Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. Magdeb. 208 (excerpts within Gesta Romanorum)

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript Identification

Reference Number
Latin113
Siglum / Shelfmark
Ms. Magdeb. 208
Page / Folio range
252v-254r

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative
Language Group within Version
Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version
Further scholarly subgroup (1)
Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Source for textual relationship

Languages

Language of text


Digitisation & Editions

Note

  • the folio range regards the excerpts of the Historia according to Roth; the Gesta Romanorum folio range is 222r-271v
  • the manuscript contains another Gesta Romanorum which also includes the Historia (see Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. Magdeb. 208)

Authorship & Production


Date of Production
1450 - 1475
Source of Date of Production

Physical Description

Material
Total pages / folios
425
Height
210
Width
145
Prose or verse
Illustrations
No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript
  • 1r-208v : Johannes Herolt: Promptuarium exemplorum secundum ordinem alphabeti; within: 1v: De sancta Aldegundi, De sancto Udalrico
  • 208v-220r : Johannes Herolt: Promptuarium de miraculis Beatae Mariae Virginis (excerpt)
  • 222r-271v : Gesta Romanorum moralizata
  • 272r-351r : Gesta Romanorum moralizata; within: 309v-335r: Historia septem sapientum
  • 351v-353v : Homilia in festum ascensionis domini
  • 354r-355v : Johannes Gotstich (?): Sermo in festum ascensionis domini
  • 355v : De virginitate und ein Rezept (and a recipe)
  • 356r-391v : Rogerus de Platea: Quadragesimale (>De schola Christi<)
  • 392-396 : blank, except for 396r: Geistliche Notiz (spiritual notes)
  • 397r-401r : Sermo de verbis >Tu quis es?<
  • 402r-425v : Bernardus Guidonis: Miracula S. Thomae de Aquino

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue
Modern Research Literature

Embedded Stories in This Manuscript

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Aper – The Boar and the Fruit4Empress 

Research Material

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