Early Modern and Modern Welsh Version A

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The several early modern and modern manuscripts of the Ystori Saith Doethion Rufain listed here are discussed primarily by Henry Lewis in his prologues to his two editions of the text (Lewis, Y Seithwyr Doethion (1925), an edition of the earliest post-medieval text from 1527, and Lewis, Modern Welsh Versions (1929), an edition of a later sixteenth-century manuscript), and in his introduction to the Middle Welsh version as well ( Lewis, Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein (1925, 1958, 1967)). Lewis discusses five sixteenth-century manuscripts that contain the Ystori; however, he does not give full shelfmarks for some of these texts, and thus far only four have been positively identified. The fifth, we may presume, is the manuscript Lewis claims is held in the British Museum (now British Library); neither this manuscript, nor the 18th-century copy of it attributed to Owen Myfyr, have been so far identified (though Lewis argues that the editions of the Ystori Doethion Rhufain, in Y Brython (1860) and in Foulkes, Cymru Fu (1862), are copies of the early version of this text).

The early modern and modern Welsh manuscripts appear to have continued the narrative and codicological trends of the earlier Middle Welsh texts. They follow the same story-order found in the earlier mansucripts, including their anomalous stories. These versions of the Ystori Saith Doethion Rufain also usually are found in miscellanies, in company with a range of other Welsh texts.

General Information
Language within Version
Narrative / Scholarly Group
Parent Versions	Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein
Child Versions
Author
Title	Ystori Saith Doethion Rufain
Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages	A (Seven Sages)
Version Number
Branch of the tradition	West

Language & Composition
Original language of version	Welsh
Translated into (languages)
Place of composition	Wales, UK
Date of composition	1500 - 1525
Source for date of composition

Literature & Editions
Modern research literature	Lewis (1925), Lewis (1929), Lewis (1925, 1958, 1967), Evans (1903), Evans (1905)
Modern Editions	Lewis, Modern Welsh Versions (1929), Lewis, Y Seithwyr Doethion (1925)

Recorded branch of this secondary version

A (Seven Sages) Dutch Version A Dutch Verse Version: Van den seven vroeden van binnen Rome French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages Group U Group V Group W Group X Group Y Group Z Gaelic Version A German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus Italian Version A Italian Prose (V) Libro dei Sette Savj (A) Storia favolosa di Stefano (S) Latin Version A Latin Version A: Allegatio / Libellus Middle English Version A Midland Version Y Group Northern English Southern English Old Swedish Version A: Sju vise mästare Old Swedish Redaction A Old Swedish Redaction B Older Scots Version A: Buke of the Sevyne Sagis Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein Early Modern and Modern Welsh Version A Middle Welsh Version A

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Adaptations
Adapted from (version)	Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein
Adapted into (version)
Source for composition and adaptation information	Lewis (1925)

Languages in Use
Language of text	Welsh
Regional or specific language of version

Notes
Note
Notes on motifs
Notes on the frame

Pattern of embedded stories in this version

Has Short Title Has Sequence Number Has Narrator Has Name Variation Arbor 1 Empress   Canis 2 Bancillas Bantillas Aper 3 Empress   Medicus 4 Auguste Augustus Gaza 5 Empress   Puteus 6 Lentulus Lentillus Ramus 7 Empress   Roma and Lupus 8 Malquidras Malcwidas Virgilius 9 Empress   Vidua 10 Caton Cato Sapientes 11 Empress   Inclusa 12 Jesse   Senescalcus 13 Empress   Tentamina 14 Meron Martin Copy Embedded Stories Copy Embedded Stories × Select Target Page: Close Process

Connected manuscripts

Manuscript Language Location Date of Production Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Cardiff MS 2.83 (RMWL MS 6) Welsh Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru 1550 Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Cardiff MS 3.4 (RMWL Cardiff MS 5) Welsh Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru 1527 Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Cwrtmawr MS 20A Welsh Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru 1750 - 1782 Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Cwrtmawr MS 314-315D Welsh Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru 1860 - 1877 Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanover MS 13075B Welsh Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru 1580 - 1600 Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanstephan MS 117 Welsh Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru 1544 - 1552 Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanstephan MS 171 Welsh Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru 1574 Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Llanstephan MS 92 Welsh Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru 1500 - 1800 Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Peniarth MS 120 Welsh Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru 1775 - 1800