Oxford Bodleian Library Bodley Or. 135
From Seven Sages of Rome
| Manuscript | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Reference Number | Heb17 | ||
| Location | Oxford, Bodleian Library | ||
| Siglum/Shelfmark | Or. 135 (Neubauer Ca. 1466) | ||
| Page/Folio range | 292r-300r | ||
| 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. I | ||
| Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) | |||
| Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition | Epstein (1967) | ||
| Scribe | |||
| Author | |||
| Place of Manuscript Production | Campagne, France | ||
| Date of Manuscript Production | 1215 - 1275 | ||
| Source of date Manuscript Production | Bodleian catalogue: https://hebrew.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_58 | ||
| 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 | 1. ff. 1r-6r: Avraham ha-Bavliאברהם הבבלי, Sefer ha-Shorashim ספר השרשים 2. ff. 6r-10v: List of homonyms found in the Moses ibn Ezra's Sefer ha-ʿAnaḳ רשימות המלים בעלות יותר ממשמעות אחת שבסופי השורות בס’ הענק למשה אבן עזרא 3. ff. 11r-230(ii)v: Parḥon, Salomon ben Abraham ibn, active 12th centuryפרחון, שלמה בן אברהם, Maḥberet ha-ʿArukh מחברת הערוך 4. ff. 232r-237v: List of homonyms found in Moses ibn Ezra's Sefer ha-Tarshish רשימת המלים בעלי יותר ממשמעות אחת שבס’ התרשיש למשה אבן עזרא
5. ff. 237v-255r: Alphabet of Ben Sira אלפא ביתא דבן סירא Language(s): Hebrew and Aramaic 6. ff. 256r-290r: Berechiah ben Natronai, ha-Nakdan, active 12th century-13th centuryברכיה בן נטרונאי הנקדן, Mishle shuʻalim משלי שועלים
7. ff. 290v-291v: Aggadic legends מעשיות 8. ff. 291v-300r: Mishle Sendebar משלי סנדבר
9. ff. 300r-339v: Aggadic legends מעשיות 10. ff. 340r-346v: Divre ha-yamim le-Mosheh Rabenu דברי הימים למשה רבינו11. ff. 346v-352r: Midrash Aśeret ha-Dibrot (Midrash on the Ten Commandments) מדרש עשרת הדברות
12. ff. 352r-356r: Midrash ṿa-Yoshaʿ מדרש ויושע 13. ff. 356r-358v: Igerot shel Dibrot אגרות של דברות 14. ff. 358v-361r: Otot aśar milḥamot melekh ha-Mesiaḥ אותות עשר מלחמות מלך המשיח 15. ff. 361r-363v: Menaḥem ben Perets ha-Ḥebroniמנחם בן פרץ החברוני, Masaʿ be-erets Yiśaʾel מסע בארץ ישראל | ||
| Script style/form | |||
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | 363 | ||
| Height | 228.5 | ||
| Width | 152.5 | ||
| Illustrations | No | ||
| Digitisation | https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/5ff98145-16ff-4f1f-ac19-d9ce39145f76/ | ||
| Modern Editions | Epstein, Tales of Sendebar (1967) | ||
| Catalogue | https://hebrew.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_58, Neubauer, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (1886), Renan (1887), Beit-Arié and May, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I (1994), https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990000937830205171/NLI | ||
| Modern Research Literature | Epstein (1967) | ||
Note
Epstein notes that the text's French origin is supported by a Hebrew-French glossary with interlinear transcript (p. 356).
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript
