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Medieval Welsh poem variously attributed to Taliesin and John (Jonas) of St Davids.

Manuscript witnesses

Text
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 195 
Text
Oxford, Jesus College, MS 111 
rubric: Divregwawd Taliessin   incipit: Goruchel duw golochir ym pob va   
ff. 288rb(col. 1154).32–289ra(col. 1157).inf  

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.] Evans, J. Gwenogvryn, The poetry in the Red Book of Hergest, Llanbedrog, 1911.
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cols 1154–1157 Dipl. ed. from the Red Book of Hergest.
[ed.] Jones, Owen, Edward Williams, and William Owen Pughe, The Myvyrian archaiology of Wales: collected out of ancient manuscripts, 3 vols, vol. 1: Poetry, London: S. Rousseau, 1801.
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95–99 [‘Divregwawd Taliesin’]

Secondary sources (select)

Breeze, Andrew, “Master John of St Davids, Adam and Eve, and the rose amongst thorns”, Studia Celtica 29 (1995): 225–235.
Breeze, Andrew, “Master John of St Davids, a new twelfth-century poet?”, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 40 (1993): 73–82.