| Textual Content and Tradition
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| Standardised title of narrative |
Sept Sages de Rome
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| Incipit or textual title |
'Li livres des VII sages de Rome'. Incipit: Ci commence li livres des VII sages de Rome et de l'empereriz qui, par son barat, vat fere destruire le fil l'empereor
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| Version (siglum) |
A (Seven Sages)
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| └ Language Group within Version |
French Version A
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| └ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version |
Group Z
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| └ Further scholarly subgroup (1) |
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| └ Further scholarly subgroup (2) |
Text E
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| Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) |
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| Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition |
Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014)
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| Languages
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| Language of text |
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| Regional or specific Language of text |
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| Source for regional or specific Language of text |
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| Note
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This text is incomplete.
A note on dating: there is some discrepancy in the records about the dating of this manuscript. The date given in Arlima and the ''Catalogue général des manuscrits'' is simply 'XVe siècle' (see Catalogue links). However, JONAS indicates that it dates from the end of the 13th, beginning of the 14th century. Further complicating this, however, are the end pages and additional folios. Some of these appear to include a 16th-century poem, while others are extracts from a book detailing the construction of one of duc Jean de Berry's castles, and may be dated precicely to 1387, according to the Saint-Étienne library catalogue.
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| Authorship and Production
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| Scribe |
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| Author |
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| Place of Manuscript Production |
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| Date of Manuscript Production
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15th century? (See notes)
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| Source of Date of Manuscript Production |
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| Physical Description
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| Material |
Parchment
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| Total pages/folios in Manuscript |
149
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| Height |
290
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| Width |
195
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| Script style/form |
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| Prose or verse |
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| Illustrations |
Yes
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| Contents and Additional Texts
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| Other texts in the Manuscript |
1-33: Li livres des VII sages de Rome (incomplete)
34r-149: Marques de Rome (incomplete)
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| Catalogues and Research Literature
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| Catalogue |
https://mediatheques.saint-etienne.fr/Default/doc/SYRACUSE/1982076/roman-des-sept-sages-de-rome, Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/9333, JONAS: http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/manuscrit/54777, Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France. Départements, Paris, Plon, t. 21, 1893, vi + 697 p. (ici p. 266-267, no 109): https://archive.org/details/cataloguegnr211893fran
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| Modern Research Literature |
Runte (1989), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Gilleland (1981), Berne-Aïache (1977), Berne-Aïache (1966), Le Roux de Lincy (1838), Coco (2016)
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| Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript
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This text is incomplete.
A note on dating: there is some discrepancy in the records about the dating of this manuscript. The date given in Arlima and the Catalogue général des manuscrits is simply 'XVe siècle' (see Catalogue links). However, JONAS indicates that it dates from the end of the 13th, beginning of the 14th century. Further complicating this, however, are the end pages and additional folios. Some of these appear to include a 16th-century poem, while others are extracts from a book detailing the construction of one of duc Jean de Berry's castles, and may be dated precicely to 1387, according to the Saint-Étienne library catalogue.