Saint-Étienne Médiathèque Municipale 109
From Seven Sages of Rome
| Manuscript | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Reference Number | Fr28 | ||
| Location | Saint-Étienne, France | ||
| Siglum/Shelfmark | 109 (formerly MS Anc E286) | ||
| Page/Folio range | 1r-33v | ||
| Standardised title of narrative | Sept Sages de Rome | ||
| Incipit or textual title | 'Li livres des VII sages de Rome'. Incipit: Ci commence li livres des VII sages de Rome et de l'empereriz qui, par son barat, vat fere destruire le fil l'empereor | ||
| Version (siglum) | A (Seven Sages) | ||
| └ Language Group within Version | French Version A | ||
| └ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version | Group Z | ||
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (1) | |||
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (2) | Text E | ||
| Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) | |||
| Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition | Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014) | ||
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| Source of date Manuscript Production | |||
| Material | Parchment | ||
| Language of Manuscript | Old French | ||
| Regional or specific Language of Manuscript | |||
| Source for regional or specific Language of Manuscript | |||
| Prose or Verse | Prose | ||
| Other texts in the Manuscript | 1-33: Li livres des VII sages de Rome (incomplete)
34r-149: Marques de Rome (incomplete) | ||
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | 149 | ||
| Height | 290 | ||
| Width | 195 | ||
| Illustrations | Yes | ||
| Digitisation | https://mediatheques.saint-etienne.fr/Default/digital-viewer/c-1982076 | ||
| Modern Editions | Runte, Les sept sages de Rome: An On-Line Edition of French Version A (2006) | ||
| Catalogue | https://mediatheques.saint-etienne.fr/Default/doc/SYRACUSE/1982076/roman-des-sept-sages-de-rome, Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/9333, JONAS: http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/manuscrit/54777, Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France. Départements, Paris, Plon, t. 21, 1893, vi + 697 p. (ici p. 266-267, no 109): https://archive.org/details/cataloguegnr211893fran | ||
| Modern Research Literature | Runte (1989), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Gilleland (1981), Berne-Aïache (1977), Berne-Aïache (1966), Le Roux de Lincy (1838), Coco (2016) | ||
| General Notes (Internal) | |||
This text is incomplete.
A note on dating: there is some discrepancy in the records about the dating of this manuscript. The date given in Arlima and the Catalogue général des manuscrits is simply 'XVe siècle' (see Catalogue links). However, JONAS indicates that it dates from the end of the 13th, beginning of the 14th century. Further complicating this, however, are the end pages and additional folios. Some of these appear to include a 16th-century poem, while others are extracts from a book detailing the construction of one of duc Jean de Berry's castles, and may be dated precicely to 1387, according to the Saint-Étienne library catalogue.
