Occitan Version L

The Occitan text of Los set savis de Roma is preserved in only one fragmentary manuscript. This double parchment leaf dates from the beginning of the fourteenth century and was used as the cover of the baptismal register of the parish of Château-neuf-du-Pape in the district of Orange for the year 1603. The first page preserves part of the introduction, and the second page, which does not follow on directly from the first, preserves part of 'Canis'.

Clovis Brunel (1955) identified the language as Provençal (which is more commonly known as Occitan), specifically from the area around Narbonne. We do not know the date and circumstances of the composition of this version.

Brunel identifies this as a translation of the French version L, and Runte agrees.

[Entered by Bettina Bildhauer]