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Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn ‘The story of Boeve de Haumtone’

• Middle Welsh
• prose
• Medieval Welsh literature

Welsh adaptation of the Anglo-Norman text Geste de Boeve de Haumtone.

Manuscripts

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 5 = Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, part 1 [c. 1350]

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Oxford, Jesus College, MS 111 = Red Book of Hergest (Llyfr Coch Hergest) [s. xiv-xv]

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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 3043B [s. xvi^ex]

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 118 = Llyfr Sion Dafydd Rhys [s. xvi]

Incomplete text copied from the Red Book of Hergest.

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 19900B [c. 1608]

^{(1)n. 1} Erich Poppe • Regine Reck, ‘A French romance in Wales: Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn: processes of medieval translations [Part I]’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 55 (2006): 142.

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Language

• Middle Welsh

Form

prose (primary)

Textual relationships

Anglo-Norman text Geste de Boeve de Haumtone.

(Possible) sources: Geste de Boeve de HaumtoneGeste de Boeve de HaumtoneView incoming data

Classification

Medieval Welsh literatureMedieval Welsh literature
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Sources

Notes

^1.

Erich Poppe • Regine Reck, ‘A French romance in Wales: Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn: processes of medieval translations [Part I]’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 55 (2006): 142.

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] Poppe, Erich, and Regine Reck, Selections from Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn, The Library of Medieval Welsh Literature, 2, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2009.

[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>.

Transcriptions from Peniarth 5 and the Red Book of Hergest. direct link

[ed.] Watkin, Morgan, Ystorya Bown de Hamtwn: cyfieithiad canol y drydedd ganrif ar ddeg o ‘La geste de Boun de Hamtone’, Cardiff, 1958.

Secondary sources (select)

Poppe, Erich, and Regine Reck, “A French romance in Wales: Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn: processes of medieval translations [Part I]”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 55 (2006): 122–180.

Poppe, Erich, and Regine Reck, “A French romance in Wales: Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn: processes of medieval translations [Part II]”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 56 (2008): 129–164.

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November 2010, last updated: March 2024