Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Cwrtmawr MS 20A

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Welsh11
Location	Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
Siglum/Shelfmark	Cwrtmawr 20A
Page/Folio range	119-132

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Ystori Saith Doethion Rufain
Incipit or textual title	Llyma Ystori Saith doethion Rhufain: Diaclesiawn oedd amherawdr yn Rhufain...
Version (siglum)	A (Seven Sages)
└ Language Group within Version	Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Early Modern and Modern Welsh Version A
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Lewis (1929), Evans (1905)

Languages
Language of text	Welsh
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation
Modern Editions

Note
See Evans (1905), pp. 913-15 (p. 915) for more details.

Authorship and Production
Scribe	David Richards
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Carmarthenshire, Wales
Date of Manuscript Production	1750 - 1782
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	NLW catalogue: https://archives.library.wales/index.php/barddoniaeth-rhyddiaith-3

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	169
Height	162
Width	102
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	From NLW catalogue: ' A composite manuscript in the hand of David Richards (1725-82), curate of Llanegwad, Carmarthenshire containing 'cywyddau', etc. by Lewys Glyn Cothi, Raff ap Robert, Lewys Daron, Lewys Menai, W[ilia]m Llyn, Ie[a]'n ap Madog, and Dafydd ap Gwilym, and anonymous poems; 'englynion' by D[afyd]d ap Edmwnt, [Richard Davies] ('Escob Dewi') and H[uw] Lewis; extracts from 'cywyddau' by Ieuan Tew Brydydd, I[euan] Deulwyn, R[h]is[iart] Philyp, Sion Tudur, H[uw] Llwyd [Cynfal], and T[homas] Prys; extracts from William Baxter: Glossarium Antiquitatum Britannicarum ... (Londini, 1719); a stanza by [John] Dryden in honour of St David's Day; lists of contents of 'Hen Lyfr Carpiop [sic] B[en] Simon'; 'Llyfr Dauliw Ben Simon', and 'Llyfr y Brut Ben Simon'; 'Englynion y Misoedd' by Aneurin Gwawdrydd; 'Llyma Ddifregwawd Taliesin'; 'Llyma Ystori Owain ap Urien Reged'; 'Llyma val y Cafad Taliessin'; Llyma Ystori Saith doethion Rhufain'; 'Cyngor Arystotlys i Alexander mawr i ydnabod'; lists of words from the poetry of D[afydd ap] G[wilym] quoted in John Davies: Dictionarium Duplex, etc.

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	NLW catalogue: https://archives.library.wales/index.php/barddoniaeth-rhyddiaith-3, https://archives.library.wales/downloads/cwrtmawr-manuscripts.pdf
Modern Research Literature	Evans (1905), Lewis (1929)

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