Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 2137

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Fr7
Location	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Siglum/Shelfmark	Français 2137 (formerly Regius 7974)
Page/Folio range	1ra-46vb

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Sept Sages de Rome
Incipit or textual title	A Rome ot I empereeur qui ot non Dyoclecien, il ot fame eue
Version (siglum)	A (Seven Sages)
└ Language Group within Version	French Version A
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Group U
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Text T
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014)

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

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9059570v
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)

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Paris, France
Date of Manuscript Production	1275 - 1300
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	JONAS: http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/manuscrit/45666

Physical Description
Material	Parchment
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	201
Height	220
Width	170
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	1ra-46vb: Les Sept Sages de Rome, version française A 47ra-148va: La conqueste de Constantinople, par Geoffroi de Villehardouin 151ra-152vb: Les sainz leus de la terre de Jherusalem 152vb-186vb: L'estoire Charlemainne [La chronique du Pseudo-Turpin, « Cinquième version »] 186vb-198vb: Chronique de Normandie du XIIIe siècle, rédaction A

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc48686s
Modern Research Literature	Berne-Aïache (1966), Runte (1971), Runte (1974), Coco (2016), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript