Oxford St John's College Library 102

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Sept Sages de Rome
Incipit or textual title	'Le romant des VII sages et de la male marastre'. Incipit: A Rome olt ung empereur qui ot nom Dioclesiens, il ot en femme
Version (siglum)	A (Seven Sages)
└ Language Group within Version	French Version A
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Group W
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Text O
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014)

Languages
Language of text	Old French
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions	Runte, Les sept sages de Rome: An On-Line Edition of French Version A (2006)

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	1375 - 1400
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/8530

Physical Description
Material	Parchment
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	150
Height	250
Width	160
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	1r-29v: Le livre de Melibee, par Renaut de Louhans 34r-66v: Le livre des secrets Aristote, version du XVe siècle 67r-105r: Le romant des VII sages et de la male marastre (version A) 106r-137v: Le livre de l'ordre de chevalrie, traduction en prose française du Llibre de l'orde de cavalleria de Ramon Llull 138r-150r: Philippe de Mézières, Griseldis

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	https://ideal.irht.cnrs.fr/document/820046, Ralph Hannah, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval manuscripts of St John's College Oxford, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002, JONAS: http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/manuscrit/41193, Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/8530
Modern Research Literature	Berne-Aïache (1966), Coco (2016), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Runte (1971), Runte (1974), Speer (1981)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript