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Harley MS 1796
- Record Id:
- 040-002047627
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047627
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000130
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1796
- Title:
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Welsh law ('Latin C')
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-22r: The Laws of Hywel Dda, in Latin translation with added glosses in Latin and Welsh (imperfect due to loss of leaves after ff. 18 and 21).
ff. iii recto-verso contains a note by William Nicolson relating to manuscripts in the Cotton collection containing texts in Welsh.
Decoration:
Large decorated initial in red, now oxidised (f. 3r). Small initials in red, partly oxidised.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047627", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1796: Welsh law ('Latin C')" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047627 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1796 : Welsh law ('Latin C') - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1798]/040-002047627
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
Welsh - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1225
- End Date:
- 1274
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 160 x 100 mm (text space: 115 x 65 mm).
Foliation: ff. iii + 22 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and several at the end); ff. i-iii are early modern paper additions. There is also early modern pagination in ink.
Script: Gothic, written above top line.
Binding: British Museum. 19th-century dark blue leather with gold tooling. Covers of blind-tooled mottled brown leather from previous binding pasted onto the inside front and back covers. Marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Wales, possibly Anglesey.
Provenance:
Added glosses in Latin and Welsh.
Roger Krick, nephew of Alan, Rector of Krick, 14th or 15th century: his inscription on f. 1v, 'Liber Rogeri nepotis domini Alani rectoris de Kr[i]ck' (see Wright, Fontes (1972)).
Added text on the apostles, 16th-17th century (ff. 2r-v).
Thomas Powell, possibly identifiable with the lawyer and writer of Welsh parentage (d. c.1635): inscription recording his gift of the manuscript to John David Rhys in August 1600 (f. 22v; see Wright, Fontes (1972)).
John David Rhys (b. 1534, d. 1609?), physician and grammarian: owned after August 1600.
William Nicolson (b. 1655, d. 1727), Church of Ireland bishop of Derry and antiquary: given by him to the Harleian collection on 1 May 1713 as noted in an inscription by Wanley (f. i recto).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 1796.
H. Idris Bell, 'The Welsh MSS. in the British Museum Collections', The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1936), 15-40 (p. 34).
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 213, 253, 278, 285, 402.
Daniel Huws, Medieval Welsh Manuscripts (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000), p. 28, n. 58.
Sara Elin Roberts, 'Law texts Celtic [2] Welsh', in Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia (5 vols), ed. by John T. Koch (Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2006), III, pp. 1112-116 (p. 1116).
Paul Russell (ed.), Welsh Law in Medieval Anglesey: British Library Library Harleian MS 1796 (Latin C) (Cambridge: Seminar Cyfraith Hywel, 2011).
Daniel Huws, A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes, c.800-c.1800, 3 vols (Aberystwyth: The National Library of Wales and University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 2022), I, p. 674. - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)