Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 2

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Location Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales
Collection Peniarth
Shelfmark 2
Title Book of Taliesin (Llyfr Taliesin). The title is not a medieval convention.
Provenance:
Date first half of the 14th century
Codicological description:
Palaeographical description:
Contents:

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Texts Section At Folios Pages Columns Notes
Book of Taliesin
Trawsganu Kynan Garwyn mab Brochuael 45.10-46.4

Description

Table of contents

folios texts additions

Notes

Sources

Editions and reproductions

Reproductions
Open book nae 02.png [National Library of Wales], Digital Mirror / Drych Digidol, Online: National Library of Wales, ?—present. URL: <http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=digitalmirror>. Direct link
Editions
Open book nae 02.png Evans, J. Gwenogvryn (ed.), Facsimile & text of the Book of Taliesin, 2 vols, Series of Old Welsh Texts 9, Llanbedrog, 1910. Edge-firefox.png Internet Archive: vol. 1 vol. 2 1 2 3 4
Open book nae 02.png Williams, Ifor (ed.), The poems of Taliesin, tr. J. E. Caerwyn Williams, Mediaeval and Modern Welsh Series 3, Dublin: DIAS, 1968.  » Editions of the so-called ‘historical’ poems attributed to Taliesin.
Open book nae 02.png Haycock, Marged (ed. and tr.), Legendary poems from the Book of Taliesin, Aberystwyth: CMCS Publications, 2007.  » Editions of the ‘legendary’ poems (e.g. Preiddeu Annwn), as opposed, for instance, to the historical poems edited by Ifor Williams.

Secondary sources

Open book nae 02.png Haycock, Marged, “Llyfr Taliesin”, National Library of Wales Journal 25 (1987—1988): 357—386.
Open book nae 02.png Huws, Daniel, Medieval Welsh manuscripts, Cardiff and Aberystwyth: University of Wales Press, 2000.
Open book nae 02.png Williams, Ifor (ed.), The poems of Taliesin, tr. J. E. Caerwyn Williams, Mediaeval and Modern Welsh Series 3, Dublin: DIAS, 1968. Introduction.

External links

Edge-firefox.png National Library of Wales.
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