London British Library Egerton 1995

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Manuscript Identification

Reference Number
Eng3
Location
London, British Library
Siglum / Shelfmark
Egerton 1995, ff. 3-54v

Textual Content & Tradition


Version (siglum)
A
Language Group within Version
Middle English Version A
Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version
Y Group
Further scholarly subgroup (1)
Southern English


Languages

Language of text
Middle English




Authorship & Production


Place of Production
London
Date of Production
1475/1500
Source of Date of Production
British Library website: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7641&CollID=28&NStart=1995 See also Karl Brunner, The Seven Sages of Rome (Southern Version), EETS O.S. 191, OUP, 1933

Physical Description

Material
Paper
Height
280
Width
195


Illustrations
No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript
Miscellany of prose and verse, including ; the Seven Sages of Rome (ff. 3-54v); Gregory's Chronicle, a dietary (ff. 66-77); John Page's poem The Siege of Rouen; a chronicle of London, breaking off in 1470. Also: 'Properties that longyth to a yong gentylman', Latin prophesies, the 'sapienta physicorum' (attibuted to Lydgate) (ff.77-79) , The Boke of Curtesy (ff. 55-58),

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue
Modern Research Literature
Brunner (1933), Whitelock (2005)

Embedded Stories in This Manuscript

Research Material

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