Cambridge University Library MS Dd.1.17
From Seven Sages of Rome
| Manuscript | |||
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| Reference Number | Eng8 | ||
| Location | Cambridge, University Library | ||
| Siglum/Shelfmark | MS Dd.1.17, f. 54 | ||
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| Version (siglum) | A* | ||
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| └ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version | |||
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (1) | |||
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (2) | |||
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| Place of Manuscript Production | England | ||
| Date of Manuscript Production | around 1400 | ||
| Source of date Manuscript Production | Whitelock, 2005 | ||
| Material | membrane | ||
| Language of Manuscript | English | ||
| Regional or specific Language of Manuscript | Middle English, principally of northern and Midland forms | ||
| Source for regional or specific Language of Manuscript | Jill Whitelock, The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version), OUP, 2005 | ||
| Prose or Verse | Verse | ||
| 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). | ||
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| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | |||
| Height | 440 | ||
| Width | 305 | ||
| Illustrations | No | ||
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| Modern Research Literature | Jill Whitelock, The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version), OUP, 2005 | ||
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