Cambridge University Library MS Dd.1.17
From The Seven Sages of Rome
| Manuscript Identification | |
|---|---|
| Reference Number | Eng8 |
| Location | Cambridge University Library |
| Siglum/Shelfmark | Cambridge University Library MS Dd.1.17 |
| Page/Folio range | 54r-63r |
| Textual Content and Tradition | |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| 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 | |
| Modern Editions | Whitelock, The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version) (2005) |
| Authorship and Production | |
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| Scribe | |
| Author | |
| Place of Manuscript Production | England |
| Date of Manuscript Production | 1350/1400 |
| Source of Date of Manuscript Production | Whitelock (2005) |
| Physical Description | |
|---|---|
| Material | Parchment |
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | Vol. 1: ff. 261, vol. 2: ff. 93, vol. 3: ff. 87 |
| Height | 440 |
| Width | 305 |
| Script style/form | |
| Prose or verse | |
| Illustrations | No |
| Contents and Additional Texts | |
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| 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). |
| Catalogues and Research Literature | |
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| Catalogue | |
| Modern Research Literature | Brunner (1933), Whitelock (2005) |
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