Welsh Journals

Sarum Breviary the original foliation, if there was any, has been eaten away by rats the modern foliation includes the leaf of music. I 1/2" X 8 1/4" writing space 8 1/2" X 4 3/4". Ruled with stylus pricks for ruling often visible. Trimmed rather deep, ends of glosses in outer margins often cut away. Single columns of 40 lines. COLLATION Normally eights, with CW in all quires except 6, 8, 12, 15, 29. A few original signatures are visible in the MS. and in the photostats. As they were very faint, we asked the Librarian of the National Library of Wales to have some of the pages that seemed to contain them photo- graphed by ultra-violet light. He wrote under date of June 3, 1933 I I send you herewith enlarged facsimiles, taken with the aid of our ultra-violet ray apparatus, of the bottom right-hand corners of nineteen leaves from the Hengwrt Chaucer on which there are distinct traces of signatures. You will find that some of the letters have reproduced more successfully than others, but I trust that they will all be helpful to you in elucidating some of the problems which the manuscript presents. We have experimented with pages[folios] 2-5, 9, 10, as you suggested, but nothing at all was revealed." The leaves are 115(k?), 120-23(1), 129-30(m), 136-39^), 145- 47(0), 155(P), 164(4?), 203(top of letter and three minims of number clearly visible, the lower part cut away by binder), 2iCr-2o(y). The signatures consist of minuscule letters (except N) and roman numerals, but the numerals are often very faint, and in every case of iij or iiij one or more strokes have been trimmed away. Although not included in the ultra-violet examination, f. 202 shows in the photostats the same trimmed signature as f. 203. All the signatures listed above had been seen and read in the photostats the ultra-violet photographs were obtained only to make assurance doubly sure. On f. 228, also, a signature (resembling a capital S or a conventional sign) is unmis- takably present. Qq: 18_58; 62(original) 76(original) 88-118; 126(original) 138_208; 219; 2216; 238-288; 29IO(original) 308¾3I8. Q 6 consists of a pair of leaves, sewed between ff. 42 and 43 per- haps the scribe began the second leaf by mistake and was then obliged to continue. No CW or signature can be seen, but signatures seem to have been trimmed away in this part of the MS., and there may once