- s. xvi2
This book addresses the evolution and impact of the Tudor re-conquest of Ireland on the Old English colonial community through a detailed study of The Book of Howth. Its compiler, the 7th baron Howth, an influential member of the Old English colonial aristocracy, has traditionally received only passing mention for his opposition to Sir Henry Sidney as lord deputy, for which he was imprisoned in 1577 and again in 1578, and for the charges of domestic abuse brought against him in 1579 for which he was imprisoned a third time. More careful attention to these episodes within the context of intensified measures of conquest and its attendant displacement of the Old English draws attention to the turbulence created within the Old English community prior to their more strident displays of opposition in the later Elizabethan and Stuart periods.
The Book of Howth, though long neglected as an erroneously-perceived work of uncertain authorship, dating, and worth, was in fact, as this study argues, compiled purposefully by Howth over the decade of the 1570s in response to this process. This study therefore reassesses Howth's text for its contribution to assessments of colonial practice, conflict and positioning in the later sixteenth century.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
- s. xv2
- Gutun Owain
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
- s. xiv1
- Book of Taliesin scribe
- c. 1350
- Hywel Fychan ap Hywel Goch