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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 454

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  • MS 454
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Date
  • 1400 - 1499
Language
  • Latin
  • Welsh
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 454: Laws of Hywel Dda
    • Ban wedy i dynny
    • Laws of Howel || Leges Howeli
    • Miscellaneous verses
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 454 is an important copy of the so-called 'E' redaction of the Latin texts of the medieval Welsh laws. Dating from the first half of the fifteenth century, the manuscript was likely compiled in North Wales, possibly within the lordship of Denbigh, and is written in an ornate Gothic hand. The flyleaves contain various additions and notes in Latin and Welsh, including records of cases of robbery and trespass, comments on the circumstances in which a marriage could be dissolved, and notes on historical events. The manuscript also has three paper leaves which contain a printed copy of Ban wedy i dynny (1550), an important early Protestant pamphlet, in Welsh and English, on married priests.


    Contents :


    1ar-1dv - Ban wedy i dynny

    Note: (1ar) Ban wedy i dynny air yngair allam o hen gyfreith Howel da (vap cadell bren hin Kymbry) ynghylch chwechant inlyned aeth heibio wrth yrh wn van y gellir deall bot yr offeiriait y pryd hynny yn priodi gwraged yn dich with ac yn kyttal ac wynt in gyfreith lawn Ban wedy i dynny air yngair allan o hen gyfreith Howel dda vap Cadell brenhin Kymbry ynghylch chwechant mlynedd aeth heibio wrth yr hwn van y gellir ddeall bot yr offeiriait y pryd hynny yn priodi gwragedd yn dichwith ac yn kyttal ac wynt in gyfreithlawn A certain case extracte out of the auncient law of Hoel da, kyng of Wales, in the yere of oure lorde nyne hundred and fourtene passed: whereby it maye be gathered that priestes had lawfully maried wyues at that tyme Imprinted at London by Roberte Crowley, dwellyng in Elye-Rentes in Holburne. The yere of our Lord M.D.L.

    Note: The printed leaves. Rob. Crowley 1550


    1r-58v - Laws of Howel || Leges Howeli

    Note: in membranis seculo xiv script.

    Note: Desunt folia duo ad initium

    rubric: (1r) Incipiunt leges Howeli

    incipit: (1r) Cum Howel da filius cadell diuina prouidencia in regem Wallie fuisset sublimatus ... qui unanimi consilio decreuerunt (?) ut de quolibet pago regni sui de clericis et laicis duos sapientes con.

    Note: Here ends the first page: 1v is blank. After it two leaves are cancelled. The text resumes on f. 2r, in a rather smaller hand, not much different in date

    incipit: (2r) hominum fide dignorum sine lite. Kenreich est legis disputacio

    Note: The next section is

    rubric: (2r) de officialibus curie

    Note: The last

    rubric: (56v) de segetibus

    Note: ends

    explicit: (58r) Tria sunt que non debent aliquis edificare sine licentia domini sanctam ecclesiam. molendinum. pisceriam

    rubric: (58v) Expliciunt leges Howeli


    58v-59r - Miscellaneous verses

    Note: Then follow notes in the hand of those on f. iv (d)

    Note: a.

    Note: (58v) Versus compositus a Blakgwaret doctore utriusque iuris in ciuitate romana in confirmacione legis howell da coram anastasio papa a. d. dccccxiiijo

    incipit: (58v) Explicit editus legibus liber bene finiturQuem Regi scripcit languoridus et quoque fuitHoweli turbe doctor tunc legis in urbeGornando cano tunc iudice cotidiano [cano]Rex dabat ad partem dextram nam sumerat artem

    Note: Quoted not quite correctly from this MS. by Ussher, On the lmperial Laws, Opera XI 469

    Note: b.

    Note: (58v) Two notes of cases in 7 and 15 Henry VI, one relating to Denbigh

    Note: c.

    incipit: (59r) Lepra superueniens furor ordo sanguis et absens

    Note: (Memorial verses on circumstances annulling marriage)

    Note: d.

    incipit: (59r) Pro furto minus quam denar. fur debet soluere domino iiili, etc.

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