Manuscripts
Manuscript:
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 7006D = Llyfr Du Basing (Black Book of Basingwerk)
  • s. xv2
Jones, Thomas, Brenhinedd y Saesson, or, the Kings of the Saxons: BM Cotton MS Cleopatra B v and the Black Book of Basingwerk, NLW MS 7006, History and Law Series, 25, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1971.
Griscom, Acton, “The ‘Book of Basingwerk’ and Ms. Cotton Cleopatra B. V”, Y Cymmrodor 35 (1925): 49–116.
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Results for Book (171)

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

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

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

  • s. xviex

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

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

  • c. 1250
  • Black Book of Carmarthen scribe