Brussel Koninklijke Bibliotheek 9245

Manuscript
Reference Number	Fr33
Location	Brussel, Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Siglum/Shelfmark	9245
Page/Folio range	1ra-17rc
Standardised title of narrative	Sept Sages de Rome
Incipit or textual title	Ci commence li livres des VII sages de Romme et de Marques le seneschal, et aprés de Laurin et de Cassydorus, et de Pelyarmemis, et aprés li fait des empereeurs de Romme et de Coustantinoble. A Romme ot jadis I empereour qui ot non Dyocleciens. Il ot femme et de celle femme…
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 B4
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	France (Nord)
Date of Manuscript Production	1300 - 1350
Source of date Manuscript Production	Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/2962
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	1r - 17r: Sept sages de Rome 17 - 60v: Marques de Rome 60v - 184v: Laurin, fils de Marques le Sénéchal 184v - 296r: Cassidorus 296r - 348v: Helcanus 348v - 482r: Pelyarmenus 482r - 593v: Kanor
Script style/form
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	593
Height	405
Width	295
Illustrations	Yes
Digitisation	https://uurl.kbr.be/1934974
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)
Catalogue	J. Marchal, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale des ducs de Bourgogne publié par ordre du ministre de l'Intérieur, Bruxelles et Leipzig, Muquardt, 1842, 3 t. (ici t. 1, p. 185, no 9245): https://archive.org/details/cataloguedesman01brus, KBR: https://opac.kbr.be/Library/doc/SYRACUSE/16453139
Modern Research Literature	Runte (1974), Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Coco (2016), Speer (1981), Foehr-Janssens (1994), Berne-Aïache (1966), Le Roux de Lincy (1838), Paris (1876)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

Short Story	Sequence Number	Narrator	Name Variations
Arbor	1	Empress
Canis	2	Bancillas
Aper	3	Empress
Medicus	4	Anxilles
Gaza	5	Empress
Puteus	6	Lentulus
Senescalcus	7	Empress
Tentamina	8	Malquidras	Malquidarz
Virgilius	9	Empress
Avis	10	Cato
Sapientes	11	Empress
Vidua	12	Jesse
Roma	13	Empress
Inclusa	14	Meron
Vaticinium	15	Prince
Noverca	16	Empress

Note: This text is critically designated as part of the Version A group (Runte, JONAS, Arlima, Foerh-Janssens, Speer, etc.). However, it contains one of the additional 'L' stories, Noverca. The empress tells this story after judgement (and, in this text, trial by combat) has already occurred. She tells it, she says, to illustrate her hopes - that her husband would believe her over his son.