Beschreibung:

164 S. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Aus dem Nachlass von Michael Richter. Mit Namensstempel auf Vorsatz. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - The so -called Venedotian Code - one of the three medieval Welsh versions of the laws attributed to Hywel Dda - is preserved in twenty-five manuscripts dating from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The only edited text of these MSS. hitherto published is the amalgam given in Aneurin Owen's monumental Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales, published by the Commissioners on Public Records in 1841, and the need for a new edition has long been apparent to present day students of the Welsh laws. The text of the present edition is a reconstruction from extant MSS. of the thirteenth century lawbook of Iorwerth ap Madog, with critical apparatus and notes. The Introduction traces the relationship of the 'Venedotian MSS.' to their origin in the Book of Iorwerth. (Verlagstext).