Frankfurt a. M. Universitätsbibliothek Ms. Praed. 91

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Manuscript Identification

Reference Number

Ger4

Location

Frankfurt a. M., Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg

Siglum / Shelfmark

Frankfurt a. M., Universitätsbibl., Ms. Praed. 91

Page / Folio range

69v-129r

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative

Sieben weise Meister

Version (siglum)

H (Historia Septem Sapientum)

Language Group within Version

German Version H

Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version

Prose Version H

Further scholarly subgroup (1)

Redaction B

Further scholarly subgroup (2)

Text Fr

Source for textual relationship

Gerdes (1992), Gerdes (2004)

Languages

Language of text

Rheinfränkisch

Digitisation & Editions

Digitisation

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:2-15666

Authorship & Production

Date of Production

1477/1498

Source of Date of Production

Handschriftencensus 4757: https://handschriftencensus.de/4757, Gerhardt Powitz, Die Handschriften des Dominikanerklosters und des Leonhardstifts in Frankfurt am Main (Kataloge der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main 2,I), Frankfurt a.M. 1968, pp. 211-214.

Physical Description

Material

Parchment and paper

Total pages / folios

129

Height

225

Width

170

Illustrations

No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript

2r-19v: Maria Aegyptiaca' (Rheinfrk. Verslegende)

20r-36r = 'Veronika' II 37v-62r = Losbuch der Beginen und Begarden [fragm.] 64r-68r = Zodiakalmondbuch

69v-129r = 'Gesta Romanorum', (Redaction G)/'Sieben weise Meister'

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

Modern Research Literature

Gerdes (1992), Gerdes (2004), Roth (2003)

Research Material

Has Research Material Title	Has Research Material Link	Has Research Material Description

Note: The Brothers Grimm were interested in some of the texts in this manuscript, particularly the Veronica; Berlin, Staatsbibl. mgq 956 contains a copy of 'Veronika' II made for the Brothers Grimm by Franz Roth in 1842. See Hermann Degering, 'Kurzes Verzeichnis der germanischen Handschriften der Preußischen Staatsbibliothek II. Die Handschriften in Quartformat' (Mitteilungen aus der Preußischen Staatsbibliothek VIII), Leipzig 1926 (Nachdruck Graz 1970), p. 161; Ralf Breslau, 'Der Nachlass der Brüder Grimm, Teil 2: Katalog' (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Kataloge II.3.2), Wiesbaden 1997, p. 727 (No. 2128).