London British Library Egerton 1995
From The Seven Sages of Rome
| Manuscript Identification | |
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| Reference Number | Eng3 |
| Location | London, British Library |
| Siglum/Shelfmark | British Library Egerton 1995 |
| Page/Folio range | 3-54v |
| Textual Content and Tradition | |
|---|---|
| Standardised title of narrative | The Seven Sages of Rome: English 'E' text |
| Incipit or textual title | |
| Version (siglum) | A (Seven Sages) |
| └ Language Group within Version | Middle English Version A |
| └ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version | Y Group |
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (1) | Southern English |
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (2) | |
| Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) | |
| Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition | Brunner (1933), Campbell (1907), 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 | Brunner, The Seven Sages of Rome (Southern Version) (1933) |
| Authorship and Production | |
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| Scribe | |
| Author | |
| Place of Manuscript Production | London |
| Date of Manuscript Production | 1475/1500 |
| Source of Date of Manuscript Production | Brunner (1933), British Library catalogue: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7641&CollID=28&NStart=1995 |
| Physical Description | |
|---|---|
| Material | Paper |
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | |
| Height | 280 |
| Width | 195 |
| Script style/form | |
| Prose or verse | |
| Illustrations | No |
| Contents and Additional Texts | |
|---|---|
| Other texts in the Manuscript | Miscellany of prose and verse, including ; the Seven Sages of Rome (3-54v); Gregory's Chronicle, a dietary (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) (77-79) , The Boke of Curtesy (55-58), |
| Catalogues and Research Literature | |
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| Catalogue | |
| Modern Research Literature | Brunner (1933), Whitelock (2005) |
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