The seven sages of Rome (southern version)

Titre:	The procys of the sevyn sages (ms. C); aucun titre dans le ms. F; The book of the seven sages (southern version)
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Langue:	Anglais
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Contenu:	Version anglaise de la légende des Sept sages de Rome composée dans le sud de l'Angleterre.
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Manuscrits

Cambridge, University Library, Dd.1.17 (D)
Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.38, f. 126ra (F) [⇛ Description]
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates, 19.2.1, f. 84rb-99vb (A) [⇛ Description]
« Auchinleck manuscript ».
London, British Library, Arundel, 140 (Ar)
London, British Library, Cotton, Galba E. IX, f. 25va-48vb (C) [⇛ Description]
London, British Library, Egerton, 1995, f. 3 (E) [⇛ Description]
Oxford, Balliol College Library, 354 (B)
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Poet. 175 (R)

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries: published from ancient manuscripts, with an introduction, notes, and a glossary by Henry Weber, Edinburgh, Constable, 1810, 3 t. [GB: t. 1, t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [HT] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
Édition du ms. A complétée avec le ms. C.
The Thornton Romances. The Early English Metrical Romances of Perceval, Isumbras, Eglamour, and Degrevant. Selected from manuscripts at Lincoln and Cambridge. Edited by James Orchard Halliwell, Nichols and Son for the Camden Society, 1844, lvi + 312 p. [GB] [IA]
Extraits du ms. F.
Altenglische Sprachproben nebst einem Wörterbuche, unter Mitwirkung von Karl Goldbeck herausgegeben von Eduard Mätzner, Berlin, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1867-1888, 5 t. en 2 vol. (ici t. 1:1, p. 253-259) [IA: t. 1:1, t. 1:2, t. 2:1, t. 2:2, t. 2:3]
Édition d'un extrait.
The Seven Sages of Rome, edited from the manuscripts, with introduction, notes, and Gglossary by Killis Campbell, Boston, Ginn (The Albion Series of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English Poetry), 1907, cxiv + 217 p. [IA]
Réimpression:
- Genève, Slatkine Reprints, 1975
Édition du ms. C avec les variantes de R.
A Literary Middle English Reader, edited by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Boston etc., Ginn, 1915, xxviii + 554 p. (ici p. 125-141) [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Édition d'un extrait.
The Seven Sages of Rome (Southern Version), edited from the MSS. by Karl Brunner, London, Milford, Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 191), 1933, xxxi + 233 p.
Réimpressions:
- The Seven Sages of Rome (Southern Version), edited from the MSS. by Karl Brunner, London, Milford, Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 191), 1933, xxxi + 233 p. [IA]
- Woodbridge et Rochester, Boydell and Brewer, 2002
Édition du ms. A avec les variantes de Ar, B, E et F.
Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Russell and Russell, 1964, 2 t. (ici t. 2, p. 759-785) [IA: t. 1-2]
Édition antérieure:
- Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Prentice-Hall, 1930, 2 t. [IA: t. 1-2]
Édition d'extraits d'après le ms. C.
The Auchinleck Manuscript: National Library of Scotland Advocates' MS 19.2.1, with an introduction by Derek Pearsall and I. C. Cunningham, London, 1977.
Fac-similé du ms. A.

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England. A new edition, revised by J. O. Halliwell, London, Bohn (Bohn's Antiquarian Library), 1848, viii + 600 p. (ici t. 3, p. 405-453) [GB] [IA]
  Éditions antérieures:
  - Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Edinburgh, Constable, 1805, 3 t., vii + 387, [iv] + 404, [iv] + 419 p. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
  - Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811, 3 t., vii + 408, [iv] + 419, [iv] + 432 p. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
  Résumé et extraits du ms. A.
- A Wonder Book of Old Romance, by F. J. Harvey Darton, illustrated by A. G. Walker, London, Wells Gardner Darton, [1907], xix + 424 p. (ici p. 175-255) [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
  Réimpression:
  - A Wonder Book of Old Romance, by F. J. Harvey Darton, illustrated by A. G. Walker, New York, Stokes, [1907], xix + 424 p. [IA]

Études

Campbell, Killis, « A study of the romance of the Seven Sages with special reference to the Middle English versions », Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 14:1, 1899, p. 1-107. [GB] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2] DOI: 10.2307/456514
Campbell, Killis, « The source of the story Sapientes in the Seven Sages of Rome », Modern Language Notes, 23:7, 1908, p. 202-204. [GB] [HT] [IA] DOI: 10.2307/2916837

Petras, Paul, Über die mittelenglischen Fassungen der Sage von den sieben weisen Meistern. I. Teil: Überlieferung und Quelle, Grünberg i Schl., Weiß Nachf. (Hugo Söderström), 1885, 76 p. [GB] [IA]

Version anglaise de la légende des Sept sages de Rome

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