Manuscripts
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 17110E
- s. xi1
- Welsh manuscripts
- vellum
The Book of Llandaff is one of the oldest manuscripts of Wales. While its core is a gospelbook containing a copy of St Matthew’s Gospel, it is best known for its many substantial additions in the form of the Lives of St Elgar and St Samson, and various documents (such as charters) relating to the see of Llandaff and to bishops Dyfrig, Teilo and Euddogwy.
Identifiers
Location
Shelfmark
17110E
Title
Book of Llandaff (Liber Landavensis)
Type
gospelbooks
Provenance and related aspects
Date
s. xi1
sometime before 1134
Origin, provenance
Llandaff
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
Material
vellum
Foliation / Pagination
128
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
Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.
[dig. repr.] National Library of Wales, Digital gallery, Online: National Library of Wales. URL: <https://www.llyfrgell.cymru/darganfod/oriel-ddigidol/llawysgrifau/>.
Previously Digital Mirror / Drych Digidol, the digital library of the National Library of Wales gives access to digitised manuscripts, printed works, archival materials and other media.
Digital reproduction direct link
Secondary sources (select)
Charles-Edwards, T. M., “7. Charters and laws”, in: Charles-Edwards, T. M., Wales and the Britons, 350–1064, History of Wales, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 245–273.
esp. 245–256
Davies, John Reuben, The Book of Llandaf and the Norman church in Wales, Studies in Celtic History 21, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2003.
Davies, John Reuben, “Liber Landavensis: its date and the identity of its editor”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 35 (Summer, 1998): 1–12.
Coe, Jon, “Dating the boundary clauses in the Book of Llandaff”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 48 (Winter, 2004): 1–43.
Davies, Wendy, An early Welsh microcosm: studies in the Llandaff charters, Royal Historical Society Studies in History 9, London: Royal Historical Society, 1978.
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Contributors
C. A.,Dennis Groenewegen
