Fulda Landesbibliothek Cod. B. 11

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Manuscript Identification
Reference Number Ger5
Location Fulda, Landesbibliothek
Siglum/Shelfmark Fulda Landesbibliothek Cod. B. 11
Page/Folio range ff. 205r-240v
Textual Content and Tradition
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) Text F2
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition Gerdes (1992, 2004), and Handschriftencensus 4787: https://handschriftencensus.de/4787
Languages
Language of text High GermanAlemannicSoutheast variant
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text
Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation https://fuldig.hs-fulda.de/viewer/object/PPN439130875/1/
Modern Editions
Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production Germany
Date of Manuscript Production 1466/1470
Source of Date of Manuscript Production Handscriftencensus 4787: https://handschriftencensus.de/4787Regina Hausmann, Die historischen, philologischen und juristischen Handschriften der Hessischen Landesbibliothek Fulda bis zum Jahr 1600 (B 1-25, C 1-18. 68, D 1-48) (Die Handschriften der Hessischen Landesbibliothek Fulda 2), Wiesbaden 2000, S. 24-26.
Physical Description
Material Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript 240
Height 290
Width 210
Script style/form
Prose or verse
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript ff. 2r-120v: 'Gesta Romanorum' (Latin)

ff. 121ra-203vb: 'Flores temporum' (Latin) ff. 205r-240vL 'Gesta Romanorum', German (Version G), including: 'Sieben weise Meister'

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Gerdes (1992)Gerdes (2004)Roth (2003)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

According to Gerdes (1992), this text departs somewhat from the language and patterns of the other German 'Redaction B' texts of the Prose Historia.