London British Library Additional MS 15685

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative
Incipit or textual title	Incipit liber septem philosophorum cuiusdam Imperatoris Romani, Eiusque scientifici et sapientissimi filij. Eiusdemque Imperatoris nequissime secunde uxoris
Version (siglum)	I (Versio Italica)
└ Language Group within Version	Versio Italica (Latin)
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition

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

Note
As of July 2025, the British Library is still affected by a hack and the MS is unavailable as it has not been digitalised. Ward (1893) has a good overview, including folio numbers for each of the stories. Entered by Ava Byrne

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Italy
Date of Manuscript Production	[1400]
Source of Date of Manuscript Production

Physical Description
Material	Parchment (vellum)
Total pages/folios in Manuscript
Height
Width
Script style/form
Prose or verse
Illustrations	Yes

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	The Moralised Book of Chess by Jacobus de Cessolis in Latin, f. 1 Libellus moralis Senece, etc. f. 47b Book on the Cardinal Virtues in Italian, f. 51

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Ward (1893), Campbell (1907)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript