Chartres Bibliothèque municipale 620

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number Fr43
Location Chartres, Médiathèque L'Apostrophe
Siglum/Shelfmark 620 (formerly 0261)
Page/Folio range 19-44
Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative Sept Sages de Rome
Incipit or textual title Seigneur, dist il, dites moi auquel de vous je bailleré mon enfant pour apprendre et pour endoctriner? » Li ainn[e]z palla avant
Version (siglum) C (Sept Sages de Rome)
Language Group within Version French Version C
Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version
Further scholarly subgroup (1)
Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition Speer & Foehr-Janssens (2017)Speer (1981)
Languages
Language of text Old French
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text
Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md4302873f0b
Modern Editions Speer, Le Roman des Sept Sages de Rome (1989)Speer and Foehr-Janssens, Le Roman des Sept Sages de Rome (2017)
Note

The Chartres 620 MS was unfortunately lost in WWII. It was partially photographed prior to this distruction, but primarily the second half. This is noteworthy, because the text existed in two parts: folios 19-26 in prose, through to the opening of ''Tentamina'', and then folios 27-44 in rhymed verse. Only one image of the first (prose) half of the text (folio 26) survives. Some of the above details rely on descriptions from Smith (1912).

According to Speer (1981) and Speer and Foehr-Janssens (2017), despite the fact that the two halves of the text are copied in different hands and styles, there is sufficient fluidity between them to consider them an intentional continuation and whole, rather than discrete fragments.

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production 1275 - 1325
Source of Date of Manuscript Production Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/3626
Physical Description
Material Parchment
Total pages/folios in Manuscript 149
Height 167
Width 120
Script style/form
Prose or verse
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript
  • 2r - 17v: Livre de moralités
  • 19 - 43: Sept sages de Rome
  • 47 - 54: Anonyme, Vie de sainte Marguerite
  • 55 - 120: Herman de Valenciennes, Roman de Dieu et de sa mere
  • 120r - 121rb: Gautier de Coinci, Prière de Théophile
  • 121 - 124: Prière à Notre Dame
  • 124v - 125: Prière à Notre Dame
  • 124 - 127: Clerc de Vaudois, Dit du droit
  • 128v - 128v: Pater noster
  • 136r - 136v: Auberee
  • 136v-149r: Isopet de Chartres
Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Paris (1876)Misrahi (1933)Speer & Foehr-Janssens (2017)Speer (1981)Speer (1987)Speer (1989)Speer (1994)Foehr-Janssens (1994)Foehr-Janssens (1997)Uhlig and Foehr-Janssens (2014)Smith (1912)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript