'Gogynveirdd',

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 13241C.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls006010525
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1779x1800] /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • Welsh.
  • Physical Description
    • 220 pp. (seventy-eight pages blank). Bound in full brown mottled calf.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A manuscript volume with the word 'GOGYNVEIRDD' on the spine, and containing a collection of transcripts made by William Owen [-Pughe] of Gogynfeirdd poetry, all published in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales..., Vol. 1, (London, 1801), pp. 189-216, 258-62, 265-8, 275-8 and 354, although not in the same order. The poets whose works are represented in the manuscript are: Meilyr Brydydd, Gwalchmai ab Meilyr, Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd, Owain Cyfeiliog and Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr. The manuscript contains numerous footnotes which give variant readings as well as a few explanatory notes on the text. The footnotes contain references to the following sources 'MS.', 'Dr. T. Williams MS.' / 'T.W.', 'V.R.', and 'Ll. Du.' [= 'Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin'].

Note

Title based on contents.

Formerly known as Mysevin 21.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 13241C.

Other Finding Aids

The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).

Additional Information

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