Valenciennes Bibliothèque municipale ms. 550

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Latin195
Location	Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale
Siglum/Shelfmark	ms. 550
Page/Folio range	72r-85r, 138v-141v

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Historia Septem Sapientum
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum)	H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
└ Language Group within Version	Latin Version H
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Excerpts in Gesta Romanorum
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)	Continental Group w
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Text Va
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
the folio range regards the excerpts of the Historia according to Roth; the Gesta Romanorum folio range is 2r-141v includes opening frame narrative which is a mixture of Group I and Group IV (see Roth 2004, p. 128-29, footnote 203) "Gaza", "Avis" and "Tentamina" are last ("am Schluß", Roth 2004, p. 128-29)

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	around 1400
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Roth (2004)

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

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Roth (2004)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

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