Saint-Étienne Médiathèque Municipale 109

Manuscript Identification

Reference Number

Fr28

Location

Saint-Étienne, Médiathèque Municipale

Siglum / Shelfmark

109 (formerly MS Anc E286)

Page / Folio range

1r-33v

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative

Sept Sages de Rome

Incipit or textual title

'Li livres des VII sages de Rome'. Incipit: Ci commence li livres des VII sages de Rome et de l'empereriz qui, par son barat, vat fere destruire le fil l'empereor

Version (siglum)

A (Seven Sages)

Language Group within Version

French Version A

Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version

Group Z

Further scholarly subgroup (2)

Text E

Source for textual relationship

Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014)

Languages

Language of text

Old French

Digitisation & Editions

Digitisation

https://mediatheques.saint-etienne.fr/Default/digital-viewer/c-1982076

Modern Editions

Runte, Les sept sages de Rome: An On-Line Edition of French Version A (2006)

Note

This text is incomplete.

A note on dating: there is some discrepancy in the records about the dating of this manuscript. The date given in Arlima and the ''Catalogue général des manuscrits'' is simply 'XVe siècle' (see Catalogue links). However, JONAS indicates that it dates from the end of the 13th, beginning of the 14th century. Further complicating this, however, are the end pages and additional folios. Some of these appear to include a 16th-century poem, while others are extracts from a book detailing the construction of one of duc Jean de Berry's castles, and may be dated precicely to 1387, according to the Saint-Étienne library catalogue.

Authorship & Production

Date of Production

15th century? (See notes)

Physical Description

Material

Parchment

Total pages / folios

149

Height

290

Width

195

Illustrations

Yes

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript

1-33: Li livres des VII sages de Rome (incomplete) 34r-149: Marques de Rome (incomplete)

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

https://mediatheques.saint-etienne.fr/Default/doc/SYRACUSE/1982076/roman-des-sept-sages-de-rome, Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/9333, JONAS: http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/manuscrit/54777, Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France. Départements, Paris, Plon, t. 21, 1893, vi + 697 p. (ici p. 266-267, no 109): https://archive.org/details/cataloguegnr211893fran

Modern Research Literature

Runte (1989), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Gilleland (1981), Berne-Aïache (1977), Berne-Aïache (1966), Le Roux de Lincy (1838), Coco (2016)

Research Material

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