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Udo Gerdes broke down the Prosafassung / Prose Version of the ''Sieben Weise'' into seven separate redactions, lettered A-G, each representing distinct textual versions of the narrative (1992). Of these, Redaction G (the 'vulgate') is the most elaborate and detailed, and is also the only redaction to survive into the sixteenth century as a ''Volksbuch''. Redaction B is closely associated with the German ''Gesta Romanorum,'' and contains an additional corpus of moralisations in keeping with the Latin ''Gesta'''s original form (Gerdes 1992).
Udo Gerdes broke down the Prosafassung / Prose Version of the ''Sieben Weise'' into seven separate redactions, lettered A-G, each representing distinct textual versions of the narrative (1992). Of these, Redaction G (the 'vulgate') is the most elaborate and detailed, and is also the only redaction to survive into the sixteenth century as a ''Volksbuch''. Redaction B is closely associated with the German ''Gesta Romanorum,'' and contains an additional corpus of moralisations in keeping with the Latin ''Gesta'''s original form (Gerdes 1992).
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The enormously popular prose versions of the Sieben Weise Meister, the German version of the Historia Septem Sapientum, proliferated throughout the fifteenth century. The prose version, or Prosafassung, emerged as translations of multiple different Latin originals, and was embedded within the Gesta Romanorum, though the popularity of the Sieben Weise Meister outlived that of the Gesta (Gerdes 1992).

Udo Gerdes broke down the Prosafassung / Prose Version of the Sieben Weise into seven separate redactions, lettered A-G, each representing distinct textual versions of the narrative (1992). Of these, Redaction G (the 'vulgate') is the most elaborate and detailed, and is also the only redaction to survive into the sixteenth century as a Volksbuch. Redaction B is closely associated with the German Gesta Romanorum, and contains an additional corpus of moralisations in keeping with the Latin Gesta's original form (Gerdes 1992).

General Information


Parent Versions
German Version H, Dutch Version H, German Sieben Weise Meister
Child Versions
Redaction A, Redaction B, Redaction C, Redaction D, Redaction E, Redaction F, Redaction G
Title
Sieben weise Meister
Branch of the tradition
Seven Sages of Rome

Language & Composition

Language of version
German (High and Low German)


Date of Composition
1401 - 1425
Source for date of composition
Gerdes (1992)

Literature & Editions

Modern research literature
Gerdes (1992), Gerdes (2004), Kunkel (2023), Roth (2008), Roth (2003), Schmitz (1904), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014), Hommers (1968)

Recorded Branch of This Secondary Version


Adaptations

Adapted from (version)
German Version H
Adapted into (version)
Redaction A, Redaction B, Redaction C, Redaction E, Redaction D, Redaction F, Redaction G
Source for composition and adaptation information
Gerdes (1992)



Pattern of Embedded Stories in This Version

Connected Manuscripts








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