Excerpts in Gesta Romanorum

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The Historia and the Gesta Romanorum often appear together as separate texts in the same manuscript but there are also cases where excerpts from the Historia appear as a part of the Gesta Romanorum. Some parts of the frame narrative are being omitted and the stories as well as their spiritual interpretations are being shortened (see Roth 2004, p. 110). These excerpts can be found in three groups/branches of tradition of the Gesta Romanorum tradition: Continental Group x, Continental Group w, and the Insular Group u. Group w contains the most manuscripts: 124.

In some instances the manuscripts which contain Historia-Excerpts within the Gesta Romanorum also contain the Historia or another version of the Seven Sages as a separate text. This is mostly the case in manuscripts of the Continental Group w.

General Information

Language within Version

Latin

Parent Versions

Latin Version H

Child Versions

Continental Group w, Continental Group x, Insular Group u

Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages

Excerpts in Gesta Romanorum

Branch of the tradition

West

Literature & Editions

Modern research literature

Roth (2004), Röll (1986)

Recorded Branch of This Secondary Version

• H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
  • Armenian Version H
  • Czech Version H: Kronika sedmi mudrců
  • Danish Version H
  • Dutch Version H
    • Dutch Prints (H)
    • Dutch Prose Version H
  • English Version H
    • English Prints (H)
      • Conyers Version
      • Pynson Version
  • French Version H
  • German Version H
    • Aventewr von Diocleciano
    • German Sieben Weise Meister
      • German Prints (H)
      • Prosafassung / Prose Version
        • Redaction A
        • Redaction B
        • Redaction C
        • Redaction D
        • Redaction E
        • Redaction F
        • Redaction G
      • Versfassung / Verse Version
        • Anonymous Verse Version
    • Hans von Bühel, Dyocletianus Leben
    • Hystorij von Diocleciano
    • Sebastian Wild, Ein schoͤne Tragedj (Stage adaptation)
  • Hungarian Version H: Pontianus tsaszar historiaia
    • Hungarian Prints
  • Icelandic Version H
    • Icelandic Prose: Sjö meistara saga
      • Group A: Sjö meistara saga
      • Group B: Alexander og Lúðvík
    • Icelandic Verse: Sjö meistara saga
      • Group C: Rímur
      • Group D: Vinaspegill
  • Latin Version H
    • Latin Historia Septem Sapientum
      • Excerpts in Gesta Romanorum
        • Continental Group w
        • Continental Group x
        • Insular Group u
      • Group I
      • Group II
      • Group III
      • Group IV
      • Lost Latin Version H Manuscripts
    • Ludus septem sapientum. De Astrei regii
  • Lithuanian Version H
  • Polish Version H
  • Russian Version H
  • Scots Version H: Rolland, Seuin Seages
    • Scots Prints (H)
  • Spanish Version H: Los Siete Sabios de Roma
    • Spanish Prints (H)
  • Swedish Version H: Sju vise mästare
    • Old Swedish Redaction C
    • Swedish Prints (H)
  • Yiddish Version H
    • Yiddish Version H Manuscripts
    • Yiddish Version H Prints

Adaptations

Adapted from (version)

Latin Version H

Adapted into (version)

Continental Group w, Continental Group x, Insular Group u

Connected Manuscripts

	Has Language	Has Location	Has Date Range Of Production
Admont Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 101a	Latin	Admont, Stiftsbibliothek	before 1380
Admont Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 163	Latin	Admont, Stiftsbibliothek	1410 - 1414
Admont Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 652	Latin	Admont, Stiftsbibliothek	1441
Augsburg Universitätsbibliothek Cod. I. 2. 2° 22	Latin	Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek	1459
Augsburg Universitätsbibliothek Cod. II. i. 4º 70 (excerpts within Gesta Romanorum)	Latin	Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek	1400 - 1425
Bamberg Staatsbibliothek Msc. Class. 87	Latin	Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek	1375 - 1400
Bamberg Staatsbibliothek Msc. Theol. 230	Latin	Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek	1400 - 1450
Basel Universitätsbibliothek Mscr. A IX 15	Latin	Basel, Universitätsbibliothek	1455
Basel Universitätsbibliothek UBH E II 3	Latin	Basel, Universitätsbibliothek	1444
Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. Magdeb. 208 (excerpts within Gesta Romanorum)	Latin	Berlin, Staatsbibliothek	1450 - 1475
Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. germ. fol. 643	Latin	Berlin, Staatsbibliothek	1441 - 1445