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Manuscript
Reference Number Eng3
Location London, British Library
Siglum/Shelfmark Egerton 1995, ff. 3-54v
Page/Folio range
Standardised title of narrative
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum) A* (Southern English, Y Group)
Language Group within Version
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
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production London
Date of Manuscript Production 1475/1500
Source of date Manuscript Production British Library website: https://www.bKarl Brunner, The Seven Sages of Rome (Southern Version), EETS, 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),
Script style/form
Total pages/folios in Manuscript
Height 280
Width 195
Illustrations No
Digitisation
Modern Editions
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Karl Brunner, The Seven Sages of Rome (Southern Version), EETS, OUP, 1933

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

Short StorySequence NumberNarratorName Variations
Arbor1Empress
Canis2Bancillas
Aper3Empress
Medicus4Ancilles
Gaza5Empress
Puteus6Lentulus
Senescalcus7Empress
Tentamina8Malquidras
Virgilius9Empress
Avis10Cato
Sapientes11Empress
Vidua12Jesse
Roma13Empress
Inclusa14Maxencius
Vaticinium15Prince