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Title

Roman-- des sept sages de Rome

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 931
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9935615133503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82759860
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3561513

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Old French

Origin

Date

ca. 1350

Place

France

Summary

The French romance of the Seven Sages of Rome in a prose version and its sequel, Marques of Rome. The Seven Sages of Rome is a collection of stories framed by a narrative in which the wicked empress of Rome attempts to persuade her husband the emperor to put his son to death. The Seven Sages, who are the young prince's teachers, tell the emperor stories to persuade him not to do so. In Marques of Rome, Mark, son of one of the Seven Sages, becomes the seneschal of the prince of the earlier romance, who has succeeded his father as emperor.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title of first work from explicit (f. 34r); title of second work from later spine, now removed.
   

Extent

139 leaves : 175 x 117 (131 x 85) mm. bound to 191 x 130 mm

Foliation

Parchment, 142; 1-22, 24-34, 39-68, 69-73, 73-82, 83-91, 93-100, 100-110, 112-117, 119-142; later foliation in ink, upper right recto; later pagination in ink, [1-5], lower outer corner. According to the foliation, f. 2, 39, 67, 68, 82, and 142 are fragments and 23, 35-38, 92, 111 and 118 appear to be completely missing. The whole codex is a fragment of a larger work, so f. 1 and f. 142 are not true first and last pages.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Pulled from 19th-century pasteboards (Zacour-Hirsch).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 3679 (stamp, inside upper cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Bertram, Earl of Ashburnham; sold in the Ashburnham collection at auction at Sotheby's, 10 June 1901, lot 401.
   
• Appears in Maggs Bros. catalog 687 (March 1940), no. 194.
   
• Sold by Laurence Witten, 1954.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Romances (document genre)
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, French--14th century

Keywords

• 14th century
• France
• French
• Literature -- Prose

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