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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

Deuddeg pwnc y Gredo

prose

Epistol y Sul

prose

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)

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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.

Hystoria gweryddon yr Almaen

prose

Pennant (Huw) [Syr]

Pennant (Huw) ... Syr

(fl. 15th century (second half)–1514)

Welsh poet; scribe of Peniarth MS 182.

Middle Welsh adaptation of the legend of St Ursula and the 11,000 virgins. The text was written by Syr Huw Pennant, as the colophon at the end of the text states, and survives, in his own hand, in Peniarth MS 182.

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).

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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

Miracula sancti Davidis (BL MS Royal 13 C i)

prose

A collection of eleven accounts of miracles attributed to St David of Wales and set in a period between the 13th century and beginning of the 15th. It is uniquely found as an appendix to a copy of Gerald of Wales’s account of the life and miracles of the saint in BL MS Royal 13 C i.

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.

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