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- [14 cent., second ½]. (Creation)
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A group of eleven parchment bifolia written in the same hand, and which form about one fourth part of a manuscript of the second half of the fourteenth century, containing a version of the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine (ca. 1230-ca. 1298), archbishop of Genoa.
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Latin
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Publication note
For a full collation of the text see H. D. Emanuel: 'Rediscovering a MS. of the Legenda Aurea', The National Library of Wales Journal, vol. XI (1959), pp. 174-6.
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The bifolia were formerly used as protective covers for NLW MSS 11303, 11305, 11307, 11309-11312 and 11314-11317.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 11330D
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- Jacobus de Varagine. Legenda aurea. (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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February 2009.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961);