Currently selected criteria
Buchedd Anna
prose
Welsh apocryphal legend of St Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary.
Credo Athanasius (Gruffudd Bola)
prose
Gruffudd BolaGruffudd Bola
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

See more
A Middle Welsh translation of the Athanasian Creed, undertaken in the second half of the 13th century by Gruffudd Bola. As the prologue makes clear, the work was written for Efa, daughter of Maredudd ab Owain.
Dadl y corff a'r enaid
verse
beg. Cyfaenad celwydd cynelw o dofydd
Delw y byd
prose

Delw y byd is a Middle Welsh translation of Book 1 of the medieval Latin encyclopedia Imago mundi, written by Honorius Augustodunensis.

Esgyniad Mair i'r Nef
prose

Welsh versions of the Transitus Mariae Beatae.

Gemma ecclesiastica (Gerald of Wales)
prose
Gerald of Wales
Gerald of Wales
(c. 1146–1220 x 1223)
No short description available

See more

Didactic treatise by Gerald of Wales on matters of ecclesiastical reform.

Gwyrthyeu e Wynvydedic Veir
prose
A Middle Welsh collection of (up to) 28 miracles of the Virgin Mary.
Gwyrthyeu Seint Edmund archescop Keint
prose
Middle Welsh version of the miracles of St Edmund of Canterbury.
Iesu a Mair a'r cynhaeaf gwyrthiol
verse
beg. Brenin gwrthfin gwyrth uchaw y sydd
Kanu y byt bychan
verse
beg. Keingeneis, kanaf / bet vndyd mwyhaf
Taliesin
Taliesin
(fl. 6th century)
renowned British poet, known both as a historical poet at the court of Urien and other rulers and as a more fictionalised persona of supreme status. Poems attributed to him survive in the 14th-century manuscript now known as the Book of Taliesin (NLW Peniarth 2).

See more
(ascr.)
Middle Welsh poem put in the mouth of the legendary poet Taliesin.
Kyntaw geir a dywedaw
verse
13 st.
beg. Kyntaw geir a dywedaw
Mawl i Dduw
verse
beg. In enu domni meu y voli maur y uolaud
Penityas
prose

Medieval Welsh religious-didactic text containing instructions for the priest on how to hear confession.

Purdan Padrig
prose

A Middle Welsh version of the Tractatus de Purgatorio sancti Patricii, a popular Latin text which offers an account of the afterlife through the vision of an Irish knight who has travelled to ‘St Patrick’s Purgatory’ (Station Island, Lough Derg).

Rhybudd Gabriel
prose

Middle Welsh prose version of the Annunciation to Mary from Luke 1:26-38.

Welsh Bestiaire d'amour
prose

A Welsh-language adaptation of (part of) Le bestiaire d’amour, a work of prose written in the middle of the 13th century by Richard de Fournival, in which each beast represents a different aspect of love.

Y naw rhinwedd
prose

A Middle Welsh version of the ‘nine answers/virtues of Christ’, which is given by Elis Gruffydd in Cardiff MS 3.4.

Y trioedd arbennig
prose

A collection of Welsh triads on biblical, apocryphal and patristic learning and learning relating to the natural world, of which at least six redactions are extant.

Ymborth yr enaid
prose
Middle Welsh treatise on mysticism, in three parts.
Ymryson y bugelydd i wybod pwy waethaf
prose
Fragment of a Welsh tract introduced by the question which is worse: the devil or the priest’s wife/concubine.
Ymryson y corff a'r enaid
prose
Iolo Goch
Iolo Goch
(c.1320–c.1398)
Welsh poet

See more
(ascr.)

A Middle Welsh prose version of the first half of the Dialogus inter corpus et animam. It is traditionally attributed to the poet Iolo Goch.

Yn y mod hwnn y dysgir y dyn py delw
prose
Middle Welsh theological tract.