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Latest revision as of 13:34, 23 February 2026

Manuscript Identification

Reference Number
Welsh8
Siglum / Shelfmark
Llanstephan MS 117 (formerly Shirburn MS D. 30)
Page / Folio range
151v-162v

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative
Incipit or textual title
Llyma ddechre chwedyl y vii wyr doethion or Rvfn; gynt yr rroedd ymerod yn Rvfain aelwid diaklesian a hwnw oedd gwedi mawr oi wraic...
Version (siglum)
Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version


Source for textual relationship

Languages

Language of text


Digitisation & Editions

Note

Lewis notes that the usual name of the third master, Bankarrios/Painkaros rather than Lentulus, is an anomaly shared with NLW Cardiff MS 3.4 (RMWL Cardiff MS 5), The Book of Elis Gruffydd. Whether than suggests a relationship between the two texts (e.g., Cardiff MS 3.4/ MS 5 as a source for Llanstephan 117?) is not discussed (Lewis (1925, 1958, 1967), p. 29).

In his description of this manuscript, Lewis notes that this text is 'mostly illegible' and 'incomplete' - both the narrative and the manuscript cut off abruptly part of the way through the Senescalcus story (Lewis 1925, 1958, 1967) (p. 29). This seems to be borne out by Evan's description of the explicit: 'ef a erchis y medic iddo geisio gwraic yn wely ac ynte aechis yw ystiwart logi rwraic iddo ir ic pvnt ac yn yr ystiward a naeth o chwant yda' [He asked the physician to get a woman for him in bed, and he asked the steward to hire a woman for him for one pound, and the steward did so out of desire...] (Evans 1903, p. 579). (Examination of the digitised manuscript, linked above, appears to confirm this as well.)

See Evans (1903), pp. 568-579 for more details.


(Added by Jane Bonsall)

Authorship & Production

Physical Description

Material
Total pages / folios
162


Prose or verse
Illustrations
No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript
The description of the manuscript in the NLW catalogue is non-specific and does not mention the Saith Doethion Rufain by name:

A manuscript containing poetry (pp. 17-42), the poets including Taliesin, Iolo Goch, Dafydd ab Edmwnt and others, with poetry included also within other sections of the text; triads attributed to Taliesin (p. 16); the Rood legend (pp. 97-103); apocryphal gospels (pp. 104-153, 259-269, 272, 274-276); the Purgatory of Patrick (pp. 202-212); lives of saints (pp. 161-187); proverbs and adages, etc. (pp. 10-12, 14-15, 299-300); prayers (pp. 13, 238-250, 255); vocabulary (pp. 95-96); a planisphere, calendar, planetary tables and other astrological material (pp. 43-86, 89-90, 281-291); interpretation of dreams (pp. 91, 94); palmistry (pp. 92-93); directions concerning bleeding, medical recipes, etc. (pp. 1-9, 87-88, 236, 277-280, 300c-301).


Evans (1903), pp. 568-79 offers more detail.

Catalogues & Research Literature

Embedded Stories in This Manuscript

Research Material

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