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|Has Catalogue=TCD catalogue: https://stella.catalogue.tcd.ie/iii/encore/record/C__Rb20677696?lang=eng
|Has Note=Greene notes the parallels between this text, and the (much later) [[Scots Gaelic Version A|Gaelic text]] found in [[Edinburgh National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 72.1.39]]. Observing that the Gaelic does not seem to be a translation of the [[Middle English Version A|English Version A]] texts, Greene suggests that this Latin text may instead be the source for the Gaelic. See [[Greene (1944)|Green (1944)]].
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Manuscript Identification
Reference Number Latin212
Location Dublin, Trinity College Library
Siglum/Shelfmark IE TCD MS 677 (formerly Lyon: F.5.3)
Page/Folio range 42-54
Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative Historia Septem Sapientum
Incipit or textual title Hic incipiunt quindecim fabule filii imperatoris. Rome erat quidam imperator cui nomen erat Dioclicianus...
Version (siglum) A (Seven Sages)
Language Group within Version Latin Version A
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
Languages
Language of text Latin
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text
Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/gh93h656j
Modern Editions
Note

Greene notes the parallels between this text, and the (much later) Gaelic text found in Edinburgh National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 72.1.39. Observing that the Gaelic does not seem to be a translation of the English Version A texts, Greene suggests that this Latin text may instead be the source for the Gaelic. See Green (1944).

Authorship and Production
Scribe Donald O Mechlaynd
Author
Place of Manuscript Production County Clare, Ireland
Date of Manuscript Production 1450 - 1500
Source of Date of Manuscript Production TCD catalogue: https://stella.catalogue.tcd.ie/iii/encore/record/C__Rb20677696?lang=eng
Physical Description
Material Parchment
Total pages/folios in Manuscript 254
Height 214
Width 113
Script style/form Semicurrent
Prose or verse Prose
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript See TCD catalogue for details
Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue TCD catalogue: https://stella.catalogue.tcd.ie/iii/encore/record/C__Rb20677696?lang=eng
Modern Research Literature Greene (1944)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript