Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 454: Laws of Hywel Dda
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 454 is an important copy of the so-called 'E' redaction of the Latin texts of the medieval Welsh laws. Dating from the first half of the fifteenth century, the manuscript was likely compiled in North Wales, possibly within the lordship of Denbigh, and is written in an ornate Gothic hand. The flyleaves contain various additions and notes in Latin and Welsh, including records of cases of robbery and trespass, comments on the circumstances in which a marriage could be dissolved, and notes on historical events. The manuscript also has three paper leaves which contain a printed copy of Ban wedy i dynny (1550), an important early Protestant pamphlet, in Welsh and English, on married priests.
- Contents
- Ban wedy i dynny -- Laws of Howel -- Miscellaneous verses
Description
Alternative title | Laws of Howel |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | ff. 2 + 60 + 4 |
Date created | [ca. 1400 - 1499] |
Language | Latin; Welsh |
Material | Vellum (and paper) |
Layout | 24 lines to a page |
Height (mm) | 174 |
Width (mm) | 125 |
Collation | 2 flyleaves vellum, 1(14) (+ 4 ff. paper after 1: 2, 3, 13 canc.) 2(12) 3(12) 4(10) 5(16) (wants 16). |
Writing | well written |
Foliation | ff. a-b + i-ii + 1a-1d + 1-59 + c-d |
Research | The MS. was used by Wotton for his Leges Wallicae (1730): he calls it C. C. C. C. |
Additions | f. ir covered with paper. On f. iv various notes: a. Inter ceteras ordinaciones per Edwardum nuper Regem Anglie post conquestum Walliae sic habetur. Lex Wallencis est hec ut habetur in recordo quod si aliquis Wallencium pro aliquo delicto aut forisfacto fugam fecerit et ad largum in alia patria se tenuerit et legi apparere noluerit parentes cognati et allegati propinquiores sui arrestari debent, etc. b. Verses: Prelati iussu si premonitus ferat arma, etc. c. In Welsh: Temor gayaff mis iachwiddmis Racser (?)mis Ionor Tymor haf Temor gwanwyn Temor kynhayaf (each with list of divisions). d. Notes in Latin of the execution of Gruff. ap Jor. 12 Dec. 1282, death of Henry Percy 1403, Roger Mortimer 1398, Burning of Ruthyn 1400. On f. iir Capitula of the laws in a later hand. iiv blank. |
Bibliographic information
M.R. James Date | xv |
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Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
Contains |
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TJames | 257 |
Stanley | Q. 11 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/nt577mx7842 |
Location | MS 454 |
Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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