Oxford Bodleian Library Jesus College MS. 111
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(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 & Production
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Contents & Additional Texts
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
Embedded Stories in This Manuscript
| Has Short Title | Has Sequence Number | Has Narrator | Has Name Variation |
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| 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 |
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