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Or 16091

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032-003420828
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Or 16091
Title:
Mishle Sendebar
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
12 folios (no flyleaves)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Montefiore, Moses, Baronet
Montefiore, Moses, Baronet
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 16091

Mishle Sendebar

Contents

Tales of Sendebar.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-12r
Title: משלי סנדבר
Title: Mishle Sendebar
Incipit: ויהי בימים ההם מלך בארץ הודו מלך אחד ושמו ביבור פיליסןף

A cycle of stories about the faithfulness and unfaithfulness of women and sons.

It was first published in Constantinople in 1516 and appeared in several subsequent editions. This MS was copied from one of the printed editions. Another copy of this work is found in Montefiore MS 486 (Lot 366 of the Sotheby's sale, 2004) (see Sotheby's sales' catalogue 2004).

This MS is not listed among the existing MSS of the work in Epstein's Tales of Sendebar, pp. 340-341.

One of the Eastern versions of a group of popular tales known collectively as the Book of Sindibad.

Colophon:

References

Epstein, Morris, Tales of Sendebar: an edition and translation of the Hebrew version of the Seven sages, based on unpublished manuscripts (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1967).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 12 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 142 × 98 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 78 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Front pastedown + ff. 1-11 constitute a quire of 12 leaves, and f. 12 and back pastedown are a bifolio.

It seems that catchwords used to be on all pages, but some have been trimmed off.

Condition

Usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion, spine split.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Running title.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive script of the 19th century.

Binding

Post-1600. Marble paper covers. Boxed.

Label on spine: 'Montefiore Library MS. 500 - Ha No. 113.'

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885): belonged to his library; see black oval stamp from Ramsgate, dated 1866/7 on ff. 1r and 12v: בק"ק ראמסגט יע"א התרכז לברי"ע .

Acquired in 2004 from the Montefiore Endowment via Sotheby's.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel, and the sales' catalogue Sotheby's Important Hebrew manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment: New York October 27 & 28, 2004 (New York: Sotheby's, 2004).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_16091 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Hirschfeld, Hartwig, Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew MSS. of the Montefiore Library (London 1904), p. 155.
    Sotheby's Important Hebrew manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment: New York October 27 & 28, 2004 (New York: Sotheby's, 2004), p. 437, lot 379.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL