Texts

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Middle Welsh Life of St David, which gives an abridged version of the Latin Life by Rhygyfarch ap Sulien.

Manuscript witnesses

Text
ff. 18r–19v, lacuna, 20r–21v, (f. 22r illegible), 24r–28r  
Text
ff. 85r–86v  
Text
Cardiff, Central Library, MS 2.624 
MS
f. 138r–f. 155v
MS
f. 93r–f. 103v
Text
ff. 93r–103v  

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[dipl. ed.] Thomas, Peter Wynn [ed.], D. Mark Smith, and Diana Luft [transcribers and encoders], Welsh prose (Rhyddiaith Gymraeg) 1300–1425, Online: Cardiff University, 2007–present. URL: <http://www.rhyddiaithganoloesol.caerdydd.ac.uk>.
Transcriptions from Peniarth 15, Jesus College 119, Llanstephan 27 and Llanstephan 4.
[ed.] Evans, D. Simon, The Welsh Life of St David, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1988.
[ed.] Evans, D. Simon, Buched Dewi, o Lawysgrif Llanstephan 27: gyda rhagymadrodd a nodiadau, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1959.
[ed.] Morris-Jones, John, The life of Saint David: and other tracts in medieval Welsh from the Book of the Anchorite of Llanddewivrevi AD 1346, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912.  
A reprint of editions of some of the shorter tracts in Oxford, Jesus College, MS 119, previously published in Elucidarium and other tracts in Welsh from Llyvyr agkyr Llandewivrevi A.D. 1346, pp. 105–171.
Internet Archive: <link>
7–25
[ed.] Morris-Jones, John, and John Rhŷs, The Elucidarium and other tracts in Welsh from Llyvyr agkyr Llandewivrevi A.D. 1346 (Jesus college ms. 119), Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 6, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>
105–118

Secondary sources (select)

Poppe, Erich, “Three textual notes on the Welsh Life of St David”, Studia Celtica 34 (2000): 275–278.