Manuscripts

Glasgow, University Library, MS Hunter U.6.5

  • Latin
  • s. xv2
  • Welsh manuscripts
  • paper

Transcript of the Latin text in the Welsh lawbook of London, British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian E xi.

Identifiers
Shelfmark
Hunter U.6.5
Type
medieval Welsh law
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin
Date
s. xv2
Second half of the 15th century.
Origin, provenance
Origin: Wales
Wales
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Later provenance: Wales
Wales
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ass. with Symonds (Phillipp)Symonds (Phillipp)
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A 16th-century inscription identifies one Philipp Symonds as the owner of the manuscript, perhaps the person of this name who in 1573 leased land from Chepstow Priory (Monmouthshire, Wales).(2)n. 2 Daniel Huws, ‘Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts’ in The Welsh king and his court... (2000): 418–419.
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
Material
paper
Dimensions
8.625 ″ × 6 ″
Foliation
49 ff.
Palaeographical information
Script
Category: secretary hand

Sources

Notes

Daniel Huws, ‘Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts’ in The Welsh king and his court... (2000): 418–419.
Daniel Huws, ‘Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts’ in The Welsh king and his court... (2000): 418–419.

Secondary sources (select)

University of Glasgow Library: Special Collections, Online: University of Glasgow, ?–present. URL: <https://collections.gla.ac.uk>.
Huws, Daniel, “Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts”, in: T. M. Charles-Edwards, Paul Russell, and Morfydd E. Owen (eds), The Welsh king and his court, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000. 415–424.
Young, John, and Patrick Henderson Aitken, A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow, Glasgow: Maclehose, 1908.
Internet Archive: <link>
231 (item no. 287)
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
November 2010, last updated: August 2021