Ardal dynodi
Cod cyfeirnod
Teitl
Dyddiad(au)
- [late 14 cent. x early 15 cent.] (Creation)
Lefel y disgrifiad
Ffeil
Maint a chyfrwng
xii, 309 ff. (foliated in pencil, [20 cent]; ff. i-ii and 308-309 all probably original flyleaves) : Parchment (some leaves stiff, many with un-cropped edges) ; 310 x 220 mm. (written space 215-20 x 140-45 mm.).
Binding on several bands over evidently medieval wooden boards with bevelled edges; re-bound, or simply re-covered, in blind-tooled calf, probably in nineteenth century; 'CHRONICA / RANULPHI HIGDEN' (on green lettering-piece), 'M.S. / 1343' (at foot of spine). Verdigris stains inside the upper cover and on f. i show the former presence of a brass clasp.
Ardal cyd-destun
Enw'r crëwr
Hanes archifol
Light annotation by several hands, [late 15 cent x early 16 cent.], including one whose main interest was Shrewsbury (e.g. ff. 33, 36, 37, 259, 260 verso); another notes the foundation of Gloucester and Hyde abbeys (ff. 192 and 210). Examples of annotation, [late 15 cent. x early 16 cent] and [16 cent.], by other hands are on ff. 166 verso, 203, 206, 206 verso, 254 and 291 verso. Flyleaf note of about 1565 by John Joscelyn. Inside front cover is a note of references in the chronicle to persons named Gate, and on f. ii Higden's acrostic ('Presentem Chronicum ...') is written out, both by hands of the second half of the sixteenth century. There are brief notes on Higden, hands of [late 17 cent. x early 18 cent.] and [19 cent.] (ff. i and ii). No 15 in Thomas Phillipps's 1837 printed catalogue of the Porkington manuscripts; No 40 in the revised version of Phillipps's catalogue and in Second Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (London, 1874).
Ffynhonnell
Ardal cynnwys a strwythur
Natur a chynnwys
A volume containing a copy, written in a late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century hand, of the Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden to 1342 (ff. 1-307).
The text is written by one hand, except for notes on f. 1 verso, in anglicana, with variation in degree of currency and in ink; headings in fere-textura. There has been overwriting of the text in places, where letters were indistinct, notably on ff. 1-20. Correction of the text, despite first appearances, is all probably by the scribe, writing compactly (e.g. on ff. 52 and 62), as also is the inserted leaf containing omitted text (f. 279). There are six- to nine-line parti-coloured red/blue initials for the beginnings of chapters, infilled with good red and purple pen-work which includes beasts and foliage, with red/blue nerfs and flourished borders (f. 210 is a page where the pen-work was not completed); there are three-line blue initials for the index and two-line for chapters, all with red pen-work. The rubricator has mistaken many initials, including three of those which should form Higden's acrostic. On f. 52 are diagrams of Noah's ark. Headings, underlining, dates in the margin, paragraph marks and touching of initials in the text are all in red. An index to the Polychronicon is on ff. iii-xii.
Gwerthuso, dinistrio ac amserlennu
Croniadau
System o drefniant
Ardal amodau mynediad a defnydd
Amodau rheoli mynediad
Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
Amodau rheoli atgynhyrchu
Usual copyright laws apply.
Iaith y deunydd
Sgript o ddeunydd
Nodiadau iaith a sgript
Latin.
Cyflwr ac anghenion technegol
Cymhorthion chwilio
A detailed list of the contents is available at https://archives.library.wales/external_documents/brogii24.pdf
Cymorth chwilio a gynhyrchir
Ardal deunyddiau perthynol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad y gwreiddiol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad copïau
Available on microfilm at the Library.
Unedau o ddisgrifiad cysylltiedig
Ardal nodiadau
Nodiadau
Title based on contents.
Nodiadau
Formerly Porkington MS 40.
Nodiadau
[Produced in England.]
Nodiadau
Secundo folio: Babilionia (f. iv), laboribus (f. 2).
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Frame ruling in plummet. Two columns, 37-43 lines.
Nodiadau
Collation: 1(10) (ff. iii-xii), 2-35 (8), 36 (9) (ff. 273-281; f. 279, a small singleton, inserted after 6), 37-39 (8), 40 (8) (ff. 306-307, 3-8 all wanting and presumably blank, cut out after woodworm had riddled ff. 308-9). Quires 2-40 are signed 1-39 in ink, at the foot of the first recto, apparently by the scribe; quires 1-39 have leaf signatures in red at the foot of leading rectos, of the pattern a i - a iiii, the first leaf after the sewing being marked with a cross. Catchwords.
Nodiadau
Preferred citation: Brogyntyn MS II.24 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
Dynodwr(dynodwyr) eraill
Virtua system control number
Pwyntiau mynediad
Pwyntiau mynediad pwnc
Pwyntiau mynediad lleoedd
Pwyntiau mynediad Enw
- Higden, Ranulf, d. 1364. (Pwnc)
- Joscelyn, John, 1529-1603. (Pwnc)