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|Has Source For Date Of Production=Whitelock, 2005
|Has Source For Date Of Production=Whitelock, 2005
|Has Material=membrane
|Has Material=membrane
|Has Language Of Manuscript=Middle English
|Has Language Of Manuscript=English
|Has Language=Mischsprache, principally of northern and Midland forms
|Has Language=Middle English, principally of northern and Midland forms
|Has Source For Language=Whitelock, 2005
|Has Source For Language=Jill Whitelock, The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version), OUP, 2005
|Is Prose Or Verse=Verse
|Is Prose Or Verse=Verse
|Has Collation=Manuscript is divided into three volumes. The Seven Sages appears in the third volume (ff. 54^ra - 63^rb). A full list of the 24 other texts that make up the manuscript can be found in the source mentioned above.
|Has Collation=Manuscript is divided into three volumes. The Seven Sages appears in the third volume (ff. 54^ra - 63^rb). A full list of the 24 other texts that make up the manuscript can be found in the source mentioned above; notably, it includes: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britannie (vol 1, ff 111-121); a Latin version of Marco Polo's travel account (vol 2, ff 38-56); texts concerning Islam, including 'Fides Saracenorum' (vol 2, ff 71), De origine et progressu et fine Machometi et quadruplici reprobatione eius (vol 2 ff 71-74), William of Tripoli, De statu Saracenorum (vol 2 ff 74-79), and a Life of Muhammad (vol 2 f 79); Langland, Piers Plowman (B text) (Vol 3 ff 1-31); Mandeville's Travels (ff. 32-53).
|Has Number Of Leaves=Vol. 1 (ff. 261), vol. 2 (ff. 93), vol. 3 (ff. 87)
|Has Number Of Leaves=Vol. 1 (ff. 261), vol. 2 (ff. 93), vol. 3 (ff. 87)
|Has Height=440 mm
|Has Height=440
|Has Width=305 mm
|Has Width=305
|Has Illustrations=No
|Has Illustrations=No
|Has Digitisation=no
|Has Modern Research Literature=Jill Whitelock, The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version), OUP, 2005
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Revision as of 11:55, 3 October 2023

Manuscript
Reference Number Eng8
Location Cambridge, University Library
Siglum/Shelfmark MS Dd.1.17, f. 54
Page/Folio range
Standardised title of narrative
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum) A*
Language Group within Version
Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version
Further scholarly subgroup (1)
Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production England
Date of Manuscript Production
Source of date Manuscript Production Whitelock, 2005
Material membrane
Language of Manuscript English
Regional or specific Language of Manuscript Middle English, principally of northern and Midland forms
Source for regional or specific Language of Manuscript Jill Whitelock, The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version), OUP, 2005
Prose or Verse Verse
Other texts in the Manuscript Manuscript is divided into three volumes. The Seven Sages appears in the third volume (ff. 54^ra - 63^rb). A full list of the 24 other texts that make up the manuscript can be found in the source mentioned above; notably, it includes: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britannie (vol 1, ff 111-121); a Latin version of Marco Polo's travel account (vol 2, ff 38-56); texts concerning Islam, including 'Fides Saracenorum' (vol 2, ff 71), De origine et progressu et fine Machometi et quadruplici reprobatione eius (vol 2 ff 71-74), William of Tripoli, De statu Saracenorum (vol 2 ff 74-79), and a Life of Muhammad (vol 2 f 79); Langland, Piers Plowman (B text) (Vol 3 ff 1-31); Mandeville's Travels (ff. 32-53).
Total pages/folios in Manuscript
Height 440
Width 305
Illustrations No
Digitisation
Modern Editions
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Jill Whitelock, The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version), OUP, 2005
General Notes (Internal)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

Short StorySequence NumberNarratorName Variations
Arbor1Empress
Canis2Bancillas
Aper3Empress
Medicus4Ancilles
Gaza5Empress
Puteus6Lentulus
Senescalcus7Empress
Tentamina8MalquidrasMaladas
Virgilius9Empress
Avis10CatoCaton
Sapientes11Empress
Vidua12JesseIesse
Roma13Empress
Inclusa14MaxenciusMarcius
Vaticinium15Prince