Texts

Surexit memorandum

  • Old Welsh
  • prose
Memorandum, in Old Welsh and partly in Latin, entered in the St Chad/Llandeilo Gospels, where it is found in the upper margin of a folio containing the end of St Matthew, directly below another note (beg. Ostenditur). It records a dispute between Tutbulc filius Liuit (mod. Tudfwlch ap Lywyd) and the son-in-law of a certain Tutri (Tudri) concerning land at Tir Telych.
Title
Surexit memorandum
Often referred to as the ‘Surexit’ memorandum, after the opening word of the text.
First words (prose)
  • Surexit Tutbulc filius Liuit
Language
  • Old Welsh
  • Secondary language(s): Latin language
  • 9th century?
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Subjects

Tudfwlch ap LywydTudfwlch ap Lywyd
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Tir TelychTir Telych
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Sources

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[ed.] [tr.] Jenkins, Dafydd, and Morfydd E. Owen, “The Welsh marginalia in the Lichfield Gospels. Part II: The ‘surexit’ memorandum”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 7 (Summer, 1984): 91–120.
Includes full discussion.
Evans, J. Gwenogvryn, and John Rhys, The text of the Book of Llan Dâv, Series of Old Welsh Texts, 4, Oxford: Evans, 1893.
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xliii–xlviii (Book of St Chad)
Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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August 2019, last updated: June 2023