Brno Moravská knihovna RKP-0048.042 (Rkp 84)
From The Seven Sages of Rome
Manuscript Identification
Reference Number
Ger21
Location
Siglum / Shelfmark
Brno, Moravská knihovna, RKP-0048.042 (previously Rkp 84)
Page / Folio range
167v-259v (pp. 334-517)
Textual Content & Tradition
Standardised title of narrative
Version (siglum)
Language Group within Version
Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version
Further scholarly subgroup (1)
Source for textual relationship
Languages
Language of text
Regional / specific language
Source for regional language
Digitisation & Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions
Note
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.
Authorship & Production
Place of Production
Date of Production
1434 - 1455
Source of Date of Production
Physical Description
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:
- 1v-100r: John Mandeville's Travels (in German; 'Reisebeschreibung', by Michel Velser)
Part 2:
- 101r-120r: Thomas Peuntner: 'Beichtbüchlein'
- 120v-145v: 'Lucidarius'
- 146r-167r: Irmhart Öser: 'Epistel des Rabbi Samuel an Rabbi Isaac'
- 167v-200v: 'Sieben weise Meister', Part 1
Part 3:
- 201r-259v: 'Sieben weise Meister', part 2
- 259v-272v: 'Gesta Romanorum' (German)
Part 4:
- 273r-282r: 'Neusohler Cato'
- 282r-288v: 'Facetus Cum nihil utilius'
Catalogues & Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature
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 |
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