Oxford Bodleian Library Bodley Or. 135
From The Seven Sages of Rome
| Manuscript Identification | |
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| Reference Number | Heb17 |
| Location | Oxford, Bodleian Library |
| Siglum/Shelfmark | Or. 135 (Neubauer Ca. 1466) |
| Page/Folio range | 292r-300r |
| Textual Content and Tradition | |
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| 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. I |
| Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) | |
| Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition | Epstein (1967) |
| Languages | |
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| Language of text | Hebrew |
| Regional or specific Language of text | |
| Source for regional or specific Language of text | |
| Digitisation and Editions | |
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| Digitisation | https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/5ff98145-16ff-4f1f-ac19-d9ce39145f76/ |
| Modern Editions | Epstein, Tales of Sendebar (1967) |
| Note |
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Epstein notes that the text's French origin is supported by a Hebrew-French glossary with interlinear transcript (p. 356). Epstein also suggests that the text may have been composed as early as 1150; the Bodleian catalogue, on the other hand, suggests mid-13th-century instead. |
| Authorship and Production | |
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| Scribe | |
| Author | |
| Place of Manuscript Production | Champagne, France |
| Date of Manuscript Production | 1215 - 1275 |
| Source of Date of Manuscript Production | Bodleian catalogue: https://hebrew.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_58 |
| Physical Description | |
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| Material | Parchment |
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | 363 |
| Height | 228.5 |
| Width | 152.5 |
| Script style/form | Ashkenazi |
| Prose or verse | Prose |
| Illustrations | No |
| Contents and Additional Texts | |
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