Parma Biblioteca Palatina Parm. 2294

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 A
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)	Divre ha-Yamim shel Moshe Rabbenu. Constantinople: R. Samuel Ibn Naamias, 1516
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Epstein (1967)

Languages
Language of text	Hebrew
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation	https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990000705380205171/NLI#$FL15117471
Modern Editions

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	1525 - 1575
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Epstein (1967)

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	54
Height	209
Width	155
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	From Richler and Beit-Arié, 'Hebrew Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma: Catalogue (2001), p 148. All the stories on ff. lr-53r are found in the Constantinople 1516 edition in the same order and format. 1. Ff. lr- 6 r : דבריהימיםלמשהרבעו Life of Moses. 2. Ff. 6 r-9 r: דרשלפטירתאהרן Homily on the death of Aaron. 3. Ff. 9r-17r: פטירתמשהרבעו Death of Moses. 4. Ff. 17r-23v: ספרטוביבןטוביאלבןחננאל Tale of Tobiah b. Tuviel, an adaptation of the apocryphal Book of Tobit. 5. Ff. 23v-25v: ספראלדדהדני Tale of Eldad ha-Dani. 6. Ff. 2 6 r 3 5 ־־v: משליסנדבאר Tales of Sendebar. Title on f. 25v. 7. Ff. 3 5 v 4 2 ־־v: מעשהשלירושלמישהעתיקר׳אברהם מיימוןז׳׳לבלשוןהקדש Ma ‘aseh Yerushalmi translated by Abraham Maimon. 8. Ff. 42v-44v: ספרחנוך Book of Enoch. Anonymous translation of the story of Enoch from Petrus Alfonsi's Disciplina Clericalis 9. Ff. 44v-48r: [ משליםשלהמלךשלמה ] Parables of King Solomon. 10. Ff. 48r-53r: [ חידותאיזופוס ] Aesop's fables. 11. Ff. 5 3 r 5 3 ־־v: [ מעשהבר,עקיבא ] Tale of Rabbi Akiva who taught an orphan the kaddish prayer. Edited by M. Gaster, ספרהמעשיות (Leipzig 1924), §134. 12 Ff. 53v-54r: מעשהבר׳יהושעבןלוישבאלפטורמן העולם Tale of R. Joshua b. Levi.

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990000705380205171/NLI#$FL15117471, Richler, Hebrew Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma: Catalogue (2001)
Modern Research Literature	Epstein (1967)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript