Anonymous Verse Version

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Like Hans von Bühel's poem, the anonymous German verse version is part of the Version H tradition, and explicitly credits a Latin text as its source (Kunkel 2023). It was composed in the first half of the fifteenth century, and survives in four manuscripts. The poem is some 7,000 lines in length, with a sizable prologue that establishes the anti-feminist bent of the narrative, linking the Sieben weise Meister motifs of feminine wickedness to classical precedent.

General Information
Language within Version
Narrative / Scholarly Group
Parent Versions	Versfassung / Verse Version
Child Versions
Author
Title
Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages	Anonymous Verse 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 - 1450
Source for date of composition	Kunkel (2023), Gerdes (1992)

Literature & Editions
Modern research literature	Gerdes (1992), Kunkel (2023), Paschke (1891), Gerdes (2004)
Modern Editions	Keller, Altdeutsche Gedichte (1846)

Recorded branch of this secondary version

H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Czech Version H: Kronika sedmi mudrců Danish Version H Dutch Version H English Version H English Prints (H) French Version H German Version H 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 Bühnenfassung / Stage adaptation: Sebastian Wild, Tragedj Hans von Bühel, Dyocletianus Leben Hungarian Version H 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 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 Polish Version H Scots Version H: Rolland, Seuin Seages Spanish Version H: Los Siete Sabios de Roma Spanish Prints (H) Swedish Version H: Sju vise mästare Old Swedish Redaction C Swedish Prints (H)

Connected prints
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Adaptations
Adapted from (version)	Versfassung / Verse Version, German Version H, Latin Version H
Adapted into (version)
Source for composition and adaptation information

Languages in Use
Language of text	German (High and Low German)
Regional or specific language of version

Notes
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Notes on motifs
Notes on the frame

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Connected manuscripts

Manuscript Language Location Date of Production Erlangen Universitätsbibliothek Ms. B 11 German (High and Low German) Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg 1476 Frankfurt a. M. Universitätsbibliothek Ms. germ. qu. 12 German (High and Low German) Frankfurt a. M., Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg 1471 Hamburg Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Cod. germ. 1 German (High and Low German) Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek 1454 Karlsruhe Landesbibliothek Cod. Donaueschingen 90 German (High and Low German) Karlsruhe, Landesbibliothek 1452