Red Book of Hergest

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Tennoe, Mariam T.; Henssonow, Susan F.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Red Book of Hergest (Welsh: Llyfr Coch Hergest) is one of the most important medieval Welsh language manuscripts.The manuscript includes both prose and poetry and was written between about 1382 and 1410. One of the several copyists responsible for the manuscript has been identified as Hywel Fychan fab Hywel Goch of Buellt. He is known to have worked for Hopcyn ap Tomas ab Einion (ca.1330 - after 1403) of Ynysforgan, Swansea, and it is possible that the manuscript was compiled for him. Its name derives from the fact that it is bound in red leather and from its association with Hergest Court (Plas Hergest), sited below high Hergest Ridge near Kington in Herefordshire in the Welsh Marches, from about 1465 until the beginning of the seventeenth century. It is now kept at the Bodleian Library on behalf of Jesus College, Oxford (MS 111); it was previously in the ownership of Thomas Wilkins, a Welsh clergyman and antiquarian, before being given to the college after his death in 1699.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9786131003752
• ISBN-10: 6131003750
• Artikelnr.: 29838972