Chartres Bibliothèque municipale 620
| Manuscript Identification | |
|---|---|
| Reference Number | Fr43 |
| Location | Chartres, Médiathèque L'Apostrophe |
| Siglum/Shelfmark | 620 (formerly 0261) |
| Page/Folio range | 19-44 |
| Textual Content and Tradition | |
|---|---|
| Standardised title of narrative | Sept Sages de Rome |
| Incipit or textual title | Seigneur, dist il, dites moi auquel de vous je bailleré mon enfant pour apprendre et pour endoctriner? » Li ainn[e]z palla avant |
| Version (siglum) | C (Sept Sages de Rome) |
| └ Language Group within Version | French Version C |
| └ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version | |
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (1) | |
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (2) | |
| Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) | |
| Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition | Speer & Foehr-Janssens (2017), Speer (1981) |
| Languages | |
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| Language of text | |
| Regional or specific Language of text | |
| Source for regional or specific Language of text | |
| Digitisation and Editions | |
|---|---|
| Digitisation | https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md4302873f0b |
| Modern Editions | Speer, Le Roman des Sept Sages de Rome (1989), Speer and Foehr-Janssens, Le Roman des Sept Sages de Rome (2017) |
| Authorship and Production | |
|---|---|
| Scribe | |
| Author | |
| Place of Manuscript Production | |
| Date of Manuscript Production | 1275 - 1325 |
| Source of Date of Manuscript Production | Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/3626 |
| Physical Description | |
|---|---|
| Material | Parchment |
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | 149 |
| Height | 167 |
| Width | 120 |
| Script style/form | |
| Prose or verse | |
| Illustrations | No |
| Contents and Additional Texts | |
|---|---|
| Other texts in the Manuscript | 2r - 17v: Livre de moralités
19 - 43: Sept sages de Rome 47 - 54: Anonyme, Vie de sainte Marguerite
120r - 121rb: Gautier de Coinci, Prière de Théophile 121 - 124: Prière à Notre Dame 124v - 125: Prière à Notre Dame 124 - 127: Clerc de Vaudois, Dit du droit 128v - 128v: Pater noster 136r - 136v: Auberee 136v-149r: Isopet de Chartres |
| Catalogues and Research Literature | |
|---|---|
| Catalogue | |
| Modern Research Literature | Paris (1876), Misrahi (1933), Speer & Foehr-Janssens (2017), Speer (1981), Speer (1987), Speer (1989), Speer (1994), Foehr-Janssens (1994), Foehr-Janssens (1997), Uhlig and Foehr-Janssens (2014), Smith (1912) |
| Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript | |
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The Chartres 620 MS was unfortunately lost in WWII. It was partially photographed prior to this distruction, but primarily the second half. This is noteworthy, because the text existed in two parts: folios 19-26 in prose, through to the opening of Tentamina, and then folios 27-44 in rhymed verse. Only one image of the first (prose) half of the text (folio 26) survives.
According to Speer (1981) and Speer and Foehr-Janssens (2017), despite the fact that the two halves of the text are copied in different hands and styles, there is sufficient fluidity between them to consider them an intentional continuation and whole, rather than discrete fragments.