København Den Arnamagnaeanske Samling Cod. AM. 191

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Manuscript Identification

Reference Number

OldSwedish3

Location

København, Den Arnamagnaeanske Samling

Siglum / Shelfmark

Cod. AM. 191

Page / Folio range

126r-137v

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative

Sju vise mästare

Version (siglum)

H (Historia Septem Sapientum)

Language Group within Version

Old Swedish Version H

Further scholarly subgroup (2)

Old Swedish Redaction C

Source for textual relationship

Klemming (1887-1889), Bampi (2007), Bampi (2014)

Digitisation & Editions

Modern Editions

Klemming, Sju vise mästare (1887-1889)

Note

incomplete: "narration stops at the end of the third story (Aper)" (Bampi 2007, p. 19)

• codex also known as Codex Askabyensis
• "contains explicit clues to how the stories should be interpreted" (Bampi 2007, p. 38; also see for examples ibid.)
• contains moralizationes and reductiones (see Bampi 2007, p. 38)
• the complexity of the place of manuscript production (and ownership) is discussed in Bampi 2007, pp. 31-35

Authorship & Production

Place of Production

Cisterian nunnery of Askeby, Östergötland, Sweden

Date of Production

before 1492

Source of Date of Production

Bampi (2014)

Physical Description

Material

Paper

Illustrations

No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript

selection: Karl Magnus, Flores och Blanzeflor, some chronicles (i.e. Erikskrönikan, Lilla rimkrönikan, Prosaiska krönikan), religious and edifying texts (i.e. prayers, mostly dedicated to the Virgin Mary), Schacktavelslek, Siælinna thrøst (excerpts)

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

Modern Research Literature

Klemming (1887-1889), Bampi (2007), Bampi (2014), Kornhall (1959), Klemming (1881-1882), Klemming (1883-1886), Blomqvist (1941), Aebischer (1957), Åström (1995)

Research Material

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