Gaelic Version A - Revision history

Noeth at 11:27, 23 February 2026

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	\|Has Parent Version=A (Seven Sages)		\|Has Parent Version=A (Seven Sages)
	\|Has Title=Seven Wise Masters		\|Has Title=Seven Wise Masters
	~~\|Has Siglum=A (Seven Sages)~~
	\|Has Branch Of Tradition=Seven Sages of Rome		\|Has Branch Of Tradition=Seven Sages of Rome
	\|Has Language Of Version=Gaelic		\|Has Language Of Version=Gaelic

Noeth at 13:25, 18 February 2026

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	\|Has Siglum=A (Seven Sages)		\|Has Siglum=A (Seven Sages)
	\|Has Branch Of Tradition=Seven Sages of Rome		\|Has Branch Of Tradition=Seven Sages of Rome
	~~\|Is Adapted From=Latin Version A~~
	~~\|Has Source For Composition And Adaption Information=Greene (1944)~~
	\|Has Language Of Version=Gaelic		\|Has Language Of Version=Gaelic
			\|Has Regional Language=Scots Gaelic
	\|Is Translated Into Languages=Scots Gaelic		\|Is Translated Into Languages=Scots Gaelic
	\|Has Start Date Of Composition=1501		\|Has Start Date Of Composition=1501
	\|Has End Date Of Composition=1526		\|Has End Date Of Composition=1526
	\|Has Source For Date Of Text Composition=Byrne (2013); Black (1997)		\|Has Source For Date Of Text Composition=Byrne (2013); Black (1997)
	~~\|Has Text Language=Gaelic~~
	~~\|Has Regional Language=Scots Gaelic~~
	\|Has Modern Research Literature=Greene (1944); Byrne (2013); Black (1997); Black (1979)		\|Has Modern Research Literature=Greene (1944); Byrne (2013); Black (1997); Black (1979)
	\|Has Modern Edition=Greene, A Gaelic Version of "The Seven Wise Masters" (1944)		\|Has Modern Edition=Greene, A Gaelic Version of "The Seven Wise Masters" (1944)
			\|Is Adapted From=Latin Version A
			\|Has Source For Composition And Adaption Information=Greene (1944)
	\|Has Note=(Added by Jane Bonsall; many thanks to Kate Mathis for the research assistance and guidance.)		\|Has Note=(Added by Jane Bonsall; many thanks to Kate Mathis for the research assistance and guidance.)
	}}		}}

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	\|Has Source For Composition And Adaption Information=Greene (1944)		\|Has Source For Composition And Adaption Information=Greene (1944)
	\|Has ~~Original~~ Language Of Version=Gaelic		\|Has Language Of Version=Gaelic
	\|Is Translated Into Languages=Scots Gaelic		\|Is Translated Into Languages=Scots Gaelic
	\|Has Start Date Of Composition=1501		\|Has Start Date Of Composition=1501

Noeth: Text replacement - "Has Branch Of Tradition=West" to "Has Branch Of Tradition=Seven Sages of Rome"

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Text replacement - "Has Branch Of Tradition=West" to "Has Branch Of Tradition=Seven Sages of Rome"

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	\|Has Siglum=A (Seven Sages)		\|Has Siglum=A (Seven Sages)
	\|Has Branch Of Tradition=~~West~~		\|Has Branch Of Tradition=Seven Sages of Rome
	\|Is Adapted From=Latin Version A		\|Is Adapted From=Latin Version A
	\|Has Source For Composition And Adaption Information=Greene (1944)		\|Has Source For Composition And Adaption Information=Greene (1944)

