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Manuscript Identification
Reference Number Eng6
Location London, British Library
Siglum/Shelfmark MS Cotton Galba E IX
Page/Folio range 25v-48v
Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative The Seven Sages of Rome
Incipit or textual title The Proces of the seuyn sages
Version (siglum) A (Seven Sages)
└ Language Group within Version Middle English Version A
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version Y Group
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1) Northern English
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2) Text C
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition Whitelock (2005)
Languages
Language of text English
Regional or specific Language of text Middle English
Source for regional or specific Language of text Whitelock (2005)
Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions
Note

There are clear breaks in the text signalling the start of each section, i.e.: 'Here bigins [th]e Fyrst Proces' before the prologues begin, then 'Here bygins [th]e First Tale of [th]e Whyfe' before the stories begin.

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production England
Date of Manuscript Production 1400/1425
Source of Date of Manuscript Production British Library catalogue: https://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x0000b4
Physical Description
Material Parchment
Total pages/folios in Manuscript
Height 345
Width 230
Script style/form
Prose or verse
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript
  • 4r-25r: Ywaine and Gawain;
  • 25v-48v: The Seven Sages of Rome, here called 'the Proces of the seuyn sages';
  • 48v-49r: Moral verses
  • 49r-50r: Prophecies of Merlin: the reigns of the six kings after King John;
  • 50v: Sir Penay;
  • 51v: Two poems on the Cross;
  • 52r-57v: Laurence Minot, eleven alliterative poems on political subjects;
  • 57v-66v: The Gospel of Nicodemus
  • 66v: Two poems, 'He that casteth off the old' and 'What shall happen as I ween'
  • 67r-75r: The 'Book of Penance', from the Cursor Mundi
  • 73v-75r: Pater noster
  • 76r-113r: The Pricke of Conscience
  • 113v: A verse on the properties of a horse
  • 113v-114r: A poem on the Siege of Calais
Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Brunner (1933), Campbell (1907), Whitelock (2005)
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