Manuscripts

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 27 part of Llyfr Coch Talgarth (Red Book of Talgarth)

Welsh
c.1400 manuscript fragment
Welsh manuscripts
vellum

Welsh manuscript collection of religious texts, mainly in the hand of Hywel Fychan. Other parts of the original manuscript are in Peniarth MS 12 and Cardiff MS 3.242.

Identifiers

Location

Wales Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales

Collection: GB 0210 MSLLANSTEPH: Llanstephan manuscripts

Shelfmark

Llanstephan 27

Classification

Shirburn Castle collection, E. 58

Title

part of Llyfr Coch Talgarth (Red Book of Talgarth)

Type

manuscript miscellanies religious literature

Provenance and related aspects

Belongs to historical MS:

Llyfr Coch Talgarth

Language

Welsh

Date

c.1400

Origin, provenance

Origin: ass. with Hopcyn ap Tomas ab Einion

Hopcyn ap Tomas ab Einion

(fl. 1337–1408)

Welsh nobleman and patron.

See more Patron: Hopcyn ap Thomas ab Einion.

Later provenance: ass. with Powell (John)Powell (John)

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

See more On f. v, signature of John Powell.

Later provenance: ass. with Williams (Moses)

Williams (Moses)

(1685–1742)

Welsh scholar, antiquarian and clergyman.

See more On f. 1, Liber Moses Williams ex dono J. Powell de Talgarth 1719.

Hands, scribes

Hands indexed:

Main hand (Hywel Fychan) Hywel Fychan ap Hywel GochHywel Fychan ap Hywel Goch
(fl. 14th century)
Hywel Fychan ap Hywel Goch was a fourteenth century Welsh scribe. He was a man with clerical training who knew Latin and was able to edit and organize a book. He also wrote lawbooks. Hywel Fychan is most famous for being the chief scribe of the Red Book of Hergest (Oxford, Jesus College, MS 111). He is also connected to Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 11; Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 27 (Llyfr Coch Talgarth); and Philadelphia, Library Company, MS 8680.O. He furthermore made a contribution to the Culchwch ac Olwen-text of the White Book of Rhydderch (Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth 4-5) on folio 83v.
See more

Assistant hand Anonymous.

Codicological information

State of existence

fragmentary

UnitCodicological unit. Indicates whether the entry describes a single leaf, a distinct or composite manuscript, etc.

manuscript fragment

Material

vellum

Dimensions

9 ″ × 6,125 ″

Palaeographical information

Layout

The text is written in a single collumn with 25-27 lines per page.

Distinct units

pp. i-iii

Notes.

p. 183a

Aberystwyth, National Lib… p. 183a

Letter to Moses Williams.

Table of contents

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Texts

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Locus

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f. 23ra.34: meaning folio 23 recto, first column, line 34
f. 96vb.m: meaning folio 96, verso, second column, middle of the page (s = top, m = middle, i = bottom)
- Note that marg. = marginalia, while m = middle.
p. 67b.23: meaning page 67, second column, line 23

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Welsh manuscripts

Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] National Library of Wales, National Library of Wales: archives and manuscripts, Online: NLW, ?–present. URL: <https://archives.library.wales>.

Previously Digital Mirror / Drych Digidol (www.llyfrgell.cymru/darganfod/oriel-ddigidol, later www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=digitalmirror), the digital library of the National Library of Wales gives access to digitised manuscripts, printed works, archival materials and other media.

Greyscale images. direct link

Digitisation wanted

No high-resolution images in full colour available.

[dipl. ed.] Thomas, Peter Wynn [ed.], D. Mark Smith, and Diana Luft [transcribers and encoders], Welsh prose (Rhyddiaith Gymraeg) 1300–1425, Online: Cardiff University, 2007–present. URL: <http://www.rhyddiaithganoloesol.caerdydd.ac.uk>.

Electronic transcriptions of most of the prose texts, along with a description of the manuscript. direct link

Secondary sources (select)

National Library of Wales, National Library of Wales: archives and manuscripts, Online: NLW, ?–present. URL: <https://archives.library.wales>.

Previously Digital Mirror / Drych Digidol (www.llyfrgell.cymru/darganfod/oriel-ddigidol, later www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=digitalmirror), the digital library of the National Library of Wales gives access to digitised manuscripts, printed works, archival materials and other media.

direct link

Evans, J. Gwenogvryn, Report on manuscripts in the Welsh language, vol. 2: Plas Llan Stephan; Free Library, Cardiff, Historical Manuscripts Commission, London, 1903.

Internet Archive: <link>

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