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Revision as of 16:34, 6 November 2023
| Manuscript Identification | |
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| Reference Number | Eng6 |
| Location | British Library |
| Siglum/Shelfmark | MS Cotton Galba E IX, ff. 25v-48v |
| Page/Folio range | |
| Textual Content and Tradition | |
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| Standardised title of narrative | |
| Incipit or textual title | |
| Version (siglum) | A* (Northern 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 | |
| Languages | |
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| Language of text | Middle English |
| Regional or specific Language of text | |
| Source for regional or specific Language of text | |
| Digitisation and Editions | |
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| Digitisation | |
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| Authorship and Production | |
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| 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 | |
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| Material | Parchment |
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | |
| Height | 345 |
| Width | 230 |
| Script style/form | |
| Prose or verse | |
| Illustrations | No |
| Contents and Additional Texts | |
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| Other texts in the Manuscript | ff. 4r-25r: Ywaine and Gawain; ff. 25v-48v: The Seven Sages of Rome, here called 'the Proces of the seuyn sages'; ff. 48v-49r: Moral verses ff. 49r-50r: Prophecies of Merlin: the reigns of the six kings after King John; f. 50v: Sir Penay; f. 51v: Two poems on the Cross; ff. 52r-57v: Laurence Minot, eleven alliterative poems on political subjects; ff. 57v-66v: The Gospel of Nicodemus; f. 66v: Two poems, 'He that casteth off the old' and 'What shall happen as I ween'; ff. 67r-75r: The 'Book of Penance', from the Cursor Mundi; ff. 73v-75r: Pater noster; ff. 76r-113r: The Pricke of Conscience; f. 113v: A verse on the properties of a horse; ff. 113v-114r: A poem on the Siege of Calais |
| Catalogues and Research Literature | |
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| Modern Research Literature | Property "Has Modern Research Literature" (as page type) with input value "Killis Campbell, The Seven Sages of Rome, Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company, 1907" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.Killis Campbell, The Seven Sages of Rome, Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company, 1907 |
| Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript | |
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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.