Melk Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 1771 (616, L 41)

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Latin59
Location	Melk, Stiftsbibliothek
Siglum/Shelfmark	Cod. 1771 (616, L 41)
Page/Folio range	4v-10r

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Historia Septem Sapientum
Incipit or textual title	Assignatio pulchra ex gestis siue Cronicis romanorum in qua continentur plura exempla delectabilia legentibus et audientibus ad diuersas eciam valens condiciones homini et memoriam pro septem artibus liberalibus secundum eorum doctores determinantes [A]ntiquitus erat imperator Romanus Poncianus nomine ducens vnius regis romane filiam in vxorem
Version (siglum)	H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
└ Language Group within Version	Latin Version H
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Group IV
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Text Me2
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
The text breaks off after the first lines of >Puteus< (4,5) (see Roth 2004, p.88).

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Benediktinerstift Melk, Austria
Date of Manuscript Production	1496/1497
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Roth (2004)

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	346
Height	145
Width	110
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	1r : Sentenzen, Versus und Exzerpte 1v-3v : Aenigmata mathematica 3v-4v : De gratia gratis data 4v-10r : Historia septem sapientum 10v-12v : blank 13r-v : Versus, Exzerpte, Vocabularius breviloquus, Regulae grammaticales 14r-60r : Regulae grammaticales cum commentario 60v-82v : Tractatus de modo construendi et regendi 82v-84v, 121r-v : Commentarius in Iohannes de Garlandia: Librum de verbis compositis, incomplete 85r-96r : Albertanus von Brescia: De doctrina dicendi et tacendi 96v : Speculum animae sive salutis 97r-120v : Ps.-Thomas von Aquin: De arte praedicandi (attributed to Iohannes Rudolfus de Haymis Misnensis) 120v : Johannes Gerson: Considerationes XII ad intelligentiam compendiosissimam canticordi 121r-v: (see 82v) 122r-149r : Commentarius in Donatum minorem 149v : De dictionibus 150r-v : Commendatio artium liberalium et mechanicarum 150v-153r : definitions by various authorities 153v-157r : De littera, syllaba et etymologia 157r : Quaestio disputata utrum invidia diaboli fuerit causa motiva ad temptandum primos parentes 157r-158r : Repetitio capituli >Etsi pignorationes< 158r-167r : Petrus Hispanus: Summulae logicales, Tractatus II-III 167r-v : Definitionen 167v-168r : continuation of 180r-v 168v : blank 169r-170r : Petrus Hispanus: Summulae logicales, Tractatus I 170r-180r : Textus parvuli logice una cum brevi perutili repetitione eiusdem 180r-v : De aequipollentiis et modo 181r-187r : Expositio in Pater noster 187v-189r : Donatus metricus cum commentario 189v-225r : Magister Dietmar, rector scholarium Wiennae ad Scotos: Commentum in Donatum metricum 225r-v : Verse, Divisio litterarum, De quattuor speciebus artis grammaticae 225v-226r : Sermo in Luc. 2,10 in die nativitatis Iesu Christi, Sermo in Ioh. 2,11 (Dispositionen) 226r : Alexander de Villa Dei: Doctrinale, excerpt 226r : Sermo in Ioh. 2,1 (Disposition) 226v : Expositio in evangelium Iohannis 2,1 226v-229v : Honorius Augustodunensis (?): Sententiae patrum de libero arbitrio 231v-233r : Honorius Augustodunensis: De animae exilio et patria 233v : Rupert von Deutz: De divinis officiis, excerpt 233v-234r : Hugo von St. Viktor: Commentarii in Hierarchiam caelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae, excerpt 234r-v : Sentenzen 234v-238r : Honorius Augustodunensis: Libellus duodecim quaestionum 238r : Isidor von Sevilla: Etymologiae, excerpt 238r-243v : Alexander von Ashy: De artificioso modo praedicandi 243v-244r : De signis zodiaci 244r-v: Petrus Comestor: Historia scholastica, excerpt 244v-284r : Honorius Augustodunensis: Imago mundi 284v-285r : Honorius Augustodunensis: Series Romanorum pontificum 285v-288r : Proverbia 288v-289r : Ps.-Augustin: De dignitate sacerdotum 289r : Exzerpte, Verse 289v-290v : Regulae septem exponendi sacram scripturam 291r-314v : Sermones 315r : Bernhard Silvestris: Experimentarius, excerpt 315r-v : Quaestio ad quod servus dei conari debet, verses 318r-331v : Bernhard Silvestris: Experimentarius, excerpt 332r : Deutscher Text, gereimt (German text, rhymed) 332r : Über Zahlenlose (?), Schema zur Bestimmung des 28-jährigen Sonnenzyklus (diagram for determining the 28-year solar cycle) 332v-333r : Sententia contra Matthiam I. Schachner abbatem monasterii Gottwicensis 333r-335r : Commentarius in Doctrinale Alexandri de Villa Dei, excerpt 3335v-346v : blank

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Roth (2004), Catalogus

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