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

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number Latin113
Location Berlin, Staatsbibliothek
Siglum/Shelfmark Ms. Magdeb. 208
Page/Folio range 252v-254r
Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative Historia Septem Sapientum
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum) H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
Language Group within Version Latin Version H
Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version Excerpts in Gesta Romanorum
Further scholarly subgroup (1) Continental Group w
Further scholarly subgroup (2) Text Br10
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
  • 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 and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production 1450 - 1475
Source of Date of Manuscript Production Roth (2004)
Physical Description
Material Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript 425
Height 210
Width 145
Script style/form
Prose or verse Prose
Illustrations No
Contents and 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 and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Roth (2004)Dittmar (1880)Winter (1994)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript