Latin Version S Manuscripts

Jean Gobi the Younger's collection of exempla titled Scala Coeli was composed circa 1323–30, when Gobi was in residence at the monastery of Saint-Maximin (see the page for Version S for more general information). The transmission of the narrative includes both incunables and manuscripts in Latin (as well as redactions in other languages), which may be grouped into three distinct groups, according to Cañizares Ferriz (2011):

Group I (most complete manuscripts, 1002–1068 exempla): most include the Seven Sages, and mostly include the sages' names.
Group II (876–974 exempla): more than half contain The Seven Sages, rarely contain the sages' names.
Group III (most abbreviated, 487–617 exempla): less than half contain the Seven Sages, and almost always omit the sages' names.

Cañizares Ferriz worked primarily with Marie-Anne Polo de Beaulieu's 1991 edition when analysing these groups; as such, the texts not included in Polo de Beaulieu's edition - nine manuscripts in total - are not described by Cañizares Ferriz, and whether or not they contain the Seven Sages text is unknown. Those manuscripts are:

Gdansk, Bibl. Polskiej Akad. Nauk. Mar. F. 43
Munich, Staatsbibl. 8365, 8947, and 8975 [extracts only]
Munster, Bibl. Paulina 184
Olomouc, Kapitulni Knihovna 447, n.3
Sevilla, Bibl. Colombina 5-6-27
Warsaw, Bibl. Narodowa 52
Wroclaw, Bibl. Univ. I, Q 292, [extracts only]
Wroclaw, Ossolineum 415
Xanten, Dombibl. S. n.

For more on the presence/absence of the Seven Sages in the Spanish translation of the Scala Coeli, see Cañizares Ferriz, and Hilka (1913).

General Information
Language within Version
Narrative / Scholarly Group
Parent Versions	Latin Version S
Child Versions	Latin Version S (Not in Scala Coeli), Latin Version S Group I, Latin Version S Group II, Latin Version S Group III
Author	Jean Gobi the Younger
Title	Liber de Septem Sapientibus (Scala Coeli)
Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages	Latin Version S Manuscripts
Version Number
Branch of the tradition	West

Language & Composition
Original language of version	Latin
Translated into (languages)
Place of composition	Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France
Date of composition	1322 - 1330
Source for date of composition

Literature & Editions
Modern research literature	Polo de Beaulieu (1985), Polo de Beaulieu (1986), Polo de Beaulieu (1990), Polo de Beaulieu (1991), Polo de Beaulieu (1992), Polo de Beaulieu (1994), Polo de Beaulieu (1996), Polo de Beaulieu (1999), Polo de Beaulieu (2015), Cañizares Ferriz (2000), Cañizares Ferriz (2011), Aranda García (2021a), Hilka (1913)
Modern Editions	Polo de Beaulieu, La Scala Coeli de Jean Gobi (1991), Cañizares Ferriz, Traducción y reescritura (Siete sabios de Roma) (2011)

Recorded branch of this secondary version
S (Scala Coeli) Latin Version S Latin Version S Manuscripts Latin Version S (Not in Scala Coeli) Latin Version S Group I Latin Version S Group II Latin Version S Group III

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Adaptations
Adapted from (version)	Latin Version S, S (Scala Coeli)
Adapted into (version)
Source for composition and adaptation information

Languages in Use
Language of text	Latin
Regional or specific language of version

Notes
Note
Notes on motifs
Notes on the frame

Pattern of embedded stories in this version

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