Manuscripts

London, British Library, MS Harley 1796 Cyfraith Hywel (Latin redaction)

  • Latin
  • c. 1260
  • Welsh manuscripts
  • parchment
Identifiers
Location
Collection: Harley manuscripts
Shelfmark
Harley 1796
Type
medieval Welsh law
Description
Contains version C of the Latin redaction of the Welsh laws: Laws of the Court; laws of the animals and of hunting; much of the remainder of the manuscript is now lost.
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin
Date
c. 1260
c. 1260 (Emanuel).(1)n. 1 Hywel David Emanuel, ‘The Latin texts of the Welsh laws’, Welsh History Review special number on the Welsh laws (1963): 29.
Origin, provenance
north Wales (?).(2)n. 2 Hywel David Emanuel, ‘The Latin texts of the Welsh laws’, Welsh History Review special number on the Welsh laws (1963): 29.
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
Material
parchment
The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.

Sources

Notes

Hywel David Emanuel, ‘The Latin texts of the Welsh laws’, Welsh History Review special number on the Welsh laws (1963): 29.
Hywel David Emanuel, ‘The Latin texts of the Welsh laws’, Welsh History Review special number on the Welsh laws (1963): 29.

Secondary sources (select)

Emanuel, Hywel David, “The Latin texts of the Welsh laws”, Welsh History Review special number on the Welsh laws (1963): 25–32.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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June 2011, last updated: July 2022