Paris Bibliothèque Mazarine Ms 3855: Difference between revisions

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Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Latin163
Location	Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine
Siglum/Shelfmark	Ms 3855
Page/Folio range	139v-144r

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Liber Septem Sapientibus (Scala Coeli)
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum)	S (Scala Coeli)
└ Language Group within Version	Latin Version S
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Latin Version S Manuscripts
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)	Latin Version S (Not in Scala Coeli)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)	Latin Version S
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Cañizares Ferriz (2011)

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

Note
Note: although this text closely follows the Version S pattern, it is not embedded within the Scala Coeli collection of exempla, and was instead transmitted independently. The Liber Septem Sapientibus is here embedded within a miscellany of writings attributed to Seneca (see Cañizares Ferriz, 2011).

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author	Jean Gobi the Younger
Place of Manuscript Production	Venezia, Italy
Date of Manuscript Production	1401 - 1500
Source of Date of Manuscript Production

Physical Description
Material	Parchment
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	144
Height	300
Width	228
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	2-4: Rubrice epistolarum Senece 4: Extract from De viris illustribus, St Jerome 4-5: Epistole [Senece] ad sanctum Paulum transmisse 6-101: Seneca, letters to Lucilio 101-109: Incipit liber Senece de remediis fortuitorum ad Gallionem 109-110: Liber Senece de beata vita 111-133: Seneca, Declamationum libri duo 133-135: Liber Senece ad Marciam de consolatione filii 135-136: LIber Senece de brevitate vite ad Paulinum 136-139: Liber Senece de ira 139-143: Liber de sapientibus viris. Liber de septem sapientibus. 144: Proverbiorum Senece (liber)

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	https://portail.biblissima.fr/ark:/43093/mdatac404b45e623ee947ad4eff90d639d1a046caaaa1
Modern Research Literature	Cañizares Ferriz (2011)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

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 |Has Language=Latin
 |Has Literary Form=Prose
+|Has Collation=2-4: Rubrice epistolarum Senece
+: Extract from ''De viris illustribus'', St Jerome
+-5: Epistole [Senece] ad sanctum Paulum transmisse
+-101: Seneca, letters to Lucilio
+-109: Incipit liber Senece de remediis fortuitorum ad Gallionem
+-110: Liber Senece de beata vita
+-133: Seneca, Declamationum libri duo
+-135: Liber Senece ad Marciam de consolatione filii
+-136: LIber Senece de brevitate vite ad Paulinum
+-139: Liber Senece de ira
+-143: Liber de sapientibus viris. Liber de septem sapientibus.
+: Proverbiorum Senece (liber)
 |Has Total Pages In Manuscript=144
 |Has Height=300
@@ Line 24: / Line 47: @@
 |Has Modern Research Literature=Cañizares Ferriz (2011)
 |Has Catalogue=https://portail.biblissima.fr/ark:/43093/mdatac404b45e623ee947ad4eff90d639d1a046caaaa1
-|Has Note=Note: although this text closely follows the Version S pattern, it is not embedded within the ''Scala Coeli'' collection of ''exempla'', and was instead transmitted independently.
+|Has Note=Note: although this text closely follows the Version S pattern, it is not embedded within the ''Scala Coeli'' collection of ''exempla'', and was instead transmitted independently. The ''Liber Septem Sapientibus'' is here embedded within a miscellany of writings attributed to Seneca (see Cañizares Ferriz, 2011).
 }}