Appendix A: Supporting Material

Summary

Sections of Appendix A are numbered in the format A.1.1, A.1.2, etc. The first numeral indicates the chapter to which the section pertains.

Appendix A.2.1: Manuscripts of the St Cadog Genealogies

The St Cadog genealogies appear in five of the nine manuscripts of the Life of St Cadog. The seven primary manuscripts, along with the sigla assigned to them by Hywel Emanuel, are as follows:

A: Cotton Vespasian A. xiv, part i (St Mary's Priory, Monmouth, s. xii3/3).

B: Gotha Mm.I.81 (?South-west England, s. xivⁱⁿ).

C: Ashmole 1289 (?Wales, s. xivⁱⁿ).

D: Peniarth 385 (?Glamorgan, s. xiv/xv).

E: Cotton Titus D. xxii (?Glamorgan, 1429).

F: Ashmole 794 (?Glamorgan, s. xv^ex).

G: Peniarth 50 (Glamorgan, c. 1445–56).

Highlighted in bold are the manuscripts containing the St Cadog genealogies. In addition to these seven, there are two further, derivative witnesses: Peniarth 275, written by Robert Vaughan in c. 1658–9, which was copied from D, and Cardiff 3.77, written by John Jones of Gellilyfdy in 1640, which was copied from G. Following their exemplars, Peniarth 275 omits the genealogies whereas Cardiff 3.77 includes the portion found in G.

The absence of the genealogies from B, C and D is readily explicable. B is the only manuscript containing the full version of the Life of St Cadog by Caradog of Llancarfan. It is unlikely that Caradog's version of the Life ever contained the genealogies, since it seems to have been written for an Anglo-Norman audience, who would probably not have appreciated the long lists of Welsh names. C contains only a summary of the Life and ends with Cadog's martyrdom. D contains the full text in a form comparable to E (which preserves the genealogies), but Henricus, D's scribe, chose to omit the genealogies deliberately, notifying his readers of his decision with the words quere extra ‘look elsewhere’ (f. 41v) placed at the point of omission.

Hywel Emanuel argued that the witnesses to the Life of St Cadog are related in the way indicated in Figure A.2.1.1.