Dublin Trinity College Library Ms 667: Difference between revisions

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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, and suggests that this may be a 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

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator
Arbor	1	Empress
Canis	2	First Master
Aper	3	Empress
Medicus	4	Second Master
Gaza	5	Empress
Puteus	6	Third Master
Senescalcus	7	Empress
Tentamina	8	Fourth Master
Virgilius	9	Empress
Avis	10	Fifth Master
Sapientes	11	Empress
Vidua	12	Sixth Master
Roma	13	Empress
Inclusa	14	Seventh Master

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+}}
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+|Has Narrator=Empress
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+|Has Sequence Number=2
+|Has Narrator=First Master
+}}
+{{EmbeddedStory
+|Has Short Title=Aper
+|Has Sequence Number=3
+|Has Narrator=Empress
+}}
+{{EmbeddedStory
+|Has Short Title=Medicus
+|Has Sequence Number=4
+|Has Narrator=Second Master
+}}
+{{EmbeddedStory
+|Has Short Title=Gaza
+|Has Sequence Number=5
+|Has Narrator=Empress
+}}
+{{EmbeddedStory
+|Has Short Title=Puteus
+|Has Sequence Number=6
+|Has Narrator=Third Master
+}}
+{{EmbeddedStory
+|Has Short Title=Senescalcus
+|Has Sequence Number=7
+|Has Narrator=Empress
+}}
+{{EmbeddedStory
+|Has Short Title=Tentamina
+|Has Sequence Number=8
+|Has Narrator=Fourth Master
+}}
+{{EmbeddedStory
+|Has Short Title=Virgilius
+|Has Sequence Number=9
+|Has Narrator=Empress
+}}
+{{EmbeddedStory
+|Has Short Title=Avis
+|Has Sequence Number=10
+|Has Narrator=Fifth Master
+}}
+{{EmbeddedStory
+|Has Short Title=Sapientes
+|Has Sequence Number=11
+|Has Narrator=Empress
+}}
+{{EmbeddedStory
+|Has Short Title=Vidua
+|Has Sequence Number=12
+|Has Narrator=Sixth Master
+}}
+{{EmbeddedStory
+|Has Short Title=Roma
+|Has Sequence Number=13
+|Has Narrator=Empress
+}}
+{{EmbeddedStory
+|Has Short Title=Inclusa
+|Has Sequence Number=14
+|Has Narrator=Seventh Master
+}}
+{{EmbeddedStory
+|Has Short Title=Vaticinium
+|Has Sequence Number=15
+|Has Narrator=Prince
 }}