S (Scala Coeli) - Revision history

Noeth at 12:11, 23 February 2026

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	Her death is then immediately followed by the prince's story [[Vaticinium]], in which interpreting of symbols and the meaning of birds becomes further - though posthumous - proof of the empress's guilt and the son's innocence.		Her death is then immediately followed by the prince's story [[Vaticinium]], in which interpreting of symbols and the meaning of birds becomes further - though posthumous - proof of the empress's guilt and the son's innocence.
	\|Has Title=Liber de Septem Sapientibus (Scala Coeli)		\|Has Title=Liber de Septem Sapientibus (Scala Coeli)
	~~\|Has Siglum=S (Scala Coeli)~~
	\|Has Branch Of Tradition=Seven Sages of Rome		\|Has Branch Of Tradition=Seven Sages of Rome
	\|Is Adapted From=(Lost) Liber de Septem Sapientibus		\|Is Adapted From=(Lost) Liber de Septem Sapientibus

Noeth at 13:39, 18 February 2026

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	\|Has End Date Of Composition=1330		\|Has End Date Of Composition=1330
	\|Has Source For Date Of Text Composition=Cañizares Ferriz (2011); Polo de Beaulieu (1991)		\|Has Source For Date Of Text Composition=Cañizares Ferriz (2011); Polo de Beaulieu (1991)
	~~\|Has Text Language=Latin~~
	\|Has Modern Research Literature=Polo de Beaulieu (1991); Cañizares Ferriz (2011); Polo de Beaulieu (1985); Polo de Beaulieu (1986); Polo de Beaulieu (1992); Polo de Beaulieu (1994); Polo de Beaulieu (1996); Carter (1928); Cañizares Ferriz (2000); Aranda García (2021a); Polo de Beaulieu (1999); Polo de Beaulieu (2015); Polo de Beaulieu (1990); Hilka (1913)		\|Has Modern Research Literature=Polo de Beaulieu (1991); Cañizares Ferriz (2011); Polo de Beaulieu (1985); Polo de Beaulieu (1986); Polo de Beaulieu (1992); Polo de Beaulieu (1994); Polo de Beaulieu (1996); Carter (1928); Cañizares Ferriz (2000); Aranda García (2021a); Polo de Beaulieu (1999); Polo de Beaulieu (2015); Polo de Beaulieu (1990); Hilka (1913)
	\|Has Modern Edition=Polo de Beaulieu, La Scala Coeli de Jean Gobi (1991); Goedeke, Liber de septem sapientibus (1864-1865); Hilka, Historia Septem Sapientum, Die Fassung der Scala Celi des Johannes Gobii Iunior (1913); Cañizares Ferriz, Traducción y reescritura (Siete sabios de Roma) (2011); Cañizares Ferriz, La nouella de Diego de Cañizares y su original latino (1999)		\|Has Modern Edition=Polo de Beaulieu, La Scala Coeli de Jean Gobi (1991); Goedeke, Liber de septem sapientibus (1864-1865); Hilka, Historia Septem Sapientum, Die Fassung der Scala Celi des Johannes Gobii Iunior (1913); Cañizares Ferriz, Traducción y reescritura (Siete sabios de Roma) (2011); Cañizares Ferriz, La nouella de Diego de Cañizares y su original latino (1999)

Noeth: Text replacement - "Has Original Language Of Version" to "Has Language Of Version"

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	\|Has Branch Of Tradition=Seven Sages of Rome		\|Has Branch Of Tradition=Seven Sages of Rome
	\|Is Adapted From=(Lost) Liber de Septem Sapientibus		\|Is Adapted From=(Lost) Liber de Septem Sapientibus
	\|Has ~~Original~~ Language Of Version=Latin		\|Has Language Of Version=Latin
	\|Is Translated Into Languages=Latin; Spanish		\|Is Translated Into Languages=Latin; Spanish
	\|Has Place Of Text Composition=Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France		\|Has Place Of Text Composition=Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France

Noeth: Text replacement - "Has Branch Of Tradition=West" to "Has Branch Of Tradition=Seven Sages of Rome"

