Aventewr von Diocleciano

The German text titled Aventewr von Diocleciano is found in eight surviving manuscripts, and was likely composed in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century. Like most of the other German Seven Sages/Sieben Weise Meister texts, it is contained within the broader frame of the Gesta Romanorum tale collection (GR redaction B, by Gerdes' designation). Like the Hystorij von Diocleciano, the narrative pattern of the Aventewr derives from the Historia Septem Sapientum tradition, but it diverges halfway through the text. It contains only thirteen, rather than the expected fifteen embedded stories, several of which are anomalous: Lepus, Nasus praemorsus, Praeceptum galli, Thesaurus in puteo, and Voluptaria. These stories appear nowhere else in the Seven Sages tradition.

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Title	Aventewr von Diocleciano
Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages
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Branch of the tradition	West

Language & Composition
Original language of version	German (High and Low German)
Translated into (languages)
Place of composition
Date of composition	1380 - 1420
Source for date of composition	Gerdes (1992)

Literature & Editions
Modern research literature	Gerdes (1992)
Modern Editions	Gräße, Das älteste Mährchen- und Legendenbuch des christlichen Mittelalters, oder die Gesta Romanorum

Recorded branch of this secondary version
Aventewr von Diocleciano

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Adaptations
Adapted from (version)	H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
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Source for composition and adaptation information	Gerdes (1992)

Languages in Use
Language of text	German (High and Low German)
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Pattern of embedded stories in this version

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