Würzburg Franziskaner-Minoritenkloster Ms 124

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number Latin43
Location Würzburg, Franziskaner-Minoritenkloster
Siglum/Shelfmark Ms 124
Page/Folio range 87r-98v
Textual Content and Tradition
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)
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

"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)

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production Franziskanerkloster Würzburg, Germany
Date of Manuscript Production 1358/1361
Source of Date of Manuscript Production Roth (2004)
Physical Description
Material Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript 233
Height 195
Width 150
Script style/form
Prose or verse
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
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
Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Roth (2004)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript