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A large collection of Welsh secular genealogies, which survives in manuscripts from the 15th century onwards.

Manuscript witnesses

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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 732B 
pp. 9–18, 21–38, 40–41 and 56   
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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 16962-16963A 
ff. 7v–10r, 11v, 46r, 94v–95r and 115r–117v  
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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 21001B 
Part 2.
ff. 190v–193v  
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pp. 13–19, 21–3 and 25–43   
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pp. 197–198, 204   
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ff. 1r, 3r, 31r, 33r, 44r, 45r, 46r, 54r, 58r, 63r and 72r  
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Cardiff, Central Library, MS 3.77 
pp. 40–100   
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Cardiff, Central Library, MS 3.77 
pp. 1–19   
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London, British Library, MS Harley 4181 
ff. 25v–26v  

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.

[ed.] Guy, Ben, “Appendix B: editions”, in: Ben Guy, Medieval Welsh genealogy: an introduction and textual study, 42, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2020. 333–438.  
Contents: B.1: The St Davids recension -- B.2: The Jesus 20 genealogies --- B.3: Gwehelyth Morgannwg --- B.4: The Llywelyn ab Iorwerth genealogies --- B.5: The Gutun Owain recension of the Llywelyn ab Iorwerth genealogies --- B.6: Llyma Dalm o Weheliaethau a Llwythau Cymru --- B.7: Llyma Frychan Brycheiniog a'i blant --- B.8: Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd --- B.9: The Mostyn genealogies --- B.10: The Cwtta Cyfarwydd genealogies --- B.11: Brenhinllwyth Morgannwg.
349–354 (introduction); 354–389 (text)
[ed.] Bartrum, Peter C., Early Welsh genealogical tracts, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1966. x + 228 pp.

Secondary sources (select)

Guy, Ben, “[4] Reframing the Welsh past in early thirteenth-century Gwynedd: the Llywelyn ab Iorwerth genealogies”, in: Ben Guy, Medieval Welsh genealogy: an introduction and textual study, 42, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2020. 159–232.
Guy, Ben, “A lost medieval manuscript from North Wales: Hengwrt 33, the Hanesyn Hên”, Studia Celtica 50 (2016): 69–105.