Oxford Bodleian Library MS Heb. d. 11
From The Seven Sages of Rome
| Manuscript Identification | |
|---|---|
| Reference Number | Heb18 |
| Location | Oxford, Bodleian Library |
| Siglum/Shelfmark | Heb. d. 11 (Neubauer catalogue 2797) |
| Page/Folio range | 289r-294v |
| 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 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) |
| Languages | |
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| Language of text | |
| Regional or specific Language of text | |
| Source for regional or specific Language of text | |
| Digitisation and Editions | |
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| Digitisation | |
| Modern Editions | Epstein, Tales of Sendebar (1967) |
| Authorship and Production | |
|---|---|
| Scribe | Eleazar ben Asher ha-Levi |
| Author | |
| Place of Manuscript Production | Rhine provinces |
| Date of Manuscript Production | 1325 |
| Source of Date of Manuscript Production | Epstein (1967) |
| Physical Description | |
|---|---|
| Material | Parchment |
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | 388 |
| Height | 216 |
| Width | 152.5 |
| Script style/form | German rabbinic characters |
| Prose or verse | |
| Illustrations | No |
| Contents and Additional Texts | |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Catalogues and Research Literature | |
|---|---|
| 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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