St. Gallen Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 939

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Latin64
Location	St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek
Siglum/Shelfmark	Cod. 939
Page/Folio range	365-376

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Historia Septem Sapientum
Incipit or textual title	Incipiunt reductiones narracionum septem sapientum et Jmperatricis [R]eductio prime narracionis Jmperatricis Et est exemplum de bono prelato
Version (siglum)	H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
└ Language Group within Version	Latin Version H
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Text Sg
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Roth (2004)

Languages
Language of text	Latin
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions	Roth, Historia Septem Sapientum (2004)

Note
Just moralisations; interpretations of >Senescalcus< / >Roma< and >Inclusa< are interchanged (see Roth 2004, p. 94). Regarding the index, Roth notes that the folios are numbered (see Roth 2004, p. 93). According to Roth, this manuscript (as well as München Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 19848) cannot be sorted into one of the Groups (see Roth 2004, p.92).

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Kloster St. Gallen, Switzerland
Date of Manuscript Production	1430
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Roth (2004)

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	200
Height	210
Width	140
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	Teil I: 1-14 : index to the following text 15-16 : blank 17-124 : Heinrich von Friemar: De decem praeceptis (exposicio super decem precepta edita erdphordie per magistrum Hainricum de Frymaria) 124 : Septem dona sancti spiritus contra septem peccata mortalia 125-139 : Tractatus de confessione et de peccatis mortalibus et venialibus 139 : Quid sit vera poenitentia et confessio 139-140 : theological note 141 : blank 142 : notes, partly crossed out 143-173: Heinrich Heinbuche von Langenstein: De proprietate ad canonicos regulares religiosa 174-176 : blank 177-186 : Fragmentum expositionis regulae S. Augustini Teil II: 187-199 : Fragmentum de sacramento ordinis 199-257 : Frater Johannes: Notabilia super Cantica Canticorum (reportata a magistro Bertholdo dicto Jutzen quondam abbate monasterii in Salem) 258-260 : Sermo (Omnia parata sunt venite ad nuptias) Teil III: 261-266 : Expositio missae und De oratione dominica 266-267 : De VII donis spiritus sancti 268 : Stempel des Klosters St. Gallen (stamp of the monastery St. Gallen) 269-284 : blank Teil IV: 285-314 : Sermones 315-316 : blank Teil V: 317-330 : Sermo in nativitate Mariae 331-335 : Sermo in purificatione 336-338 : Sermo über (about) Ioh. 4,46 339-340 : blank Teil VI: 341-361 : Sibyllenweissagung 361-362 : Epistola presbiteri Johannis, fragment 363-364 : blank Teil VII: 365-376 : Historia septem sapientum, only moralisations 377-378 : blank 379 : notes from the 19th century 380-400 : blank

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Roth (2004), Scherrer (1875), Neske (1985), Scarpatetti (1991), Wagner (2000)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript