National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1, Auchinleck Manuscript
Manuscript | |||
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Reference Number | Eng1 | ||
Location | Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland | ||
Siglum/Shelfmark | 'Auchinleck' MS, Advocates MS 19.2.1, fols 85 r - 99 v | ||
Page/Folio range | 331 | ||
Standardised title of narrative | |||
Incipit or textual title | |||
Version (siglum) | A | ||
└ Language Group within Version | Middle English Version A | ||
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version | |||
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1) | Southern English | ||
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2) | |||
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) | |||
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition | |||
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Author | |||
Place of Manuscript Production | London | ||
Date of Manuscript Production | |||
Source of date Manuscript Production | Wiggins, 2003 | ||
Material | Parchment | ||
Language of Manuscript | English | ||
Regional or specific Language of Manuscript | Middle English | ||
Source for regional or specific Language of Manuscript | |||
Prose or Verse | Verse | ||
Other texts in the Manuscript | The Seven Sages text appears in fols 85 r - 99 v; fragmentary: missing c. 1400 lines.
MS contents: The Legend of Pope Gregory (ff.1r-6v) The King of Tars (ff.7ra-13vb) The Life of Adam and Eve (E ff.1ra-2vb; ff.14ra-16rb) Seynt Mergrete (ff.16rb-21ra) Seynt Katerine (ff.21ra-24vb) St Patrick's Purgatory (ff.25ra-31vb) þe Desputisoun Bitven þe Bodi and þe Soule (ff.31vb-35ra stub) The Harrowing of Hell (ff.?35rb-?37rb or 37va stub) The Clerk who would see the Virgin (ff.?37rb or 37va stub-38vb) Speculum Gy de Warewyke (ff.39ra-?48rb stub) Amis and Amiloun (ff.?48rb stub-?61va stub) The Life of St Mary Magdalene (ff.?61Ava stub-65vb) The Nativity and Early Life of Mary (ff.65vb-69va) On the Seven Deadly Sins (ff.70ra-72ra) The Paternoster (ff.72ra-?72rb or ?72va stub) The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (?72rb or ?72va stub-78ra) Sir Degare (ff.78rb-?84rb stub) The Seven Sages of Rome (ff.?84rb stub-99vb) Floris and Blancheflour (ff.100ra-104vb) The Sayings of the Four Philosophers (ff.105ra-105rb) The Battle Abbey Roll (ff.105v-107r) Guy of Warwick (couplets) (ff.108ra-146vb) Guy of Warwick (stanzas) (ff.145vb-167rb) Reinbroun (ff.167rb-175vb) Sir Beues of Hamtoun (ff.176ra-201ra) Of Arthour & of Merlin (ff.201rb-256vb) þe Wenche þat Loved þe King (ff.256vb-256A thin stub) A Peniworþ of Witt (ff.256A stub-259rb) How Our Lady's Sauter was First Found (ff.259rb-260vb) Lay le Freine (ff.261ra-262) Roland and Vernagu (ff.?262va stub-267vb) Otuel a Knight (ff.268ra-277vb) Kyng Alisaunder (L f.1ra-vb; S A.15 f.1ra-2vb; L f.2ra-vb; ff.278-9) The Thrush and the Nightingale (ff.279va-vb) The Sayings of St Bernard (f.280ra) Dauid þe King (ff.280rb-280vb) Sir Tristrem (ff.281ra-299A thin stub) Sir Orfeo (ff.299A stub-303ra) The Four Foes of Mankind (f.303rb-303vb) The Anonymous Short English Metrical Chronicle (ff.304ra-317rb) Horn Childe & Maiden Rimnild (ff.317va-323vb Alphabetical Praise of Women (ff.324ra-325vb) King Richard (f.326; E f.3ra-vb; S R.4 f.1ra-2vb; E f.4ra-vb; f.327) þe Simonie (ff.328r-334v) | ||
Total pages/folios in Manuscript | |||
Height | 250 | ||
Width | 190 | ||
Illustrations | No | ||
Digitisation | https://auchinleck.nls.uk/index.html | ||
Modern Editions | |||
Catalogue | |||
Modern Research Literature | Jill Whitelock, The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version), 2003, Karl Brunner, The Seven Sages of Rome (Southern Version), 1933, T. Heltveit, 'Dialect Words in The Seven Sages of Rome', English Studies, 45 (1964), 125-34, Alison Wiggins, 'The Auchinleck Manuscript (on-line facsimile edition)', The National Library of Scotland, 2023, https://auchinleck.nls.uk/editorial/project.html | ||
General Notes (Internal) |
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript
Short Story | Sequence Number | Narrator | Name Variations |
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Arbor | 1 | Empress | |
Canis | 2 | Bancillas | |
Aper | 3 | Empress | |
Medicus | 4 | Ancilles | |
Gaza | 5 | Empress | |
Puteus | 6 | Lentulus | Lentilioun |
Senescalcus | 7 | Empress | |
Tentamina | 8 | Malquidras | |
Virgilius | 9 | Empress | |
Avis | 10 | Cato | Catoun |
Sapientes | 11 | Empress | |
Vidua | 12 | Jesse | Not named in text - presumed 'Jesse' from analogues |
Roma | 13 | Empress |
'Roma' is fragmentary; text is missing final stories and conclusion.