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Udo Gerdes broke down the Prosafassung / Prose Version of the ''Sieben Weise'' into seven separate redactions, lettered A-G, each representing distinct textual versions of the narrative (1992). Of these, Redaction G (the 'vulgate') is the most elaborate and detailed, and is also the only redaction to survive into the sixteenth century as a ''Volksbuch''. Redaction B is closely associated with the German ''Gesta Romanorum,'' and contains an additional corpus of moralisations in keeping with the Latin ''Gesta'''s original form (Gerdes 1992).
Udo Gerdes broke down the Prosafassung / Prose Version of the ''Sieben Weise'' into seven separate redactions, lettered A-G, each representing distinct textual versions of the narrative (1992). Of these, Redaction G (the 'vulgate') is the most elaborate and detailed, and is also the only redaction to survive into the sixteenth century as a ''Volksbuch''. Redaction B is closely associated with the German ''Gesta Romanorum,'' and contains an additional corpus of moralisations in keeping with the Latin ''Gesta'''s original form (Gerdes 1992).
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Revision as of 10:23, 13 February 2025

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The enormously popular prose versions of the Sieben Weise Meister, the German version of the Historia Septem Sapientum, proliferated throughout the fifteenth century. The prose version, or Prosafassung, emerged as translations of multiple different Latin originals, and was embedded within the Gesta Romanorum, though the popularity of the Sieben Weise Meister outlived that of the Gesta (Gerdes 1992).

Udo Gerdes broke down the Prosafassung / Prose Version of the Sieben Weise into seven separate redactions, lettered A-G, each representing distinct textual versions of the narrative (1992). Of these, Redaction G (the 'vulgate') is the most elaborate and detailed, and is also the only redaction to survive into the sixteenth century as a Volksbuch. Redaction B is closely associated with the German Gesta Romanorum, and contains an additional corpus of moralisations in keeping with the Latin Gesta's original form (Gerdes 1992).
General Information
Language within Version
Narrative / Scholarly Group
Parent Versions German Version H
Child Versions Redaction A, Redaction B, Redaction C, Redaction D, Redaction E, Redaction F, Redaction G
Author
Title Sieben weise Meister
Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages Prosafassung / Prose Version
Version Number
Branch of the tradition West
Language & Composition
Original language of version German (High and Low German)
Translated into (languages)
Place of composition
Date of composition 1401 - 1425
Source for date of composition Gerdes (1992)
Literature & Editions
Modern research literature Gerdes (1992), Gerdes (2004), Kunkel (2023), Roth (2008), Roth (2003), Schmitz (1904), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014), Hommers (1968)
Modern Editions
Recorded branch of this secondary version
Connected prints

No connected prints

Adaptations
Adapted from (version) German Version H
Adapted into (version) Redaction A, Redaction B, Redaction C, Redaction E, Redaction D, Redaction F, Redaction G
Source for composition and adaptation information Gerdes (1992)
Languages in Use
Language of text German (High and Low German)
Regional or specific language of version
Notes
Note
Notes on motifs
Notes on the frame
Pattern of embedded stories in this version

Connected manuscripts








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