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	\|Has Title=Liber de Septem Sapientibus (Scala Coeli)		\|Has Title=Liber de Septem Sapientibus (Scala Coeli)
	\|Has Siglum=S (Scala Coeli)		\|Has Siglum=S (Scala Coeli)
	\|Has Branch Of Tradition=~~West~~		\|Has Branch Of Tradition=Seven Sages of Rome
	\|Is Adapted From=(Lost) Liber de Septem Sapientibus		\|Is Adapted From=(Lost) Liber de Septem Sapientibus
	\|Has Original Language Of Version=Latin		\|Has Original Language Of Version=Latin

Boettcher at 14:15, 21 July 2025

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	{{Version		{{Version
	\|Has Description=The version of the Seven Sages narrative known as 'Version S' in scholarship was penned by Jean or Johannes Gobi the Younger, as part of the collection of ''exempla'' titled ''Scala Coeli'' composed circa 1323–30. Gobi was a Dominican friar from the south of France, who compiled and composed the ''Scala Coeli'' while living at the ~~monstery~~ in Saint-Maximin (a site overseen by Jean Gobi the Elder, presumably his uncle) (see [[Aranda García (2021a)]], [[Polo de Beaulieu (1996)]]). The ''exempla'' in the compilation - somewhere between 400 and 1,100 in number, depending on the individual manuscript/incunabula witness - are mostly, but not universally, Dominican, drawn from and found in many other popular contemporary ''exempla'' collections, including those attributed to Jacques de Vitry, Arnold of Liège, Étienne of Bourbon, and Caesarius of Heisterbach.		\|Has Description=The version of the Seven Sages narrative known as 'Version S' in scholarship was penned by Jean or Johannes Gobi the Younger, as part of the collection of ''exempla'' titled ''Scala Coeli'' composed circa 1323–30. Gobi was a Dominican friar from the south of France, who compiled and composed the ''Scala Coeli'' while living at the monastery in Saint-Maximin (a site overseen by Jean Gobi the Elder, presumably his uncle) (see [[Aranda García (2021a)]], [[Polo de Beaulieu (1996)]]). The ''exempla'' in the compilation - somewhere between 400 and 1,100 in number, depending on the individual manuscript/incunabula witness - are mostly, but not universally, Dominican, drawn from and found in many other popular contemporary ''exempla'' collections, including those attributed to Jacques de Vitry, Arnold of Liège, Étienne of Bourbon, and Caesarius of Heisterbach.

	The collection is ordered alphabetically, with ''exempla'' grouped under thematic headings beginning with ''Abstinentia'' and ending with ''Usura''. Each ''exemplum'' opens with a moral message and attribution, and is usually followed by a moralisation; however, this is not the case for the version of the ''Seven Sages'' found in the ''Scala,'' which is also longer and more detailed than most of the other ''exempla'' (Aranda Garcia 2021a). That additional length may explain why only some surviving ''Scala Coeli'' texts include the ''Seven Sages'' - it does not meet the usual formal expectations of ''exempla'', whose brevity allowed for their use in sermons, and may therefore have been deemed a poor fit for the collection by redactors. According to [[Cañizares Ferriz (2011)]], the three distinct redactions of the Latin ''Scala Coeli'' differ in their treatment and inclusion of the ''Seven Sages'':		The collection is ordered alphabetically, with ''exempla'' grouped under thematic headings beginning with ''Abstinentia'' and ending with ''Usura''. Each ''exemplum'' opens with a moral message and attribution, and is usually followed by a moralisation; however, this is not the case for the version of the ''Seven Sages'' found in the ''Scala,'' which is also longer and more detailed than most of the other ''exempla'' (Aranda Garcia 2021a). That additional length may explain why only some surviving ''Scala Coeli'' texts include the ''Seven Sages'' - it does not meet the usual formal expectations of ''exempla'', whose brevity allowed for their use in sermons, and may therefore have been deemed a poor fit for the collection by redactors. According to [[Cañizares Ferriz (2011)]], the three distinct redactions of the Latin ''Scala Coeli'' differ in their treatment and inclusion of the ''Seven Sages'':

