Brno Moravská knihovna RKP-0048.042 (Rkp 84)

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Ger21
Location	Brno, Moravská knihovna
Siglum/Shelfmark	Brno, Moravská knihovna, RKP-0048.042 (previously Rkp 84)
Page/Folio range	ff. 167v-259v (pp. 334-517)

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum)	H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
└ Language Group within Version	German Version H
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Prose Version H
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)	Redaction D
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Gerdes (1992), Gerdes (2004), Roth (2008)

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

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation	https://www.manuscriptorium.com/apps/index.php?direct=record&pid=MZK___-MZKB__RKP_0048_0423HSRW85-xx
Modern Editions	Roth, Sieben weise Meister (2008)

Authorship and Production
Scribe	Petrus Kranczperger Purtig von Salczpurg
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Germany
Date of Manuscript Production	1434/1455
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Roth (2008), Handschriftencensus 7332: https://handschriftencensus.de/7332

Physical Description
Material	Parchment and paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	288
Height	220
Width	145
Script style/form
Prose or verse
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	The codex was originally four distinct texts, bound together in the 15th c. The text of the Sieben weise Meister narrative spans two parts. Part 1: ff. 1v-100r: John Mandeville's Travels (in German; 'Reisebeschreibung', by Michel Velser) Part 2: ff. 101r-120r: Thomas Peuntner: 'Beichtbüchlein' ff. 120v-145v: 'Lucidarius' ff. 146r-167r: Irmhart Öser: 'Epistel des Rabbi Samuel an Rabbi Isaac' ff. 167v-200v: 'Sieben weise Meister', Part 1 Part 3: ff. 201r-259v: 'Sieben weise Meister', part 2 ff. 259v-272v: 'Gesta Romanorum' (German) Part 4: ff. 273r-282r: 'Neusohler Cato' ff. 282r-288v: 'Facetus Cum nihil utilius'

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Roth (2008), Gerdes (1992), Gerdes (2004), Roth (2003)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript