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Old Breton Materials

This visualization shows the proportion of manuscript containing at least one word in the Old Breton language in relation to: (1) the totality of the manuscripts included in the Handlist; (2) a sub-set of ‘certainly’ or ‘probably’ Breton manuscripts. In the latter, notice that manuscripts containing at least one word in Old Breton are the majority!

Connections with Brittany

MSS covered by the chart above fall within the following categories:

  1. Probably written in Brittany;
  2. Certainly written in Brittany;
  3. Some contents probably derive from a Breton exemplar / archetype;
  4. Some contents certainly derive from a Breton exemplar / archetype;
  5. Certainly glossed by Breton scribes;
  6. Probably written by a Breton scribe;
  7. Certainly written by Breton scribes
  8. Probably written by Breton scribes
  9. Certainly written by a Breton scribe;
  10. Probably written in or near Brittany;
  11. Certainly written in or near Brittany.