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Oxford, Merton College, MS 323 Cyfraith Hywel (Latin redaction)

  • Latin
  • 1550 x 1575
  • Welsh manuscripts
  • paper
Identifiers
Location
Shelfmark
323
Type
medieval Welsh law
Description
Contains the second recension of Latin redaction E of the Welsh laws.
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin
Date
1550 x 1575
1550 x 1575.
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
Material
paper
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.
Welsh manuscripts

Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Medieval manuscripts in Oxford Libraries: a catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges, Online: Bodleian Libraries, 2017–present. URL: <https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/>.
direct link
Thomson, Rodney M., and N. G. Wilson [Greek MSS], A descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts of Merton College, Oxford, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2009.  
abstract:
Merton College, Oxford, one of the oldest colleges in the University, was founded in 1264. Its library contains some 328 complete medieval manuscript books (plus several hundred fragments in, or extracted from, the bindings of early printed books), dating from the ninth to the late fifteenth century. Most of them came to the College before the Reformation, and are the remains of its medieval collection, part of which was chained in the library, part in circulation amongst the Fellowship. Together with the College's surviving medieval archive, which includes no fewer than twenty-three book-lists, this material provides an important window on intellectual life at the University of Oxford between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, and on the manufacture, acquisition and use of the books that supported it. This first catalogue of the medieval manuscripts since 1852 offers full and detailed descriptions of each item, supported by a colour frontispiece, 50 colour plates, and 107 black and white plates. Its introduction provides the first detailed history of Merton's medieval library, including an account of the building and design of the College's 'Old Library', built in the 1370s, western Europe's oldest library room still in use today; and the volume is completed with four appendices (including a comprehensive set of extracts from the College's medieval account rolls referring to its books and library) and two indexes.
(source: publisher (Brewer))
web page identifiers
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
June 2011, last updated: July 2022
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