Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 22548-22550

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Fr23
Location	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Siglum/Shelfmark	français 22548 (together with 22549, 22550; formerly La Vallière 13)
Page/Folio range	1r-14v

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Sept Sages de Rome
Incipit or textual title	A Rome ot un empereour qui ot non Deocliens
Version (siglum)	A (Seven Sages)
└ Language Group within Version	French Version A
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Group Y
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Text W
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014)

Languages
Language of text	Old French
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation	http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52513529f
Modern Editions	Runte, Les sept sages de Rome: An On-Line Edition of French Version A (2006), Plomp, De Middelnederlandsche bewerking van het gedicht van den VII Vroeden van binnen Rome (1899)

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	1300 - 1350
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	JONAS: http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/manuscrit/73676

Physical Description
Material	Parchment
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	206 (in 22548; 22549: 216; 22550: 163)
Height	407
Width	295
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	Yes

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	Volume I: Français 22548: 1r - 15r: Sept sages de Rome 15r - 56r: Marques de Rome 56r - 172r: Laurin, fils de Marques le Sénéchal 172r - 206v: Cassidorus Volume II: Français 22549: 1r - 74r: Cassidorus 74r - 130v: Helcanus 130v - 216v: Pelyarmenus Volume III: Français 22549 1r - 50r: Pelyarmenus 50r - 165v: Kanor

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc522904, Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/2929
Modern Research Literature	Runte (1974), Runte (1989), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Coco (2016), Berne-Aïache (1966), Speer (1981), Plomp (1889), Le Roux de Lincy (1838)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript