Ffeil Wynnstay MS 14 [RESTRICTED ACCESS] - Historia Regum Britanniae.

A gathering of a manuscript of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, comprising the prologue and the text of the end of Book IV, chapter VII. The verso and recto of f. 3 are blank, but there is no lacuna in the text, so that the scribe must have turned over two leaves. The writing suggests the end of the 14th century as the date of the transcription, and a note at the beginning shows that the manuscript belonged to Reginald de Wolstone, a canon of Hereford. This Reginald died about 1411. The paper provides some excellent examples of the bunch of grapes watermark which is sometimes dated as late as 1450, or even later.