H (Historia Septem Sapientum)

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Identification & General Information

Title

Historia Septem Sapientum Romae

Tradition & Lineage

Branch of the tradition

West

Adapted from (version)

A (Seven Sages)

Recorded Secondary Versions

• H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
  • Armenian Version H
  • Czech Version H: Kronika sedmi mudrců
  • Danish Version H
  • Dutch Version H
    • Dutch Prints (H)
    • Dutch Prose Version H
  • English Version H
    • Conyers Version
    • English Prints (H)
  • French Version H
  • German Version H
    • Aventewr von Diocleciano
    • German Sieben Weise Meister
      • German Prints (H)
      • Prosafassung / Prose Version
        • Redaction A
        • Redaction B
        • Redaction C
        • Redaction D
        • Redaction E
        • Redaction F
        • Redaction G
      • Versfassung / Verse Version
        • Anonymous Verse Version
    • Hans von Bühel, Dyocletianus Leben
    • Hystorij von Diocleciano
    • Sebastian Wild, Ein schoͤne Tragedj (Stage adaptation)
  • Hungarian Version H: Pontianus tsaszar historiaia
    • Hungarian Prints
  • Icelandic Version H
    • Icelandic Prose: Sjö meistara saga
      • Group A: Sjö meistara saga
      • Group B: Alexander og Lúðvík
    • Icelandic Verse: Sjö meistara saga
      • Group C: Rímur
      • Group D: Vinaspegill
  • Latin Version H
    • Latin Historia Septem Sapientum
      • Excerpts in Gesta Romanorum
        • Continental Group w
        • Continental Group x
        • Insular Group u
      • Group I
      • Group II
      • Group III
      • Group IV
      • Lost Latin Version H Manuscripts
    • Ludus septem sapientum. De Astrei regii
  • Lithuanian Version H
  • Polish Version H
  • Russian Version H
  • Scots Version H: Rolland, Seuin Seages
    • Scots Prints (H)
  • Spanish Version H: Los Siete Sabios de Roma
    • Spanish Prints (H)
  • Swedish Version H: Sju vise mästare
    • Old Swedish Redaction C
    • Swedish Prints (H)
  • Yiddish Version H
    • Yiddish Version H Manuscripts
    • Yiddish Version H Prints

Connected Manuscripts

	Has Language	Has Location	Has Date Range Of Production
Admont Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 101a	Latin	Admont, Stiftsbibliothek	before 1380
Admont Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 163	Latin	Admont, Stiftsbibliothek	1410 - 1414
Admont Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 362	Latin	Admont, Stiftsbibliothek	1375
Admont Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 652	Latin	Admont, Stiftsbibliothek	1441
Alba Iulia Biblioteca Batthyaneum R II 75	Latin	Alba Iulia, Biblioteca Batthyaneum	1425 - 1450
Ansbach Staatliche Bibliothek (Schlossbibliothek) Ms. lat. 65	Latin	Ansbach, Staatliche Bibliothek (Schlossbibliothek)	1387
Augsburg Universitätsbibliothek Cod. I. 2. 2° 22	Latin	Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek	1459
Augsburg Universitätsbibliothek Cod. II. i. 2° 30	Latin	Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek	1427 - 1430
Augsburg Universitätsbibliothek Cod. II. i. 4º 70	Latin	Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek	1400 - 1425
Augsburg Universitätsbibliothek Cod. II. i. 4º 70 (excerpts within Gesta Romanorum)	Latin	Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek	1400 - 1425
Augsburg Universitätsbibliothek Cod. II. i. 4º i	Latin	Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek	1455

Language & Composition

Translated into (languages)

Armenian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German (High and Low German), Hungarian, Icelandic, Polish, Russian, Swedish

Date of Composition

Modern Scholarship & Editions

Modern research literature

Gerdes (1992), Gerdes (2004), Roth (2003), Roth (2008), Schmitz (1904)

Pattern of Embedded Stories in This Version

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation
Arbor – The Tree	1	Empress
Canis – The Faithful Dog	2	Bancillas
Aper – The Boar and the Fruit	3	Empress
Puteus – The Well	4	Lentulus
Gaza – The Treasure	5	Empress
Avis – The Bird	6	Cato
Sapientes – The Wise Men	7	Empress
Tentamina – The Test	8	Malquidras
Virgilius – Virgil's Marvels	9	Empress
Medicus – The Doctor	10	Josephas
Senescalcus and Roma – The Steward, and Rome Beseiged	11	Empress
Amatores – The Three Lovers	12	Cleophas
Inclusa – The Imprisoned Wife	13	Empress
Vidua – The Widow	14	Joachim

