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London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A i Unit: ff. 56-160Latin historical writing relating to Wales

  • Latin
  • s. xiii4/4
  • Welsh manuscripts
  • vellum

A manuscript of St David's from 13th century and later.

Identifiers
Location
Part of
London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A i [s. x/xiiin + s. xiii and later]
Type
Welsh histories
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin
Date
s. xiii4/4
Last quarter of the 13th century, except for later additions.
Origin, provenance
Origin: Tyddewi [St Davids]
Tyddewi ... St Davids cathedral church
Pembrokeshire
No short description available
See more Cathedral church of St Davids.
Later provenance: ass. with Lewis (John) [d. 1541]Lewis (John) ... d. 1541
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.
See more Prise (John)
Sir John Prise, Syr Siôn ap Rhys
(1501/2–1555)
Scholar and administrator of Brecon; son of Rhys ap Gwilym ap Llywelyn and of Gwenllian daughter of Hywel ap Madog.
See more John Lewis (d. 1541), treasurer of St Davids, sends it to Sir John Prise (d. 1555). Prise owned it by 1539. See N. R. Ker, ‘Sir John Prise’, The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 10 (1955).
Later provenance: ass. with Dee (John)
Dee (John)
(13 July 1527–1608/1609)
No short description available
See more In 1583, John Dee owns the MS.
Later provenance: ass. with Cotton (Robert)
Cotton (Robert)
(1570/71–1631)
Sir Robert Bruce, 1st baronet, of Connington Hall, was an English politician, antiquary and collector of manuscripts, who established the Cotton library.
See more By 1621, the manuscript has become part of the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631).
Later provenance: ass. with Planta (Joseph)
Planta (Joseph)
(1744—1827)
librarian, of Swiss origin, of the British Museum; author of a catalogue of manuscripts in the Cottonian collection
See more MS described by Joseph Planta (1744-1827), librarian.
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
Material
vellum
Table of contents
Legend
Texts

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Locus

While it is not a reality yet, CODECS seeks consistency in formatting references to locations of texts and other items of interest in manuscripts. Our preferences may be best explained with some examples:

  • f. 23ra.34: meaning folio 23 recto, first column, line 34
  • f. 96vb.m: meaning folio 96, verso, second column, middle of the page (s = top, m = middle, i = bottom)
    • Note that marg. = marginalia, while m = middle.
  • p. 67b.23: meaning page 67, second column, line 23
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

See also the parent manuscript for further references.

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.] British Library: digitised manuscripts, Online: British Library. URL: <http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts>.
direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Hughes, Kathleen, Celtic Britain in the early Middle Ages: studies in Scottish and Welsh sources, ed. David N. Dumville, Studies in Celtic History, 2, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1980.  
Papers revised or previously unpublished
esp. 73–74 and 76
Ker, N. R., “Sir John Prise”, The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 5th series, 10 (1955): 1–24.
web page identifiers
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
June 2014, last updated: October 2023
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