Manuscripts

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 28 Cyfraith Hywel (Latin A)

  • Latin, Welsh
  • s. xiiimed
  • Welsh manuscripts
  • parchment

Welsh lawbook, ‘Latin A’ (i.e. Redaction A of the Latin texts of the Welsh laws).

Identifiers
Location
Collection: GB 0210 MSPENIARTH: Peniarth manuscripts
Shelfmark
Peniarth 28
Classification
Type
medieval Welsh law
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin Secondary: Welsh
Date
s. xiiimed
Middle of the 13th century (Daniel Huws).
Origin, provenance
Origin: Wales
Wales
No short description available

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Hands, scribes
Codicological information
Material
parchment
Palaeographical information
Illumination
illustrated
The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.

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.

Secondary sources (select)

Huws, Daniel, “Leges Howelda at Canterbury”, in: Daniel Huws, Medieval Welsh manuscripts, Cardiff and Aberystwyth: University of Wales Press, 2000. 169–176.
Huws, Daniel, Peniarth 28: darluniau o Lyfr Cyfraith Hywel Dda / Illustrations from a Welsh lawbook, Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1988.
Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
November 2010, last updated: April 2022