Engelberg Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 259

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Latin6
Location	Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek
Siglum/Shelfmark	Cod. 259
Page/Folio range	221r-245v

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Historia Septem Sapientum Moralizata
Incipit or textual title	Notabile de .7. magistris et diocleciano filii Jmperatoris romanorum Poncianus in ciuitate romana regnauit prudens valde
Version (siglum)	H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
└ Language Group within Version	Latin Version H
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Group I
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Text E
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Roth (2004)

Languages
Language of text	Latin
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions	Roth, Historia Septem Sapientum (2004)

Note
Regarding 'place of manuscript production', Roth (2004, p.25) says it is unknown but suggests the Benediktinerkloster Engelberg; Regarding 'date of manuscript production', Roth (2004, p.25) says "um [around] 1375" and provides various watermark analyses ranging from 1370-1380 in the footnote (19); Incomplete text: the text stops in the middle of the page after incipit of "Vaticinium"/"Amici", missing: 3rd Reductio to "Arbor", 2nd Reductio to "Aper", 1st to "Puteus", 1st to "Gaza", 2nd to "Avis", 1st to "Tentamina", 1st to "Medicus", 1st to "Inclusa", and 2nd to "Vidua" (see Roth 2004, p.26)

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	1375
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Roth (2004)

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	I + 247
Height	295
Width	210
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	1r-v : Inhaltsverzeichnis (table of contents, probably 18th/19th century) Teil 1: 1r-8v : Calendarium sanctorum cum regulis diaeteticis 9v : Notizen (?) 10r-13r : blank 13v : ownership note from Benediktinerkloster Engelberg 14r-22va : Sermones festivales 22vb : Meßfrüchte: Prima virtus est audire missam 23ra-37va : Magister Adam: Summula de Summa Raymundi 37va : Quaeritur utrum monachus possit praefici ecclesiae parochiali an non 37vb-39va : Summula de casibus 39vb-40rb : Quaestiones ex summa confessorum lib. III tit. XXXIII, (extract) 40v-43r : Sermo de tempore 43v-46r : blank 46va : Johannes de Ratisbona: Numerus ecclesiarum quarumdam dioeccesium 46vb : Liber de amore Dei, (extract) 46vb-176v : Antonius Azaro de Parma: Postilla super evangelia dominicalia 177r-183v : blank Teil II: 184r-185v : Miracula 186r-221r : Gesta Romanorum moralizata 221r-245v : Historia septem sapientum moralizata 246ra-247va : index to the 'Gesta Romanorum' with content details, incomplete (only until fol. 209)

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Roth (2004), Gottwald (1891)

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