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Connected Prints

	Has Language	Has Sort Date Of Print	Has Place Of Printing
Aug. Zeytz'a, Istorija Septyniu Mokintoju. Plymouth, PA: s. n., 1892	Lithuanian	1892	Plymouth, PA
Ayn vunderlikhe shene historiye mit namen di zibn vayzn maynsters fun Rom. Amsterdam: Abraham Proops, 1775-1776	Yiddish	1775	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ayn vunderlikhe shene historiye mit namen di zibn vayzn maynsters fun Rom. Amsterdam: Abraham Proops, 1776	Yiddish	1775	Amsterdam, Netherlands
DIe Sieben Weisen Meyster. Wie Pontianus keiser […]. Straßburg: Jakob Cammerlander, 1537	German (High and Low German)	1537 JL	Straßburg, France
DIe Sieben Weisen Meyster. Wie Pontianus keyser […]. Straßburg: Jakob Cammerlander, 1536	German (High and Low German)	1536 JL	Straßburg, France
Das mayse bukh iz genant di zibn vayzn mansters fun Roym. Amsterdam: Jacob ben Meir Maarssen, (1676-1677)	Yiddish	1676	Amsterdam, Netherlands
De souen wysen Meister. Wo Pontianus de Romische Keyser […]. Hamburg: Hermann Möller, 1601	German (High and Low German)	1601	Hamburg, Germany
De souen wysen Meister. Wo Pontianus de Romische Keyser […]. Hamburg: Paul Lange for Heinrich Dose, 1618	German (High and Low German)	1618	Hamburg, Germany
De souen wysen Meister. Wo Pontianus de Romische Keyser […]. Hamburg: Paul Lange, 1605	German (High and Low German)	1605	Hamburg, Germany
Die Siben weisen Meister. Wie Pontianus der Keiser […]. Frankfurt am Main: Paul Reffeler for Kilian Han, 1577	German (High and Low German)	1577 JL	Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Die Siben weisen Meister. Wie Pontianus der Keiser […]. Frankfurt am Main: Thomas Rebart and Kilian Han, 1570	German (High and Low German)	1570 JL	Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Die Siben weisen Meister. Wie Pontianus der Keiser […]. Frankfurt am Main: Weigand Han, 1556	German (High and Low German)	1556 JL	Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Die Siben weisen Meister. Wie Pontianus der Keiser […]. Frankfurt am Main: Weigand Han, [ca. 1556]	German (High and Low German)	1556 JL	Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Die Siben weisen Meister. Wie Pontianus der Keyser […]. Frankfurt am Main: Weigand Han and Georg Rab, [around 1562]	German (High and Low German)	1562 JL	Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Die Siben weisen Meister. Wie Pontianus, der Keiser […]. Frankfurt am Main: Weigand Han and Georg Rab, 1565	German (High and Low German)	1565 JL	Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Die Siben weysen Meyster. Wie Pontianus der Keiser […]. Augsburg: Matthäus Francke, 1570	German (High and Low German)	1570 JL	Augsburg, Germany
Die Siben weysen Meyster. Wie Pontianus der Keyser […]. [Augsburg: Michael Manger, ca. 1580]	German (High and Low German)	1580 JL	Augsburg, Germany
Die Sieben Weisen Meyster. Wie Pontianus der keyser […]. Straßburg: Jakob Cammerlander von Mentz, 1538	German (High and Low German)	1538 JL	Straßburg, France
Die Sieben weisen Meister. Wie Pontianus der Keiser […]. Frankfurt am Main: Hermann Gülfferich, 1554	German (High and Low German)	1554 JL	Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Die historÿ der süben wisen meister. Kirchheim: [Printer of S. Brandan (Matthias Hupfuff)], 1497	German (High and Low German)	1497 JL	Kirchheim, Germany
Die nutzliche Unterweisung der Sieben Weisen Meister: Wie Pontianus der Kayser (...). s.l.: s.n., [ca. 1800]	German (High and Low German)	1800

Many versions of the Historia (in particular, the prose German versions of the text that Gerdes terms Prosafassung/Redaction B) are included within the text of the Gesta Romanorum. Gaston Paris suggested that this might account for the emperor's name in Version H: the emperor is called 'Poncianus' rather than 'Diocletianus', perhaps because the Gesta Romanorum already includes the story of an emperor Diocletian.