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The so-called Y Group collects seven surviving manuscripts of individual verse Versions of the Middle English Version A. The earliest of them is the Auchinleck manuscript (ca. 1331-1340) and the latest contains date information from 1508-1536 (see Whitelock 2005: xxxiv, xxxvii). The designation is by Campbell who assumes that the manuscripts of this group all derive from the same (unknown) ME source: y (see Whitelock 2005: xxxix). Within these sub-groups some manuscripts derive from the same (unknown) source but never from one of the surviving manuscripts (see Whitelock 2005: xl-xli). They can be further divided into sub-groups: the Northern Version and the Southern Version.

[Added by Elisabeth Böttcher]

General Information

Language within Version

Middle English

Parent Versions

Middle English Version A

Child Versions

Northern English, Southern English

Branch of the tradition

Seven Sages of Rome

Literature & Editions

Modern research literature

Whitelock (2005), Campbell (1907)

Modern Editions

Campbell, The Seven Sages of Rome (Northern Version) (1907), Brunner, The Seven Sages of Rome (Southern Version) (1933)

Recorded Branch of This Secondary Version

• A (Seven Sages)
  • Dutch Version A
  • French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages
    • Group U
    • Group V
    • Group W
    • Group X
    • Group Y
    • Group Z
  • Gaelic Version A
  • German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus
  • Italian Version A
    • Italian Prose (V)
    • Libro dei Sette Savj (A)
    • Storia favolosa di Stefano (S)
  • Latin Version A
    • Latin Version A: Allegatio / Libellus
    • Latin Version A: De Septem Sapientibus
  • Middle English Version A
    • Midland Version
    • Y Group
      • Northern English
      • Southern English
  • Old Swedish Version A: Sju vise mästare
    • Old Swedish Redaction A
    • Old Swedish Redaction B
  • Older Scots Version A: Buke of the Sevyne Sagis
  • Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein
    • Early Modern and Modern Welsh Version A
    • Middle Welsh Version A

Adaptations

Source for composition and adaptation information

Whitelock (2005)

Connected Manuscripts

	Has Language	Has Location	Has Date Range Of Production
Cambridge University Library MS Ff. 2, 38	English	Cambridge University Library	1400 - 1500
Edinburgh National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1 (Auchinleck Manuscript)	English	Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland	1331 - 1340
London British Library Arundel 140	English	London, British Library	1400 - 1425
London British Library Cotton Galba E IX	English	London, British Library	1400 - 1425
London British Library Egerton 1995	English	London, British Library	1475 - 1500
Oxford Balliol College Library MS 354 (Richard Hill's Commonplace Book)	English	Oxford, Bodleian Library	1501 - 1533