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The versions of the Seven Sages/Book of Sindbad listed below reflect the different textual groupings as designated by scholarship. They are differentiated in the first instance by their embedded stories, and the order in which they appear. Each of the largest versions, or families, may then contain many variations or sub-versions, groups designated by textual variance, or by language, or both. Within language groups for smaller sub-versions, still further groupings or textual relationships may be represented, if existing scholarship on that tradition has typically relied on such designations.

There are 159 versions in the database.

35 primary versions and 124 secondary versions.

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Version	Tradition	Date	Date range	Place of text composition	Language
A (Seven Sages)	Seven Sages of Rome	1175 ^JL	1175 - 1225	France	Old French
Ahmed-i Mısrî: Forty Viziers	Book of Sindbad	1400 ^JL	1400 - 1450		Turkish
Andreopoulos Syntipas	Book of Sindbad	1050 ^JL	1050 - 1100		Greek
Anonymous Verse Version	Seven Sages of Rome	1401 ^JL	1401 - 1450		German (High and Low German)
Arabic Version A (The Seven Viziers)	Book of Sindbad	700 ^JL	700 - 850		Arabic
Arabic Version A1001 (Thousand and One Nights)	Book of Sindbad				Arabic
Arabic Version A101 (Hundred and One Nights)	Book of Sindbad	900 ^JL	900 - 1350	Maghreb, Western Islamic world	Arabic
Armenian Version H	Seven Sages of Rome	1614	1614	Zamość	Armenian
Aventewr von Diocleciano	Seven Sages of Rome	1380 ^JL	1380 - 1420		German (High and Low German)
Azod Yazdi versification	Book of Sindbad		14th century	Shiraz, Iran	Persian
Bulgarian Syntipas	Book of Sindbad				Bulgarian
C (Sept Sages de Rome)	Seven Sages of Rome	1275 ^JL	1275 - 1325	France	Old French
Catalan Version L	Seven Sages of Rome	1250 ^JL	1250 - 1325		Catalan
Continental Group w	Seven Sages of Rome
Continental Group x	Seven Sages of Rome
Conyers Version	Seven Sages of Rome	1722	1722 - 1739		English
Czech Version H: Kronika sedmi mudrců	Seven Sages of Rome				Czech
D (Sept Sages de Rome)	Seven Sages of Rome	1275 ^JL	1275 - 1500	France	Old French
Danish Version H	Seven Sages of Rome	1501 ^JL	1501 - 1577		Danish
Dolopathos	Seven Sages of Rome	1184 ^JL	1184 - 1212	Haute-Seuille, France	Latin
Dutch Prints (H)	Seven Sages of Rome	1479 ^JL	1479
Dutch Prose Version H	Seven Sages of Rome	1478 ^JL	1478 - 1494
Dutch Version A	Seven Sages of Rome	1225 ^JL	1225 - 1300		Dutch
Dutch Version H	Seven Sages of Rome	1478 ^JL	1478 - 1479		Dutch
Early Modern and Modern Welsh Version A	Seven Sages of Rome	1500 ^JL	1500 - 1525	Wales, UK	Welsh
English Erasto	Seven Sages of Rome	1674	1674	London, UK	English
English Prints (H)	Seven Sages of Rome
English Version H	Seven Sages of Rome	1495 ^JL	1495 - 1506	London, UK	English
Erasto (Es)	Seven Sages of Rome	1542 ^JL	1542	Northern Italy	Italian
Erastus, or, The Roman Prince	Seven Sages of Rome	1684	1684	London, UK	English
Excerpts in Gesta Romanorum	Seven Sages of Rome				Latin
Forty Viziers: Ḥikāyet-i Ḳırḳ Vezīr	Book of Sindbad	1446 ^JL	1446	Turkey	Ottoman Turkish
Francis Kirkman, Prince Erastus	Seven Sages of Rome	1674	1674		English
French A/L Overlap	Seven Sages of Rome			France	Old French
French Dolopathos	Seven Sages of Rome	1222 ^JL	1222 - 1225		Old French
French Erasto	Seven Sages of Rome	1564 ^JL	1564	France	French
French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages	Seven Sages of Rome	1201 ^JL	1201 - 1225		Old French
French Version H	Seven Sages of Rome
French Version L	Seven Sages of Rome
French Version M
Gaelic Version A	Seven Sages of Rome	1501 ^JL	1501 - 1526		Gaelic
German Dolopathos	Seven Sages of Rome	1460 ^JL	1460 - 1470		German (High and Low German)
