Cambridge University Library MS Dd.1.17
From The Seven Sages of Rome
| Manuscript Identification | |
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| Reference Number | Eng8 |
| Location | Cambridge, University Library |
| Siglum/Shelfmark | MS Dd.1.17, f. 54 |
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| Textual Content and Tradition | |
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| Version (siglum) | A* |
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| └ Further scholarly subgroup (1) | |
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (2) | |
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| Languages | |
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| Language of text | Middle English, principally of northern and Midland forms |
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| Authorship and Production | |
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| Place of Manuscript Production | England |
| Date of Manuscript Production | around 1400 |
| Source of Date of Manuscript Production | Whitelock, 2005 |
| Physical Description | |
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| Material | membrane |
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | |
| Height | 440 |
| Width | 305 |
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| 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 (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 | |
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| Catalogue | |
| Modern Research Literature | Jill Whitelock, The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version), OUP, 2005 |
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