Oxford Bodleian Library Jesus College MS. 20

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Manuscript Identification
Reference Number Welsh1
Location Oxford, Bodleian Library
Siglum/Shelfmark Jesus College MS. 20
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) Oxford Bodleian Library Jesus College MS. 111
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 Gadsden (2021)
Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/93d67972-f107-40ee-a0a8-5327e827e812/
Modern Editions Lewis, Chwedleu Seith Doethn Rufein (1925, 1958, 1967)Gadsden, Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein (2021)
Note

(Entered by Ava Byrne)

A note on transmission: see Gadsden pp. 23-26 for theorisations about minor scribal details in Oxford Bodleian Library Jesus College MS. 111 that might signal it as the source text for this manuscript.

Authorship and Production
Scribe
Author Llewelyn the Priest
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production 1400 - 1425
Source of Date of Manuscript Production Evans (1903)Gadsden (2021)
Physical Description
Material Parchment
Total pages/folios in Manuscript 70
Height 132
Width 100
Script style/form Gothic textura
Prose or verse Prose
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript
Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Gadsden (2020)Huws (2000)Evans (1903)Gadsden (2021)Gadsden (2013)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript