Texts
Rhamant Otuel
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Medieval Welsh version of the Old French chanson de geste of Otinel. The Welsh text survives in three manuscripts of the compilation of legendary texts about Charlemagne known as Ystorya de Carolo Magno, or the Welsh Charlemagne cycle, and seems to have been added to this collection sometime before 1336, the date of the earliest MS.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 9
Several intermediate and final pages missing. According to a colophon on f. 65, the MS was written in 1336 by ‘John the scholar’ (Ieuan yscolheic; cf. Johannes Scholasticus in the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle).
ff. 9r–10v, 28r–28v, 23r–24v, 13r–21v, 38r–38v, 55r–57r
MS
Oxford, Jesus College, MS 111
Welsh version of the Old French romance of Otuel/Otinel.
f. 98ra.23–
Sources
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[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 MSS 5 and 9, and the Red Book of Hergest. direct link