Bonsall at 11:18, 9 May 2025

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	Her death is then immediately followed by the prince's story [[Vaticinium]], in which interpreting of symbols and the meaning of birds becomes further - though posthumous - proof of the empress's guilt and the son's innocence.		Her death is then immediately followed by the prince's story [[Vaticinium]], in which interpreting of symbols and the meaning of birds becomes further - though posthumous - proof of the empress's guilt and the son's innocence.
	\|Has Title=Liber Septem Sapientibus (Scala Coeli)		\|Has Title=Liber de Septem Sapientibus (Scala Coeli)
	\|Has Siglum=S (Scala Coeli)		\|Has Siglum=S (Scala Coeli)
	\|Has Branch Of Tradition=West		\|Has Branch Of Tradition=West

Bonsall at 11:18, 9 May 2025

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Bonsall at 09:57, 6 May 2025

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	Her death is then immediately followed by the prince's story [[Vaticinium]], in which interpreting of symbols and the meaning of birds becomes further - though posthumous - proof of the empress's guilt and the son's innocence.		Her death is then immediately followed by the prince's story [[Vaticinium]], in which interpreting of symbols and the meaning of birds becomes further - though posthumous - proof of the empress's guilt and the son's innocence.
	\|Has Title=Liber de Septem Sapientibus		\|Has Title=Liber Septem Sapientibus (Scala Coeli)
	\|Has Siglum=S (Scala Coeli)		\|Has Siglum=S (Scala Coeli)
	\|Has Branch Of Tradition=West		\|Has Branch Of Tradition=West

Bonsall at 09:09, 6 May 2025

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	*'''Group II''' (876–974 exempla): more than half contain ''The Seven Sages'', rarely contain the sages' names.		*'''Group II''' (876–974 exempla): more than half contain ''The Seven Sages'', rarely contain the sages' names.
	*'''Group III''' (most abbreviated, 487–617 exempla): less than half contain the ''Seven Sages,'' and almost always omit the sages' names.		*'''Group III''' (most abbreviated, 487–617 exempla): less than half contain the ''Seven Sages,'' and almost always omit the sages' names.
	Cañizares Ferriz was primarily working with Marie-Anne Polo de Beaulieu's 1991 edition when analysing these groups; as such, the texts not included in Polo de Beaulieu's edition - nine manuscripts in total - are not described by Cañizares Ferriz, and whether or not they contain the ''Seven Sages'' text is unknown. Those manuscripts are not included in this database (but they are listed on the page for the [[Latin Version S Manuscripts\|Latin Scala Coeli Manscripts]]). For the presence/absence of the Seven Sages in the Spanish translation of the ''Scala Coeli,'' see Cañizares Ferriz.
			Cañizares Ferriz was primarily working with Marie-Anne Polo de Beaulieu's 1991 edition when analysing these groups; as such, the texts not included in Polo de Beaulieu's edition - nine manuscripts in total - are not described by Cañizares Ferriz, and whether or not they contain the ''Seven Sages'' text is unknown. Those manuscripts are not included in this database (but they are listed on the page for the [[Latin Version S Manuscripts\|Latin Scala Coeli Manscripts]]). (For the presence/absence of the Seven Sages in the Spanish translation of the ''Scala Coeli,'' see Cañizares Ferriz, and [[Hilka (1913)]]).

