Manuscripts

General category: Welsh manuscripts

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The present classification is only rudimentary. It will ultimately be replaced by a new system with greater care for data concerning each manuscript’s date, origin and provenance.

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 27 = part of the Red Book of Talgarth (Llyfr Coch Talgarth)

Welsh manuscript collection of religious texts, mainly in the hand of Hywel Fychan. Other parts of the original manuscript are are in Peniarth MS 12 and Cardiff MS 3.242.

c.1400
Hywel Fychan ap Hywel Goch

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 29

Welsh lawbook, Blegywryd redaction of the Welsh laws.

s.xv/xvi

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 34

Not yet published.

s. xvi^ex
Roger Morris [of Coed y Talwrn], Thomas Evans [of Hendreforfydd]

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 55 = Book of Dr. John David Rhys

Welsh paper manuscript miscellany (268 pp.) in the hand of John David Rhys containing Welsh poetry as well as a vocabulary, a bardic grammar of the Dafydd Ddu recension, the so-called statutes of Gruffudd ap Cynan, a translation of Genesis I, items of biblical and historical interest, etc.

c.1579
John David Rhys

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 116

Welsh lawbook containing the so-called Blegywryd redaction of medieval Welsh law.

s. xv

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 3043B (Mostyn 135)

A late 16th-century transcript of the White Book of Rhydderch

s. xvi^ex

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 4973B = Liber B

s. xvii¹
John Davies [of Mallwyd]

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 5266 = Brut Dingestow

s. xiii

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 5267B (Dingestow 7) = Y Casgliad Brith

Not yet published.

Miscellany of Welsh and some Latin prose texts of various kinds.

s. xv¹
Siancyn ap Dafydd ap Gruffudd

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 6680B = Llawysgrif Hendregadredd

Not yet published.

Welsh manuscript, an early witness to poems written by the Gogynfeirdd.

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 13240B

1783
William Owen Pughe

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 17110E = Book of Llandaff (Liber Landavensis)

The Book of Llandaff is one of the oldest manuscripts of Wales. While its core is a gospelbook containing a copy of St Matthew’s Gospel, it is best known for its many substantial additions in the form of the Lives of St Elgar and St Samson, and various documents (such as charters) relating to the see of Llandaff and to bishops Dyfrig, Teilo and Euddogwy.

s. xii¹

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 20143A

A Welsh lawbook, the first part of which corresponds, by and large, to the Cyfnerth redaction and the second to the Blegywryd redaction. The conventional siglum for the Cyfnerth version in this MS is Y.

s. xiv²

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 24029A = Boston manuscript

Welsh lawbook of the Blegywryd redaction, previously kept in the private collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston.

s. xiv / s. xv

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS Bachymbyd 984

AWR 318: Act of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (d. 1282), stating that Einion ap Maredudd of Dyffryn Clwyd and his heirs will hold their land free and exempt from secular service except for service in the royal army. The transaction is said to have taken place in Llannerch on 27 September 1243.