Manuscripts

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 20143A Cyfraith Hywel (Cyfnerth and Blegywryd redactions)

Welsh
s. xiv²
Welsh manuscripts
parchment

A Welsh lawbook, the first part of which corresponds, by and large, to the Cyfnerth redaction and the second to the Blegywryd redaction. The conventional siglum for the Cyfnerth version in this MS is Y.

Identifiers

Location

Wales Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales

Shelfmark

20143A

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Welsh

Date

s. xiv²

Second half of the 14th century.⁽³⁾^{n. 3} Daniel Huws, ‘Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts’ in The Welsh king and his court... (2000): 420–424.

Origin, provenance

Origin: Wales, southWales, south

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

See more Written by two scribes in the south of Wales.⁽⁴⁾^{n. 4} Daniel Huws, ‘Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts’ in The Welsh king and his court... (2000): 420–424.

Later provenance: For a period between c.1860 and 1969, the manuscript was lost.⁽⁵⁾^{n. 5} Daniel Huws, ‘Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts’ in The Welsh king and his court... (2000): 420–424.

Hands, scribes

Hands indexed:

Hand of scribe A

Hand of scribe B

Exemplars

Unknown exemplar.

Codicological information

Material

parchment

Dimensions

16.6 cm × 13.1 cm

Collation

1⁸ (ff. 1-8) + 2¹¹ (ff. 9-19 (incl. inserted bifolium, see note)) + 3¹⁰ (ff. 20-29, ff. 23 and 26 being singletons - small stub after 29) + 4⁸ (ff. 30-37) + 5⁶ (ff. 38-43) + 6⁸ (ff. 44-51) + 7⁸ (ff. 52-59) + 8⁸ (ff. 60-67) + 9⁸ (ff. 68-75) + 10⁸ (ff. 76-83) + 11⁸ (ff. 84-91) + 12⁸ (ff. 92-99) + 13⁸ (ff. 100-107, small stub after 107) + 14-15⁸ (ff. 108-115 (see note)) = 115 (total)

Collation

The formula is based on Huws, who gives details for the first 13 quires. The digitised MS contains 115 ff. and Huws mentions a quire 15 but he does not specify how leaves there are in quires 14 and 15. Of the second quire, Huws says that there are 10 leaves, but that a bifolium has been sewn into it after no. 4 and that no. 10 is wanting. Since the foliation of the next quire starts with f. 20, it is here assumed that quire 2 contained 10 leaves originally.

Condition

Some wear, many wrinkles.⁽⁶⁾^{n. 6} Daniel Huws, ‘Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts’ in The Welsh king and his court... (2000): 420–424.

Palaeographical information

Script

Category: Gothic textualis (textura)

Illumination

Red or blue-green drawings in lower margins, including symbols of the four Evangelists, a number of different animals, dragons, peacocks and fish.⁽⁷⁾^{n. 7} Daniel Huws, ‘Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts’ in The Welsh king and his court... (2000): 420–424.

Distinct units

ff. i and vi

Aberystwyth, National Lib… ff. i, vi

Binding material (front and rear). Commentary on Paul, 1 Corinthians 9–10. Ff. i and vi are two halves which originally formed one leaf of a 13th-century manuscript.

ff. iir-iiiv

Aberystwyth, National Lib… ff. ii-iii

Binding material (front). “Missal or a Manual containing the Order of Marriage and the Order of Visiting the Sick” (Huws). Ff. ii and iii represent only the bottom half of a leaf which belonged to a 14th-century Welsh manuscript.

Table of contents

Legend

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

Notes

^1.

Daniel Huws, ‘Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts’ in The Welsh king and his court... (2000): 420–424.

^2.

Daniel Huws, ‘Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts’ in The Welsh king and his court... (2000): 420–424.

^3.

Daniel Huws, ‘Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts’ in The Welsh king and his court... (2000): 420–424.

^4.

Daniel Huws, ‘Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts’ in The Welsh king and his court... (2000): 420–424.

^5.

Daniel Huws, ‘Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts’ in The Welsh king and his court... (2000): 420–424.

^6.

Daniel Huws, ‘Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts’ in The Welsh king and his court... (2000): 420–424.

^7.

Daniel Huws, ‘Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts’ in The Welsh king and his court... (2000): 420–424.

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.

Reproduction of the manuscript direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Roberts, Sara Elin [project leader], and Bryn Jones [research ass.], Cyfraith Hywel, Online, 2013–. URL: <http://cyfraith-hywel.org.uk>.

abstract:

Cyfraith-Hywel.org.uk focuses on research on the manuscripts of Welsh law. Dr Sara Elin Roberts led the original research project, which was funded by the University of Wales and the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. This site presents the contents of all of the manuscripts of Welsh law in the form of related and searchable databases. There is also a full bibliography of works on Welsh law, and texts and information on Ancient Laws, the first full study of the laws published in 1841.

direct link

Huws, Daniel, “Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts”, in: T. M. Charles-Edwards, Paul Russell, and Morfydd E. Owen (eds), The Welsh king and his court, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000. 415–424.

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>.

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