Oxford Bodleian Library MS Heb. d. 11: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 11:59, 4 April 2025

Textual Content and Tradition
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 B
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Text Ox. II
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Epstein (1967)

Languages
Language of text	Hebrew
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions	Epstein, Tales of Sendebar (1967)

Authorship and Production
Scribe	Eleazar ben Asher ha-Levi
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Rhine provinces
Date of Manuscript Production	1325
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Epstein (1967)

Physical Description
Material	Parchment
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	388
Height	216
Width	152.5
Script style/form	German rabbinic characters
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	Epstein notes that the manuscript contains 'legendary matter relating the history of the world from the Creation through the Maccabees, in the fashion of the Cursor Mundi. A large part of the compilation was copied verbatim by Eleazar from a chronicle written by one Jerahmeel ben Shlomoh' (p. 357). See Neubauer no. 2797 for details.

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	Neubauer, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (1886), https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990000574180205171/NLI
Modern Research Literature	Epstein (1967)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation
Leo	1
Avis – The Bird	2
Lavator	3
Turtures	4
Canicula	5
Striga and Fons – The Witch and the Fountain	6
Canis – The Faithful Dog	7
Pallium	8
Simia	9
Panes	10
Zuchara	11
Aper – The Boar and the Fruit	12
Balneator	13
Gladius – The Drawn Sword	14
Absalom Rebellus	15
Jusjurandum	16
Fur et Luna	17
Ingenia	18

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