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Revision as of 12:03, 22 January 2024
Manuscript | |||
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Reference Number | Eng3 | ||
Location | London, British Library | ||
Siglum/Shelfmark | British Library Egerton 1995 | ||
Page/Folio range | ff. 3-54v | ||
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Incipit or textual title | |||
Version (siglum) | A | ||
└ Language Group within Version | Middle English Version A | ||
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version | Y Group | ||
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1) | Southern English | ||
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2) | |||
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) | |||
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Author | |||
Place of Manuscript Production | London | ||
Date of Manuscript Production | 1475/1500 | ||
Source of date Manuscript Production | British Library website: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7641&CollID=28&NStart=1995 See also Karl Brunner, The Seven Sages of Rome (Southern Version), EETS O.S. 191, OUP, 1933 | ||
Material | Paper | ||
Language of Manuscript | English | ||
Regional or specific Language of Manuscript | Middle English | ||
Source for regional or specific Language of Manuscript | |||
Prose or Verse | Verse | ||
Other texts in the Manuscript | Miscellany of prose and verse, including ; the Seven Sages of Rome (ff. 3-54v); Gregory's Chronicle, a dietary (ff. 66-77); John Page's poem The Siege of Rouen; a chronicle of London, breaking off in 1470. Also: 'Properties that longyth to a yong gentylman', Latin prophesies, the 'sapienta physicorum' (attibuted to Lydgate) (ff.77-79) , The Boke of Curtesy (ff. 55-58), | ||
Total pages/folios in Manuscript | |||
Height | 280 | ||
Width | 195 | ||
Illustrations | No | ||
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Modern Research Literature | Brunner (1933), Whitelock (2005) | ||
General Notes (Internal) | Large initials in red throughout the manuscript. Text not fully digitised; online record at the British Library website: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7641&CollID=28&NStart=1995 |
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript