An English Owain Prophecy: The Influence of Welsh Prophetic Material in Oxford, All Souls College, MS 33

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Abstract

This short article presents a new diplomatic transcription of a late fourteenth-century English language prophecy which survives as a unique witness in the West Midlands All Souls, College, MS 33, and considers its debt to borrowings from Welsh political prophetic traditions.

This is the only English language prophecy to name the Welsh hero Owain, and draws on a number of strands of Welsh political prophecy. The prophecy is preserved in a manuscript from the Cistercian house Merevale, and this article considers the role of the Cistercians in the cross-border transmission and broader English circulation of Welsh prophetic materials. This is a significant case study in its relationship to the central questions which occupy my research as a whole: the relationship between English and Welsh prophetic texts, and lines of literary transmission.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)283–292
JournalThe Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History
Volume17
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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