German Prints (H)	Seven Sages of Rome
German Sieben Weise Meister	Seven Sages of Rome
German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus	Seven Sages of Rome	1401 ^JL	1401 - 1453		German (High and Low German)
German Version H	Seven Sages of Rome	1401 ^JL	1401 - 1425	Germany	German (High and Low German)
Greek Syntipas	Book of Sindbad	1050 ^JL	1050 - 1100	Melitene	Greek
Group A: Sjö meistara saga	Seven Sages of Rome
Group B: Alexander og Lúðvík	Seven Sages of Rome
Group C: Rímur	Seven Sages of Rome				Icelandic
Group D: Vinaspegill	Seven Sages of Rome				Icelandic
Group I	Seven Sages of Rome
Group II	Seven Sages of Rome
Group III	Seven Sages of Rome
Group IV	Seven Sages of Rome
Group U
Group V
Group W
Group X
Group Y
Group Z
H (Historia Septem Sapientum)	Seven Sages of Rome	1300 ^JL	1300 - 1342		Latin
Hans von Bühel, Dyocletianus Leben	Seven Sages of Rome	1412 ^JL	1412		German (High and Low German)
Hebrew Erasto	Seven Sages of Rome				Hebrew
Hebrew Group A	Book of Sindbad	1295 ^JL	1295		Hebrew
Hebrew Group B	Book of Sindbad	1100 ^JL	1100 - 1250		Hebrew
Hebrew Mishle Sendebar	Book of Sindbad				Hebrew
Hebrew Prints	Book of Sindbad	1516 ^JL	1516		Hebrew
Hungarian Prints	Seven Sages of Rome				Hungarian
Hungarian Version H: Pontianus tsaszar historiaia	Seven Sages of Rome	1570 ^JL	1570 - 1573		Hungarian
Hybrid Version A/L	Seven Sages of Rome				Old French
Hystorij von Diocleciano	Seven Sages of Rome	1470 ^JL	1470		German (High and Low German)
I (Versio Italico)	Seven Sages of Rome	1250 ^JL	1250 - 1400	Northern Italy	Italian
Icelandic Prose: Sjö meistara saga	Seven Sages of Rome
Icelandic Verse: Sjö meistara saga	Seven Sages of Rome				Icelandic
Icelandic Version H	Seven Sages of Rome		around 1600 / 1st half of the 17th century		Icelandic
Il Libro dei Sette Savi de Roma (C)	Seven Sages of Rome	1301 ^JL	1301 - 1400	Tuscany, Italy	Italian
Insular Group u	Seven Sages of Rome				Latin
Italian Erasto	Seven Sages of Rome				Italian
Italian Prose (V)	Seven Sages of Rome	1300 ^JL	1300 - 1350	Tuscany, Italy	Italian
Italian Version A	Seven Sages of Rome	1250 ^JL	1250 - 1400	Italy	Italian
K (Sept Sages de Rome)	Seven Sages of Rome	1155 ^JL	1155 - 1190	France	Old French
L (Sept Sages de Rome)	Seven Sages of Rome	1200 ^JL	1200 - 1250		Old French
L'Amabile di Continentia (Em)	Seven Sages of Rome	1401 ^JL	1401 - 1517	Northern Italy	Italian
Latin Dolopathos	Seven Sages of Rome	1184 ^JL	1184 - 1212	Haute-Seuille, France	Latin
Latin Historia Septem Sapientum	Seven Sages of Rome
Latin Mishle Sendebar	Book of Sindbad	1407 ^JL	1407	Bergamo, Italy
Latin Version A	Seven Sages of Rome	1301 ^JL	1301 - 1400		Latin
Latin Version A: Allegatio / Libellus	Seven Sages of Rome	1301 ^JL	1301 - 1400	Northern Italy	Latin
Latin Version A: De Septem Sapientibus	Seven Sages of Rome	1350 ^JL	1350 - 1450		Latin
Latin Version H	Seven Sages of Rome	1285 ^JL	1285 - 1342	Alsace region	Latin
Latin Version S	Seven Sages of Rome	1322 ^JL	1322 - 1330	Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France	Latin
Latin Version S (Not in Scala Coeli)
Latin Version S Group I
Latin Version S Group II
Latin Version S Group III
Latin Version S Manuscripts	Seven Sages of Rome	1322 ^JL	1322 - 1330	Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France	Latin
Libro de los Engaños	Book of Sindbad	1253 ^JL	1253	Sevilla, Spain	Old Spanish
Libro dei Sette Savj (A)	Seven Sages of Rome	1250 ^JL	1250 - 1400	Tuscany, Italy	Italian
Lithuanian Version H	Seven Sages of Rome	1880	1880		Lithuanian
Lost Latin Version H Manuscripts	Seven Sages of Rome
Ludus septem sapientum. De Astrei regii	Seven Sages of Rome				Latin
M ('Male Marastre')	Seven Sages of Rome	1250 ^JL	1250 - 1350		Old French
Mario Teluccini, Erasto in verse	Seven Sages of Rome	1566 ^JL	1566	Pesaro, Italy	Italian
