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The Buke of the Sevyne Sagis : A Middle Scots Version of The Seven Sages of Rome. Edited from the Asloan Manuscript (NLS Acc. 4233), c. 1515 /

The Buke of the Sevyne Sagis : A Middle Scots Version of The Seven Sages of Rome. Edited from the Asloan Manuscript (NLS Acc. 4233), c. 1515 / A Middle Scots Version of The Seven Sages of Rome. Edited from the Asloan Manuscript (NLS Acc. 4233), c. 1515 edited by C. van Buuren. - 1 online resource (463 pages) : illustrations. - European History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000 Leidse Germanistische en Anglistische Reeks ; 20 . - European History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000. Leidse Germanistische en Anglistische Reeks ; 20. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Catherine van Buuren -- List of Illustrations / Catherine van Buuren -- List of Abbreviations / Catherine van Buuren -- Preface / Catherine van Buuren -- I. Description of Manuscript and Watermarks / Catherine van Buuren -- II. The Identity of John Asloan / Catherine van Buuren -- III. Asloan’s Activities as a Copyist / Catherine van Buuren -- IV. History and Ownership of the Asloan Manuscript / Catherine van Buuren -- V. The Date of the Asloan Manuscript / Catherine van Buuren -- VI. Phonology of Stressed Vowels / Catherine van Buuren -- VII. Asloan’s Orthography / Catherine van Buuren -- VIII. Anglicisation in the Manuscript / Catherine van Buuren -- IX. Accidence / Catherine van Buuren -- X. Datable Words and Usages / Catherine van Buuren -- XI. Metre and Versification / Catherine van Buuren -- XII. The Style and Narrative Art of the Buke of the Sevyne Sagis and its Place in the Scottish Tradition of the Day / Catherine van Buuren -- XIII. Summary of the Contents; The Buke of the Sevyne Sagis Compared with other Versions / Catherine van Buuren -- XIV. Sources and Analogues / Catherine van Buuren -- XV. Note on Editorial Method / Catherine van Buuren -- XVI. Scribal Abbreviations and Their Expansions / Catherine van Buuren -- XVII. Bibliography / Catherine van Buuren -- XVIII. The Text of The Buke of the Sevyne Sagis / Catherine van Buuren -- XIX. Textual Notes / Catherine van Buuren -- XX. Explanatory Notes / Catherine van Buuren -- XXI. Glossary / Catherine van Buuren -- XXII. List of Proper Names and Place-Names, fully exhaustive. Most of these are commented on in the relevant explanatory notes. / Catherine van Buuren -- Back Matter -- Appendix I The Tables of Contents in the Asloan Manuscript / Catherine van Buuren -- Appendix II. Dates of the Items in the Asloan Manuscript. / Catherine van Buuren -- Appendix III Petrus Alfonsi, Disciplina Clericalis . / Catherine van Buuren -- Appendix IV Full Lists of Words with Original Tonic /ā/, /ai/, /ē/, /ei/, and u Representing Phon. 7 (ESc /ō/> MSc /ǖ/) / Catherine van Buuren -- Appendix V. /a/ and /ai/-rhymes in Early and Middle Scots poetry / Catherine van Buuren -- Appendix VI Table of Versions of the Seven Sages of Rome and of the Principal Characters in a Number of Versions and Manuscripts / Catherine van Buuren -- Addenda to Bibliography / Catherine van Buuren -- Index / Catherine van Buuren.


English

9789004623477

10.1163/9789004633544 DOI


Dialect poetry, Scottish.
Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Translations into Scots.

PR2065

821/.1