Noeth at 08:42, 25 August 2025

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	The National Library of Scotland's catalogue indicates that this text is associated with an 'Alexander MacDonald', who Ronald Black identifies as the famous Jacobite Gaelic poet Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, also known as Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair ([[Black (1997)\|Black, 1997]]). Black explains that Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair likely owned and heavily annotated the manuscript sometime c. 1739, with notes, receipts of financial agreements, and verses claiming ownership of the manuscript in his hand. However, the original scribe composed the body of the text some 40 years earlier, and Black has identified them as, possibly, Maol Moire mac Cathail Mhic Mhuirich (fl. 1694), a member of the Mhic Mhuirich bardic family of classical Gaelic scholars, and son of the famous poet Cathail Mhic Mhurich ([[Black (1979)\|Black, 1979]]). In addition to the ''Seven Sages'', the other texts in the manuscript are suggestive of composition in the West Highlands or Islands (not Central Highlands, despite the location of Rannoch given in the marginal notations). These texts include three Catholic poems originating in Ireland (common in the West Highlands, according to Black), and poems addressed to both two Clanranald chiefs and a MacLeod chief whose tenure was 1690-1693, thereby supplying a composition date of c. 1693 (Black, 1997, p. 389).		The National Library of Scotland's catalogue indicates that this text is associated with an 'Alexander MacDonald', who Ronald Black identifies as the famous Jacobite Gaelic poet Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, also known as Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair ([[Black (1997)\|Black, 1997]]). Black explains that Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair likely owned and heavily annotated the manuscript sometime c. 1739, with notes, receipts of financial agreements, and verses claiming ownership of the manuscript in his hand. However, the original scribe composed the body of the text some 40 years earlier, and Black has identified them as, possibly, Maol Moire mac Cathail Mhic Mhuirich (fl. 1694), a member of the Mhic Mhuirich bardic family of classical Gaelic scholars, and son of the famous poet Cathail Mhic Mhurich ([[Black (1979)\|Black, 1979]]). In addition to the ''Seven Sages'', the other texts in the manuscript are suggestive of composition in the West Highlands or Islands (not Central Highlands, despite the location of Rannoch given in the marginal notations). These texts include three Catholic poems originating in Ireland (common in the West Highlands, according to Black), and poems addressed to both two Clanranald chiefs and a MacLeod chief whose tenure was 1690-1693, thereby supplying a composition date of c. 1693 (Black, 1997, p. 389).
			\|Has Parent Version=A (Seven Sages)
	\|Has Title=Seven Wise Masters		\|Has Title=Seven Wise Masters
	\|Has Siglum=A (Seven Sages)		\|Has Siglum=A (Seven Sages)

Bonsall at 15:44, 7 August 2025

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	{{Secondary Version		{{Secondary Version
	\|Has Description=The Gaelic version of the ''Seven Sages'', surviving in only one manuscript in the National Library of Scotland and dating from c. 1690, is incomplete. Only the final four stories remain - but according to [[Greene (1944)]], they accord closely with the details and pattern expected of the [[A (Seven Sages)\|Version A]] tradition. This prose text differs sufficiently in style and detail from the [[Middle English Version A]] (which is a verse redaction) to preclude the English from being its source. Greene has instead proposed a Latin text of Version A, found in an Irish manuscript ([[Dublin Trinity College Library Ms 667]]), as a possible original source for the Gaelic text. However, Greene also opperates on the assumption that the seventeenth-century Scots Gaelic manuscript that survives was a ('late and fairly bad') copy of an earlier, now lost, Gaelic text (Greene, p. 221). Though no earlier Irish/Gaelic translations of the ''Seven Sages'' narrative survive, there is a reference to one in the library of the Fitzgerald Earls of Kildare at Maynooth around 1526, according to a list in British Library Harley 3756 ([[Black (1997)\|Black, 1997]]). In her study of this medieval inventories of this library, including Harley 3756, Aisling Byrne has identified a text designated [51a] with the title 'Foilfylmurey / The VII sages', one of the Irish texts from the collection that is sadly no longer extant ([[Byrne (2013)\|Byrne 2013]]). Byrne suggests that 'The VII sages' refers to an early sixteenth-century Irish translation of the ''Seven Wise Masters'' tale, and points to the ~~Scots~~ Gaelic version (and Greene's edition) as the only surviving iterations of the text. Greene's analysis of the language of the ~~Scots~~ Gaelic text does correspond with this hypothesis; the language 'would accord well with an early sixteenth century origin', he notes (Greene, p. 221).		\|Has Description=The Gaelic version of the ''Seven Sages'', surviving in only one manuscript in the National Library of Scotland and dating from c. 1690, is incomplete. Only the final four stories remain - but according to [[Greene (1944)]], they accord closely with the details and pattern expected of the [[A (Seven Sages)\|Version A]] tradition. This prose text differs sufficiently in style and detail from the [[Middle English Version A]] (which is a verse redaction) to preclude the English from being its source. Greene has instead proposed a Latin text of Version A, found in an Irish manuscript ([[Dublin Trinity College Library Ms 667]]), as a possible original source for the Gaelic text. However, Greene also opperates on the assumption that the seventeenth-century Scots Gaelic manuscript that survives was a ('late and fairly bad') copy of an earlier, now lost, Gaelic text (Greene, p. 221). Though no earlier Irish/Gaelic translations of the ''Seven Sages'' narrative survive, there is a reference to one in the library of the Fitzgerald Earls of Kildare at Maynooth around 1526, according to a list in British Library Harley 3756 ([[Black (1997)\|Black, 1997]]). In her study of this medieval inventories of this library, including Harley 3756, Aisling Byrne has identified a text designated [51a] with the title 'Foilfylmurey / The VII sages', one of the Irish texts from the collection that is sadly no longer extant ([[Byrne (2013)\|Byrne 2013]]). Byrne suggests that 'The VII sages' refers to an early sixteenth-century Irish translation of the ''Seven Wise Masters'' tale, and points to the Gaelic version (and Greene's edition) as the only surviving iterations of the text. Greene's analysis of the language of the 17th-century Gaelic text does correspond with this hypothesis; the language (Classical Gaelic) 'would accord well with an early sixteenth century origin', he notes (Greene, p. 221).

