Another woodcut page was also annotated in English ("and if it maye pleasse y[our?] g[re]ace"), also possibly from the perspective of the sage...?!

The text is a late 15th c. print of the Latin 'Historia Septem Sapientum', printed in Gouda by Gerard Leeu, found in the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research Collections (listed in our database here: db.seven-sages-of-rome.org/Hisoria_sept...).

Happy new year #MedievalSky! Any late medieval/early modern paleographers out there? At the (absolutely brilliant!) Scottish Manuscripts conference in December, organised by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social, @bryonycoombs.bsky.social and W. R. Pierce, we came across this lovely annotation:

Perhaps even more enjoyable, though, were the brilliant discussions following @bmeb.bsky.social’s response, and the chance to hold our monthly reading group in person - including recruiting some new members! (As a reminder, all are welcome, no particular Seven Sages expertise needed!)

Finally recovered from the joyful exhaustion (and covid!) of #IMC2024 (hence the belated post) and already looking forward to 2025! The brilliant panels, organised by @bmeb.bsky.social, included papers from Ida Toth, @janebonsall.bsky.social, Jutta Eming, Ramani Chandramohan, Ruth Avon Bernuth.

Just under two months to go before Leeds IMC! Make sure you have space in your dance cards for two 'Seven Sages' sessions on Tuesday afternoon (sessions 739 and 839) thinking through voice, gender, genre, multilinguality, design, and transmission. Join us!

Feeling just a little *too* cheerful this week? Join our reading group on Friday for some very sad stories about some very good dogs, as we compare versions of the ‘faithful hound’ tale from different parts of the #medieval Seven Sages tradition!

Jutta Eming and Rita Schlusemann hosted the rest of the team (Bettina Bildhauer, Jane Bonsall) and Ad Board (Ida Toth, Csilla Gabor, Yasmina Foehr-Janssens, Mohsen Zakeri, Bea Lundt, Ulrich Marzolph) at the FU, and took us to see Seven Sages texts in the Staatsbibliothek - both fascinating and fun!

The best part of research projects is collaboration, conversation, connections: we’re still buzzing after a brilliant meeting with the team and our advisory board in Berlin last month, and excited to see where those conversations will lead us!

Für alle “Sieben weisen Meister”-Begeisterten in Göttingen: Eine unserer herausragenden Projektleiterinnen, Jutta Eming, wird morgen einen Vortrag über die “Sieben weisen Meister” halten! Bitte kommt!

Jutta Eming will be speaking about the Seven Sages project tomorrow in Göttingen - please come!

We hold a monthly virtual reading group exploring different versions of the Seven Sages tradition! Tomorrow's discussion of the Hebrew text will include: inexplicable ageism; analogues for the Tristan-as-beggar fidelity trick; and what ✨magic spells✨ are most useful when committing robbery. Join us!

This account is new, but the study of the textual tradition of the Seven Sages is not! The Seven Sages Network met in November 2022, for the Oxford-Berlin Workshop: "The Seven Sages of Rome: A Global Narrative Tradition", organised by Ida Toth (Oxford) and Jutta Eming (Berlin).