Oxford Bodleian Library Jesus College MS. 111: Difference between revisions

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Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	WelshManuscript2
Location	Oxford, Bodleian Library
Siglum/Shelfmark
Page/Folio range

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum)	A (Seven Sages)
└ Language Group within Version	Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)	French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Gadsden (2020)

Languages
Language of text	Welsh
Regional or specific Language of text	Middle Welsh
Source for regional or specific Language of text

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation	https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/9bf187bf-f862-4453-bc4f-851f6d3948af/
Modern Editions

Note
(Entered by Ava Byrne) A note on dating: Gadsden (2021) uses the manuscript context, and the final entry of one the chronicles included in the Llyfr Coch Hergest (The Red Book of Hergest), as the manuscript is known, to date the text. The final chronicle entry is 1382; additionally, the scribe's patron, Hopcyn ap Tomas of Ynysforgan, for whom the text may have been composed, died in 1405. This places the likely period of composition at 'the turn of the century' (Gadsden p. 36).

Authorship and Production
Scribe	Hywel Fychan
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	1375 - 1415
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Gadsden (2021)

Physical Description
Material	Parchment
Total pages/folios in Manuscript
Height
Width
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	fol. 1r (col.1) – fol. 8r (col. 30, 12): Ystorya Dared: Dares Phrygius: The Fall of Troy. fol. 8v (col.31) - fol.58r (col.230, 11): Ystorya Brenhined y Brytanyeit: The History of the Kings of Britain (Geoffrey of Monmouth). fol. 58r (col. 230, l20) – fol. 89v (col.376,.8): Brut y Tywysogyon: The Chronicle of the Princes. fol. 89v (col. 376 10) – fol. 90r (col. 377, 18): Gyldas hen broffwyt y Brytanyeit: Part of Gildas’s De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae: On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain. fol. 90r (col. 377, 19) – fol. 90v (col. 380 –to end): Dechreu Cantreuoed Gwyned ae Chymydeu: The Cantrefi (Hundreds) and Commotes of Gwynedd. fol. 91r (col.381, 1) – fol. 120r (col. 497 – to the bottom of the folio): De Carlo Magno: Tales of Charlemagne: The Pseudo-Turpin (fol. 91r- 98r), Otuel (fol. 98r- 111r), The Song of Roland (fol. 111r- 117r) The Pseudo- Turpin resumes (fol. 117r- 121v). fol. 121v (col. 498, 1) – fol. 125r (col. 516, 26): Ymago Mundi/ Delw’r Byd: Description of the World. fol. 125r (col. 516, 28) – fol. 125v (col. 518, 14 Missing text?): A brief Chronicle (from Adam, Christ, Brutus, more detail of the end of Edward I’s reign, into Edward II’s and the period of the Despencers). fol. 126r (col. 520, 1) fol. 127v (col. 527, 39): Cynghor y doeth...y vab: A Wise Man’s Advice on Husbandry to his Son. The text of Walter de Henley. fol. 127v (527, 40) - fol. 134v. (col. 555, 9): Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein: The Seven Sages of Rome.

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Gadsden (2020), Huws (2000)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

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 |Was Translated Or Adapted From=French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages
 |Has Source For Information On Textual Relationship to Broader Tradition=Gadsden (2020)
-|Has Start Date Of Production=1401
+|Has Scribe=Hywel Fychan
-|Has End Date Of Production=1500
+|Has Start Date Of Production=1375
-|Has Source For Date Of Production=Huws (2000)
+|Has End Date Of Production=1415
+|Has Source For Date Of Production=Gadsden (2021)
 |Has Material=Parchment
-|Has Language=Middle Welsh
+|Has Language=Welsh
+|Has Regional Language=Middle Welsh
+|Has Literary Form=Prose
+|Has Collation=fol. 1r (col.1) – fol. 8r (col. 30, 12): Ystorya Dared: Dares Phrygius: The Fall of Troy.
+fol. 8v (col.31) - fol.58r (col.230, 11): Ystorya Brenhined y Brytanyeit: The History of the Kings of Britain (Geoffrey of Monmouth).
+fol. 58r (col. 230, l20) – fol. 89v (col.376,.8): Brut y Tywysogyon: The Chronicle of the Princes.
+fol. 89v (col. 376 10) – fol. 90r (col. 377, 18): Gyldas hen broffwyt y Brytanyeit: Part of Gildas’s De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae: On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain.
+fol. 90r (col. 377, 19) – fol. 90v (col. 380 –to end): Dechreu Cantreuoed Gwyned ae Chymydeu: The Cantrefi (Hundreds) and Commotes of Gwynedd.
+fol. 91r (col.381, 1) – fol. 120r (col. 497 – to the bottom of the folio): De Carlo Magno: Tales of Charlemagne: The Pseudo-Turpin (fol. 91r- 98r), Otuel (fol. 98r- 111r), The Song of Roland (fol. 111r- 117r) The Pseudo- Turpin resumes (fol. 117r- 121v).
+fol. 121v (col. 498, 1) – fol. 125r (col. 516, 26): Ymago Mundi/ Delw’r Byd: Description of the World.
+fol. 125r (col. 516, 28) – fol. 125v (col. 518, 14 Missing text?): A brief Chronicle (from Adam, Christ, Brutus, more detail of the end of Edward I’s reign, into Edward II’s and the period of the Despencers).
+fol. 126r (col. 520, 1) fol. 127v (col. 527, 39): Cynghor y doeth...y vab: A Wise Man’s Advice on Husbandry to his Son. The text of Walter de Henley.
+fol. 127v (527, 40) - fol. 134v. (col. 555, 9): Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein: The Seven Sages of Rome.
 |Has Illustrations=No
 |Has Digitisation=https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/9bf187bf-f862-4453-bc4f-851f6d3948af/
 |Has Modern Research Literature=Gadsden (2020); Huws (2000)
-|Has Note=Entered by Ava Byrne
+|Has Note=(Entered by Ava Byrne)
+A note on dating: Gadsden (2021) uses the manuscript context, and the final entry of one the chronicles included in the ''Llyfr Coch Hergest'' (The Red Book of Hergest), as the manuscript is known, to date the text. The final chronicle entry is 1382; additionally, the scribe's patron, Hopcyn ap Tomas of Ynysforgan, for whom the text may have been composed, died in 1405. This places the likely period of composition at 'the turn of the century' (Gadsden p. 36).
 }}