Oxford Bodleian Library MS Heb. d. 11

Manuscript
Reference Number	Heb18
Location	Oxford, Bodleian Library
Siglum/Shelfmark	Heb. d. 11 (Neubauer catalogue 2797)
Page/Folio range	289r-294v
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)
Scribe	Eleazar ben Asher ha-Levi
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Rhine provinces
Date of Manuscript Production	1325
Source of date Manuscript Production	Epstein (1967)
Material	Parchment
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	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.
Script style/form
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	388
Height	216
Width	152.5
Illustrations	No
Digitisation
Modern Editions	Epstein, Tales of Sendebar (1967)
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

Short Story	Sequence Number	Narrator	Name Variations
Leo	1
Avis	2
Lavator	3
Turtures	4
Catula	5
Striga and Fons	6
Canis	7
Pallium	8
Simia	9
Panes	10
Zuchara	11
Aper	12
Balneator	13
Gladius	14
Absalom Rebellus	15
Jusjurandum	16
Fur et Luna	17
Ingenia	18
Vulpes	19