Proverbs - 𐤌𐤔𐤋𐤉

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Canonical Versions

Version Modern or critical edition Selected manuscript/s

Masoretic Text of Proverbs
- in Hebrew		 משלי (לפי נוסח חמסורה)
מקור: מִקְרָא עַל־פִּי הַמָּסוֹרָה 		Leningrad Codex

Aleppo Codex

Peshitta Proverbs
- in Syriac Aramaic		ܡܬ̈ܠܐ
ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה		Codex Ambrosianus
            Ethiopic Books of Proverbs and Rebukes: corresponding to the other canons' book of Proverbs --

Ethiopic Book of Proverbs
(corresponds to Proverbs ch. 1-24)
- in Ge'ez		መጽሐፈ ፡ ምሳሌ ። :
ch. 1-14 (pp. 94-530), ch. 15-24 (pp. 3-317)
ዐይን: H. Pilkington
Manuscript transcriptions from THEOTd'Abbadie 35 (pp. 1-24); EMML 1768 (pp. 1-15);
EMIP 1029 (pp. 1-17); Gunda Gunde 106 (pp. 1-18);
IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible: pp. 1-14)
Manuscripts analysed by Pilkington:
Group A (earliest type): mostly LXX-based with some MT influences
d'Abbadie 55 (early? 16th c.); d'Abbadie 149 (18th c.)
Minor Recension (earlier type):
structurally MT-based, though with LXX component
D'Abbadie 35 (17th c.)
Group B (later type): more MT-leaning with an LXX base
Cambridge Ms. 1570 (translated by Jacob the Israelite) (1588);
BL Or. 492 (18th c.) [img: 69]; BL Or. 493 (18th c.) [img: 53];
BL Or. 496 (17th c.) [img: 45];
Group C (later type): LXX-leaning with "smoothing" revisions.
(includes one Beta Israel ms.)
d'Abbadie 30 (Beta Israel ms.: 17th-18th c.);
BL Or. 495 (18th c.) [img: 27]; BL Or. 497 (18th c.) [img: 53];
BN Eth. 307 (18th c.)
Manuscripts analysed by THEOT (limited sample):
Typical "early" mss.:EMML 1768 (late 15th c.) [p: 278];
EMIP 1029 (15th-16th c.) [p: 1];
Typical "standardized" mss.:D'Abbadie 35
(see above, Pilkington's minor recension);
Gunda Gunde 106 (1682-1706) [p: 165];
Typical "modern" ms.:
IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible) (1934) [p: 390v]
Noteworthy manuscripts not analysed:
Beta Israel ms.:
Faitlovitch 2 (15th c.) [p: 3];
Potential "outlier" mss.:
Davies Axum Zion 3
(1664, formatted like a psalter) [p: 283];
EMML 1917 (early 19th c.) [p: 122];
EMML 3439 (18th c.) [p: 5]

Rebukes - ተግሣጽ


Ethiopic Book of Rebukes
(corresponds to Proverbs ch. 25-31)
- in Ge'ez		መጽሐፈ ፡ ተግሣጽ ።
(pp. 318-522) ዐይን: H. Pilkington
Manuscript transcriptions from THEOTd'Abbadie 35 (pp. 25-29); EMML 1768 (pp. 15-18);
EMIP 1029 (pp. 17-21); Gunda Gunde 106 (pp. 18-22);
IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible: pp. 14-17)
Manuscripts analysed by Pilkington:
Group A (earliest type): mostly LXX-based with some MT influences
d'Abbadie 55 (early? 16th c.); d'Abbadie 149 (18th c.)
Minor Recension (earlier type):
structurally MT-based, though with LXX component
D'Abbadie 35 (17th c.)
Group B (later type): more MT-leaning with an LXX base
Cambridge Ms. 1570 (translated by Jacob the Israelite) (1588);
BL Or. 492 (18th c.) [img: 88]; BL Or. 493 (18th c.) [img: 67];
BL Or. 496 (17th c.) [img: 71];
Group C (later type): LXX-leaning with "smoothing" revisions.
(includes one Beta Israel ms.)
d'Abbadie 30 (Beta Israel ms.: 17th-18th c.);
BL Or. 495 (18th c.) [img: 87]; BL Or. 497 (18th c.) [img: 89];
BN Eth. 307 (18th c.)
Manuscripts analysed by THEOT
(limited sample):
Typical "early" mss.:EMML 1768 (late 15th c.) [p: 287];
EMIP 1029 (15th-16th c.) [p: 11];
Typical "standardized" mss.:D'Abbadie 35
(see above, Pilkington's minor recension);
Gunda Gunde 106 (1682-1706) [p: 179];
Typical "modern" ms.:
IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible) (1934) [p: 400v]
Noteworthy manuscripts not analysed:
Beta Israel ms.:
Faitlovitch 2 (15th c.) [p: 33];
Potential "outlier" mss.:
Davies Axum Zion 3
(1664, formatted like a psalter) [p: 297];
EMML 1917 (early 19th c.) [p: 137];
EMML 3439 (18th c.) [p: 20]

Septuagint Proverbs
- in Koine Greek		Παροιμίαι Σολομώντος:
Rahlfs' edition
πηγή: nocr;
Swete's edition
πηγή: biblehub 		Codex Vaticanus (p: 714)

Vulgate Proverbs
- in Latin		 proverbia
fons: vulgate.org		Codex Gigas

Semi-canonical and non-canonical versions

Version Modern or critical edition Selected manuscript/s

Dead Sea Scrolls versions of Proverbs
- in Hebrew		 ספר משלי: נוסחי מגילות ים המלח
מקור: הדרך ליהוה 		All Dead Sea Scrolls Proverbs fragments

Vetus Latina ("Old Latin") Proverbs
- in Latin		 proverbiorum
fons: Petri Sabatier

Targum Em"et (semi-canonical)
- in Jewish Aramaic		תרגום אמ"ת על תהילים
מקור: מקראות גדולות של ספריא
critical edition
מקור: ארמיטה		 Ms. Paris Hebrew 17
(The National Library of France)

Early Palestinian Christian version of Ecclesiastes
- in "Syriac" Aramaic		 general fragments,
fragments from the lectionary
ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה

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