	The National Library of Scotland's catalogue indicates that this text is associated with an 'Alexander MacDonald', who Ronald Black identifies as the famous Jacobite Gaelic poet Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, also known as Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair ([[Black (1997)\|Black, 1997]]). Black explains that Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair likely owned and heavily annotated the manuscript sometime c. 1739, with notes, receipts of financial agreements, and verses claiming ownership of the manuscript in his hand. However, the original scribe composed the body of the text some 40 years earlier, and Black has identified them as, possibly, Maol Moire mac Cathail Mhic Mhuirich (fl. 1694), a member of the Mhic Mhuirich bardic family of classical Gaelic scholars, and son of the famous poet Cathail Mhic Mhurich ([[Black (1979)\|Black, 1979]]). In addition to the ''Seven Sages'', the other texts in the manuscript are suggestive of composition in the West Highlands or Islands (not Central Highlands, despite the location of Rannoch given in the marginal notations). These texts include three Catholic poems originating in Ireland (common in the West Highlands, according to Black), and poems addressed to both two Clanranald chiefs and a MacLeod chief whose tenure was 1690-1693, thereby supplying a composition date of c. 1693 (Black, 1997, p. 389).		The National Library of Scotland's catalogue indicates that this text is associated with an 'Alexander MacDonald', who Ronald Black identifies as the famous Jacobite Gaelic poet Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, also known as Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair ([[Black (1997)\|Black, 1997]]). Black explains that Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair likely owned and heavily annotated the manuscript sometime c. 1739, with notes, receipts of financial agreements, and verses claiming ownership of the manuscript in his hand. However, the original scribe composed the body of the text some 40 years earlier, and Black has identified them as, possibly, Maol Moire mac Cathail Mhic Mhuirich (fl. 1694), a member of the Mhic Mhuirich bardic family of classical Gaelic scholars, and son of the famous poet Cathail Mhic Mhurich ([[Black (1979)\|Black, 1979]]). In addition to the ''Seven Sages'', the other texts in the manuscript are suggestive of composition in the West Highlands or Islands (not Central Highlands, despite the location of Rannoch given in the marginal notations). These texts include three Catholic poems originating in Ireland (common in the West Highlands, according to Black), and poems addressed to both two Clanranald chiefs and a MacLeod chief whose tenure was 1690-1693, thereby supplying a composition date of c. 1693 (Black, 1997, p. 389).

