Oxford Bodleian Library MS Heb. d. 11
From Seven Sages of Rome
| Manuscript | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Reference Number | Heb18 | ||
| Location | Oxford, Bodleian Library | ||
| Siglum/Shelfmark | Heb. d. 11 (Neubauer catalogue 2797) | ||
| Page/Folio range | 289r-294v | ||
| 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. II | ||
| Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) | |||
| Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition | Epstein (1967) | ||
| Scribe | Eleazar ben Asher ha-Levi | ||
| Author | |||
| Place of Manuscript Production | Rhine provinces | ||
| Date of Manuscript Production | 1325 | ||
| Source of date Manuscript Production | Epstein (1967) | ||
| 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 | Epstein notes that the manuscript contains 'legendary matter relating the history of the world from the Creation through the Maccabees, in the fashion of the Cursor Mundi. A large part of the compilation was copied verbatim by Eleazar from a chronicle written by one Jerahmeel ben Shlomoh' (p. 357). See Neubauer no. 2797 for details. | ||
| Script style/form | |||
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | 388 | ||
| Height | 216 | ||
| Width | 152.5 | ||
| Illustrations | No | ||
| Digitisation | |||
| Modern Editions | Epstein, Tales of Sendebar (1967) | ||
| Catalogue | Neubauer, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (1886), https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990000574180205171/NLI | ||
| Modern Research Literature | Epstein (1967) | ||
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