Abstract
In the very exhaustive and thorough account of the Middle English versions of the Seven Sages by Dr. Killis Campbell, which appeared in these Publications, XIV, pp. 37 f., I see that the Bodleian MS. has escaped notice. As I believe that no one has hitherto called attention to this version, it may be worth while to give a brief account of it here. I came across it some years ago whilst working through a number of the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian Library. The MS. in question bears the press mark MS. Rawl. Poet. 175 (New Catalogue 14667) and is a parchment MS. of the middle of the 14th century, The Seven Sages occupying fol. 109-131b. This Rawlinson version is in the Northern dialect and agrees very closely indeed with MS. C (Cotton Galba E. IX); in fact in the portions which I have examined, these two MSS. agree almost word for word, as the following specimen and collations show. To give some idea of the MS. I here append (1) 11. 1-128 in full, (2) the readings from the Rawlinson MS. which differ from MS. C in the Avis story, and (3) the readings from the Rawl. MS. which differ from MS. C in the last portion of the whole (ll. 3913-4002). Contractions are denoted by italics.
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