Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 95
| Manuscript | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Reference Number | Fr31 | ||
| Location | Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France | ||
| Siglum/Shelfmark | Français 95 (formerly Regius 6769) | ||
| Page/Folio range | 355ra-380ra | ||
| Standardised title of narrative | Sept Sages de Rome | ||
| Incipit or textual title | A Romme ot I empereour qui ot a non Dyoclesiens… | ||
| Version (siglum) | Overlap of Versions A and L | ||
| └ Language Group within Version | French A/L Overlap | ||
| └ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version | |||
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (1) | |||
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (2) | Text Q | ||
| Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) | |||
| Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition | Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014) | ||
| Scribe | |||
| Author | |||
| Place of Manuscript Production | Thérouanne, France | ||
| Date of Manuscript Production | c. 1280 | ||
| Source of date Manuscript Production | BNF: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc13594b | ||
| Material | Parchment | ||
| Language of Manuscript | Old French | ||
| Regional or specific Language of Manuscript | Old French (Nord) | ||
| Source for regional or specific Language of Manuscript | BNF: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc13594b | ||
| Prose or Verse | Prose | ||
| Other texts in the Manuscript | 1ra-113va: L'estoire del saint Graal
113va-354vb: Le roman de Merlin en prose, avec la Suite Vulgate du Merlin 355ra-380ra: Le roman des sept sages de Rome 380ra-394vb: André le Moine, La penitance Adam | ||
| Script style/form | |||
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | 394 | ||
| Height | 470 | ||
| Width | 330 | ||
| Illustrations | Yes | ||
| Digitisation | https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6000108b | ||
| Modern Editions | Plomp, De Middelnederlandsche bewerking van het gedicht van den VII Vroeden van binnen Rome (1899), Runte, Les sept sages de Rome: An On-Line Edition of French Version A (2006) | ||
| Catalogue | Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/4153, BNF: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc13594b | ||
| Modern Research Literature | Plomp (1889), Runte (1974), Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Runte (1989), Le Roux de Lincy (1838), Paris (1876), Berne-Aïache (1966), Berne-Aïache (1977), Speer (1981), Foehr-Janssens (1994), Coco (2016) | ||
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript
Spectacular initial minature and marginalia.
A note on grouping: This text is listed as part of Version A in JONAS, Arlima, Runte, etc. However, because of the presence of Filia and Noverca, I have grouped this with the other texts demonstrating the bleed between A and L.
The BNF catalogue notes that this manuscript and the manuscript 'Phillips 130' (Yale University Beinecke Library, MS 229) are 'complémentaires'. The Beineke Library manuscript contains: Le livre de Lancelot du Lac, La queste del Graal, La mort au roy Artu. This has led to some cataloguing confusion; on the JONAS site, for example, the listing for the 'Sept Sages de Rome, version A' includes 'Yale University Library Beinecke Ms 229'. This appears to be in error, and due to the linking of the two manuscripts through their Arthurian texts.
This text is also apparently closely related to Cambridge Gg.6.28. Plomp (1889) observes that BNF 95 and Cam Gg.6.28 are so closely related that they replicate the same error: Anxilles is introduced 2nd, and Lentulus 3rd, but Lentulus tells the 2nd story, and Anxilles the 3rd.
