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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 259B = Pomffred manuscript

s. xvi

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References (4)

Roberts, Sara Elin, Llawysgrif Pomffred: an edition and study of Peniarth MS 259B, Medieval Law and Its Practice, 10, Leiden: Brill, 2011.

abstract:

Llawysgrif Pomffred presents for the first time an edition of an overlooked Welsh law manuscript, Peniarth 259B. This is an important and groundbreaking edition which will contribute to our understanding of the relationship and development of the Welsh law texts. The manuscript contains a law text of the Cyfnerth redaction, seen to be the earliest of the Welsh law redactions, and it also has a lengthy tail of additional material which is largely practical in nature, and seems to reflect the legal situation in the March of Wales, with English and Welsh legal customs being mixed. The manuscript may have been given to a certain Einion ab Adda whilst he was in prison in Pontefract.

(source: publisher)

Huws, Daniel, “Yr hen Risiart Langfford”, in: Morfydd E. Owen, and Brynley F. Roberts (eds), Beirdd a thywysogion: barddoniaeth llys yng Nghymru, Iwerddon a’r Alban: cyflwynedig i R. Geraint Gruffydd, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1996. 302–325.

Evans, J. Gwenogvryn, Report on manuscripts in the Welsh language, vol. 1.3: Peniarth, Historical Manuscripts Commission, London, 1905.

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1074–1075 “MS 259B”

Hen. 6 part ii

Results for Book (171)

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

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

c.1400
Hywel Fychan ap Hywel Goch

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 117

Not yet published.

1544-1552

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 120

Not yet published.

c.1607

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 3043B

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

s. xvi^ex

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 7006D = Llyfr Du Basing (Black Book of Basingwerk)

s. xv²
Gutun Owain

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, Peniarth MS 1 = Black Book of Carmarthen (Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin)

A collection of early Welsh poetry, including religious poems, praise poems and elegies.

c. 1250
Black Book of Carmarthen scribe

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 2 = Book of Taliesin (Llyfr Taliesin)

s. xiv¹
Book of Taliesin scribe

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 4 = Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, part 2

c. 1350
Hywel Fychan ap Hywel Goch