Cambridge University Library MS Dd.1.17

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Eng8
Location	Cambridge, University Library
Siglum/Shelfmark	MS Dd.1.17, f. 54
Page/Folio range

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum)	A*
└ Language Group within Version
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition

Languages
Language of text	Middle English, principally of northern and Midland forms
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	England
Date of Manuscript Production	around 1400
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Whitelock, 2005

Physical Description
Material	membrane
Total pages/folios in Manuscript
Height	440
Width	305
Script style/form
Prose or verse
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
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).

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Jill Whitelock, The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version), OUP, 2005

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript