Hamburg Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Cod. germ. 1
| Manuscript Identification | |
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| Reference Number | Ger31 |
| Location | Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek |
| Siglum/Shelfmark | Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibl., Cod. germ. 1 |
| Page/Folio range | 109r-211r |
| 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 | Versfassung / Verse Version |
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (1) | Verse Redaction B: Anonymous Verse Version |
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (2) | Text H |
| Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) | Prosafassung / Prose Version |
| Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition | Gerdes (1992), Gerdes (2004) |
| Languages | |
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| Language of text | Schwäbisch |
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| Digitisation and Editions | |
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| Digitisation | |
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This manuscript has been partially digitised - but only Part I, not Part II, which contains the Sieben weise Meister text. Access to digital copies of Part I may be found here (ff. 1r-10r, 26v-63r, 64r-76r) and here (ff. 65r-101r, 212r). |
| Authorship and Production | |
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| Place of Manuscript Production | |
| Date of Manuscript Production | 1454 |
| Source of Date of Manuscript Production | Handschiftencensus 4859: https://handschriftencensus.de/4859 |
| Physical Description | |
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| Material | Paper |
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | 214 |
| Height | 290 |
| Width | 190 |
| Script style/form | |
| Prose or verse | |
| Illustrations | No |
| Contents and Additional Texts | |
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| Other texts in the Manuscript | The codex is in two parts. Part one largely contains recipes and practical texts; part two is the 'Sieben Weise Meisters'.
Part I: 1r-57r: collection of medical recipes, including: - 3v-4r: 'Macer' (German, Vulgate) [Prose preface] - 4ra-4va, 6ra-11vb: Herbal compilation from 'Macer' 57v-61r: Volmar: 'Das Steinbuch' (H) 62r-63v: 'Lunar' 64r: Prognostications for the new year 65ra-69va: Recipes (for cooking) 69va-71ra: Gottfried von Franken: 'Pelzbuch' 71ra-75ra: Rezept(e) für Farben und Tinte 75va-98vb: 'Lucidarius' (Ha1), up to II.27; from ff. 89ra: Honorius Augustodunensis: 'Elucidarium' (German) Part II: 109r-211r: 'Sieben weise Meister' (anonyme Versbearbeitung einer dt. Prosafassung der 'Historia septem sapientum') (H) |
| Catalogues and Research Literature | |
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| Catalogue | |
| Modern Research Literature | Paschke (1891), Gerdes (1992), Heiles (2018) |
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