Leipzig Universitätsbibliothek B. H. 27

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Heb5
Location	Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek
Siglum/Shelfmark	B. H. 27 (Leihgabe Leipziger Stadtbibliothek) (Delitzsch cat. 21)
Page/Folio range	269-277

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)
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_ALEPH990026256230205171/NLI#$FL55105711
Modern Editions

Note
Note: owned and annotated by Johann Christoph Wagenseil.

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	1619
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	https://handschriftenportal.de/search?hspobjectid=HSP-7b326c62-99b1-3ac7-9a4a-83081a4a3652

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	361
Height	192.5
Width	145
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	See Delitzsch, pp. 287-89; texts include: 1. 'Fortalitium fidei' 2. Physical and Kabbalistic explanations from Bechai's commentary on Genensi 3. An 'offensive' text 4. Another 'offensive' set of texts, including 'Hameshpeh Ha-Shafim (חמשפה השפים)', 'the Judgement of the Magicians' 5. Naftuli’s Commentary on the Pentateuch 6 - 8.: Wagenseil's (error-prone) translations and transcriptions of various short texts 9. Collection of short texts, previously printed in Constantinople 1516: Chronicle of Moses Death of Aaron Death of Moses The Book of Tuvia/Tobia t Eldad the Danite The Parables of Sendebar The Story of the Jerusalemite (Historia de Hierosolymitano) The Book of Enoch The Riddles/Fables of lsopit/Aesop The Proverbs of Solomon; and the poem Epher and Dinah. Further ethical, moral, and religious texts.

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	https://handschriftenportal.de/search?hspobjectid=HSP-7b326c62-99b1-3ac7-9a4a-83081a4a3652&q=Leipzig+B.H.+27&hl=true#hsp-descriptions, https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990026256230205171/NLI#$FL55105711, Delitzsch, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Qui in Bibliotheca Senatoria Lipsiensis Asservantur (1838)
Modern Research Literature	Epstein (1967)

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