S (Scala Coeli)

The version of the Seven Sages narrative known as 'Version S' in scholarship was penned by Jean or Johannes Gobi the Younger, as part of the collection of exempla titled Scala Coeli composed circa 1322–30. Gobi was a Dominican friar from the south of France, who compiled and composed the Scala Coeli while living at the monstery in Saint-Maximin (a site overseen by Jean Gobi the Elder, presumably his uncle) (see Aranda García (2021a), Polo de Beaulieu (1996)). The exempla in the compilation - somewhere between 600 and 1,000 in number, depending on the manuscript/incunabula witness - are mostly, but not universally, Dominican, drawn from and found in many other popular contemporary exempla collections, including those attributed to Jacques de Vitry, Arnold of Liège, Étienne of Bourbon, and Caesarius of Heisterbach.

Identification and general Information
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Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages	S
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Title	Scala coeli
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Tradition and Lineage
Branch of the tradition	West
Adapted from (version)	(Lost) Liber de Septem Sapientibus
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Recorded secondary versions
S (Scala Coeli) Latin Version S Latin Version S Manuscripts Latin Version S (Not in Scala Coeli) Latin Version S Group I Latin Version S Group II Latin Version S Group III

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Original language of version	Latin
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Translated into (languages)	Latin, Spanish
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