Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanstephan MS 2.

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Manuscript Identification

Reference Number
Welsh3
Location
Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
Siglum / Shelfmark
NLW MS Llanstephan 2 (previously Shirburn 113 C.19)
Page / Folio range
206-407

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative
Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein
Version (siglum)
A (Seven Sages)
Language Group within Version
Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein
Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version
Middle Welsh Version A


Translated / adapted from (Version/Text)
French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages
Source for textual relationship
Gadsden (2020)

Languages

Language of text
Middle Welsh, Latin



Note

(Entered by Ava Byrne)

This manuscript was archived as one of four connected manuscripts of various dates, known as the Didrefn Gasgliad ('A Miscellany'), in the seventeenth century, according to Gadsden (p. 44). This manuscript was the second volume of four, as indicated by the pagination (beginning p. 206).

Note on dating: Gadsden's sources suggest the manuscript was produced either in the 'mid c15' or 'second half of the 15th century' - the dates given here are therefore approximations of these.

Authorship & Production

Scribe
Siancyn ap Dafydd ap Gruffudd
Place of Production
Glamorgan, Wales
Date of Production
1451 - 1475
Source of Date of Production
Huws (2000), Gadsden (2020)

Physical Description

Material
Parchment
Total pages / folios
144
Height
165
Width
120


Illustrations
No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript
Page 206: Cladedigaeth Arthur: The burial of Arthur

P.212: Yr Ant[e] Krist: The Antichrist

P.229: Eusebius, a therfynnau y Byd: Eusebius and the boundaries of the Earth.

P.233: Proffwydoliaeth: Prophecy

P.234: Pererindod y Brawd Odrig: The travels of Brother Ordric

P.276: Diarhebion: Proverbs

P.278-319: Seith Doethon Rufein: The Seven Sages of Rome

P.320-344: Epistol Nicodemus: the Gospel of Nicodemus

P.344: Y Diewl a briodes wraig: The Devil married a wife.

Also: Deuddeg peth yssyd anarferus eu bod yn y Byd hwn: Twelve unusual things in this world.

P.345: Swynion rac gwyrthlys neu y felwn etc.: Charms to cure a whitlow.

P.349: The page is covered in notes in various hands, possibly four, with ‘1563’ at the foot of the page.

P. 350-407: Llyfr a ddysg dyn pa delw y dylu gredu. Creed, and a Commentary on the Ten Commandments (incomplete).

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue
Modern Research Literature
Gadsden (2020), Huws (2000), Evans (1903), Try (2015)

Embedded Stories in This Manuscript

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