Stuttgart Württembergische Landesbibliothek HB XII 20

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript Identification

Reference Number
Latin39
Siglum / Shelfmark
HB XII 20
Page / Folio range
66rb-97vb

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative
Incipit or textual title
Sequitur nunc de septem sapientibus
Language Group within Version
Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version
Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Source for textual relationship

Languages

Language of text


Digitisation & Editions

Note

"Historia" (relatively) clearly stands out as an independent text from the "Gesta Romanorum" (see Roth 2004, p.62).

Authorship & Production

Scribe
Date of Production
1459
Source of Date of Production

Physical Description

Material
Total pages / folios
140
Height
295
Width
205
Prose or verse
Illustrations
No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript
  • Ir : blank
  • Iv : contents
  • 1ra-66ra : Gesta Romanorum moralizata
  • 66rb-97vb : Historia septem sapientum
  • 98ra-101vb : De Gregorio quomodo factus fuit papa
  • 102ra-103rb : De arbore habens VII ramos
  • 103va-120rb : Legenden
  • 120rb-128va : Exempla (mostly Christian)
  • 128va-131va : De passione Christi et planctu Mariae
  • 131va-vb : Exempla
  • 132ra-134vb : De Adam et Eua
  • 134vb-135ra : De indigne communicantibus
  • 135rb-vb : De S. Gertrudis virgine
  • 136-137 : blank

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue
Modern Research Literature


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