Parma Biblioteca Palatina Parm. 2457: Difference between revisions

On story variation, Epstein notes: "A highly interesting variant, hitherto unnoted, occurs in the story Gibbosi on fol. 9r. When the porter carries the smothered hunchbacks to the river to dispose of them, the copyist, suddently inspired, fills the bottom and left margin of the page with nine lines describing the meeting of the stupid porter with a live hunchback at the river's edge. The porter confuses him with the ones he has thrown in and cannot understand why this one is still alive. Unfortunately a 2" by 2" section of this variant reading at the bottom has been obliterated and the lines at the left have faded, making reading by photocopy impossible" (p. 350). This suggets overlap between 'Gibbosi' and 'Amatores'.

Authorship & Production

Place of Production

Italy

Date of Production

1300 - 1400

Source of Date of Production

Richler (2001)

Physical Description

Material

Paper

Total pages / folios

26

Height

208

Width

152

Illustrations

No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript

1. Ff. lr-10v: משליספרסינדברפילוסופוסחכםגדול

מחכמיהודו Tales of Sendeban

2. Ff. 11r-18v: מעשהאלכסנטרוס Gests of Alexander of Macedon.

3. F. 19r-v: Extract from the first chapter of Josippon (on the nations).

4. Ff. 19v-20r: Midrash on Hiram, king of Tyre.

5. F. 20v: [ מדרשאליתהלל ] Midrash Al Yithalel (Only the beginning)

6. F. 21r: Midrashic legends in Aramaic.

7. F. 21v-22r: אותיותדחכמה Otiyyot de-Hokhmah, Epigrams in Aramaic.

8. F. 22r-v: ברסירא The 22 Aramaic epigrams from the Alphabet of Ben Sira (medieval psuedo-Ben Sira).

9. F. 22v: A list of 31 holy places, mainly synagogues כניסיות in the Galilee, compiled during the early Muslim period.

10. Ff. 23r-26r: יצירתהולד Yezirat ha-Velad, Midrash on conception and birth.

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

Richler, Hebrew Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma: Catalogue (2001), https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990000796420205171/NLI#$FL16795620

Modern Research Literature

Epstein (1967)

Research Material

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 |Has Collation=1. Ff. lr-10v: משליספרסינדברפילוסופוסחכםגדול
-מחכמיהודו Tales of Sendeban Text similar to the
+מחכמיהודו Tales of Sendeban
-Constantinople 1516 edition. Cf. M. Epstein, Tales
+. Ff. 11r-18v: מעשהאלכסנטרוס Gests of Alexander of Macedon.
-of Sendebar (Philadelphia 1967), pp. 349-350.
+. F. 19r-v: Extract from the first chapter of Josippon (on the nations).
-. Ff. llr-1 8 v : מעשהאלכסנטרוס Gests of Alexander of
-Macedon. This composition consists of three
-separate Greek stories: a) The Alexander Romance
-(Pseudocallisthenes); b) a Greek chronicle on the
-history of the world from Alexander to Augustus;
-c) the end of Palladius' work on the Brahmans. All
-three were probably translated from the Greek. Cf.
-D. Flusser, in Tarbiz, xxvi (1957), pp. 164-185. On
-the interpolations of texts a and c in some
-versions of Josippon, cf. Flusser ,s edition
-(Jerusalem 1981), voi. ii, pp. 216-252. Cf. also I.J.
-Kazis, The Book of the Gests of Alexander of Macedon
-(Cambridge 1962), pp. 35-37.
-. F. 19r-v: Extract from the first chapter of
-Josippon (on the nations). Cf. Flusser's edition,
-voi. i, pp. 3-9.
 . Ff. 19v-20r: Midrash on Hiram, king of Tyre.
-Begins ויהיבהפיץה,אתבניהאדם . Minor variations
+. F. 20v: [ מדרשאליתהלל ] Midrash Al Yithalel (Only the beginning)
-from the text published from a Munich MS by
-H.M. Horowitz, ביתעקדהאגדות (Frankfurt o /M
-) p. 29.
-. F. 20v: [ מדרשאליתהלל ] Midrash Al Yithalel. Only
-the beginning. The pages with the continuation
-are missing in the MS. With variations from both
-versions published in Ozar Midrashim, pp. 15-19.
 . F. 21r: Midrashic legends in Aramaic.
-. F. 21v-22r: אותיותדחכמה Otiyyot de-Hokhmah.
+. F. 21v-22r: אותיותדחכמה Otiyyot de-Hokhmah, Epigrams in Aramaic.
-Epigrams in Aramaic. The first 22 epigrams are in
-alphabetical order.
-. F. 22r-v: ברסירא The 22 Aramaic epigrams from
-the Alphabet of Ben Sira (medieval psuedo-Ben
-Sira).
-. F. 22v: A list of 31 holy places, mainly
-synagogues כניסיות in the Galilee, compiled during
-the early Muslim period.
+. F. 22r-v: ברסירא The 22 Aramaic epigrams from the Alphabet of Ben Sira (medieval psuedo-Ben Sira).
-. Ff. 23r-26r: יצירתהולד Yezirat ha-Velad. M idrash
+. F. 22v: A list of 31 holy places, mainly synagogues כניסיות in the Galilee, compiled during the early Muslim period.
-on conception and birth.
+. Ff. 23r-26r: יצירתהולד Yezirat ha-Velad, Midrash on conception and birth.
+|Has Total Pages In Manuscript=26
+|Has Height=208
+|Has Width=152
 |Has Illustrations=No
+|Has Digitisation=https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990000796420205171/NLI#$FL16795620
+|Has Modern Research Literature=Epstein (1967)
+|Has Catalogue=Richler, Hebrew Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma: Catalogue (2001); https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990000796420205171/NLI#$FL16795620
 |Has Note=Richler notes, 'According to the numeration of the quires the first four quires (except for the last 3 ff.) are missing' (p. 146).
 On story variation, Epstein notes: "A highly interesting variant, hitherto unnoted, occurs in the story Gibbosi on fol. 9r. When the porter carries the smothered hunchbacks to the river to dispose of them, the copyist, suddently inspired, fills the bottom and left margin of the page with nine lines describing the meeting of the stupid porter with a live hunchback at the river's edge. The porter confuses him with the ones he has thrown in and cannot understand why this one is still alive. Unfortunately a 2" by 2" section of this variant reading at the bottom has been obliterated and the lines at the left have faded, making reading by photocopy impossible" (p. 350). This suggets overlap between 'Gibbosi' and 'Amatores'.
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