Brussel Koninklijke Bibliotheek 9245

Manuscript Identification

Reference Number

Fr33

Location

Brussel, Koninklijke Bibliotheek

Siglum / Shelfmark

9245

Page / Folio range

1ra-17rc

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative

Sept Sages de Rome

Incipit or textual title

Ci commence li livres des VII sages de Romme et de Marques le seneschal, et aprés de Laurin et de Cassydorus, et de Pelyarmemis, et aprés li fait des empereeurs de Romme et de Coustantinoble. A Romme ot jadis I empereour qui ot non Dyocleciens. Il ot femme et de celle femme…

Version (siglum)

Overlap of Versions A and L

Language Group within Version

French A/L Overlap

Further scholarly subgroup (2)

Text B4

Source for textual relationship

Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014)

Languages

Language of text

Old French

Digitisation & Editions

Digitisation

https://uurl.kbr.be/1934974

Modern Editions

Plomp, De Middelnederlandsche bewerking van het gedicht van den VII Vroeden van binnen Rome (1899), Runte, Les sept sages de Rome: An On-Line Edition of French Version A (2006)

Note

Note: This text is critically designated as part of the Version A group (Runte, JONAS, Arlima, Foerh-Janssens, Speer, etc.). However, it contains one of the additional 'L' stories, ''Noverca''. The empress tells this story after judgement (and, in this text, trial by combat) has already occurred. She tells it, she says, to illustrate her hopes - that her husband would believe her over his son.

Authorship & Production

Place of Production

France (Nord)

Date of Production

1300 - 1350

Source of Date of Production

Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/2962

Physical Description

Material

Parchment

Total pages / folios

593

Height

405

Width

295

Prose or verse

Prose

Illustrations

Yes

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript

1r - 17r: Sept sages de Rome
17 - 60v: Marques de Rome
60v - 184v: Laurin, fils de Marques le Sénéchal
184v - 296r: Cassidorus
296r - 348v: Helcanus
348v - 482r: Pelyarmenus
482r - 593v: Kanor

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

J. Marchal, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale des ducs de Bourgogne publié par ordre du ministre de l'Intérieur, Bruxelles et Leipzig, Muquardt, 1842, 3 t. (ici t. 1, p. 185, no 9245): https://archive.org/details/cataloguedesman01brus, KBR: https://opac.kbr.be/Library/doc/SYRACUSE/16453139

Modern Research Literature

Runte (1974), Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Coco (2016), Speer (1981), Foehr-Janssens (1994), Berne-Aïache (1966), Le Roux de Lincy (1838), Paris (1876)

Embedded Stories in This Manuscript

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation
Arbor – The Tree	1	Empress
Canis – The Faithful Dog	2	Bancillas
Aper – The Boar and the Fruit	3	Empress
Medicus – The Doctor	4	Anxilles
Gaza – The Treasure	5	Empress
Puteus – The Well	6	Lentulus
Senescalcus – The Seneschal	7	Empress
Tentamina – The Test	8	Malquidras	Malquidarz
Virgilius – Virgil's Marvels	9	Empress
Avis – The Bird	10	Cato
Sapientes – The Wise Men	11	Empress
Vidua – The Widow	12	Jesse
Roma – Rome Besieged	13	Empress
Inclusa – The Imprisoned Wife	14	Meron
Vaticinium – The Prophecy	15	Prince

Research Material

Has Research Material Title	Has Research Material Link	Has Research Material Description