French A/L Overlap

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The French version A and version L of the Roman des Sept Sages are closely related to each other. The two traditions are essentially identical for the first 11 stories, before L differs dramatically, omitting Vidua and Vaticinium and instead including Filia and Noverca. Version L also contains fewer stories than Version A. However, a significant number of manuscripts that closely follow the text and pattern of Version A, and are designated as such by most contemporary scholarship, also contain one or both of the additional Version L stories, Filia and Noverca. This marked distinction demonstrates the cross-pollenation betweek A and L, and shows how closely and constantly interlinked the manuscript composition of these traditions must have been. Because these manuscripts are so distinct from the other A texts, and because recent pieces of scholarship (Runte, Coco, Foehr-Janssens, Speer, the Arlima database, etc.) sometimes group them in different ways, they appear here rather than in the A or L groups.

General Information

Language within Version

French

Parent Versions

Overlap of Versions A and L

Branch of the tradition

Seven Sages of Rome

Language & Composition

Place of composition

France

Date of Composition

Literature & Editions

Modern research literature

Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014), Coco (2016), Berne-Aïache (1966), Foehr-Janssens (1994), ARLIMA: Les sept sages

Recorded Branch of This Secondary Version

• Overlap of Versions A and L
  • French A/L Overlap

Adaptations

Adapted from (version)

French Version A, L (Sept Sages de Rome)

Notes

Note

The story order, below, reflects the story order given in Cambridge University Library MS Gg.6.28, and in Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 95. The other three manuscripts in this group contain some, but not all, of the variations shown here in the final six stories.

Pattern of Embedded Stories in This Version

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation
Arbor – The Tree	1	Empress
Canis – The Faithful Dog	2	Bancillas
Aper – The Boar and the Fruit	3	Empress
Medicus – The Doctor	4	Anxilles
Gaza – The Treasure	5	Empress
Puteus – The Well	6	Lentulus
Senescalcus – The Seneschal	7	Empress
Tentamina – The Test	8	Malquidras
Virgilius – Virgil's Marvels	9	Empress
Avis – The Bird	10	Caton
Sapientes – The Wise Men	11	Empress
Vidua – The Widow	12	Jesse
Filia	13	Empress
Inclusa – The Imprisoned Wife	14	Meron
Roma – Rome Besieged	15	Empress
Vaticinium – The Prophecy	16	Prince

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Connected Manuscripts

	Has Language	Has Location	Has Date Range Of Production
Brussel Koninklijke Bibliotheek 9245	Old French	Brussel, Koninklijke Bibliotheek	1300 - 1350
Cambridge University Library MS Gg.6.28	Old French	Cambridge University Library	1275 - 1300
Paris Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 3354	Old French	Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal	1400 - 1500
Paris Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 3516	Old French	Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal	1250 - 1300