Bern Burgerbibliothek Cod. 388

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Sept Sages de Rome
Incipit or textual title	A Rome ot un ampereor qui avoit non Dioclecien. Il ot fame et de cele fame li fu remes
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 S2
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	ARLIMA: Les sept sages, Runte (1974), Runte (1984, and online)

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

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation	http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/de/list/one/bbb/0388
Modern Editions	Leroux de Lincy, Roman des Sept Sages de Rome en prose (1838)

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Picardie
Date of Manuscript Production	1285 - 1315
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Bern Burgerbibliothek catalogue: https://katalog.burgerbib.ch/detail.aspx?ID=129445

Physical Description
Material	Parchment
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	135
Height	230
Width	165
Script style/form
Prose or verse
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	0: Anonyme, Ségurant le Brun, version complémentaire prophétique 1ra - 44va: Thierry de Vaucouleure, Vie de saint Jean l'évangéliste 45r - 104r: Anonyme, Prophéties de Merlin 62rb-62vb: Anonyme, Ségurant le Brun 91v-91v: Anonyme, Ségurant le Brun, fragment de Bern-Bruxelles 105r-136: Sept sages de Rome, version A

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	https://katalog.burgerbib.ch/detail.aspx?ID=129445
Modern Research Literature	Runte (1971), Runte (1974), Paris (1876), Berne-Aïache (1966)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript