Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. Magdeb. 208

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Historia Septem Sapientum
Incipit or textual title	Sequitur Historia de regina qui (!) voluit filium regis occidere Dyoclecianus regnauit in ciuitate romana diues valde
Version (siglum)	H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
└ Language Group within Version	Latin Version H
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Group IV
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Text B3
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Roth (2004)

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	Roth, Historia Septem Sapientum (2004)

Note
the "Historia" does not clearly stand out as an independent text from the "Gesta Romanorum"; the text has numerous mistakes and an unusual Graphie (see Roth 2004, p.79) the other Gesta Romanorum in this manuscript also contains excerpts of the Historia (see Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. Magdeb. 208 (excerpts within Gesta Romanorum))

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Dominikanerkonvent Magdeburg, Germany
Date of Manuscript Production	1450/1475
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Roth (2004)

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	425
Height	210
Width	145
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	1r-208v : Johannes Herolt: Promptuarium exemplorum secundum ordinem alphabeti; within: 1v: De sancta Aldegundi, De sancto Udalrico 208v-220r : Johannes Herolt: Promptuarium de miraculis Beatae Mariae Virginis (excerpt) 222r-271v : Gesta Romanorum moralizata 272r-351r : Gesta Romanorum moralizata; within: 309v-335r: Historia septem sapientum 351v-353v : Homilia in festum ascensionis domini 354r-355v : Johannes Gotstich (?): Sermo in festum ascensionis domini 355v : De virginitate und ein Rezept (and a recipe) 356r-391v : Rogerus de Platea: Quadragesimale (>De schola Christi<) 392-396 : blank, except for 396r: Geistliche Notiz (spiritual notes) 397r-401r : Sermo de verbis >Tu quis es?< 402r-425v : Bernardus Guidonis: Miracula S. Thomae de Aquino

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Roth (2004), Dittmar (1880), Winter (1994)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript