The authors establish the text of the critical edition by taking manuscript C as the base text and collating it with the other eight, according to carefully spelled-out criteria. To this thorough work, they add a paremiological study of each of the brief sapiential statements and provide reliable information as to the author’s possible sources on the basis of a comparison with other texts written in Latin and Romance languages, which contain translations of Hebrew and Arabic sources also used by Jefudà Bonsenyor. This collatio enables us to correct copy errors and re-evaluate modern editions of the text. In addition to a detailed linguistic study, the authors propose the formal structures of the brief sapiential statements, based on the work carried out as part of the Aliento project. The edition is enriched by new information on the author himself, the tradition in which his work is immersed, and the multicultural and political context from which it emerged.

Since April 2022, David Navarro, Associate Professor of Medieval Iberian Literature at Texas State University, San Marco, has been collaborating on the Aliento project. He is working on editing, studying, and tagging in English the sayings of the Catalan proverb book Llibre de paraules e dits de savis e filòsofs (c. 1295), by Jafudà Bonsenyor. He is preparing an English edition of the Llibre.
In 2023 the Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie will publish his article on Jafudà Bonsenyor.

The critical edition of Llibre de paraules e dits de savis e filòsofs (c. 1295) by afudà Bonsenyor, prepared by our collaborators María Conca and Josep Guia from the University of Valencia, is being printed at the University Press of the University of Valencia (PUV)

The exhibition Aliento, le souffle de la sagesse shown at the BULAC ((Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations – Inalco) at the end of 2019 travels to the City Hall of LePecq (the Yvelines), where it will be presented from 7 to 28 May 2022.

Sarah Gimenez has defended a thesis entitled: Edition critique du proverbier manuscrit d’I.S. Révah (judéo-espagnol – Salonique, 1936).
Jury : M. C. Bornes Varol (director), Alessandro Guetta PU Inalco, Stéphane Sawas PU Inalco (President), Paloma Díaz Mas PU CSIC Madrid, Alexandra Oddo Bonnet PU Paris-Nanterre (evaluator 1), Eric Beaumatin PU Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Ana Stulic MCF, Bordeaux Montaigne ; (evaluator 2: Victor Ivanovici PU émérite, Univ. de Thessalonique)

Summary
The proverbial manuscript of Professor I.S. Révah is a collection of Judeo-Spanish proverbs that has remained unpublished in the archives of the U.I.A. It consists of 1601 units collected by him in Salonika in 1936. It is above all as a linguist that I.S. Révah, himself a Judeo-Spanish speaker and originally from Salonika, has focused on pointing out the phonetic characteristics of the Salonician language. This dialect variety and its notation have been the subject of controversy between linguists C.M. Crews and J-P. Vinay.
The proverb collection of I.S. Revah has for particularity the description of the popular speech of the Judeo-Spanish of Salonika on the eve of the disappearance of this community. It is a witness to the oral culture of the latter days of this community and, for this reason, presents notable differences with other proverbial sayings, including salonicians after the Shoah. It has very diverse units, many variations and 80 undocumented proverbs.
This critical edition examines the author’s biases, reconsiders the terms of the linguistic polemic and identifies the markers of the Salonician dialect. In the absence of any gloss by the author, the critical edition establishes the meaning (literal and figurative) of the proverbs and traces, as far as possible, their origin and development.

Key words list :Judeo-Spanish dialectology (Ladino), Salonika, paremiology, proverbs, Judeo-Spanish culture

Exhibition at the BULAC (University Library of Languages and Civilizations)
November 12 – December 20, 2019
Gallery of the Pôle des langues et civilisations and BULAC, ground level
Address : 65 Rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris
Free entrance