Zürich Zentralbibliothek Ms. Car. C 28

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Sieben weise Meister
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum)	H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
└ Language Group within Version	German Version H
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Prosafassung / Prose Version
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)	Redaction B
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Text Z1
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Gerdes (1992), Gerdes (2004)

Languages
Language of text	German (High and Low German)
Regional or specific Language of text	Hochalemannisch, Schwäbisch
Source for regional or specific Language of text	Handschriftencensus 4021: https://handschriftencensus.de/4021

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions

Authorship and Production
Scribe	Jörg Hochmut
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Zürich, Switzerland
Date of Manuscript Production	1474/1478
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Handschriftencensus 4021: https://handschriftencensus.de/4021

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	406
Height	315
Width	220
Script style/form
Prose or verse
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	ff. 1r-47r: Zürcher Buch vom heiligen Karl ff. 49r-101v: 'Willehalm' (Prose Romance) ff. 107r-212v: 'Gesta Romanorum', German (Redaction G; Z1), including ff. ff. 107r-177r = 'Sieben weise Meister' ff. 215r-221v: 'Christus und die sieben Laden' ff. 227r-254v: Reinbot von Durne: 'Georg' ff. 259r-261v: 'Hester' (Prose) ff. 261v-264v: 'Anastasia' ff. 265r-296v: Meister Ingold: 'Guldîn spil' ff. 299r-402r: Konrad von Ammenhausen: 'Schachzabelbuch' ff. 402v-405r: 'Pilatus' (Pilate-Veronica Legend)

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Katalog der deutschsprachigen illustrierten Handschriften, Roth (2003), Gerdes (1992), Gerdes (2004)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript