Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 409 (excerpts within Gesta Romanorum)

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number Latin105
Location Berlin, Staatsbibliothek
Siglum/Shelfmark Ms. lat. qu. 409
Page/Folio range 48v-55v
Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative
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 Br2
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 2r-107r
  • in addition to the excerpts within the Gesta Romanorum, the manuscript also contains the Historia as its own text (see Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 409)
Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production 1416
Source of Date of Manuscript Production Roth (2004)
Physical Description
Material Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript I + 276
Height 220
Width 155
Script style/form
Prose or verse Prose
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript
  • 1r-v : Register zu den Gesta Romanorum
  • 2r-107r : Gesta Romanorum moralizata
  • 107v : blank
  • 108r-157v : Historia Septem Sapientum
  • 158r-169r : Thomas von Aquin: De rege et regno ad regem Cypri
  • 169v : Notizen
  • 170r-202v : Chronica pontificum Romanorum et imperatorum
  • 203r-210v : blank
  • 211ra-271vb : Flores temporum, Red. B (wrongly attributed to Hermann Gygas in the prologue)
  • 272-276 : blank
Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Roth (2004)Fischer (1902)Mierau/Sander-Berke/Studt (1996)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript