Würzburg Franziskaner-Minoritenkloster Ms 124

From Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript
Reference Number Latin43
Location Würzburg, Franziskaner-Minoritenkloster
Siglum/Shelfmark Ms 124
Page/Folio range 87r-98v
Standardised title of narrative Historia Septem Sapientum
Incipit or textual title INcipit Historia septem sapientum moralisata secundum spiritualem intellectum Poncianus in vrbe Roma regnauit prudens valde
Version (siglum) H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
Language Group within Version Latin Version H
Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version Group II
Further scholarly subgroup (1)
Further scholarly subgroup (2) Text W2
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition Roth (2004)
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production Franziskanerkloster Würzburg, Germany
Date of Manuscript Production 1358/1361
Source of date Manuscript Production Roth (2004)
Material Paper
Language of Manuscript Latin
Regional or specific Language of Manuscript
Source for regional or specific Language of Manuscript
Prose or Verse Prose
Other texts in the Manuscript 1r-69r : Gesta Romanorum moralizata

69va-70ra : Gestum (Narrat fulgencius ...) 70rb-71va : index to the Gesta including instructions for use 71vb : blank 72 : blank 73r-86v : Gesta Romanorum moralizata 87r-98v : Historia septem sapientum 99ra-117va : Sermones de sanctis 117vb : blank 118ra-rb : Exemplum (Erat quidam homo diues valde et diucias suas male consumpsit ...) 118v : blank 119r-121v : Sermo super Baruch 2,34 >Stella dederunt lumen...< 122r-129v : De triplici via perveniendi ad veram sapientiam 130r : blank 130v : Notiz (note) 131r-177r : Heinrich von Friemar: De decem praeceptis 177v-178v : blank 179r-215v : Henricus de Segusia, Hostiensis: De poenitentiis et remissionibus 216r-220v : De poenitentia (Vtrum prima debeat iterari ...) 221-225 : blank 226r : Narrationes, unvollst. (incomplete) 226v-228r : Sermo de s. Michaeli 228v-232r : blank 232v-233v : Zwei Erzählungen aus den Gesta Romanorum

Script style/form
Total pages/folios in Manuscript 233
Height 195
Width 150
Illustrations No
Digitisation
Modern Editions Roth, Historia Septem Sapientum (2004)
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Roth (2004)

Note

"Historia" clearly stands out as an independent text from the "Gesta Romanorum". It is heavily abridged, and partly independently reformulated. Moralisations were intended but eventually not transcripted. (see Roth 2004, p.67)