Saint-Étienne Médiathèque Municipale 109

Manuscript
Reference Number	Fr28
Location	Saint-Étienne, Médiathèque Municipale
Siglum/Shelfmark	109 (formerly MS Anc E286)
Page/Folio range	1r-33v
Standardised title of narrative	Sept Sages de Rome
Incipit or textual title	'Li livres des VII sages de Rome'. Incipit: Ci commence li livres des VII sages de Rome et de l'empereriz qui, par son barat, vat fere destruire le fil l'empereor
Version (siglum)	A (Seven Sages)
└ Language Group within Version	French Version A
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Group Z
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Text E
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014)
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	15th century? (See notes)
Source of date Manuscript Production
Material	Parchment
Language of Manuscript	Old French
Regional or specific Language of Manuscript
Source for regional or specific Language of Manuscript
Prose or Verse	Prose
Other texts in the Manuscript	1-33: Li livres des VII sages de Rome (incomplete) 34r-149: Marques de Rome (incomplete)
Script style/form
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	149
Height	290
Width	195
Illustrations	Yes
Digitisation	https://mediatheques.saint-etienne.fr/Default/digital-viewer/c-1982076
Modern Editions	Runte, Les sept sages de Rome: An On-Line Edition of French Version A (2006)
Catalogue	https://mediatheques.saint-etienne.fr/Default/doc/SYRACUSE/1982076/roman-des-sept-sages-de-rome, Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/9333, JONAS: http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/manuscrit/54777, Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France. Départements, Paris, Plon, t. 21, 1893, vi + 697 p. (ici p. 266-267, no 109): https://archive.org/details/cataloguegnr211893fran
Modern Research Literature	Runte (1989), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Gilleland (1981), Berne-Aïache (1977), Berne-Aïache (1966), Le Roux de Lincy (1838), Coco (2016)

Note

This text is incomplete. A note on dating: there is some discrepancy in the records about the dating of this manuscript. The date given in Arlima and the ''Catalogue général des manuscrits'' is simply 'XVe siècle' (see Catalogue links). However, JONAS indicates that it dates from the end of the 13th, beginning of the 14th century. Further complicating this, however, are the end pages and additional folios. Some of these appear to include a 16th-century poem, while others are extracts from a book detailing the construction of one of duc Jean de Berry's castles, and may be dated precicely to 1387, according to the Saint-Étienne library catalogue.

This text is incomplete.

A note on dating: there is some discrepancy in the records about the dating of this manuscript. The date given in Arlima and the Catalogue général des manuscrits is simply 'XVe siècle' (see Catalogue links). However, JONAS indicates that it dates from the end of the 13th, beginning of the 14th century. Further complicating this, however, are the end pages and additional folios. Some of these appear to include a 16th-century poem, while others are extracts from a book detailing the construction of one of duc Jean de Berry's castles, and may be dated precicely to 1387, according to the Saint-Étienne library catalogue.