Cincinnati Hebrew Union College Library Ms. 2187

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Manuscript Identification

Reference Number

Heb31

Location

Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College Library

Siglum / Shelfmark

Ms. 2187

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative

משלי סנדבר (Mishle Sendebar)

Incipit or textual title

Tafsir Sandabar, תפסיר משלי סנדבר ורד לשון שיר מי

Version (siglum)

Mishle Sendebar

Language Group within Version

Hebrew Mishle Sendebar

Languages

Language of text

Persian, Hebrew

Digitisation & Editions

Digitisation

https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990001276060205171/NLI#$FL26872315

Note

Note: Could not locate in Hebrew Union College catalogue. Neither NLI nor Spicehandler's article give a year for this text.

Physical Description

Total pages / folios

143

Illustrations

No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript

(1) Piyyutim by Israel Najjara

• (a) "לך תכלה עיני יי אוהבים: ומשותוקק" (To You, O Lord, my eyes long, and I yearn). Cf. 2109:7d.
• (b) "מי יתן אהבתני: אתה בכור בכור שנשתי" (Who will give me Your love: You, the Firstborn, whom I drank deeply). ZL, p. 241.
• (c) "ירוחק נדוד דור ונעמק: ואני בלתו" (A generation wanders afar and is deepened; I am without Him). ZL, p. 242.
• (d) "זה אמת חלשים הן על גיבור" (This is truth: the weak fall to the strong). ZL, p. 263; Bacher, p. 547, no. 13.
• (e) "ישראל יושע בה': עלה קול אמוני" (Israel is saved in the Lord: a voice of faith ascends). Cf. 2109:6a.
• (f) "זה ליוב אודה לשמך כי" (I will give thanks to Your Name for this). Bacher, p. 528, no. 12; ZL, p. 152.
• (g) "אזכיר דברי וצפוני דברי" (I will recall my words and the secret of my speech). ZL, p. 181.
• (h) "אמרתי אלה כל הרצויים" (I said these are all the desired ones). ZL, p. 5.
• (i) "הבירבון תני" (Havivron [possibly symbolic]). Bacher, p. 547, no. 11.
• (j) "אמר ירחיב דרור דורי ישראל" (It was said: He will widen the freedom of the generations of Israel). Cf. 2109:3a.
• (k) "מוציא שביש דרור דורי" (He brings forth liberty for the generation of generations). ZL, p. 197.

(2) Poems by Israel Najjara for the Various Weekly Portions of the Torah.

(3) "עשה גדל א' הרחמים, רב ברכות נשא איש" (Act with greatness, O Merciful One, the bearer of many blessings

(4) "אלה הלחנות וסיפורי של שלש כנפי שדשוה" (These are the melodies and stories of the three holy wings). (Incomplete text).

(5) "חמסין גבורי דוחן" (The mighty warriors of oppression).

(6) "תפסיר משלי סנדבר ורד לשון שיר מי" (Tafsir [commentary] on the Parables of Sandabar, rendered into poetic language).

(7) "מעשה די ירושלמי שהעתיק רבי אברהם בן ז'" (The tale of a Jerusalemite, transcribed by Rabbi Abraham ben Z.). Judeo-Persian (JP).

(8) "וס נמ" (Begins with the middle of chapter 3).

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990001276060205171/NLI#$FL26872315

Modern Research Literature

Spicehandler (1968)

Research Material

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