Stockholm Kungliga biblioteket Cod. Holm. D 4

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	OldSwedish1
Location	Stockholm, Kungliga biblioteket
Siglum/Shelfmark	Cod. Holm. D 4
Page/Folio range	k xxv-l xiij / 245r-263r

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Sju vise mästare
Incipit or textual title	Aff the siw mæstare
Version (siglum)	A (Seven Sages)
└ Language Group within Version	Old Swedish Version A
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Old Swedish Redaction A
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)	Uppsala University Library Cod. Ups. C 7
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Klemming (1887-1889), Bampi (2007), Bampi (2014)

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

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions	Klemming, Sju vise mästare (1887-1889)

Note
incomplete: "the beginning of the frame story is wanting" (Bampi 2007, p. 19) the stories are introduced by the phrase "oc ther mz byrjadhe han/hon sit äwintyr", the latter as a translation of lat. exemplum and fabula (see Bampi 2014, p. 251)

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Scriptorium of Vadstena Abbey, Östergötland, Sweden
Date of Manuscript Production	1400 - 1450
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Bampi (2014)

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript
Height	"-110" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 105.105-110
Width	"-300" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 295.295-300
Script style/form
Prose or verse
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	- various very different texts (secular and religious) in Old Swedish, Latin, Middle Low German examples being: the three Eufemiavisor a translation of two branches of Karlamagnús saga (Karl Magnus) Konung Alexander psalms and prayers texts used for practical reasons such as The Farmer's Almanac, veterinary notes for cattle, a tract on digestion, a tract on urinoscopy textual environment of the Sju vise mästare: 231r-232v: Aff Gudz tilkwaemd och hans fødhilse 232v-234v: De obitu beate marie virginis gloriose 234v-235r: De transito beate marie virginis gloriose 235r-235v: De quindecim signis ante diem judicij 235v-236v: Speculum misse 236v-238v: De ligno domini 239r-244v: De lucidario 245r-263r: Aff the siw mæstare 263r-267r: Hær sigx aff huru siælin oc kroppin thrætto 267r-271v: Hær byrias aff ridder sancte yrian 271-294v: Hær byrias siw sacramenta

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Klemming (1887-1889), Bampi (2007), Bampi (2014), Ronge (1957), Noreen (1929), Liffman / Stephens (1849), Klemming (1848), Noreen (1904), Kraft (1930), Briquet (1923), Vilhelmsdotter (1999), Holm (1958), Kornhall (1959), Carlquist (1996), Carlquist (2002), Thorell (1959), Carlquist (2000), Wiktorsson (1997), Wiktorsson (2007), Åström (1997), Greene (1994)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript