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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.
Support: parchment; 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.
Ms. codex.
Title of first work from explicit (f. 34r); title of second work from later spine, now removed.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
France
Written in France, ca. 1350 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Pulled from 19th-century pasteboards (Zacour-Hirsch).
Old French
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.
France
Written in France, ca. 1350 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Old French
Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 3679
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
Sold by Laurence Witten, 1954.
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.
Ms. codex.
Title of first work from explicit (f. 34r); title of second work from later spine, now removed.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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