Karlsruhe Landesbibliothek Cod. St. Georgen 74

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number Ger8
Location Karlsruhe, Landesbibliothek
Siglum/Shelfmark Karlsruhe, Landesbibl., Cod. St. Georgen 74
Page/Folio range 48r-122r
Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative Sieben weise Meister
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum) H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
Language Group within Version German Version H
Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version Prosafassung / Prose Version
Further scholarly subgroup (1) Redaction B
Further scholarly subgroup (2) Text K1
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition Gerdes (1992)Gerdes (2004)
Languages
Language of text German (High and Low German)
Regional or specific Language of text Westschwäbisch
Source for regional or specific Language of text Hommers (1968)Handschriftencensus 5080: https://handschriftencensus.de/5080
Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:bsz:31-29398
Modern Editions
Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production Ulm, Germany
Date of Manuscript Production
Source of Date of Manuscript Production
Physical Description
Material Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript 190
Height 193
Width 135
Script style/form
Prose or verse Prose
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript The manuscript contains an assortment of songs, prayers, spirtual texts, and treatises (see: Handschriftencensus 5080), as well as, and including:
  • 3r-4r: Thomas Aquinas, 'Adoro te devote, (German);
  • 6v-9r: 'Ritterschaft Jesu Christi' (K1)
  • 9r-11v: Die guldin messa
  • 11v-12v: 'Alle herschaft dienet'
  • 13r-v: Heinrich Laufenberg: Lied ("Ich wais ain edlu maget fin")
  • 14r-15r: Muskatblut: Lied (Marienlied im Hofton)
  • 15r-17r: Muskatblut: Lied (auf die Wahl des Königs Albrecht II.)
  • 17r-18v: Liebe von Giengen: Lied ("Höff art ob din nit ware")
  • 18v-21r: Der Tannhäuser: Lieder
  • 21v-22r: Alblin: Lied ('Priester du usserweltes vaß')
  • 22r-26r: Mönch von Salzburg: 'Das guldein ABC'
  • 28r-34v: 'Veronika' I ('Die sieben Ärzte')
  • 34v-35r: Geistliches Abc
  • 35v-37r: Albrecht Lesch: 'Feuerweise'
  • 37v-38v: Lied über den Streit zwischen Wasser und Wein (Inc.: Der min gedanck haut sich gedaucht)
  • 39r-42r: Hans Bruder: Ir heren vnd sind [recte: ir sunt] verstane
  • 43r-44r: Hans Krus: 'Der sumer hat sich geschaiden'
  • 46r-47r: 'Tannhäuser und Venus'
  • 48r-181v: 'Gesta Romanorum', (German, Redaction G) including (ff. 48r-122r) 'Sieben weise Meister' (Prosafassung b) (K1)
  • 182v-185r: Ballade von der Müllerin und dem Domherren ("Nun merkent alle geliche von ainer müllerin")
  • 185v-187v: Lied über den Lauf der Welt ("Als fiil ich mich bedencken kan")
Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Schmitz (1904)Hommers (1968)Gerdes (1992)Gerdes (2004)Roth (2003)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript