München Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 563

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number Latin32
Location München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Siglum/Shelfmark Clm 563
Page/Folio range 1r-53r
Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative Historia Septem Sapientum
Incipit or textual title Incipit liber de septem sapientibus [P]Oncianus In vrbe Roma prudens valde
Version (siglum) H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
Language Group within Version Latin Version H
Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version Group II
Further scholarly subgroup (1)
Further scholarly subgroup (2) Text M1
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)
Note

“Historia” does not clearly stand out as an independent text from the “Gesta Romanorum” (see Roth 2004, p.55).

Authorship and Production
Scribe Johannes Klopffinger de Salma
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production 1458
Source of Date of Manuscript Production Roth (2004)
Physical Description
Material Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript I + 148
Height 210
Width 145
Script style/form
Prose or verse Prose
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript Teil I:
  • 1r-53r : Historia septem sapientum
  • 53r-78r : Gesta Romanorum, Auszug (excerpt)
  • 78v-83r and 84v-86v : several epitaphs and political texts (including Mali consiliarii (85r); Nicolaus Petschacher Johannes (!) Sigismundi de Znoyma a. 1445)
  • 83v-84r : Epigramme über alttestamentliche und antik-mythologische Personen von Konrad Schatz
  • 84v-86v : blank


Teil II:

  • 87ra-129ra : Walter Burley (Burleius): De vita et moribus philosophorum
  • 129rb-143va : Moralische Sentenzen und längere Notiz über Kirchen
  • 129ra and 143vb-147va : Historia Troiana, Auszug
  • 147vb : blank 148 : blank
Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Roth (2004)Halm / Laubmann (1892)Fischer (1902)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript