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Manuscripts

Oxford, Christ Church Library, MS 121 Gesta Romanorum

  • Latin, Early Modern English
  • s. xv2/4
  • Welsh manuscripts
  • parchment
Identifiers
Shelfmark
121
Type
histories
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin Secondary: Early Modern English
Date
s. xv2/4
15th century, 2nd quarter.
Origin, provenance
Origin: Wales
Wales
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Margam Abbey
Margam Abbey
Glamorganshire

Historical Cistercian abbey founded by Robert, earl of Gloucester and lord of Glamorgan, and located in the modern village of Margam.


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Wales? Margam Abbey? See the Bodleian website linked to below for a fuller description, which suggests that the geographic references associated with names added during the 16th century “should encourage us to speculate that the institution from which this manuscript was ‘liberated’ was a nearby religious house, of which the most plausible candidate in the proximity would be the Cistercian Abbey of Margam, seventeen miles from Boverton, and from whose library 242 titles were recorded in the Registrum (289–91), though by the fifteenth century its wealth and significance had declined.”
Provenance: Wales
Wales
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GlamorganGlamorgan
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

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See the Bodleian website linked to below for a fuller description. Names added to the MS include those of Henry Mywyn, a certain Llewelin, John Lloyd and Adam Mychell of the parich of Luntwit in the counteye of glamorgane yeman (probably Llantwit Major). These names and various notes have been taken to suggest a Glamorgan provenance.
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
Material
parchment
Dimensions
21.5 cm × 14.5 cm
215 × 145 mm, with several smaller folia.
Collation
i1 (f. i) + 18 (ff. 1-8) + 28 (ff. 9-16) + 38 (ff. 17-24) + 48 (ff. 25-32) + 58 (ff. 33-40) + 68 (ff. 41-48) + 78 (ff. 49-56) + 88 (ff. 57-64) + 98 (ff. 65-72) + 108 (ff. 73-80) + 118 (ff. 81-88) + 128 (ff. 89-96) + 138 (ff. 97-104) + 148 (ff. 105-112) + 158 (ff. 113-120) + 168 (ff. 121-128) + 178 (ff. 129-136) + 188 (ff. 137-144) + 198 (145-152) + 201 (f. 153) = 153 (total)
Table of contents
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Sources

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Medieval manuscripts in Oxford Libraries: a catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges, Online: Bodleian Libraries, 2017–present. URL: <https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/>.
Based on Hanna and Rundle (2017). direct link
Hanna, Ralph, and David Rundle, A descriptive catalogue of the western manuscripts, to c. 1600, in Christ Church, Oxford, Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2017.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
December 2021, last updated: August 2023