TY - BOOK AU - Buuren,C.van TI - 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 T2 - European History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000 SN - 9789004623477 AV - PR2065 U1 - 821/.1 23 PY - 1982/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Dialect poetry, Scottish KW - Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern) KW - Translations into Scots N1 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004623477 ER -