Images: Welsh Prose 1300–1425
Other Shelfmark(s): none
Physical Description: vellum, 5 1/8 × 4 in., ii+148 pp., 1 col.
Language: Middle Welsh
Date: ca. 1375–1425
Provenance: Welsh. First listed in Shrewsbury School Catalog in 1788. Before that, a note on the flyleaf indicates it was gifted to Ebenezer Mussell by his son in 1755. The flyleaf records several other previous owners, for which details, see the TEI metadata at Welsh Prose 1300–1425
Contents:
Nativity of Mary (Gwassaneith Mair; pp. 1–52)
Legend of the Holy Rood Tree (Ystoria Adda; pp. 85–100)
Apocalypse of Paul (Breuddwyd Pawl; pp. 134–143)
Additional Contents: Gweddi Boneffras Bab (Prayer of Boneffras Son, pp. 52–53), Enaid Crist (The Soul of Christ, pp. 53–54), Pa ddelw y dylai dyn gredu i Dduw (How to Believe in God, a catechetical treatise, pp. 54–66), Ysbryd Gwidw (The Spirit of Guido and the Prior, a dialogue, pp. 66–83), Efengyl Ieuan (Prologue of John’s Gospel, pp. 83–85), Y Groglith (Passion Account, Matthew 26:2–28:7, pp.100–18), Elen a’r Grog (St. Helen and the Cross; pp. 118–33), Deongl Terfynau’r Byd (Explanation of the Ends/Bounds of the World, pp. 143–48)
Catalog:
Evans, J. Gwenogvryn, ed. Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language. 2 vols. in 7. London: Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1898–1910 (vol. 1.3, pp. 1127–28).
Other Online Databases: Shrewsbury School; Welsh Prose 1300–1425
Entry created by Stephen Hopkins, University of Central Florida ([email protected]), 6 March 2019.