German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus
From The Seven Sages of Rome
In 1997, Steinmetz produced a parallel version of the German version A text, alongside the Latin version which is assumed to be its source-text. Steinmetz refers to this version of the narrative as Libellus muliebri nequitia plenus, and he argues the Latin version was composed in the 14th century, and translated into the Bavarian/Bavarian-Austrian dialect sometime early in the 15th century. In both of the extant manuscript witnesses of the text, the German Libellus muliebri is integrated into the frame of the German Gesta Romanorum, but unlike some of the other Seven Sages/Siebe Weise Meister versions found in the Gesta, it closely follows the Version A narrative pattern.
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- Dutch Version A
- French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages
- Gaelic Version A
- German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus
- Italian Version A
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- Middle English Version A
- Old Swedish Version A: Sju vise mästare
- Older Scots Version A: Buke of the Sevyne Sagis
- Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein
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Connected Manuscripts
| Has Language | Has Location | Has Date Range Of Production | |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Florian Stiftsbibliothek Cod. XI 92 B | German (High and Low German) | St. Florian, Stiftsbibliothek | 1453 |