Manuscripts

Oxford, Jesus College, MS 20 Welsh poetry, genealogy, etc.

Welsh
s. xv¹
Welsh manuscripts
vellum

Identifiers

Location

England Oxford, Jesus College

Shelfmark

20

Type

Welsh poetry Welsh genealogies

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Welsh

Date

s. xv¹

“first half of the xvth century” (Evans).

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

Material

vellum

Table of contents

Legend

Texts

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Locus

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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

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.] Oxford Digital Library, Early manuscripts at Oxford University, Online: University of Oxford, 2001–present. URL: <http://image.ox.ac.uk>.

direct link

[dipl. ed.] Thomas, Peter Wynn [ed.], D. Mark Smith, and Diana Luft [transcribers and encoders], Welsh prose (Rhyddiaith Gymraeg) 1300–1425, Online: Cardiff University, 2007–present. URL: <http://www.rhyddiaithganoloesol.caerdydd.ac.uk>.

Digital transcriptions of the prose sections of the MS.
direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Guy, Ben, “[3] A southern genealogical anthology: the Jesus 20 genealogies”, in: Ben Guy, Medieval Welsh genealogy: an introduction and textual study, 42, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2020. 101–158.

Contents: The manuscript -- The extant form of the Jesus 20 genealogies -- The Jesus 20 genealogies, Source II -- The Jesus 20 genealogies, Source I -- The sources of the Morgan ab Owain genealogies.

Evans, J. Gwenogvryn, Report on manuscripts in the Welsh language, vol. 2: Jesus College, Oxford; Free Library, Cardiff; Havod; Wrexham; Llanwrin; Merthyr; Aberdâr, Historical Manuscripts Commission, London, 1902.

Internet Archive: <link>

31–34 [‘MS 3 = xx’] direct link