London British Library Harley 3860

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Manuscript Identification

Reference Number

Fr18

Location

London, British Library

Siglum / Shelfmark

Harley 3860

Page / Folio range

23r-47v

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative

Sept Sages de Rome

Incipit or textual title

L'estorie de 7 sages de Roume

Version (siglum)

A (Seven Sages)

Language Group within Version

French Version A

Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version

Group W

Further scholarly subgroup (2)

Text Ha

Source for textual relationship

Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014)

Languages

Language of text

Old French

Regional / specific language

Anglo-Norman

Source for regional language

JONAS: http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/manuscrit/30784

Digitisation & Editions

Modern Editions

Runte, Les sept sages de Rome: An On-Line Edition of French Version A (2006)

Authorship & Production

Date of Production

1315 - 1350

Source of Date of Production

JONAS: http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/manuscrit/30784

Physical Description

Material

Parchment

Total pages / folios

82

Prose or verse

Prose

Illustrations

No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript

1-22 (?) - Latin geneology of the kings of England and Scotland, up to 1315 (mentioned in catalogue description; not described in JONAS or Arlima)

23r-47v: L'estorie de 7 sages de Roume

48r-61v: Robert Grosseteste, Le chasteau d'amour

61v-77v: Extraits du Manuel des pechés de William of Waddington

77vb-82vb: Walter of Henley, Housebonderie

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

https://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-002107673, Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/4645

Modern Research Literature

Runte (1971), Runte (1974), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Speer (1981), Runte (1989), Dean and Boulton (1999)

Research Material

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