Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. lat. qu. 618

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Mishle Sendebar/Historia Septem Sapientum
Incipit or textual title	Historia de Septem Sapientibus
Version (siglum)	Mishle Sendebar
└ Language Group within Version	Latin Mishle Sendebar
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)	Hebrew Mishle Sendebar
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Hilka (1912)

Languages
Language of text	Latin
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions	Hilka, Historia Septem Sapientum (Latin Mishle Sendebar) (1912)

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Bergamo, Italy
Date of Manuscript Production	1407
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Hilka (1912)

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	148
Height
Width
Script style/form	German
Prose or verse
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	Folios 1r — 105v: The Latin translation of Marco Polo's travels in three books by Franciscus Pipinus de Bononia of the Order of Preachers (along with a prologue). Folios 105v — 118v: De locis terrae sanctae visitatis per me fratrem Franciscum Pipinum civem Bononiensem de ordine predicatorum ("On the places of the Holy Land visited by me, Brother Franciscus Pipinus, citizen of Bologna, of the Order of Preachers"). Folios 118r — 135r: Incipit ystoria de Septem sapientibus ("Here begins the story of the Seven Wise Men")

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Hilka (1912), Epstein (1967)

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