File Brogyntyn MS I.8 [RESTRICTED ACCESS]. - Brut in English

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Brogyntyn MS I.8 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].

Title

Brut in English

Date(s)

  • [15 cent., last ΒΌ] (Creation)

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18 ff. (twentieth-century foliation) ; c. 235 x 175 mm. (written space 210 x 130 mm.; in folio format, heavily and crudely cropped)

Bound in buckram at NLW, after 1994; previously disbound. Originally sewn on three bands, sewing thread remained in 1994. Stab holes in the inner margin, also with thread remaining in them (in 1994).

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Archival history

Probably of West Midlands or Welsh origin (mon, londe). Notes by a reader, in Welsh, [16 cent.] (ff. 2, 4, 6). Pentrials on f. 18 verso, [?17 cent.]. Not listed in any Brogyntyn catalogue before its arrival in NLW.

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Scope and content

A fragment of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Brut in English, containing most of the life of Arthur, including the prophecies of Merlin, written in anglicana by one hand of the late fifteenth century. Two-line blue initials for chapters; headings, paragraph marks and underlinings in red.
For the text of the manuscript see Brogyntyn Manuscript No. 8, trans. and transcribed by Rosalynn Voaden, introduction by Felicity Riddy (Moreton-in-Marsh: Porkington Press, 1991). For a full text of the Brut, see The Brut; or, The Chronicles of England, ed. by Friedrich W. D. Brie, 2 vols, Early English Texts Society, o.s., 131 and 136 (London, 1906, 1908). Our manuscript begins at the end of Brie's chapter 73 and continues to his chapter 101; his chapter 101 is in ours, followed on f. 18 verso by the beginning of a chapter on Cadwallader which is not in Brie (on the Cadwallader chapter see C. W. Marx, pp. 377-380, and Riddy, p. [vi]).

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Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.

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Language and script notes

Middle English, some Welsh.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Part of f. 1, including text, is worn away.

Finding aids

William Marx, Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru), Aberystwyth, The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist 14 (Cambridge, 1999), p. 19.

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Available on microfilm at the Library.

Published in facsimile in Brogyntyn Manuscript No. 8, trans. and transcribed by Rosalynn Voaden, introduction by Felicity Riddy (Moreton-in-Marsh, 1991).

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Brogyntyn Manuscript No. 8, trans. and transcribed by Rosalynn Voaden, introduction by Felicity Riddy (Moreton-in-Marsh, 1991).

Publication note

C. W. Marx, 'Middle English manuscripts of the Brut in the National Library of Wales', National Library of Wales Journal, 27 (1991-2), 361-382 (pp. 376-377).

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Uniform title: Historia regum Britanniae. [English]

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[Produced in the West Midlands of England, or Wales.]

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Secundo folio: iii habitacions.

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Frame ruling 29-31 long lines.

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A single quire of eighteen.

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Ox-head watermark.

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Preferred citation: Brogyntyn MS I.8 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].

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vtls006024868

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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  • Text: Brogyntyn MS I.8 [RESTRICTED ACCESS]; $q - Part of f. 1, including text, is worn away.; $z - Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies..
  • Microform: $h - MEICRO BROGYNTYN MS I.8.