Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 93

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number Fr24
Location Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Siglum/Shelfmark Français 93 (formerly Regius 6767)
Page/Folio range 1v-17r
Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative Sept Sages de Rome
Incipit or textual title A Roume ot jadis un emperaour ki ot non Dioclisiens. Li empereres fu viex et acoucha malades et morut
Version (siglum) A (Seven Sages)
Language Group within Version French Version A
Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version Group Y
Further scholarly subgroup (1)
Further scholarly subgroup (2) Text N
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 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10032255b
Modern Editions Plomp, De Middelnederlandsche bewerking van het gedicht van den VII Vroeden van binnen Rome (1899)Runte, Les sept sages de Rome: An On-Line Edition of French Version A (2006)
Authorship and Production
Scribe Michel Gonnot
Author
Place of Manuscript Production Crozant, France
Date of Manuscript Production 1466
Source of Date of Manuscript Production BNF catalogue: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc511879
Physical Description
Material Parchment
Total pages/folios in Manuscript 602
Height 435
Width 310
Script style/form
Prose or verse Prose
Illustrations Yes
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript
  • 1v-17: Roman des sept sages de Rome
  • 17-60: Roman de Marques de Rome
  • 60-196: Livre de l'empereur Fiseus [= Roman de Laurin]
  • 196-351: Livre de Cassidorus empereur de Constantinoble
  • 351v-491r: Pelyarmenus de Romme
  • 491-602: Kanor
Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue Paulin Paris, Les manuscrits françois de la Bibliothèque du roi, Paris, 1836-1848, t. I, p. 109-117
Modern Research Literature Le Roux de Lincy (1838)Coco (2016)Berne-Aïache (1966)Runte (1974)Runte (1989)Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984)Speer (1981)Foehr-Janssens (1994)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript