Oxford Bodleian Library MS Heb. d. 11

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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
Language of text
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text
Digitisation and Editions
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)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript