London British Library Add. MS. 27429
From The Seven Sages of Rome
| Manuscript Identification | |
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| Reference Number | Italian1 |
| Location | London, British Library |
| Siglum/Shelfmark | Add. MS. 27429 |
| Page/Folio range | 1-23 |
| Textual Content and Tradition | |
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| Standardised title of narrative | Il Libro de Sette Savi de Roma |
| Incipit or textual title | |
| Version (siglum) | A (Seven Sages) |
| └ Language Group within Version | Italian Version A |
| └ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version | Italian Prose (V) |
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (1) | |
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (2) | |
| Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) | French A/L Overlap |
| Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition | Wikeley (1983), Varnhagen (1881) |
| Languages | |
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| Language of text | Italian |
| Regional or specific Language of text | |
| Source for regional or specific Language of text | |
| Digitisation and Editions | |
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| Digitisation | |
| Modern Editions | Varnhagen, Eine Italienische Prosaversion der Sieben Weisen (1881) |
| Note |
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According to Varhagen (1881) and Ward (1893), some elements of the text, including mistranslations, help confirm that a French Version A/L text was the origin for this manuscript. One of those mistranslations changes the boar (sanglier) in Aper to a lord (sengniore) (Ward p. 211). Ward notes the several leaves missing, including from the beginning of the text, and after ff. 3 and 18; the original manuscript would have had 29 folios. |
| Authorship and Production | |
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| Scribe | |
| Author | |
| Place of Manuscript Production | Italy |
| Date of Manuscript Production | 1301 - 1325 |
| Source of Date of Manuscript Production | Ward (1893) |
| Physical Description | |
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| Material | |
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | 23 |
| Height | |
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| Script style/form | |
| Prose or verse | Prose |
| Illustrations | Yes |
| Contents and Additional Texts | |
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| Other texts in the Manuscript | |
| Catalogues and Research Literature | |
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| Catalogue | Ward (1893) |
| Modern Research Literature | Varnhagen (1881), Wikeley (1983) |
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