Manuscripts

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 29 Black Book of Chirk (Llyfr Du o'r Waun)

Welsh
xiii^med
Welsh manuscripts
vellum

General
Texts

Identifiers

Location

Wales Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales

Collection: GB 0210 MSPENIARTH: Peniarth manuscripts

Shelfmark

Peniarth 29

Title

Black Book of Chirk (Llyfr Du o'r Waun)

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Welsh

Date

xiii^med

middle of the 13th century

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

Material

vellum

Dimensions

18.1 cm × 12.6 cm

Binding

Rebound.

The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.

Welsh manuscripts

Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] National Library of Wales, National Library of Wales: archives and manuscripts, Online: NLW, ?–present. URL: <https://archives.library.wales>.

Previously Digital Mirror / Drych Digidol (www.llyfrgell.cymru/darganfod/oriel-ddigidol, later www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=digitalmirror), the digital library of the National Library of Wales gives access to digitised manuscripts, printed works, archival materials and other media.

direct link

[facs. ed.] Evans, J. Gwenogvryn, Facsimile of the Chirk codex of the Welsh laws, Llanbedrog, 1909.

Objects.library.uu.nl: <link> : View in Mirador

Secondary sources (select)

Huws, Daniel, Medieval Welsh manuscripts, Cardiff and Aberystwyth: University of Wales Press, 2000.

Lewis, Timothy, “Copy of the Black Book of Chirk Peniarth: Ms. 29 National Library of Wales Aberwystwyth”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 20 (1936): 30–96.