Berlin Staatsbibliothek mgf 59
From The Seven Sages of Rome
| Manuscript Identification | |
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| Reference Number | Ger2 |
| Location | Staatsbibliothek, Berlin |
| Siglum/Shelfmark | Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. germ. fol. 59, ff. 94v-133r |
| Page/Folio range | ff. 95r-133r |
| Textual Content and Tradition | |
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| Standardised title of narrative | |
| Incipit or textual title | |
| Version (siglum) | H (Historia Septem Sapientum) |
| └ Language Group within Version | German Version H |
| └ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version | Prose Version H |
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (1) | Redaction B |
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (2) | |
| Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) | |
| Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition | Udo Gerdes, 'Sieben weise Meister', Verfasserlexikon, Vol 8 (1992), pp. 1174-1189, and Vol 11 (2004), pp. 1430. |
| Languages | |
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| Language of text | Alsatian |
| Regional or specific Language of text | |
| Source for regional or specific Language of text | |
| Digitisation and Editions | |
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| Digitisation | http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB00015A5A00000000 |
| Modern Editions | |
| Authorship and Production | |
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| Scribe | |
| Author | |
| Place of Manuscript Production | Germany |
| Date of Manuscript Production | 1432/1437 |
| Source of Date of Manuscript Production | Detlef Roth, Überlieferungskontexte als Zugang zu mittelalterlichen Texten am Beispiel der 'Sieben weisen Meister', Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 122 (2003), p. 363.
Handschriftencensus: 'Handschriftenbeschreibung 4378', https://handschriftencensus.de/4378 |
| Physical Description | |
|---|---|
| Material | Paper |
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | |
| Height | 265 |
| Width | 187 |
| Script style/form | |
| Prose or verse | |
| Illustrations | No |
| Contents and Additional Texts | |
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| Other texts in the Manuscript | The codex exists in three parts. The first part consists solely of Daniel Sudermann's claim of ownership, and blank pages. The second part opens with the Alsatian Troy Book, followed by the Gesta Romanorum (version G), ff. 93v-165r, within which the Seven Sages exists (ff. 95r-133r). The third part contains practical texts (medical, astronomical, agricultural). |
| Catalogues and Research Literature | |
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| Catalogue | |
| Modern Research Literature | Detlef Roth, Überlieferungskontexte als Zugang zu mittelalterlichen Texten am Beispiel der 'Sieben weisen Meister', Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 122 (2003), p. 363 |
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