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MS 111
Jesus College
Oxford
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United Kingdom
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Language:
520-527
DSB Title:
NE: the Red Book of Hergest, or Llyfr Coch Hergest; the MS has two columns per page, and it is the columns (not folios) which are numbered; the text on cols. 520-27 is not identified as the Disticha Catonis by catalogue descriptions of this MS, but is attributed to Cato by the copyist of Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 148, written in 1697 and copying texts (including this one) from the Red Book of Hergest
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The wise man's advice to his son
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Middle Welsh (advice)
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Incipit:
Cynghor y Doeth l'w Fâb; a father's advice to his son on husbandry, economy, etc. (per Coxe Catalogus Oxford Colleges) | The advice of the wise man to his son on conduct, husbandry, &c. (per Historical MSS Commission Welsh)
Explicit:
O Gynghor ydoeth y keueis megys ydoed ynteu yn kyghory y vab . Val hynn . Vymab duc dy uuched yngall oblegyt du6 . arbyt (per Historical MSS Commission Welsh)
History
Mynych edrych dyda athwassanaethwyr . Ac o hynny ygochelir g6neuthur an diwytr6yd . namyn g6asanaethu yngywir (per historical MSS Commission Welsh)
CAT Date:
1376-1425
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1376-1425
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Additional Information
Digital reproductions:
"ex dono Thomae Wilkins, generosi, e com. Glam. 1701" (per Coxe Catalogus Oxford Colleges); "The MS. is named after its former home, Hergest, in Herefordshire. It was presented (in 1701, col. 1371) to Jesus College, Oxford, by the Rev. T. Wilkins. On Feby. 17, 1701, Edward Lhuyd pays 7s. for binding the MS., which during the next thirteen years seems not to have been returned to Jesus College [....]" (per Historical MSS Commission Welsh)
Physical reproductions:
http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=jesus&manuscript=ms111
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Bibliography:
Coxe Catalogus Oxford Colleges, part 2, section 7, pp. 36-39, no. 111 | Historical MSS Commission Welsh, vol. 2, part 1
Notes:
N/A
NE: the Red Book of Hergest, or Llyfr Coch Hergest; the MS has two columns per page, and it is the columns (not folios) which are numbered; the text on cols. 520-27 is not identified as the Disticha Catonis by catalogue descriptions of this MS, but is attributed to Cato by the copyist of Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 148, written in 1697 and copying texts (including this one) from the Red Book of Hergest
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