Stockholm Kungliga biblioteket Cod. Holm. D 4

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Manuscript Identification

Reference Number

OldSwedish1

Location

Stockholm, Kungliga biblioteket

Siglum / Shelfmark

Cod. Holm. D 4

Page / Folio range

k xxv-l xiij / 245r-263r

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative

Sju vise mästare

Incipit or textual title

Aff the siw mæstare

Version (siglum)

A (Seven Sages)

Language Group within Version

Old Swedish Version A

Further scholarly subgroup (2)

Old Swedish Redaction A

Translated / adapted from (Version/Text)

Uppsala University Library Cod. Ups. C 7

Source for textual relationship

Klemming (1887-1889), Bampi (2007), Bampi (2014)

Languages

Language of text

Old Swedish

Digitisation & Editions

Modern Editions

Klemming, Sju vise mästare (1887-1889)

Note

• incomplete: "the beginning of the frame story is wanting" (Bampi 2007, p. 19)
• the stories are introduced by the phrase "oc ther mz byrjadhe han/hon sit äwintyr", the latter as a translation of lat. exemplum and fabula (see Bampi 2014, p. 251)

Authorship & Production

Place of Production

Scriptorium of Vadstena Abbey, Östergötland, Sweden

Date of Production

1400 - 1450

Source of Date of Production

Bampi (2014)

Physical Description

Material

Paper

Height

"-110" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 105.105-110

Width

"-300" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 295.295-300

Illustrations

No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript

- various very different texts (secular and religious) in Old Swedish, Latin, Middle Low German

examples being:

• the three Eufemiavisor
• a translation of two branches of Karlamagnús saga (Karl Magnus)
• Konung Alexander
• psalms and prayers
• texts used for practical reasons such as The Farmer's Almanac, veterinary notes for cattle, a tract on digestion, a tract on urinoscopy

textual environment of the Sju vise mästare:

231r-232v: Aff Gudz tilkwaemd och hans fødhilse

232v-234v: De obitu beate marie virginis gloriose

234v-235r: De transito beate marie virginis gloriose

235r-235v: De quindecim signis ante diem judicij

235v-236v: Speculum misse

236v-238v: De ligno domini

239r-244v: De lucidario

245r-263r: Aff the siw mæstare

263r-267r: Hær sigx aff huru siælin oc kroppin thrætto

267r-271v: Hær byrias aff ridder sancte yrian

271-294v: Hær byrias siw sacramenta

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

Modern Research Literature

Klemming (1887-1889), Bampi (2007), Bampi (2014), Ronge (1957), Noreen (1929), Liffman / Stephens (1849), Klemming (1848), Noreen (1904), Kraft (1930), Briquet (1923), Vilhelmsdotter (1999), Holm (1958), Kornhall (1959), Carlquist (1996), Carlquist (2002), Thorell (1959), Carlquist (2000), Wiktorsson (1997), Wiktorsson (2007), Åström (1997), Greene (1994)

Research Material

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