London British Library Harley 3860

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Sept Sages de Rome
Incipit or textual title	L'estorie de 7 sages de Roume
Version (siglum)	A (Seven Sages)
└ Language Group within Version	French Version A
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Group W
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)	Text Ha
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014)

Languages
Language of text	Old French
Regional or specific Language of text	Anglo-Norman
Source for regional or specific Language of text	JONAS: http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/manuscrit/30784

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions	Runte, Les sept sages de Rome: An On-Line Edition of French Version A (2006)

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	1315 - 1350
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	JONAS: http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/manuscrit/30784

Physical Description
Material	Parchment
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	82
Height
Width
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	1-22 (?) - Latin geneology of the kings of England and Scotland, up to 1315 (mentioned in catalogue description; not described in JONAS or Arlima) 23r-47v: L'estorie de 7 sages de Roume 48r-61v: Robert Grosseteste, Le chasteau d'amour 61v-77v: Extraits du Manuel des pechés de William of Waddington 77vb-82vb: Walter of Henley, Housebonderie

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	https://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-002107673, Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/4645
Modern Research Literature	Runte (1971), Runte (1974), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Speer (1981), Runte (1989), Dean and Boulton (1999)

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