Alba Iulia Biblioteca Batthyaneum R II 75

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number Latin4
Location Alba Iulia, Biblioteca Batthyaneum
Siglum/Shelfmark R II 75
Page/Folio range 183ra-212rb
Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative Historia Septem Sapientum Moralizata
Incipit or textual title Poncianus in ciuitate Romana regnauit prudens valde
Version (siglum) H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
Language Group within Version Latin Version H
Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version Group I
Further scholarly subgroup (1)
Further scholarly subgroup (2) Text Ai
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition Roth (2004)
Languages
Language of text Latin
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text
Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions Roth, Historia Septem Sapientum (2004)
Note

According to Roth (2004, p.23), the manuscript is in a bad condition.

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production Central Europe
Date of Manuscript Production 1425/1450
Source of Date of Manuscript Production Roth (2004)
Physical Description
Material Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript 295
Height 295
Width 215
Script style/form
Prose or verse Prose
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript
  • 2ra-182rb : Exposito Psalterii
  • 182v : blank
  • 183ra-212rb : Historia Septem Sapientum Moralizata
  • 293rb : blank
  • 293va-295ra : Ps.-Bernhard: Sermo de assumptione beatae virginis
  • 295rb-vb : blank
Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Roth (2004)Sopko (1982)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript