Chartres Bibliothèque municipale 620
From Seven Sages of Rome
| Manuscript | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Reference Number | Fr43 | ||
| Location | Chartres, Médiathèque L'Apostrophe | ||
| Siglum/Shelfmark | 620 (formerly 0261) | ||
| Page/Folio range | 19-44 | ||
| Standardised title of narrative | Sept Sages de Rome | ||
| Incipit or textual title | Seigneur, dist il, dites moi auquel de vous je bailleré mon enfant pour apprendre et pour endoctriner? » Li ainn[e]z palla avant | ||
| Version (siglum) | C (Sept Sages de Rome) | ||
| └ Language Group within Version | French Version C | ||
| └ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version | |||
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (1) | |||
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (2) | |||
| Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) | |||
| Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition | Speer & Foehr-Janssens (2017), Speer (1981) | ||
| Scribe | |||
| Author | |||
| Place of Manuscript Production | |||
| Date of Manuscript Production | 1275 - 1325 | ||
| Source of date Manuscript Production | Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/3626 | ||
| Material | Parchment | ||
| Language of Manuscript | Old French | ||
| Regional or specific Language of Manuscript | |||
| Source for regional or specific Language of Manuscript | |||
| Prose or Verse | |||
| Other texts in the Manuscript | |||
| Script style/form | |||
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | 142 | ||
| Height | 167 | ||
| Width | 120 | ||
| Illustrations | No | ||
| Digitisation | https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md4302873f0b | ||
| Modern Editions | Speer, Le Roman des Sept Sages de Rome (1989), Speer and Foehr-Janssens, Le Roman des Sept Sages de Rome (2017) | ||
| Catalogue | |||
| Modern Research Literature | Paris (1876), Misrahi (1933), Speer & Foehr-Janssens (2017), Speer (1981), Speer (1987), Speer (1989), Speer (1994), Foehr-Janssens (1994), Foehr-Janssens (1997), Uhlig and Foehr-Janssens (2014), Smith (1912) | ||
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript
| Short Story | Sequence Number | Narrator | Name Variations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arbor | 1 | Empress | |
| Canis | 2 | Bancillas | Baucillas |
| Aper | 3 | Empress | |
| Medicus | 4 | Auguste | Augustus |
| Gaza | 5 | Empress | |
| Puteus | 6 | ||
| Senescalcus | 7 | Empress | |
| Tentamina | 8 |
The Chartres 620 MS was unfortunately lost in WWII. It was partially photographed prior to this distruction, but primarily the second half. This is noteworthy, because the text existed in two parts: folios 19-26 in prose, through to the opening of Tentamina, and then folios 27-44 in rhymed verse. Only one image of the first (prose) half of the text (folio 26) survives.
According to Speer (1981) and Speer and Foehr-Janssens (2017), despite the fact that the two halves of the text are copied in different hands and styles, there is sufficient fluidity between them to consider them an intentional continuation and whole, rather than discrete fragments.
