Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 95

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Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Fr31
Location	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Siglum/Shelfmark	Français 95 (formerly Regius 6769)
Page/Folio range	355ra-380ra

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Sept Sages de Rome
Incipit or textual title	A Romme ot I empereour qui ot a non Dyoclesiens…
Version (siglum)	Overlap of Versions A and L
└ Language Group within Version	French A/L Overlap
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Text Q
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014)

Languages
Language of text	Old French (Nord)
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6000108b
Modern Editions	Plomp, De Middelnederlandsche bewerking van het gedicht van den VII Vroeden van binnen Rome (1899), Runte, Les sept sages de Rome: An On-Line Edition of French Version A (2006)

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Thérouanne, France
Date of Manuscript Production	c. 1280
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	BNF: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc13594b

Physical Description
Material	Parchment
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	394
Height	470
Width	330
Script style/form
Prose or verse
Illustrations	Yes

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	1ra-113va: L'estoire del saint Graal 113va-354vb: Le roman de Merlin en prose, avec la Suite Vulgate du Merlin 355ra-380ra: Le roman des sept sages de Rome 380ra-394vb: André le Moine, La penitance Adam

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/4153, BNF: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc13594b
Modern Research Literature	Plomp (1889), Runte (1974), Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Runte (1989), Le Roux de Lincy (1838), Paris (1876), Berne-Aïache (1966), Berne-Aïache (1977), Speer (1981), Foehr-Janssens (1994), Coco (2016)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript
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Spectacular initial minature and marginalia.

The BNF catalogue notes that this manuscript and the manuscript 'Phillips 130' (Yale University Beinecke Library, MS 229) are 'complémentaires'. The Beineke Library manuscript contains: Le livre de Lancelot du Lac, La queste del Graal, La mort au roy Artu. This has led to some cataloguing confusion; on the JONAS site, for example, the listing for the 'Sept Sages de Rome, version A' includes 'Yale University Library Beinecke Ms 229'. This appears to be in error, and due to the linking of the two manuscripts through their Arthurian texts.

This text is also apparently closely related to Cambridge G VI.28. Plomp (1889) observes that BNF 95 and Cam GV1.28 are so closely related that they replicate the same error: Anxilles is introduced 2nd, and Lentulus 3rd, but Lentulus tells the 2nd story, and Anxilles the 3rd.