Old Swedish Redaction A
From The Seven Sages of Rome
Since the publication of an edition of the Sju vise mästare by G. E. Klemming, 1887-1889, the three known Old Swedish manuscripts have been classified into three redactions (A, B, and C). Redaction A belongs to the Old Swedish Version A and has - so far - only survived in one manuscript: Stockholm Kungliga biblioteket Cod. Holm. D 4. The Redaction has been composed between 1400-1450, and, according to Massimiliano Bampi (2007 and 2014), has been translated from a Latin translation of the French Version A. The only extant manuscript is incomplete, missing the beginning of the frame story.
[Added by Elisabeth Böttcher]
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1400 - 1450
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- A (Seven Sages)
- Dutch Version A
- French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages
- Gaelic Version A
- German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus
- Italian Version A
- Latin Version A
- Middle English Version A
- Old Swedish Version A: Sju vise mästare
- Older Scots Version A: Buke of the Sevyne Sagis
- Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein
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