{"id":664,"date":"2016-06-12T00:37:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T00:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2016\/06\/12\/jewishhenna-shelomit-bat-dvorah-bodleianlibs\/"},"modified":"2020-02-14T12:08:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T18:08:26","slug":"jewishhenna-shelomit-bat-dvorah-bodleianlibs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2016\/06\/12\/jewishhenna-shelomit-bat-dvorah-bodleianlibs\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-664 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2016\/06\/12\/jewishhenna-shelomit-bat-dvorah-bodleianlibs\/attachment\/665\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o7u1ktU8fZ1ums1bqo2_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2016\/06\/12\/jewishhenna-shelomit-bat-dvorah-bodleianlibs\/attachment\/666\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o7u1ktU8fZ1ums1bqo3_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2016\/06\/12\/jewishhenna-shelomit-bat-dvorah-bodleianlibs\/attachment\/667\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o7u1ktU8fZ1ums1bqo4_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2016\/06\/12\/jewishhenna-shelomit-bat-dvorah-bodleianlibs\/attachment\/668\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o7u1ktU8fZ1ums1bqo1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jewishhenna.tumblr.com\/post\/145706196109\/shelomit-bat-dvorah-bodleianlibs-we-challenge\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jewishhenna<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/shelomit-bat-dvorah.tumblr.com\/post\/145705274343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shelomit-bat-dvorah<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bodleianlibs.tumblr.com\/post\/145705139163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bodleianlibs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We challenge you to decipher the plot of <a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fdigital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk%2Finquire%2Fp%2F81070dc0-0750-454e-b958-13656ef29942&amp;t=NGZmYWE4N2ZkYzcwMDNiMDdkNDk1NGUzNTUzNGQ4ODU1NTA1ZTI3OSxmbXozMXQwbw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this<br \/>\ntext<\/a> but there are no prizes because we\u2019re not sure ourselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tmblr.co\/mNk-GjiRGk-k9oGyCTkqQWg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jewishhenna<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>YES<\/p>\n<p>This is <i>Meshal haQadmoni<\/i>, a book of animal fables written between 1281-1284 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/judaica\/ejud_0002_0017_0_17290.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yitzhaq ben Shlomo ibn Sahula<\/a>, a Sephardi writer, poet, and Qabbalist from Guadalajara (although this copy was clearly written in Germany at a later date). There\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=pst8jgEACAAJ&amp;dq=meshal+haqadmoni&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;redir_esc=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an English translation of Meshal haQadmoni<\/a> but it\u2019s unfortunately not online\u2026 The first one is labelled\u00a0\u201cThe Bear beheads the Fox,\u201d the second on that page is\u00a0\u201cThe Lion and his friends celebrate, eating and drinking,\u201d etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What a fun manuscript! I wonder if anyone has done a study of the iconography?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jewishhenna: shelomit-bat-dvorah: bodleianlibs: We challenge you to decipher the plot of this text but there are no prizes because we\u2019re not sure ourselves.\u00a0 @jewishhenna! YES This is Meshal haQadmoni, a book of animal fables written between 1281-1284 by Yitzhaq ben Shlomo ibn Sahula, a Sephardi writer, poet, and Qabbalist from Guadalajara (although this copy was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2016\/06\/12\/jewishhenna-shelomit-bat-dvorah-bodleianlibs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}