Erfurt Stadt- und Regionalbibliothek CA 4° 391

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number Latin25
Location Erfurt, Stadt- und Regionalbibliothek
Siglum/Shelfmark CA 4° 391
Page/Folio range 91r-97v
Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative Historia Septem Sapientum
Incipit or textual title Incipit Historia 7 sapientum Pontianus in urbe Roma regnavit prvdens valde
Version (siglum) H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
Language Group within Version Latin Version H
Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version Group II
Further scholarly subgroup (1)
Further scholarly subgroup (2) Text Er
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

"Historia" is incomplete. Text stopped being copied at 5,74 (after the Empress' interpretation of >Gaza<) (see Roth 2004, p.46).

Regarding date of manuscript production: Watermark analyses offer a time range from 1363-1367, but the watermark is cut off in the middle (see Roth 2004, p.45, footnote 41).

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production 1350/1400
Source of Date of Manuscript Production Roth (2004)
Physical Description
Material ParchmentPaper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript I + 121 + I
Height "-215" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 210.210-215
Width "-155" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.150-155
Script style/form
Prose or verse Prose
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript
  • 1r-24v : Historiae variae a pluribus ordinis Praedicatorum fratribus traditae
  • 25r-33r : Nicolaus Treveth: Declamationes Senecae moralizatae
  • 33r-43r : Robert Holkot: Moralitates
  • 43r-49r : Johannes Ridewall: Fulgentius Metaforalis
  • 49v-60r : Imagines quattuor virtutum cardinalium
  • 60v : Jacobus von Padua: Notae de missa
  • 61r-63v : Nicolaus Treveth: Declamationes Senecae moralizatae, Auszug
  • 64r-v : Fragment eines Grammatiktraktates (frgament of a grammar tract)
  • 65r-69r : Vitae septem sapientum Graecorum
  • 69v : blank
  • 70r-73v : Walter Map: Dissuasio Valerii ad Ruffinum
  • 74r-75r : Exzerpte aus Schriften Hugutios (excerpts from Hugutio's writings)
  • 75r-v : Erzählungen aus (stories from) Valerius Maximus: Facta et dicta memorabilia
  • 76r-83v : Excerpta ex vitis quorundam sanctorum facta
  • 84 : blank
  • 85r-88r : Stichwortverzeichnis (keyword index)
  • 88v-90r : blank
  • 90v : Notizen über die Messe aus Augustin, Gregor und Ambrosius (notes about the mass from Augustin, Gregor and Ambrosius)
  • 91r-97v : Historia septem sapientum (incomplete)
  • 98r-102v : blank
  • 103r-110v : Hugo von St. Cher: Speculum ecclesiae >seu Expositio missae<
  • 111r-119r : Ovid: Ibis
  • 119v-120v : blank
  • 121r-121v : De Virgilio et suis mirabilibus
Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Roth (2004)Schum (1887)Steinmetz (2000a)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript