Hannover Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek Ms IV 616

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number Latin8
Location Hannover, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek
Siglum/Shelfmark Ms IV 616
Page/Folio range 84r-153v
Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative Historia Septem Sapientum
Incipit or textual title Incipit Historia septem sapiencium Poncianus in civitate Romana regnavit prudens valde
Version (siglum) H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
Language Group within Version Latin Version H
Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version Group I
Further scholarly subgroup (1)
Further scholarly subgroup (2) Text H1
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)
Authorship and Production
Scribe Heinricus Treveris
Author
Place of Manuscript Production Southern Germany
Date of Manuscript Production 1456
Source of Date of Manuscript Production Roth (2004)
Physical Description
Material Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript 302
Height 153
Width 105
Script style/form
Prose or verse Prose
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript
  • 1r-66v : Aristoteles: Problemata
  • 66v-78v : Ps.-Aristoteles: De regimine principum
  • 78v-83v : Lamentacio seu de officio lamentacionum
  • 83v : Geistliche Merkverse (spiritual memory verses)
  • 84r-153v : Historia septem sapientum
  • 154r-v : De iustitia et misericordia
  • 155r-v : Notizen (notes)
  • 156r : blank
  • 156v-228v : Jacobus de Cessolis: De ludo scaccorum
  • 229r-234r : Notanda de confessione et catechismo
  • 234v-235r : blank
  • 235v-236v : De oratione dominica
  • 236v-238r : De virtutibus missae
  • 238v-239r : Ps.-Albertus Magnus: novem puncta (i.a.)
  • 239v : Salvator
  • 240r-241r : Septem sunt dotes ... dotes corporis ..., dotes anime
  • 241r-248v : Epistola presbiteri Johannis (Hildesheim version)
  • 249r-250v : Über Reden und Schweigen (German)
  • 251 : blank
  • 252r-v : Inhaltsangabe der gesamten Handschrift (contents of the entire manuscript)
  • 253r-268v : Albertanus von Brescia: De doctrina dicendi et tacendi
  • 269v-277v : Incipit navis salutis ad celum etc.
  • 278v-285v : Incipit navis perdicionis
  • 285v-288v : Auctoritates aus Hieronymus, Bernhard von Clairvaux (i.a./et al)
  • 289r-301r : Historia ab Adam usque ad salvatorem Ihesum Cristum
Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Roth (2004)Härtel / Ekowski (1982)Wagner (2000)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript