Trier Stadtbibliothek Hs. 1935/1432 4°

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Ger12
Location	Trier, Stadtbliothek Weberbach
Siglum/Shelfmark	Trier, Stadtbibl. Weberbach, Hs. 1935/1432 4°
Page/Folio range	51ra-vb, 48ra-vb, 61ra-80va

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Sieben weise Meister
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum)	H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
└ Language Group within Version	German Version H
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Prosafassung / Prose Version
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)	Redaction B
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Text T
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Gerdes (1992), Gerdes (2004)

Languages
Language of text	German (High and Low German)
Regional or specific Language of text	Moselfränkisch
Source for regional or specific Language of text	Bushey (1996)

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions

Note
Folios 48 and 60 were reversed, hence the narrative's foliation.

Authorship and Production
Scribe	Johan von Paderborn
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Klausen, Germany
Date of Manuscript Production	1450/1525
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Bushey (1996), Handschriftencensus 4086: https://handschriftencensus.de/4086

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	230
Height	280
Width	205
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	The codex is divided into four parts. Parts 1, 2, and 3 contain instructional literature and religious texts in German and Latin, including 'Sibyllen Buch', Augustine's 'De quantitate animae', Marquard von Lindau's 'Auszug der Kinder Israel' and 'Dekalogerklärung', and Dirk van Delft's 'Tafel van den kersten ghelove'. Part 4 begins with 'Lucidarius' (20vb-51ra, 60ra-60vb), followed by 'Gesta Romanorum' (51ra-101ra), including the Sieben weise Meister (51ra-vb, 48ra-vb, 61ra-80va). Part 4 continues with religious texts, prayers, and meditations in Low German, High German, and Latin, including apocalyptic texts, and concludes with Otto von Diemeringen's redaction of John Mandeville's Travels ('Reisebeschreibung'), 122ra-199ra.

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Bushey (1996), Nemes (2011), Roth (2003), Schmitz (1904)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation