסנדבאר Tales of Sendebar. Title on f. 25v.

7. Ff. 3 5 v 4 2 ־־v: מעשהשלירושלמישהעתיקר׳אברהם

מיימוןז׳׳לבלשוןהקדש Ma ‘aseh Yerushalmi translated by Abraham Maimon.

8. Ff. 42v-44v: ספרחנוך Book of Enoch. Anonymous translation of the story of Enoch from Petrus Alfonsi's Disciplina Clericalis

9. Ff. 44v-48r: [ משליםשלהמלךשלמה ] Parables of King Solomon.

10. Ff. 48r-53r: [ חידותאיזופוס ] Aesop's fables.

11. Ff. 5 3 r 5 3 ־־v: [ מעשהבר,עקיבא ] Tale of Rabbi Akiva who taught an orphan the kaddish prayer.

Edited by M. Gaster, ספרהמעשיות (Leipzig 1924), §134.

12 Ff. 53v-54r: מעשהבר׳יהושעבןלוישבאלפטורמן

העולם Tale of R. Joshua b. Levi.

Total pages/folios in Manuscript 54
Height 209
Width 155
Illustrations No
Digitisation https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990000705380205171/NLI#$FL15117471
Modern Editions
Catalogue https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990000705380205171/NLI#$FL15117471Richler, Hebrew Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma: Catalogue (2001)
Modern Research Literature Epstein (1967)
General Notes (Internal)