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Manuscripts

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 14 Welsh religious prose

  • Welsh
  • s. xiii2–xiv1
  • composite manuscript
  • Welsh manuscripts
  • vellum
Identifiers
Location
Collection: GB 0210 MSPENIARTH: Peniarth manuscripts
Shelfmark
Peniarth 14
Classification
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Welsh
Date
s. xiii2–xiv1
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
UnitCodicological unit. Indicates whether the entry describes a single leaf, a distinct or composite manuscript, etc.
composite manuscript
Material
vellum
Distinct units
pp. 1-100

What is now numbered pp. 1-100 originally comprised a separate manuscript, olim Hengwrt MS 25. This, in turn, consists of three parts, in three or four different hands, which J. G. Evans seems to regard as originally independent (Report, p. 331): (a) pp. 1-42 + 43-44, (b) pp. 45-78 and (c) pp. 79-90. The remaining leaves are blank, except for pp. 95-96.

pp. 45-78
pp. 79-90
pp. 101-195

The second manuscript, olim Hengwrt MS 13.

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  • p. 67b.23: meaning page 67, second column, line 23

Sources

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[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.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
March 2022, last updated: March 2023