Spanish Version H: Los Siete Sabios de Roma

The fifteenth- and sixteenth-century prints titled La Historia de los Siete Sabios de Roma represent one of the three distinct Spanish branches of the tradition (along with the Libro de los Engaños and the Spanish Scala Coeli, not to mention the Spanish Erasto). The Siete Sabios prints follow the Version H (Historia Septem Sapientum) pattern of embedded tales, probably drawn from a Latin Version H text, and were frequently illustrated with elaborate woodcuts (Aranda García 2021a; 2023).

The Spanish Siete Sabios prints offer a window into the movements of texts and - critically - printers in the late medieval period. For example, the earliest surviving print comes from the workshop of brothers Juan and Pablo Hurus, German printers working in Zaragoza in the late 15th/early 16th centuries; the brothers, who tailored the narrative to fit the interests of their Zaragoza audience, were reportedly converts to Christianity from Judaism. Later prints (from 1510, 1534, and 1538) were produced in Sevilla by a different German printer, Jacobo Comberger (Aranda García 2021a, Lacarra 2014). The dissemination of the Siete Sabios was part of a boom in the printing of prose fiction - including popular translated texts - in the early part of the sixteenth century; shorter chivalric and sentimental texts were particularly popular (Cañizares Ferriz 2011).

General Information
Language within Version
Narrative / Scholarly Group
Parent Versions	H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
Child Versions	Spanish Prints (H)
Author
Title	Libro de los siete sabios de Roma
Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages	Spanish Version H: Los Siete Sabios de Roma
Version Number
Branch of the tradition	West

Language & Composition
Original language of version	Spanish
Translated into (languages)
Place of composition	Spain
Date of composition	1475 - 1491
Source for date of composition	Aranda García (2021a)

Literature & Editions
Modern research literature	Aranda García (2021a), Farrell (1980), Lacarra (2014), Lacarra (2015), Lacarra (2016), Aranda García (2023), Cañizares Ferriz (2011), González Palencia (1946), Aranda García (2019), Aranda Garcia (2018), Farrell (1978)
Modern Editions	Aranda García, Libro de los Siete Sabios de Roma (2023), Cañizares Ferriz, Traducción y reescritura (Siete sabios de Roma) (2011), González Palencia, Versiones Castellanas del Sendebar (1946), Rodríguez, Los siete sabios de Roma (1993), Lacarra, Cuentos medievales de Oriente a Occidente (Siete Sabios de Roma) (2016)

Recorded branch of this secondary version
H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Czech Version H: Kronika sedmi mudrců Danish Version H Dutch Version H English Version H English Prints (H) French Version H German Version H German Prints (H) Prosafassung / Prose Version Redaction A Redaction B Redaction C Redaction D Redaction E Redaction F Redaction G Versfassung / Verse Version Anonymous Verse Version Bühnenfassung / Stage adaptation: Sebastian Wild, Tragedj Hans von Bühel, Dyocletianus Leben Hungarian Version H Icelandic Version H Prose: Sjö meistara saga Seelow Group A Latin Version H Excerpts in Gesta Romanorum Continental Group w Continental Group x Insular Group u Group I Group II Group III Group IV Lost Latin Version H Manuscripts Old Swedish Version H: Sju vise mästare Old Swedish Redaction C Polish Version H Scots Version H: Rolland, Seuin Seages Spanish Version H: Los Siete Sabios de Roma Spanish Prints (H) Swedish Version H Circle detected when trying to insert Latin Version S into the tree.

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Adapted from (version)	Latin Version H
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Languages in Use
Language of text	Spanish
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Pattern of embedded stories in this version

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