	Despite the fact that the ''Seven Sages'' is longer than most other ''exempla'' in the ''Scala Coeli,'' it is still notably brief when compared with other texts in the the broader ''Seven Sages'' tradition; Campbell (1904) observes that it is 'much compressed', though the narrative pattern is 'not substantially altered'. Gobi attributes the tale to the lost ''Liber de septem sapientibus'', the text that Paris hypothesized might be the source for much of the Western transmission of the ''Seven Sages'' (see [[Paris (1876)]])''.'' Regardless of its relationship to the broader tradition, ''Scala Coeli'' is clearly closely related to the French [[L (Sept Sages de Rome)\|Version L]]. The order of the stories in the two versions is nearly identical; the placement of Tentamina and Puteus is reversed, and Version S includes [[Vaticinium]] and [[Vidua]] which Version L omits, but in all other respects, they are very similar. Critically, this includes the stories [[Filia]] and [[Noverca]], which substitute for [[Roma]] and [[Inclusa]] in [[A (Seven Sages)\|Version A]]. These two stories - only found in these two versions and the anomalous [[Overlap of Versions A and L\|Overlap A/L]] texts - are of particular note because of their rarity, and because of their meta-reflective function. Also like (some of) the Version L texts, this narrative includes the motif of the judicial duel/trial by combat, staged prior to the prince's final story. The empress's champion is defeated, and she is condemned; as she is led to her pyre, she says,		Despite the fact that the ''Seven Sages'' is longer than most other ''exempla'' in the ''Scala Coeli,'' it is still notably brief when compared with other texts in the the broader ''Seven Sages'' tradition; Campbell (1904) observes that it is 'much compressed', though the narrative pattern is 'not substantially altered'. Gobi attributes the tale to the lost ''Liber de septem sapientibus'', the text that Paris hypothesized might be the source for much of the Western transmission of the ''Seven Sages'' (see [[Paris (1876)]])''.'' Regardless of its relationship to the broader tradition, ''Scala Coeli'' is clearly closely related to the French [[L (Sept Sages de Rome)\|Version L]]. The order of the stories in the two versions is nearly identical; the placement of Tentamina and Puteus is reversed, and Version S includes [[Vaticinium]] and [[Vidua]] which Version L omits, but in all other respects, they are very similar. Critically, this includes the stories [[Filia]] and [[Noverca]], which substitute for [[Roma]] and [[Inclusa]] in [[A (Seven Sages)\|Version A]]. These two stories - only found in these two versions and the anomalous [[Overlap of Versions A and L\|Overlap A/L]] texts - are of particular note because of their rarity, and because of their meta-reflective function. Also like (some of) the Version L texts, this narrative includes the motif of the judicial duel/trial by combat, staged prior to the prince's final story. The empress's champion is defeated, and she is condemned; as she is led to her pyre, she says,
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	\|Has Source For Date Of Text Composition=Cañizares Ferriz (2011)		\|Has Source For Date Of Text Composition=Cañizares Ferriz (2011)
	\|Has Text Language=Latin		\|Has Text Language=Latin
	\|Has Modern Research Literature=Polo de Beaulieu (1991); Cañizares Ferriz (2011); Polo de Beaulieu (1985); Polo de Beaulieu (1986); Polo de Beaulieu (1992); Polo de Beaulieu (1994); Polo de Beaulieu (1996); Carter (1928); Cañizares Ferriz (2000); Aranda García (2021a); Polo de Beaulieu (1999); Polo de Beaulieu (2015); Polo de Beaulieu (1990)		\|Has Modern Research Literature=Polo de Beaulieu (1991); Cañizares Ferriz (2011); Polo de Beaulieu (1985); Polo de Beaulieu (1986); Polo de Beaulieu (1992); Polo de Beaulieu (1994); Polo de Beaulieu (1996); Carter (1928); Cañizares Ferriz (2000); Aranda García (2021a); Polo de Beaulieu (1999); Polo de Beaulieu (2015); Polo de Beaulieu (1990); Hilka (1913)
	\|Has Modern Edition=Polo de Beaulieu, La Scala Coeli de Jean Gobi (1991); Goedeke, Liber de septem sapientibus (1864-1865); Hilka, Historia Septem Sapientum, Die Fassung der Scala Celi des Johannes Gobii Iunior (1913); Cañizares Ferriz, Traducción y reescritura (Siete sabios de Roma) (2011); Cañizares Ferriz, La nouella de Diego de Cañizares y su original latino (1999)		\|Has Modern Edition=Polo de Beaulieu, La Scala Coeli de Jean Gobi (1991); Goedeke, Liber de septem sapientibus (1864-1865); Hilka, Historia Septem Sapientum, Die Fassung der Scala Celi des Johannes Gobii Iunior (1913); Cañizares Ferriz, Traducción y reescritura (Siete sabios de Roma) (2011); Cañizares Ferriz, La nouella de Diego de Cañizares y su original latino (1999)
	}}		}}

