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A new approach of the Annals of Margam from their thirteenth-century Welsh manuscript (Cambridge, Trinity College, MS. 0.4.2)

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Entitled by the name of the Cistercian abbey where they were compiled, the Annals of Margam is an essential source for the history of the South of Wales, especially Glamorgan, from 1066 to 1235. Compiled in the second quarter of the thirteenth century, the text of the annals is known from only two manuscripts: Cambridge, Trinity College, MS. 0.4.2., copied from an original manuscript by a scribe of the Cistercian scriptorium (identified by Robert B. Patterson in 1992); and Dublin, Trinity College, MS. 507, probably written in Dore Abbey (Herefordshire). Within the annals, two parts can be distinguished. Running from 1066 to 1185, the first part is clearly influenced by older sources, such as the works of William of Malmesbury († c. 1143). Better informed and closer from the recounted events, the author developed and detailed each notice, in particular those relating to Glamorgan and the neighbourhood of the abbey. If this kind of distinction is rather common in the thirteenth-century chronicles, the influences and sources of the Margam scribe are not fully established yet. After Greenway's text interpretative studies (1963) and Patterson and Colker's palaeographic studies of the manuscripts (1992), the outlining of a new picture of the Welsh manuscript from its codicological aspects and contents will return to the Annals from another perspective. The understanding of the influences and sources of the Margam scribe is indeed a first step before mapping his historiographic work into the political, social and cultural networks of the thirteenth-century Wales.
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Elodie Papin. A new approach of the Annals of Margam from their thirteenth-century Welsh manuscript (Cambridge, Trinity College, MS. 0.4.2). 10th International Conference - The Medieval Chronicle, Die Mittelalterliche Chronik, La chronique médiévale, The Medieval Chronicle Society, Jul 2023, Nancy, France. ⟨hal-04138968⟩
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