Manuscripts

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MSS 4-5 Unit: section MS 5Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, part 1

c. 1350
Welsh manuscripts
vellum

Identifiers

Shelfmark

5

Part of

Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch = Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch [s. xiv^med]

Title

Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, part 1

Description

First part of the White Book of Rhydderch

Provenance and related aspects

Belongs to historical MS:

Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch

Date

c. 1350

Hands, scribes

Hands indexed:

Scribe A

Copied quire 1-4. Rules only by hard point. Makes a double ruling for the outer margin. Writes in a single collumn with 46-51 lines per page.

Specimens (IIIF):

Scribe B

Copied quire 5-9. Possibly the Anchorite of Llandewibrefi. Rules only by hard point. Makes a double ruling for the outer margin. Writes in two collumns with 42 (quire 5) or 36 (quire 6-9) lines per page.

Specimens (IIIF):

Scribe C

Copied quire 10-14. Rules using both hard point and plummet. Makes a single ruling for the outer margin. Writes in two collumns with 30-35 lines per page.

Specimens (IIIF):

Additional hand 1 (f. 65v)

On f. 65v, which was left as a blank space, a cursive anglicana hand has added four englynion by Dafydd ap Gwilym. According to Huws (2000), this hand postdates the production of the manuscript but can be dated before the end of the century. The writing is not easily legible.

Additional hand 2 (f. 65v)

A further eight lines on f. 65v were written in “a hand of the first half of the fifteenth century” (Huws 2000). Like the addition that precedes it, the text is difficult to read, but has been identified as three englynion taken from an awdl by Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd ab Ednyfed.

Copies or excerpts

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 3043B [s. xvi^ex]

Codicological information

Material

vellum

Table of contents

Legend

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Welsh manuscripts

Sources

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[dig. img.] National Library of Wales, National Library of Wales: Digital gallery, Online: NLW, ?–present. URL: <https://www.llyfrgell.cymru/darganfod/oriel-ddigidol/llawysgrifau/>.

Previously Digital Mirror / Drych Digidol, the digital library of the National Library of Wales gives access to digitised manuscripts, printed works, archival materials and other media.

direct link

[dipl. ed.] Thomas, Peter Wynn [ed.], D. Mark Smith, and Diana Luft [transcribers and encoders], Welsh prose (Rhyddiaith Gymraeg) 1300–1425, Online: Cardiff University, 2007–present. URL: <http://www.rhyddiaithganoloesol.caerdydd.ac.uk>.

direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Huws, Daniel, “Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch”, in: Daniel Huws, Medieval Welsh manuscripts, Cardiff and Aberystwyth: University of Wales Press, 2000. 227–268.

Huws, Daniel, “Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 21 (Summer, 1991): 1–37.

Evans, J. Gwenogvryn, Report on manuscripts in the Welsh language, vol. 1.2: Peniarth, Historical Manuscripts Commission, London, 1899.

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