Bonsall at 15:41, 7 August 2025

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	\|Has Description=The Gaelic version of the ''Seven Sages'', surviving in only one manuscript in the National Library of Scotland and dating from c. 1690, is incomplete. Only the final four stories remain - but according to [[Greene (1944)]], they accord closely with the details and pattern expected of the [[A (Seven Sages)\|Version A]] tradition. This prose text differs sufficiently in style and detail from the [[Middle English Version A]] (which is a verse redaction) to preclude the English from being its source. Greene has instead proposed a Latin text of Version A, found in an Irish manuscript ([[Dublin Trinity College Library Ms 667]]), as a possible original source for the Gaelic text. However, Greene also opperates on the assumption that the seventeenth-century Scots Gaelic manuscript that survives was a ('late and fairly bad') copy of an earlier, now lost, Gaelic text (Greene, p. 221). Though no earlier Irish/Gaelic translations of the ''Seven Sages'' narrative survive, there is a reference to one in the library of the Fitzgerald Earls of Kildare at Maynooth around 1526, according to a list in British Library Harley 3756 ([[Black (1997)\|Black, 1997]]). In her study of this medieval inventories of this library, including Harley 3756, Aisling Byrne has identified a text designated [51a] with the title 'Foilfylmurey / The VII sages', one of the Irish texts from the collection that is sadly no longer extant ([[Byrne (2013)\|Byrne 2013]]). Byrne suggests that 'The VII sages' refers to an early sixteenth-century Irish translation of the ''Seven Wise Masters'' tale, and points to the Scots Gaelic version (and Greene's edition) as the only surviving iterations of the text. Greene's analysis of the language of the Scots Gaelic text does correspond with this hypothesis; the language 'would accord well with an early sixteenth century origin', he notes (Greene, p. 221).		\|Has Description=The Gaelic version of the ''Seven Sages'', surviving in only one manuscript in the National Library of Scotland and dating from c. 1690, is incomplete. Only the final four stories remain - but according to [[Greene (1944)]], they accord closely with the details and pattern expected of the [[A (Seven Sages)\|Version A]] tradition. This prose text differs sufficiently in style and detail from the [[Middle English Version A]] (which is a verse redaction) to preclude the English from being its source. Greene has instead proposed a Latin text of Version A, found in an Irish manuscript ([[Dublin Trinity College Library Ms 667]]), as a possible original source for the Gaelic text. However, Greene also opperates on the assumption that the seventeenth-century Scots Gaelic manuscript that survives was a ('late and fairly bad') copy of an earlier, now lost, Gaelic text (Greene, p. 221). Though no earlier Irish/Gaelic translations of the ''Seven Sages'' narrative survive, there is a reference to one in the library of the Fitzgerald Earls of Kildare at Maynooth around 1526, according to a list in British Library Harley 3756 ([[Black (1997)\|Black, 1997]]). In her study of this medieval inventories of this library, including Harley 3756, Aisling Byrne has identified a text designated [51a] with the title 'Foilfylmurey / The VII sages', one of the Irish texts from the collection that is sadly no longer extant ([[Byrne (2013)\|Byrne 2013]]). Byrne suggests that 'The VII sages' refers to an early sixteenth-century Irish translation of the ''Seven Wise Masters'' tale, and points to the Scots Gaelic version (and Greene's edition) as the only surviving iterations of the text. Greene's analysis of the language of the Scots Gaelic text does correspond with this hypothesis; the language 'would accord well with an early sixteenth century origin', he notes (Greene, p. 221).

