Danish Version H

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We have no written evidence of The Seven Sages/ Book of Sindbad's circulation in Danish until Mats Vingaard's fragmentary Copenhagen print (1570-1577). The first complete print is Stephan Møllmand (Rostock 1591), which transmits a standard version of the Historia. Seelow (1989) suggests that is has been translated from a German chapbook. There is at least one lost edition from 1602, as well as at least seven eighteenth-century print editions (Schlusemann 2023b).

General Information
Language within Version	Danish
Narrative / Scholarly Group
Parent Versions	H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
Child Versions
Author
Title
Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages
Branch of the tradition	Seven Sages of Rome

Language & Composition
Language of version	Danish
Translated into (languages)
Place of composition
Date of composition	1501 - 1577
Source for date of composition

Literature & Editions
Modern research literature	Jacobsen / Olrik / Paulli (1915-1936), Seelow (1989)
Modern Editions	Jacobsen / Olrik / Paulli, Danske Folkebøger fra 16. og 17. Aarhundrede (1915-1936)

Recorded branch of this secondary version

H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Czech Version H: Kronika sedmi mudrců Danish Version H Dutch Version H Dutch Prints (H) Dutch Prose Version H English Version H English Prints (H) Conyers Version Pynson Version French Version H German Version H Aventewr von Diocleciano German Prints (H) Hystorij von Diocleciano Prosafassung / Prose Version Redaction A Redaction B Redaction C Redaction D Redaction E Redaction F Redaction G Versfassung / Verse Version Anonymous Verse Version Bühnenfassung / Stage adaptation: Sebastian Wild, Tragedj Hans von Bühel, Dyocletianus Leben Hungarian Version H: Pontianus tsaszar historiaia Hungarian Prints Icelandic Version H Icelandic Prose: Sjö meistara saga Group A: Sjö meistara saga Group B: Alexander og Lúðvík Icelandic Verse: Sjö meistara saga Group C: Rímur Group D: Vinaspegill Latin Version H Excerpts in Gesta Romanorum Continental Group w Continental Group x Insular Group u Group I Group II Group III Group IV Lost Latin Version H Manuscripts Polish Version H Scots Version H: Rolland, Seuin Seages Scots Prints (H) Spanish Version H: Los Siete Sabios de Roma Spanish Prints (H) Swedish Version H: Sju vise mästare Old Swedish Redaction C Swedish Prints (H) Yiddish Version H

Connected prints

Print Language Location Date of Print En skiøn Historie Om de Syv viise Mestere. København: s.n., 1709 (War Loss) Danish 1709 En skiøn Historie om de syv viise Mestere, hvorledis Pontianus den Rommerske Keyser, befalede dennem sin Søn Diocletianum, at lære hannem de syv frie Konster […]. København: s.n., 1755 Danish 1755 En skiøn Historie om de syv vise Mestere, hvorledis Pontianus den Rommerske Keyser, befalede dennem sin Søn Diocletianum, at lære hannem de syv fri Konster. s.l.: s.n., 1700 Danish 1700 En skiøn Historie om de syv vise Mestere, hvorledis Pontianus den Rommerske Keyser, befalede dennem sin Søn Diocletianum, at lære hannem de syv frie Konster […]. København: H.J. Graae, 1784 Danish 1784 En skiøn Historie om de syv vjse Mestere, hvorledis Pontianus den Rommerske Keyser, befalede dennem sin Søn Diocletianum. København: s.n., 1733 Danish 1733 En skjøn Historie om de Syv vise Mestere, hvorledis den rommerske Keyser Pontianus, anbetroede dem sin Søn Diocletianum, for at underwise ham i de syv frie Konster […]. s.l.: s.n., [ca. 1800] Danish 1800 En skjøn Historie om de syv vise Mestere, hvorledes den rommerske Keiser Pontianus, anbetroede dem sin Søn Diocletianum, for at undervise ham i de syv frie Konster. København: s.n., [1700–1800] Danish 1700 Keyser Pontiani historie met hans Søn Diocletiano / Lystig at Læse / imod Quindernis wtroskaff. Rostock: Steffen Møllemand, 1591 Danish 1591 [De syv vise Mestre]. [Kiøbenhaffn: Matz Vingaard, ca. 1570–1577] Danish 1570 JL

Adaptations
Adapted from (version)	German Version H
Adapted into (version)
Source for composition and adaptation information	Seelow (1989)

Languages in Use
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Notes
Note	Note: the first surviving print dates from c. 1570-1577; it is possible that the version was composed in Danish sometime in the preceding decades.
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