Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 20040

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Fr27
Location	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Siglum/Shelfmark	Français 20040 (formerly Saint-Germain français 1659)
Page/Folio range	121r-135v

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Sept Sages de Rome
Incipit or textual title	A Rome ot un empereor qui ot non Dyoclecien
Version (siglum)	A (Seven Sages)
└ Language Group within Version	French Version A
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Group Z
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Text Z
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014)

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

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation	http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53196526r
Modern Editions	Runte, Les sept sages de Rome: An On-Line Edition of French Version A (2006)

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Paris, France
Date of Manuscript Production	1200 - 1300
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	BNF catalogue: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc516424

Physical Description
Material	Parchment
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	159
Height	240
Width	165
Script style/form
Prose or verse
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	1r-104v: La vie des anciens Peres 105r: La passion de Jesus Christ 118vb-120vb: Les quinze signes du Jugement dernier 121r-135v: Roman des sept sages de Rome 136r: Fragment de comput, en vers français 136r: Henris, poème moral sur la cité divine et les sept péchés capitaux 147r: Chastie Musart 150r: Aucunnes parties notaules a plusors maladies, estraites de fysique des quatre complexions 150r: L'espistre qu'Aristotes envoia au roi Alixandre 156v: Texte en français 157v: Sermon en français

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc516424, Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/2592
Modern Research Literature	Plomp (1889), Le Roux de Lincy (1838), Runte (1974), Runte (1989), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Coco (2016), Berne-Aïache (1966)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript