Manuscripts

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 137

  • Welsh, Latin
  • s. xvii2/4
  • Welsh manuscripts
  • paper
Identifiers
Location
Collection: GB 0210 MSLLANSTEPH: Llanstephan manuscripts
Shelfmark
Llanstephan 137
Classification
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Welsh Secondary: Latin
Date
s. xvii2/4
c.1640.
Hands, scribes
Hands indexed:
Scribe David Parry [d. 1714]Parry (David) ... d. 1714
(1682?–1714)
Welsh scholar from Cardigan, who assisted Edward Lhuyd on his travels in Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Brittany, and became keeper of the Ashmolean in Oxford.
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Exemplars
Oxford, Jesus College, MS 111
pp. 1-351 are copied from the Red Book of Hergest
Codicological information
Material
paper
Dimensions
14.75 ″ × 8.75 ″
Collation
368 pp.
Binding
Half-bound
Table of contents
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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.

Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Evans, J. Gwenogvryn, Report on manuscripts in the Welsh language, vol. 2: Plas Llan Stephan; Free Library, Cardiff, Historical Manuscripts Commission, London, 1903.
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Contributors
Darina Knoops, Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
February 2022, last updated: August 2023