Versions
From The Seven Sages of Rome
The versions of the Seven Sages/Book of Sindbad listed below reflect the different textual groupings as designated by scholarship. They are differentiated in the first instance by their embedded stories, and the order in which they appear. Each of the largest versions therefore represent (often multilingual) narrative families, that share key structural elements. Those large versions may then contain within them many sub-versions, smaller groups designated by textual variance, or by language, or both. Within language groups for smaller sub-versions, still further groupings or textual relationships may be represented, if existing scholarship on that tradition has typically relied on such designations.
There are 130 versions in the database.
31 primary versions and 99 secondary versions.
Version branches
- A (Seven Sages)
- Dutch Version A
- French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages
- Gaelic Version A
- German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus
- Italian Version A
- Latin Version A
- Middle English Version A
- Old Swedish Version A: Sju vise mästare
- Older Scots Version A: Buke of the Sevyne Sagis
- Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein
- C (Sept Sages de Rome)
- D (Sept Sages de Rome)
- Dolopathos
- Forty Viziers: Ḥikāyet-i Ḳırḳ Vezīr
- H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
- Czech Version H: Kronika sedmi mudrců
- Danish Version H
- Dutch Version H
- English Version H
- French Version H
- German Version H
- Hungarian Version H
- Icelandic Version H
- Latin Version H
- Polish Version H
- Scots Version H: Rolland, Seuin Seages
- Spanish Version H: Los Siete Sabios de Roma
- Swedish Version H: Sju vise mästare
- I (Versio Italico)
- K (Sept Sages de Rome)
- L (Sept Sages de Rome)
- Libro de los Engaños
- M ('Male Marastre')
- Mishle Sendebar
- Overlap of Versions A and L
- S (Scala Coeli)
- Seven Viziers
- Syntipas
- V (Lost metrical Old French Sept Sages)