Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 95

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Manuscript Identification

Reference Number
Fr31
Location
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Siglum / Shelfmark
Français 95 (formerly Regius 6769)
Page / Folio range
355ra-380ra

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative
Sept Sages de Rome
Incipit or textual title
A Romme ot I empereour qui ot a non Dyoclesiens…
Version (siglum)
Overlap of Versions A and L
Language Group within Version
French A/L Overlap


Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Text Q
Source for textual relationship
Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014)

Languages

Language of text
Old French
Regional / specific language
Old French (Nord)
Source for regional language
BNF: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc13594b

Digitisation & Editions

Digitisation
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6000108b
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)

Note

Spectacular initial minature and marginalia.

A note on grouping: This text is listed as part of Version A in JONAS, Arlima, Runte, etc. However, because of the presence of Filia and Noverca, I have grouped this with the other texts demonstrating the bleed between A and L.

The BNF catalogue notes that this manuscript and the manuscript 'Phillips 130' (Yale University Beinecke Library, MS 229) are 'complémentaires'. The Beineke Library manuscript contains: Le livre de Lancelot du Lac, La queste del Graal, La mort au roy Artu. This has led to some cataloguing confusion; on the JONAS site, for example, the listing for the 'Sept Sages de Rome, version A' includes 'Yale University Library Beinecke Ms 229'. This appears to be in error, and due to the linking of the two manuscripts through their Arthurian texts.

This text is also apparently closely related to Cambridge Gg.6.28. Plomp (1889) observes that BNF 95 and Cam Gg.6.28 are so closely related that they replicate the same error: Anxilles is introduced 2nd, and Lentulus 3rd, but Lentulus tells the 2nd story, and Anxilles the 3rd.

Authorship & Production


Place of Production
Thérouanne, France
Date of Production
1280 (circa)
Source of Date of Production
BNF: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc13594b

Physical Description

Material
Parchment
Total pages / folios
394
Height
470
Width
330
Prose or verse
Prose
Illustrations
Yes

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript
  • 1ra-113va: L'estoire del saint Graal
  • 113va-354vb: Le roman de Merlin en prose, avec la Suite Vulgate du Merlin
  • 355ra-380ra: Le roman des sept sages de Rome
  • 380ra-394vb: André le Moine, La penitance Adam

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue
Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/4153 (Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/4153), BNF: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc13594b
Modern Research Literature
Plomp (1889), Runte (1974), Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Runte (1989), Le Roux de Lincy (1838), Paris (1876), Berne-Aïache (1966), Berne-Aïache (1977), Speer (1981), Foehr-Janssens (1994), Coco (2016)

Embedded Stories in This Manuscript

Research Material

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