Brussel Koninklijke Bibliotheek 9433

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Fr19
Location	Brussel, Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Siglum/Shelfmark	9433-9434
Page/Folio range	1r-28r

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Sept Sages de Rome
Incipit or textual title	'Li roumans de le male marastre et des Siept Sages'. Incipit: Ch'est chi ensi comment li empereres de Roume bailla son fil as VII sages pour aprendre et pour endoctriner. Et se marastre le vaut faire morir. A Roume ot jadis I empereour ki ot non Dyoclisiiens. Il ot femme et de celle femme li remest uns hoirs…
Version (siglum)	A (Seven Sages)
└ Language Group within Version	French Version A
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Group X
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Text B3
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014)

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

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation	https://uurl.kbr.be/1774521
Modern Editions	Runte, Les sept sages de Rome: An On-Line Edition of French Version A (2006)

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Southern Netherlands
Date of Manuscript Production	c. 1330
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	JONAS: http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/manuscrit/10338, Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/9335

Physical Description
Material	Parchment
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	289
Height	346
Width	247
Script style/form
Prose or verse
Illustrations	Yes

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale des ducs de Bourgogne publié par ordre du ministre de l'Intérieur, Bruxelles et Leipzig, Muquardt, 1842, 3 t.: https://archive.org/details/cataloguedesman01brus
Modern Research Literature	Coco (2016), Berne-Aïache (1966), Runte (1971), Runte (1974), Runte (1989), Speer (1981)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript