Cambridge University Library MS Dd.1.17
From Seven Sages of Rome
| Manuscript | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Reference Number | Eng8 | ||
| Location | Cambridge University Library | ||
| Siglum/Shelfmark | Cambridge University Library MS Dd.1.17 | ||
| Page/Folio range | 54r-63r | ||
| Standardised title of narrative | The Seven Sages of Rome: English 'D' text | ||
| Incipit or textual title | |||
| Version (siglum) | A (Seven Sages) | ||
| └ Language Group within Version | Middle English Version A | ||
| └ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version | Midland Version | ||
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (1) | |||
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (2) | |||
| Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) | |||
| Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition | Whitelock (2005) | ||
| Scribe | |||
| Author | |||
| Place of Manuscript Production | England | ||
| Date of Manuscript Production | 1350/1400 | ||
| Source of date Manuscript Production | Whitelock (2005) | ||
| Material | Parchment | ||
| Language of Manuscript | English | ||
| Regional or specific Language of Manuscript | Middle English | ||
| Source for regional or specific Language of Manuscript | Whitelock (2005) | ||
| Prose or Verse | Verse | ||
| Other texts in the Manuscript | Manuscript is divided into three volumes. The Seven Sages appears in the third volume (54ra - 63rb). 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, 111-121); a Latin version of Marco Polo's travel account (vol 2, 38-56); texts concerning Islam, including 'Fides Saracenorum' (vol 2, 71), De origine et progressu et fine Machometi et quadruplici reprobatione eius (vol 2, 71-74), William of Tripoli, De statu Saracenorum (vol 2, 74-79), and a Life of Muhammad (vol 2, 79); Langland, Piers Plowman (B text) (Vol 3, 1-31); Mandeville's Travels (32-53). | ||
| Script style/form | |||
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | Vol. 1: ff. 261, vol. 2: ff. 93, vol. 3: ff. 87 | ||
| Height | 440 | ||
| Width | 305 | ||
| Illustrations | No | ||
| Digitisation | |||
| Modern Editions | Whitelock, The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version) (2005) | ||
| Catalogue | |||
| Modern Research Literature | Brunner (1933), Whitelock (2005) | ||
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