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Ystorya gwlat Ieuan Vendigeit
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[ed.] Edwards, Gwilym Lloyd, Ystorya gwlat Ieuan Vendigeit (llythyr y Preutur Siôn): cyfieithiadau Cymraeg Canol o ‘Epistola Presbyteri Johannis’, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999.
abstract:
A critical study of a Welsh translation of Ystorya Gwlat Ieuan Vendigeit, a letter supposedly sent by Prester John to Manuel, emperor of Constantinople about 1165, comprising presentations of two translations of the document, taken from manuscripts Jesus College 119, Peniarth 15, 47 and 267, an appreciation of the text and its significance in Welsh literature, and detailed notes.
[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.
Secondary sources (select)
Conley, Kassandra, “Various things of great worth: the wonders of India and Wales in Peniarth 15”, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 30 (2010): 61–81.
