København Den Arnamagnaeanske Samling Cod. AM. 191

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Manuscript Identification

Reference Number

OldSwedish3

Location

København, Den Arnamagnaeanske Samling

Siglum / Shelfmark

Cod. AM. 191

Page / Folio range

126r-137v

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative

Sju vise mästare

Version (siglum)

H (Historia Septem Sapientum)

Language Group within Version

Old Swedish Version H

Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version

Old Swedish Redaction C

Source for textual relationship

Klemming (1887-1889), Bampi (2007), Bampi (2014)

Languages

Language of text

Old Swedish

Digitisation & Editions

Modern Editions

Klemming, Sju vise mästare (1887-1889)

Note

incomplete: "narration stops at the end of the third story (Aper)" (Bampi 2007, p. 19)

• probably translated from Hir henet [sic] sik an een boek vnde heth in deme dudeschen de historia van den souen wysen meisteren (incipit) [Lübeck: Lukas Brandis, ca. 1478] (see Schöndorf 1992)
• codex also known as Codex Askabyensis
• "contains explicit clues to how the stories should be interpreted" (Bampi 2007, p. 38; also see for examples ibid.)
• contains moralizationes and reductiones (see Bampi 2007, p. 38)
• the complexity of the place of manuscript production (and ownership) is discussed in Bampi 2007, pp. 31-35

Authorship & Production

Place of Production

Cisterian nunnery of Askeby, Östergötland, Sweden

Date of Production

before 1492

Source of Date of Production

Bampi (2014)

Physical Description

Material

Paper

Prose or verse

Prose

Illustrations

No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript

selection: Karl Magnus, Flores och Blanzeflor, some chronicles (i.e. Erikskrönikan, Lilla rimkrönikan, Prosaiska krönikan), religious and edifying texts (i.e. prayers, mostly dedicated to the Virgin Mary), Schacktavelslek, Siælinna thrøst (excerpts)

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

Modern Research Literature

Klemming (1887-1889), Bampi (2007), Bampi (2014), Kornhall (1959), Klemming (1881-1882), Klemming (1883-1886), Blomqvist (1941), Aebischer (1957), Åström (1995), Gödel (1916), Ortved (1927), Wiktorsson (2007), Carlquist (2002), Thorén (1942), Schück (1926), Henning (1954), Henning (1960), France (1992), Beskow (1999), Morris (1999), Wallin (1991), Nyberg (2000), Schöndorf (1992), Schöndorf (1993), Würth (1999)

Research Material

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