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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
Narrative / Scholarly Group
Parent Versions	Middle English Version A
Child Versions	Northern English, Southern English
Author
Title
Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages
Version Number
Branch of the tradition	Seven Sages of Rome

Language & Composition
Original language of version
Translated into (languages)
Place of composition
Date of composition
Source for date of composition

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 Dutch Verse Version: Van den seven vroeden van binnen Rome 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 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

Connected prints
No connected prints

Adaptations
Adapted from (version)
Adapted into (version)
Source for composition and adaptation information	Whitelock (2005)

Languages in Use
Language of text
Regional or specific language of version

Notes
Note
Notes on motifs
Notes on the frame

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Connected manuscripts

Manuscript Language Location Date 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 Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson poet. 175 English Oxford, Bodleian Library 1350/1400