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 & 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

Source for textual relationship

Speer & Foehr-Janssens (2017), Speer (1981)

Digitisation & 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 & Production

Date of Production

1275 - 1325

Source of Date of Production

Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/3626

Physical Description

Material

Parchment

Total pages / folios

149

Height

167

Width

120

Illustrations

No

Contents & 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

55 - 120: Herman de Valenciennes, Roman de Dieu et de sa mere

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 & 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)

Embedded Stories in This Manuscript

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation
Tentamina – The Test	8
Roma – Rome Besieged	9	Empress
Avis – The Bird	10	Cato
Sapientes – The Wise Men	11	Empress
Vidua – The Widow	12	Jesse
Virgilius – Virgil's Marvels	13	Empress
Inclusa – The Imprisoned Wife	14	Meron	Merol

Research Material

Has Research Material Title	Has Research Material Link	Has Research Material Description