Middle English Version A	Seven Sages of Rome	1275 ^JL	1275 - 1320	England	English
Middle Welsh Version A	Seven Sages of Rome	1375 ^JL	1375 - 1415	Wales, UK	Middle Welsh
Midland Version	Seven Sages of Rome	1350 ^JL	1350 - 1400		Middle English
Mishle Sendebar	Book of Sindbad	1100 ^JL	1100 - 1275		Hebrew
Nakhshabi Tutinama	Book of Sindbad	1330 ^JL	1330		Persian
Northern English	Seven Sages of Rome
Occitan Version L	Seven Sages of Rome	1325 ^JL	1325	Narbonne region	Occitan
Old Spanish Libro de los Engaños
Old Swedish Redaction A	Seven Sages of Rome	1400 ^JL	1400 - 1450		Old Swedish
Old Swedish Redaction B	Seven Sages of Rome	1400 ^JL	1400 - 1450		Old Swedish
Old Swedish Redaction C	Seven Sages of Rome	1492 ^JL	1492
Old Swedish Version A: Sju vise mästare	Seven Sages of Rome	1400 ^JL	1400 - 1450		Old Swedish
Older Scots Version A: Buke of the Sevyne Sagis	Seven Sages of Rome	1513 ^JL	1513 - 1542	Scotland	Older Scots
Persian Sindbadnama	Book of Sindbad	200 ^JL	200 - 800		Persian
Polish Version H	Seven Sages of Rome	1528 ^JL	1528	Kraków, Poland	Polish
Post-Byzantine Version	Book of Sindbad	1550 ^JL	1550 - 1569		Greek
Printed English Version A	Seven Sages of Rome	1493 ^JL	1493	London, UK	English
Prosafassung / Prose Version	Seven Sages of Rome	1401 ^JL	1401 - 1425		German (High and Low German)
Redaction A	Seven Sages of Rome
Redaction B	Seven Sages of Rome
Redaction C	Seven Sages of Rome
Redaction D	Seven Sages of Rome
Redaction E	Seven Sages of Rome
Redaction F	Seven Sages of Rome	1425 ^JL	1425 - 1460		German (High and Low German)
Redaction G	Seven Sages of Rome
Reworking	Book of Sindbad	1201 ^JL	1201 - 1300		Greek
Russian Version H	Seven Sages of Rome	1575 ^JL	1575 - 1610		Russian
S (Scala Coeli)	Seven Sages of Rome	1322 ^JL	1322 - 1330	Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France	Latin
Scots Prints (H)
Scots Version H: Rolland, Seuin Seages	Seven Sages of Rome	1560 ^JL	1560	Edinburgh, UK	Scots
Sebastian Wild, Ein schoͤne Tragedj (Stage adaptation)	Seven Sages of Rome	1566 ^JL	1566	Augsburg, Germany	German (High and Low German)
Seven Viziers	Book of Sindbad	700 ^JL	700 - 850		Arabic
Southern English	Seven Sages of Rome
Spanish Erasto	Seven Sages of Rome	1573 ^JL	1573	Antwerp, Belgium	Spanish
Spanish Prints (H)
Spanish Version H: Los Siete Sabios de Roma	Seven Sages of Rome	1475 ^JL	1475 - 1491	Spain	Spanish
Spanish Version S: Diego de Cañizares, Scala Çeli	Seven Sages of Rome	1470 ^JL	1470 - 1500	Toledo, Spain	Spanish
Storia d'una Crudele Matrigna (M)	Seven Sages of Rome	1350 ^JL	1350 - 1450	Venice, Italy	Italian
Storia di Stefano (R)	Seven Sages of Rome	1420 ^JL	1420 - 1470	Northern Italy	Italian
Storia favolosa di Stefano (S)	Seven Sages of Rome	1401 ^JL	1401 - 1460	Novigrad, Croatia	Italian
Swedish Prints (H)	Seven Sages of Rome
Swedish Version H: Sju vise mästare	Seven Sages of Rome	1492 ^JL	1492		Old Swedish
Syntipas	Book of Sindbad	1050 ^JL	1050 - 1100	Melitene	Greek
Syriac Sindban	Book of Sindbad	801 ^JL	801 - 1100	Melitene (Malatya)	Syriac
Turkish Forty Viziers
V (Lost metrical Old French Sept Sages)
Versfassung / Verse Version	Seven Sages of Rome	1401 ^JL	1401 - 1450		German (High and Low German)
Versio Italica historiae septem sapientum (L)	Seven Sages of Rome	1350 ^JL	1350 - 1425	Italy	Latin
Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein	Seven Sages of Rome	1375 ^JL	1375 - 1415	Wales, UK	Middle Welsh
Y Group	Seven Sages of Rome
Yiddish Version H	Seven Sages of Rome				Yiddish
Yiddish Version H Manuscripts	Seven Sages of Rome
Yiddish Version H Prints	Seven Sages of Rome
Zahiri al Samarqandi, Sindbadnama	Book of Sindbad	1150 ^JL	c.1150	Samarqand	Persian
Şeyḫ-zāde: Forty Viziers	Book of Sindbad	1446 ^JL	1446 - 1500		Turkish