"12(ff.1–12)+214(ff.13–26)+310(ff.27–36)+47(ff.37–43,finalleaf,possiblyablank,wanting)+54(ablank,astub,andff.44-45)+6²(formerendflyleaves,nowff.133-134)" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 1.
London, British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian E xi Unit: section 1, ff. 1-45, 133-134
- Latin
- s. xiiimed
- Welsh manuscripts
- vellum
Welsh lawbook (ff. 1-45, 133-134).
See more Wales, south-westWales, south-west
See more Gwynedd (e.g. Bangor and Aberconway) or south-west Wales. The southwestern elements may derive from an earlier Latin exemplar like that contained in the now lost Llyfr y Tŷ Gwyn.(2)n. 2 Daniel Huws, ‘Descriptions of the Welsh nanuscripts’ in The Welsh king and his court... (2000): 415–419.
According to Huws, the lawbook and the texts added on ff. 44–45 are the work of a single scribe in the mid-13th century and so probably, are the glosses on ff. 15r, 15v and 16. The script in use is characterised by him as “a small regular textura with a slight backward tilt; there is fully developed Gothic ‘biting’ and unostentatious capital letters in the text” and features include “open a, round r only after o, final r sometimes in majuscule form, t with shaft not extending above the cross-stroke, four-stroked w”, which would go out of fashion later during the same century.
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