Trier Stadtbibliothek Hs. 1935/1432 4°
From The Seven Sages of Rome
Manuscript Identification | |
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Reference Number | Ger12 |
Location | Trier, Stadtbliothek Weberbach |
Siglum/Shelfmark | Trier, Stadtbibl. Weberbach, Hs. 1935/1432 4° |
Page/Folio range | 51ra-vb, 48ra-vb, 61ra-80va |
Textual Content and Tradition | |
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Standardised title of narrative | Sieben weise Meister |
Incipit or textual title | |
Version (siglum) | H (Historia Septem Sapientum) |
└ Language Group within Version | German Version H |
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version | Prosafassung / Prose Version |
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1) | Redaction B |
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2) | Text T |
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) | |
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition | Gerdes (1992), Gerdes (2004) |
Languages | |
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Language of text | Moselfränkisch |
Regional or specific Language of text | |
Source for regional or specific Language of text |
Digitisation and Editions | |
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Digitisation | |
Modern Editions |
Note |
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Folios 48 and 60 were reversed, hence the narrative's foliation. |
Authorship and Production | |
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Scribe | Johan von Paderborn |
Author | |
Place of Manuscript Production | Klausen, Germany |
Date of Manuscript Production | 1450/1525 |
Source of Date of Manuscript Production | Bushey (1996), Handschriftencensus 4086: https://handschriftencensus.de/4086 |
Physical Description | |
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Material | Paper |
Total pages/folios in Manuscript | 230 |
Height | 280 |
Width | 205 |
Script style/form | |
Prose or verse | |
Illustrations | No |
Contents and Additional Texts | |
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Other texts in the Manuscript | The codex is divided into four parts. Parts 1, 2, and 3 contain instructional literature and religious texts in German and Latin, including 'Sibyllen Buch', Augustine's 'De quantitate animae', Marquard von Lindau's 'Auszug der Kinder Israel' and 'Dekalogerklärung', and Dirk van Delft's 'Tafel van den kersten ghelove'.
Part 4 begins with 'Lucidarius' (20vb-51ra, 60ra-60vb), followed by 'Gesta Romanorum' (51ra-101ra), including the Sieben weise Meister (51ra-vb, 48ra-vb, 61ra-80va). Part 4 continues with religious texts, prayers, and meditations in Low German, High German, and Latin, including apocalyptic texts, and concludes with Otto von Diemeringen's redaction of John Mandeville's Travels ('Reisebeschreibung'), 122ra-199ra. |
Catalogues and Research Literature | |
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Catalogue | |
Modern Research Literature | Bushey (1996), Nemes (2011), Roth (2003), Schmitz (1904) |
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