Parma Biblioteca Palatina Parm. 2291
From The Seven Sages of Rome
Manuscript Identification
Reference Number
Heb11
Location
Siglum / Shelfmark
Parm. 2291 (De Rossi 1049)
Page / Folio range
16v-22c
Textual Content & Tradition
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Digitisation & Editions
Note
The version of Mishle Sendebar contained here is missing the beginning and first tales; other than that, it is 'almost identical' to the earliest printed edition, Con 1516 (Richler 2001, p. 408). Given its similarity, Epstein suggests this may be a source for Con 1516.
On dating, Richler notes: 'watermarks similar to Briquet no. 4745, dated 1482' (p. 408).
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
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Contents & Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript
From Richler (2001):
1. F. 2r: אלההחרוזיםעשהר׳שמואלכשמהאישאיששאמרו
שהואהיהעניוהיהמספדעלעצמו Poem by Samuel on the merits of wisdom versus riches.
2. Ff. 3r-15r: ספרזרחהנקראמנחתיהודההמכונהשונא
Judah הנשים b. Isaac ibn Shabbetai's satirical maqama on women, Minhat Yehudah Sone ha-Nashim.
3. Ff. 16v-22v: משליסנדבד Tales of SendebarCatalogues & Research Literature
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