Manuscripts

Cardiff, Central Library, MS 2.81 Llyfr Aneirin

Welsh
s. xiii²
Welsh manuscripts
vellum

Manuscript known best as the Book of Aneirin (Llyfr Aneirin), containing the heroic poem Y Gododdin and a number of gorchanau.

Identifiers

Location

Wales Cardiff, Central Library

It was agreed in 2010 that the manuscript is to be transferred to the National Library of Wales, while the Cardiff Council will retain ownership.

Shelfmark

2.81

Classification

Hengwrt collection, 46

Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, 16614

Title

Llyfr Aneirin

Type

Welsh poetry

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Welsh

Date

s. xiii²

second half of the 13th century

Origin, provenance

Later provenance: Wales

Wales

No short description available

See more ass. with Dafydd Nanmor

Dafydd Nanmor

(fl. c. 1450–1490)

Welsh poet from Nanmor (Gwynedd)

See more Gwilym Tew

Gwilym Tew

(fl. c.1460–1480)

Welsh poet and copyist from Glamorgan.

See more Two bards, Dafydd Nanmor (c. 1450–1480) of Gwynedd and Gwilym Tew (c. 1460–1480) of Morgannwg.

Later provenance: Hengwrt Library, no. 46. Edward Lhuyd refers to it in his Archaeologia Britannica (Oxford, 1707): p. 261. The Hengwrt shelfmark '46' is still visible.

Later provenance: Aberdare.

Later provenance: ass. with Jones (Theophilus) [d. 1812]

Jones (Theophilus) ... d. 1812

(1759–1812)

Welsh lawyer and historian.

See more Theophilus Jones (1759–1812).

Later provenance: ass. with Price (Thomas) [pseud. Carnhuanawc]

Price (Thomas) ... pseud. Carnhuanawc

(1787–1848)

Welsh historian

See more Rev. Thomas Price al. Carnhunawc.

Later provenance: ass. with Phillipps (Thomas)

Phillipps (Thomas)

(1792–1872)

Sir Thomas Phillipps, English antiquary and collector of manuscripts

See more Passed into the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, whence it received the record number Philipps MS 16614.

Later provenance: Cardiff, Free Library

Cardiff, Central Library

No short description available

See more Cardiff, Central Library

Cardiff, Central Library

No short description available

See more Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales

Cardiganshire

No short description available

See more 1896: Cardiff Free Library; indexed by Gwenogvryn Evans as Cardiff MS 1; later, Cardiff Central Library, MS 2.81; now NLW, Llyfr Aneirin (Cardiff MS 2.81).

Hands, scribes

Copies or excerpts

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 13240B [1783]
London, British Library, MS Additional 31055 [s. xvi^ex–xviiⁱⁿ]

Codicological information

Material

vellum

Table of contents

Legend

Texts

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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.] Huws, Daniel, Llyfr Aneirin: a facsimile / Llyfr Aneirin: ffacsimile, Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1989.

[facs. ed.] Evans, J. Gwenogvryn, Facsimile & text of the Book of Aneirin, 2 vols, Pwllheli: s.p., 1908.

Internet Archive: <link>

Secondary sources (select)

Huws, Daniel, “Five ancient books of Wales”, in: Daniel Huws, Medieval Welsh manuscripts, Cardiff and Aberystwyth: University of Wales Press, 2000. 65–83.

72–75 An augmented version of the article below

Huws, Daniel, Five ancient books of Wales, H. M. Chadwick Memorial Lectures, 6, Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, 1995. 23 pp.

11–14

Evans, J. Gwenogvryn, Report on manuscripts in the Welsh language, vol. 2: Jesus College, Oxford; Free Library, Cardiff; Havod; Wrexham; Llanwrin; Merthyr; Aberdâr, Historical Manuscripts Commission, London, 1902.

Internet Archive: <link>

91–92 [id. 1.] MS 1 direct link