Parma Biblioteca Palatina Parm. 2457

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Heb12
Location	Parma, Biblioteca Palatina
Siglum/Shelfmark	Parm. 2457 (De Rossi 1087)
Page/Folio range	1r-10v

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 A
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Epstein (1967)

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

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions

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'.

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Italy
Date of Manuscript Production	1300 - 1400
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Richler (2001)

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript
Height
Width
Script style/form
Prose or verse
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	1. Ff. lr-10v: משליספרסינדברפילוסופוסחכםגדול מחכמיהודו Tales of Sendeban Text similar to the Constantinople 1516 edition. Cf. M. Epstein, Tales of Sendebar (Philadelphia 1967), pp. 349-350. 2. 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. 3. F. 19r-v: Extract from the first chapter of Josippon (on the nations). Cf. Flusser's edition, voi. i, pp. 3-9. 4. Ff. 19v-20r: Midrash on Hiram, king of Tyre. Begins ויהיבהפיץה,אתבניהאדם . Minor variations from the text published from a Munich MS by H.M. Horowitz, ביתעקדהאגדות (Frankfurt o /M 1881) p. 29. 5. 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. 6. F. 21r: Midrashic legends in Aramaic. 7. F. 21v-22r: אותיותדחכמה Otiyyot de-Hokhmah. Epigrams in Aramaic. The first 22 epigrams are in alphabetical order. 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. M idrash on conception and birth.

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript