Henley, Georgia, “Transnational book traffic in the Irish Sea zone: a new witness to the First Variant version of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis Britonum”, North American Journal of Celtic Studies 4:2 (2020): 131–162.
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This article examines Dublin, Trinity College 11500, a historical compilation dated to the fourteenth century containing the First Variant version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's De gestis Britonum, works by Gerald of Wales and Aristotle, and several poems including a prophetical text called ‘Song on the kings of Scotland’. Following a long period of private ownership, the manuscript was purchased by Trinity College in 2014. It brings to light important new textual evidence for Geoffrey's First Variant. This article examines the text's readings against the other extant manuscripts of the First Variant, establishes that it is the exemplar for Evan Evans' eighteenth-century extracts, and contextualizes the production of the manuscript within a network of transnational Irish Sea connections between Ireland, northeast Wales, and the Welsh Marches enabled by the Cistercian order.
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