Bonsall at 14:35, 5 May 2025

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	\|Has Description=The version of the Seven Sages narrative known as 'Version S' in scholarship was penned by Jean or Johannes Gobi the Younger, as part of the collection of ''exempla'' titled ''Scala Coeli'' composed circa 1323–30. Gobi was a Dominican friar from the south of France, who compiled and composed the ''Scala Coeli'' while living at the monstery in Saint-Maximin (a site overseen by Jean Gobi the Elder, presumably his uncle) (see [[Aranda García (2021a)]], Polo de Beaulieu (1996)). The ''exempla'' in the compilation - somewhere between 400 and 1,100 in number, depending on the individual manuscript/incunabula witness - are mostly, but not universally, Dominican, drawn from and found in many other popular contemporary ''exempla'' collections, including those attributed to Jacques de Vitry, Arnold of Liège, Étienne of Bourbon, and Caesarius of Heisterbach.		\|Has Description=The version of the Seven Sages narrative known as 'Version S' in scholarship was penned by Jean or Johannes Gobi the Younger, as part of the collection of ''exempla'' titled ''Scala Coeli'' composed circa 1323–30. Gobi was a Dominican friar from the south of France, who compiled and composed the ''Scala Coeli'' while living at the monstery in Saint-Maximin (a site overseen by Jean Gobi the Elder, presumably his uncle) (see [[Aranda García (2021a)]], Polo de Beaulieu (1996)). The ''exempla'' in the compilation - somewhere between 400 and 1,100 in number, depending on the individual manuscript/incunabula witness - are mostly, but not universally, Dominican, drawn from and found in many other popular contemporary ''exempla'' collections, including those attributed to Jacques de Vitry, Arnold of Liège, Étienne of Bourbon, and Caesarius of Heisterbach.

	The collection is ordered alphabetically, with ''exempla'' grouped under thematic headings beginning with ''Abstinentia'' and ending with ''Usura''. Each ''exemplum'' opens with a moral message and attribution, and is usually followed by a moralisation; however, this is not the case for the version of the ''Seven Sages'' found in the ''Scala,'' which is also longer and more detailed than most of the other ''exempla'' (Aranda Garcia 2021a). That additional length may explain why only some surviving ''Scala Coeli'' texts include the ''Seven Sages'' - it does not meet the usual formal expectations of ''exempla'', whose brevity allowed for their use in sermons, and may therefore have been deemed a poor fit for the collection by redactors. According to Cañizares Ferriz (2011), the three distinct redactions of the ''Scala Coeli'' differ in their treatment and inclusion of the ''Seven Sages'':		The collection is ordered alphabetically, with ''exempla'' grouped under thematic headings beginning with ''Abstinentia'' and ending with ''Usura''. Each ''exemplum'' opens with a moral message and attribution, and is usually followed by a moralisation; however, this is not the case for the version of the ''Seven Sages'' found in the ''Scala,'' which is also longer and more detailed than most of the other ''exempla'' (Aranda Garcia 2021a). That additional length may explain why only some surviving ''Scala Coeli'' texts include the ''Seven Sages'' - it does not meet the usual formal expectations of ''exempla'', whose brevity allowed for their use in sermons, and may therefore have been deemed a poor fit for the collection by redactors. According to Cañizares Ferriz (2011), the three distinct redactions of the Latin ''Scala Coeli'' differ in their treatment and inclusion of the ''Seven Sages'':

	*'''Group I''' (most complete manuscripts, 1002–1068 exempla): most include the ''Seven Sages'', and mostly include the sages' names.		*'''Group I''' (most complete manuscripts, 1002–1068 exempla): most include the ''Seven Sages'', and mostly include the sages' names.
	*'''Group II''' (876–974 exempla): more than half contain ''The Seven Sages'', rarely contain the sages' names.		*'''Group II''' (876–974 exempla): more than half contain ''The Seven Sages'', rarely contain the sages' names.
	*'''Group III''' (most abbreviated, 487–617 exempla): less than half contain the ''Seven Sages,'' and almost always omit the sages' names.		*'''Group III''' (most abbreviated, 487–617 exempla): less than half contain the ''Seven Sages,'' and almost always omit the sages' names.
			Cañizares Ferriz was primarily working with Marie-Anne Polo de Beaulieu's 1991 edition when analysing these groups; as such, the texts not included in Polo de Beaulieu's edition - nine manuscripts in total - are not described by Cañizares Ferriz, and whether or not they contain the ''Seven Sages'' text is unknown. Those manuscripts are not included in this database (but they are listed on the page for the [[Latin Version S Manuscripts\|Latin Scala Coeli Manscripts]]). For the presence/absence of the Seven Sages in the Spanish translation of the ''Scala Coeli,'' see Cañizares Ferriz.