Manuscripts

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 15 Welsh hagiography, etc.

Welsh
s. xiv/xv
Welsh manuscripts
vellum

Identifiers

Location

Wales Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales

Collection: GB 0210 MSPENIARTH: Peniarth manuscripts

Shelfmark

Peniarth 15

Classification

Hengwrt collection, 57

Type

religious literature

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Welsh

Date

s. xiv/xv

c. 1400.

Origin, provenance

Origin: Wales

Wales

No short description available

Later provenance: Hengwrt Library

Hengwrt Library

Thanks in no small part to the diligent work of Robert Vaughan, the Hengwrt library, near Dolgellau (Gwynedd), housed numerous Welsh and other manuscripts. It continued to be used until 1859, when Sir Robert Williames Vaughan bequeathed it to William Watkin Edward Wynne of Peniarth. The Hengwrt-Peniarth Library, as the combined collection is often known, was purchased in 1905 by Sir John Williams. For a catalogue of manuscripts, see Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 9095.

See more ass. with Vaughan (Robert)

Vaughan (Robert)

(d. 1667)

Welsh antiquary; collector of manuscripts in the Hengwrt library

Hands, scribes

Hands indexed:

Hand A (pp. 1-122)

Hand B (pp. 123-125) Anglicana hand, responsible for the fragment of the Grail text.

Hand C (pp. 127-146)

Codicological information

Material

vellum

Dimensions

7.125 ″ × 5.375 ″

Condition

The text is written in a single collumn with 38 lines per page.

Palaeographical information

Script

Category: Gothic scripts

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

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.

[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>.

Edition of the prose, along with an introduction to the manuscript.

[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.

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