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

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 & Production

Scribe

Hywel Fychan

Date of Production

1375 - 1415

Source of Date of Production

Gadsden (2021)

Physical Description

Material

Parchment

Prose or verse

Prose

Illustrations

No

Contents & 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 & Research Literature

Catalogue

Modern Research Literature

Gadsden (2020), Huws (2000)

Embedded Stories in This Manuscript

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation
Arbor – The Tree	1	Empress
Canis – The Faithful Dog	2	Bancillas	Bantillas
Aper – The Boar and the Fruit	3	Empress
Medicus – The Doctor	4	Auguste	Augustus
Gaza – The Treasure	5	Empress
Puteus – The Well	6	Lentulus	Lentillus
Ramus – The Branch	7	Empress
Roma and Lupus	8	Malquidras	Malcwidas
Virgilius – Virgil's Marvels	9	Empress
Vidua – The Widow	10	Cato
Sapientes – The Wise Men	11	Empress
Inclusa – The Imprisoned Wife	12	Jesse
Senescalcus – The Seneschal	13	Empress
Tentamina – The Test	14	Meron	Martin

Research Material

Has Research Material Title	Has Research Material Link	Has Research Material Description

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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).
 }}