Manuscripts

Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff. 4. 42 Cambridge Juvencus

Latin, Latin, Old Welsh, Old Irish
ix² + x¹
Welsh manuscripts
vellum

A copy of Juvencus’ Evangeliorum libri quattuor, with glosses in Latin, Old Welsh and Old Irish

General
Texts

Identifiers

Location

England Cambridge, University Library

Shelfmark

Ff. 4. 42

Title

Cambridge Juvencus

Type

religious literature

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Latin Secondary: Latin, Old Welsh, Old Irish

Date

ix² + x¹

9th/10th century

Hands, scribes

Hands indexed:

Main hand (Nuadu) Núadu [scribe]Núadu ... scribe

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

Additions

Contains glosses in Latin, Old Welsh and Old Irish

Codicological information

Material

vellum

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.] Cambridge Digital Library, Online: University of Cambridge, 2011–present. URL: <http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk>.

Digital reproduction, with notes and commentary by Myriah Williams direct link

[ed.] McKee, Helen, The Cambridge Juvencus manuscript, glossed in Latin, Old Welsh, and Old Irish: text and commentary, Aberystwyth: CMCS Publications, 2000. 604 pp.

Edition.

[facs. ed.] McKee, Helen, Juvencus Codex Cantabrigiensis Ff.4.42: a ninth-century manuscript glossed in Welsh, Irish and Latin / Llawysgrif o’r nawfed ganrif gyda glosau Cymraeg, Gwyddeleg, a Lladin, Aberystwyth: CMCS Publications, 2000.

Facsimile edition, with introduction

[ed.] Stokes, Whitley, and John Strachan [eds.], Thesaurus palaeohibernicus: a collection of Old-Irish glosses, scholia, prose, and verse, 3 vols, vol. 2: Non-Biblical glosses and scholia; Old-Irish prose; names of persons and places; inscriptions; verse; indexes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903.

comments: Reprinted by DIAS in 1987, together with Stokes' supplementary volume.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link> Wikisource: <link>

44 Irish glosses.

[ed.] Stokes, Whitley, “Cambrica”, Transactions of the Philological Society 7 (1860–1861): 204–249, 288–293 (addenda and corrigenda).

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – addenda and corrigenda: <link>

204–232; 288–292 (addenda et corrigenda) Glosses.

Secondary sources (select)

McKee, Helen, “Scribes and glosses from Dark Age Wales: the Cambridge Juvencus manuscript”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 39 (Summer, 2000): 1–22.

McKee, Helen, Juvencus Codex Cantabrigiensis Ff.4.42: a ninth-century manuscript glossed in Welsh, Irish and Latin / Llawysgrif o’r nawfed ganrif gyda glosau Cymraeg, Gwyddeleg, a Lladin, Aberystwyth: CMCS Publications, 2000.

Introduction

Isaac, G. R., “Naw englyn y Juvencus llinell 6c”, Studia Celtica 34 (2000): 272–273.

Oates, J. C. T., “Notes on the later history of the oldest manuscript of Welsh poetry: the Cambridge Juvencus”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 3 (Summer, 1982): 81–87.

Stokes, Whitley, “The cryptogram in the Cambridge Juvencus”, The Academy 42 (September 1892, 1892): 215.