Greifswald Bibliothek des geistlichen Ministeriums V E 72

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number Latin54
Location Greifswald, Bibliothek des geistlichen Ministeriums
Siglum/Shelfmark V E 72
Page/Folio range 93r-114v
Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative Historia Septem Sapientum
Incipit or textual title Alia Historia de regina que voluit occidere filium regis Dyocletianus regnauit rome diues valde
Version (siglum) H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
Language Group within Version Latin Version H
Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version Group IV
Further scholarly subgroup (1)
Further scholarly subgroup (2) Text G
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" does not clearly stand out as an independent text from the "Gesta Romanorum" (see Roth 2004, p.80).

Authorship and Production
Scribe Georgius Augridus
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production 1466/1468
Source of Date of Manuscript Production Roth (2004)
Physical Description
Material Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript II + 114 + II
Height 210
Width 155
Script style/form
Prose or verse Prose
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript
  • 1r-25v : Bernhard von Clairvaux: Carmen de contemptu mundanorum
  • 26r-93r : Gesta Romanorum moralizata
  • 93r-114v : Historia septem sapientum
Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Roth (2004)Pyl (1865)Fischer (1902)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript