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|Has Source For Date Of Production=Whitelock, 2005
|Has Source For Date Of Production=Whitelock, 2005
|Has Material=membrane
|Has Material=membrane
|Has Language Of Manuscript=Middle English
|Has Language Of Manuscript=English
|Has Language=Mischsprache, principally of northern and Midland forms
|Has Language=Middle English, principally of northern and Midland forms
|Has Source For Language=Whitelock, 2005
|Has Source For Language=Jill Whitelock, The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version), OUP, 2005
|Is Prose Or Verse=Verse
|Is Prose Or Verse=Verse
|Has Collation=Manuscript is divided into three volumes. The Seven Sages appears in the third volume (ff. 54^ra - 63^rb). A full list of the 24 other texts that make up the manuscript can be found in the source mentioned above.
|Has Collation=Manuscript is divided into three volumes. The Seven Sages appears in the third volume (ff. 54^ra - 63^rb). A full list of the 24 other texts that make up the manuscript can be found in the source mentioned above; notably, it includes: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britannie (vol 1, ff 111-121); a Latin version of Marco Polo's travel account (vol 2, ff 38-56); texts concerning Islam, including 'Fides Saracenorum' (vol 2, ff 71), De origine et progressu et fine Machometi et quadruplici reprobatione eius (vol 2 ff 71-74), William of Tripoli, De statu Saracenorum (vol 2 ff 74-79), and a Life of Muhammad (vol 2 f 79); Langland, Piers Plowman (B text) (Vol 3 ff 1-31); Mandeville's Travels (ff. 32-53).
|Has Number Of Leaves=Vol. 1 (ff. 261), vol. 2 (ff. 93), vol. 3 (ff. 87)
|Has Number Of Leaves=Vol. 1 (ff. 261), vol. 2 (ff. 93), vol. 3 (ff. 87)
|Has Height=440 mm
|Has Height=440
|Has Width=305 mm
|Has Width=305
|Has Illustrations=No
|Has Illustrations=No
|Has Digitisation=no
|Has Modern Research Literature=Jill Whitelock, The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version), OUP, 2005
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Manuscript Identification
Reference Number Eng8
Location Cambridge, University Library
Siglum/Shelfmark MS Dd.1.17, f. 54
Page/Folio range
Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum) A*
└ 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
Languages
Language of text Middle English, principally of northern and Midland forms
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text
Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions
Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production England
Date of Manuscript Production around 1400
Source of Date of Manuscript Production Whitelock, 2005
Physical Description
Material membrane
Total pages/folios in Manuscript
Height 440
Width 305
Script style/form
Prose or verse
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript Manuscript is divided into three volumes. The Seven Sages appears in the third volume (ff. 54^ra - 63^rb). A full list of the 24 other texts that make up the manuscript can be found in the source mentioned above; notably, it includes: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britannie (vol 1, ff 111-121); a Latin version of Marco Polo's travel account (vol 2, ff 38-56); texts concerning Islam, including 'Fides Saracenorum' (vol 2, ff 71), De origine et progressu et fine Machometi et quadruplici reprobatione eius (vol 2 ff 71-74), William of Tripoli, De statu Saracenorum (vol 2 ff 74-79), and a Life of Muhammad (vol 2 f 79); Langland, Piers Plowman (B text) (Vol 3 ff 1-31); Mandeville's Travels (ff. 32-53).
Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Jill Whitelock, The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version), OUP, 2005
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

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