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Exeter, Cathedral Library, MS 3514

  • Latin
  • s. xiii2–xivin
  • Welsh manuscripts
Identifiers
Location
Shelfmark
3514
Type
manuscript miscellanies histories
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin
Date
s. xiii2–xivin
The manuscript reached its present state at the latest by the early fourteenth century.
Hands, scribes
Hands indexed:
Hand 1 Copied pp. 1-3r20, 43-52, ?53, and 54-60. Wrote with some lateral compression in a regular and stylish bookhand, moving towards semi-quadrata. Wrote 32-35 lines per page, below the top line, and using a brown ink. Ruled using a pencil. Slightly earlier than Hand 2.
Hand 2

Copied pp. 3b-12b, 61-66, ?507-518, 518-19. Worked in or after 1266 (copied the Chronica de Wallia-entry for this year on p. 519). Wrote in a Gothic bookhand using brown ink. Is very similar to Hand 1, but has different usages.

Hand 3 Copied pp. 13a -21b and 522 line 24-523 line 16. Is generically similar to the adjacent hands, but writes with a much thicker nib, lending the script a squat appearance.
Hand 4 Copied pp. 21b-30a, 36-40, and 523-528. Looks like a more evolved version of the script used by Hand 1 and Hand 2. Wrote in or after 1285 in a blacker ink.
Hand 5 Copied pp. 43a-b and 94a-b. Large bookhand, bearing generic similarities, especially to Hand 1 (could be the same scribe practicing a higher grade of script)
Hand 6 Copied pp. 67-218. Wrote 32 lines per page in a relatively large squat four-line script, and with some lateral compression. As with the other Hands, the script does not fit the normal conventions of Gothic bookhand. In certain areas the ink is very black. Sometimes resembles Hand 1.
Hand 7 Copied pp. 223-300 in a small Gothic bookhand with several Insular symptoms. Does write on the top line.
Hand 8 Copied pp. 301-450 in a very black ink. Resembles Hand 3 quite closely.
Hand 9 Copied pp. 451-604 in a Proto-Gothic resembling the other hands in the manuscript. Squat proportions.
Codicological information
Dimensions
25.2 cm × 18.7 cm
Collation
Quarto volume of 528 pp.
Palaeographical information
Script
Category: Gothic scripts
Table of contents
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Welsh manuscripts

Sources

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Secondary sources (select)

Crick, Julia, “The power and the glory: conquest and cosmology in Edwardian Wales (Exeter, Cathedral Library, 3514)”, in: Orietta Da Rold, and Elaine Treharne (eds), Textual cultures: cultural texts, 63, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010. 21–42.
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Contributors
Darina Knoops, Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
January 2022, last updated: August 2023
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