Leipzig Universitätsbibliothek B. H. 27

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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 & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative

משלי סנדבר (Mishle Sendebar)

Version (siglum)

Mishle Sendebar

Language Group within Version

Hebrew Mishle Sendebar

Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version

Hebrew Group A

Source for textual relationship

Epstein (1967)

Languages

Language of text

Hebrew

Digitisation & Editions

Digitisation

https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990026256230205171/NLI#$FL55105711

Note

Note: owned and annotated by Johann Christoph Wagenseil.

Authorship & Production

Date of Production

1619

Source of Date of Production

https://handschriftenportal.de/search?hspobjectid=HSP-7b326c62-99b1-3ac7-9a4a-83081a4a3652

Physical Description

Material

Paper

Total pages / folios

361

Height

192.5

Width

145

Prose or verse

Prose

Illustrations

No

Contents & 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 & 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)

Research Material

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