Brno Moravská knihovna RKP-0048.042 (Rkp 84)

Manuscript Identification

Reference Number

Ger21

Location

Brno, Moravská knihovna

Siglum / Shelfmark

Brno, Moravská knihovna, RKP-0048.042 (previously Rkp 84)

Page / Folio range

ff. 167v-259v (pp. 334-517)

Textual Content & Tradition

Version (siglum)

H (Historia Septem Sapientum)

Language Group within Version

German Version H

Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version

Prose Version H

Further scholarly subgroup (1)

Redaction D

Source for textual relationship

Gerdes (1992), Gerdes (2004), Roth (2008)

Languages

Language of text

Bairisch

Digitisation & Editions

Digitisation

https://www.manuscriptorium.com/apps/index.php?direct=record&pid=MZK___-MZKB__RKP_0048_0423HSRW85-xx

Modern Editions

Roth, Sieben weise Meister (2008)

Authorship & Production

Scribe

Petrus Kranczperger Purtig von Salczpurg

Place of Production

Germany

Date of Production

1434/1455

Source of Date of Production

Roth (2008), Handschriftencensus 7332: https://handschriftencensus.de/7332

Physical Description

Material

Parchment and paper

Total pages / folios

288

Height

220

Width

145

Illustrations

No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript

The codex was originally four distinct texts, bound together in the 15th c. The text of the Sieben weise Meister narrative spans two parts.

Part 1: ff. 1v-100r: John Mandeville's Travels (in German; 'Reisebeschreibung', by Michel Velser)

Part 2: ff. 101r-120r: Thomas Peuntner: 'Beichtbüchlein' ff. 120v-145v: 'Lucidarius' ff. 146r-167r: Irmhart Öser: 'Epistel des Rabbi Samuel an Rabbi Isaac' ff. 167v-200v: 'Sieben weise Meister', Part 1

Part 3: ff. 201r-259v: 'Sieben weise Meister', part 2 ff. 259v-272v: 'Gesta Romanorum' (German)

Part 4: ff. 273r-282r: 'Neusohler Cato'

ff. 282r-288v: 'Facetus Cum nihil utilius'

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

Handschriftencensus

Modern Research Literature

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

Embedded Stories in This Manuscript

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

Research Material

Has Research Material Title	Has Research Material Link	Has Research Material Description

Note: Only some of the sages are named in this text. In one case (the fourth sage, who tells 'Tentamina'), the name variation offers some confusion: the sage is named 'Macilentus', which bears resemblance to the sage name 'Maxencius', but other Version H texts -including close analogues - have 'Malquidras' as the teller of that tale.