Anonymous Verse Version

From The Seven Sages of Rome
Like Hans von Bühel's poem, the anonymous German verse version is part of the Version H tradition, and explicitly credits a Latin text as its source (Kunkel 2023). It was composed in the first half of the fifteenth century, and survives in four manuscripts. The poem is some 7,000 lines in length, with a sizable prologue that establishes the anti-feminist bent of the narrative, linking the Sieben weise Meister motifs of feminine wickedness to classical precedent.
General Information
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Narrative / Scholarly Group
Parent Versions Versfassung / Verse Version
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Title
Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages Anonymous Verse Version
Version Number
Branch of the tradition West
Language & Composition
Original language of version German (High and Low German)
Translated into (languages)
Place of composition
Date of composition 1401 - 1450
Source for date of composition Kunkel (2023)Gerdes (1992)
Literature & Editions
Modern research literature Gerdes (1992)Kunkel (2023)Paschke (1891)Gerdes (2004)
Modern Editions Keller, Altdeutsche Gedichte (1846)
Recorded branch of this secondary version
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Adaptations
Adapted from (version) Versfassung / Verse VersionGerman Version HLatin Version H
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Languages in Use
Language of text German (High and Low German)
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Notes
Note
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Notes on the frame
Pattern of embedded stories in this version

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