Oxford Bodleian Library Bodley Or. 135

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Heb17
Location	Oxford, Bodleian Library
Siglum/Shelfmark	Or. 135 (Neubauer Ca. 1466)
Page/Folio range	292r-300r

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. I
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://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/5ff98145-16ff-4f1f-ac19-d9ce39145f76/
Modern Editions	Epstein, Tales of Sendebar (1967)

Note
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
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
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
Other texts in the Manuscript	1. ff. 1r-6r: Avraham ha-Bavliאברהם הבבלי, Sefer ha-Shorashim ספר השרשים 2. ff. 6r-10v: List of homonyms found in the Moses ibn Ezra's Sefer ha-ʿAnaḳ רשימות המלים בעלות יותר ממשמעות אחת שבסופי השורות בס’ הענק למשה אבן עזרא 3. ff. 11r-230(ii)v: Parḥon, Salomon ben Abraham ibn, active 12th centuryפרחון, שלמה בן אברהם, Maḥberet ha-ʿArukh מחברת הערוך 4. ff. 232r-237v: List of homonyms found in Moses ibn Ezra's Sefer ha-Tarshish רשימת המלים בעלי יותר ממשמעות אחת שבס’ התרשיש למשה אבן עזרא 5. ff. 237v-255r: Alphabet of Ben Sira אלפא ביתא דבן סירא Language(s): Hebrew and Aramaic 6. ff. 256r-290r: Berechiah ben Natronai, ha-Nakdan, active 12th century-13th centuryברכיה בן נטרונאי הנקדן, Mishle shuʻalim משלי שועלים 7. ff. 290v-291v: Aggadic legends מעשיות 8. ff. 291v-300r: Mishle Sendebar משלי סנדבר 9. ff. 300r-339v: Aggadic legends מעשיות 10. ff. 340r-346v: Divre ha-yamim le-Mosheh Rabenu דברי הימים למשה רבינו 11. ff. 346v-352r: Midrash Aśeret ha-Dibrot (Midrash on the Ten Commandments) מדרש עשרת הדברות 12. ff. 352r-356r: Midrash ṿa-Yoshaʿ מדרש ויושע 13. ff. 356r-358v: Igerot shel Dibrot אגרות של דברות 14. ff. 358v-361r: Otot aśar milḥamot melekh ha-Mesiaḥ אותות עשר מלחמות מלך המשיח 15. ff. 361r-363v: Menaḥem ben Perets ha-Ḥebroniמנחם בן פרץ החברוני, Masaʿ be-erets Yiśaʾel מסע בארץ ישראל

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	https://hebrew.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_58, Neubauer, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (1886), Renan (1887), Beit-Arié and May, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I (1994), https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990000937830205171/NLI
Modern Research Literature	Epstein (1967)

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