About

About the Project:

Team, goals, The Seven Sages

Using the Database

The database is chiefly into version, manuscript, print and inset stories sections.

Versions: The versions page offers an overview of the Seven Sages of Rome and Book of Sindbad traditions. Further information of each of the version is available by clicking on its title. Click the plus sign to the left of each title to expand and make visible any secondary versions. Some versions have subversions in different.

Languages: If you are interested in a particular language, navigate to the languages page and select this language. This page then displays all versions, manuscripts and prints in that language.

Manuscripts and prints: Manuscripts and prints are collected in two separate lists. Each can be filtered by language, date of production, version, existence of illustration etc. by clicking on the filter button in the top right corner of the page. You can select more than one filter at a time. To sort the overall manuscript or print list by date, language, location etc., click the arrows in the respective column.

Inset stories: This gives summaries of the Latin and English titles of the stories embedded in the Seven Sages/ Book of Sindbad frame narrative. The motifs are tagged on each story page. Clicking on that tag will show all stories with that motif.

Location map: All places of production of manuscripts and prints, locations of libraries and modern research literature places of publication are visualised on this page. You can filter to see only locations of manuscript production, early modern printing locations and places of text composition by clicking the respective tab at the top of the map.