Manuscripts

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

Latin, Welsh
s. xiii^med
Welsh manuscripts
parchment

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

General
Texts

Identifiers

Location

Wales Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales

Collection: GB 0210 MSPENIARTH: Peniarth manuscripts

Shelfmark

Peniarth 28

Classification

Hengwrt collection, 7

Type

medieval Welsh law

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Latin Secondary: Welsh

Date

s. xiii^med

Middle of the 13th century (Daniel Huws).

Origin, provenance

Origin: Wales

Wales

No short description available

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.

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.

direct link

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.