	The National Library of Scotland's catalogue indicates that this text is associated with an 'Alexander MacDonald', who Ronald Black identifies as the famous Jacobite Gaelic poet Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, also known as Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair ([[Black (1997)\|Black, 1997]]). Black explains that Mac ~~Maihsighstir~~ Alasdair likely owned and heavily annotated the manuscript sometime c. 1739, with notes, receipts of financial agreements, and verses claiming ownership of the manuscript in his hand. However, the original scribe composed the body of the text some 40 years earlier, and Black has identified them as, possibly, Maol Moire mac Cathail Mhic Mhuirich (fl. 1694), a member of the Mhic Mhuirich bardic family of classical Gaelic scholars, and son of the famous poet Cathail Mhic Mhurich ([[Black (1979)\|Black, 1979]]). In addition to the ''Seven Sages'', the other texts in the manuscript are suggestive of composition in the West Highlands or Islands (not Central Highlands, despite the location of Rannoch given in the marginal notations). These texts include three Catholic poems originating in Ireland (common in the West Highlands, according to Black), and poems addressed to both two Clanranald chiefs and a MacLeod chief whose tenure was 1690-1693, thereby supplying a composition date of c. 1693 (Black, 1997, p. 389).		The National Library of Scotland's catalogue indicates that this text is associated with an 'Alexander MacDonald', who Ronald Black identifies as the famous Jacobite Gaelic poet Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, also known as Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair ([[Black (1997)\|Black, 1997]]). Black explains that Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair likely owned and heavily annotated the manuscript sometime c. 1739, with notes, receipts of financial agreements, and verses claiming ownership of the manuscript in his hand. However, the original scribe composed the body of the text some 40 years earlier, and Black has identified them as, possibly, Maol Moire mac Cathail Mhic Mhuirich (fl. 1694), a member of the Mhic Mhuirich bardic family of classical Gaelic scholars, and son of the famous poet Cathail Mhic Mhurich ([[Black (1979)\|Black, 1979]]). In addition to the ''Seven Sages'', the other texts in the manuscript are suggestive of composition in the West Highlands or Islands (not Central Highlands, despite the location of Rannoch given in the marginal notations). These texts include three Catholic poems originating in Ireland (common in the West Highlands, according to Black), and poems addressed to both two Clanranald chiefs and a MacLeod chief whose tenure was 1690-1693, thereby supplying a composition date of c. 1693 (Black, 1997, p. 389).
	\|Has Title=Seven Wise Masters		\|Has Title=Seven Wise Masters
	\|Has Siglum=A (Seven Sages)		\|Has Siglum=A (Seven Sages)

Bonsall at 12:55, 5 August 2025

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	\|Has Modern Research Literature=Greene (1944); Byrne (2013); Black (1997); Black (1979)		\|Has Modern Research Literature=Greene (1944); Byrne (2013); Black (1997); Black (1979)
	\|Has Modern Edition=Greene, A Gaelic Version of "The Seven Wise Masters" (1944)		\|Has Modern Edition=Greene, A Gaelic Version of "The Seven Wise Masters" (1944)
			\|Has Note=(Added by Jane Bonsall; many thanks to Kate Mathis for the research assistance and guidance.)
	}}		}}
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	\|Has Original Language Of Version=Gaelic		\|Has Original Language Of Version=Gaelic
	\|Is Translated Into Languages=Scots Gaelic		\|Is Translated Into Languages=Scots Gaelic
	\|Has Start Date Of Composition=~~1690~~		\|Has Start Date Of Composition=1501
	\|Has End Date Of Composition=~~1693~~		\|Has End Date Of Composition=1526
	\|Has Source For Date Of Text Composition=~~Greene~~ (~~1944~~)		\|Has Source For Date Of Text Composition=Byrne (2013); Black (1997)
	\|Has Text Language=Gaelic		\|Has Text Language=Gaelic
	\|Has Regional Language=Scots Gaelic		\|Has Regional Language=Scots Gaelic

Bonsall at 16:45, 4 August 2025

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	\|Is Translated Into Languages=Scots Gaelic		\|Is Translated Into Languages=Scots Gaelic
	\|Has Start Date Of Composition=1690		\|Has Start Date Of Composition=1690
	\|Has End Date Of Composition=~~1700~~		\|Has End Date Of Composition=1693
	\|Has Source For Date Of Text Composition=Greene (1944)		\|Has Source For Date Of Text Composition=Greene (1944)
	\|Has Text Language=Gaelic		\|Has Text Language=Gaelic