Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Cwrtmawr MS 314-315D
| Manuscript Identification | |
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| Reference Number | Welsh12 |
| Location | Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru |
| Siglum/Shelfmark | Cwrtmawr 314-315D |
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| Textual Content and Tradition | |
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| Standardised title of narrative | Ystori Saith Doethion Rufain |
| Incipit or textual title | Ystori Doethion Rhufain: Llyma Ystori VII Doethion Rhufain. Deiaclesian oedd amherodr 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 | NLW catalogue: https://archives.library.wales/index.php/testunau-cymraeg-yn-llaw-w-h-mounsey |
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| Language of text | Welsh |
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| Source for regional or specific Language of text | |
| Digitisation and Editions | |
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| Digitisation | |
| Modern Editions | Ystori Doethion Rhufain, in Y Brython (1860), Foulkes, Cymru Fu (1862) |
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The finding aid for the Cwrtmawr manuscripts indicates that this text was published in in Y Brython (1860); whether that means that W. H. Mounsey copied this from that edition, or that the two share a source, is not specified (though given the dates, we may perhaps assume the former). Lewis (1925, 1958, 1967) claims that the version of this text published in Y Brython (1860), and the edition in Cymru Fu (1862), have as their source one of the two copies of the Ystori in the British Library - specifically, the earlier of the two texts, rather than the later copy in Owen Myfyr's handwriting.
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| Authorship and Production | |
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| Scribe | William Henry Mounsey |
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| Place of Manuscript Production | |
| Date of Manuscript Production | 1860 - 1877 |
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| Physical Description | |
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| Material | Paper |
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| Prose or verse | Prose |
| Illustrations | No |
| Contents and Additional Texts | |
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| Other texts in the Manuscript | From the NLW catalogue:
Two composite volumes of transcripts of Welsh texts, with copious annotations, in the hand of W[illiam] H[enry] Mounsey. The titles include 'Hynafion Dyffryn Clwyd' (printed in Y Brython, 1861, pp. 325-6), 'Llyma henwau Maen mawr werthiawg, ei gwrthiau, a'i nattur', 'Llyma lyfyr a elwir Graduelys' (Y Brython, 1860, pp. 413-16), 'Rhyfeddodau Palestin', 'Y Llyfr a elwir y Purdan', 'Prophwydoliaeth Dewi Sant', 'cywyddau' and 'englynion' by Huw ap Rissiart ap D'd, Evan Evans ['Ieuan Brydydd Hir'], Tudur Penllyn, Dafydd Nanmor, Morys Kyffin, 'Llyma henwae y kyffion kler a'r kerddorion a raddiwyd pan vu yr Eisteddfod ddiwaethaf yn tref Gaerwys', 'Llyfr Kadwedigaeth Kerdd Dant', Y Kaniadau y sydd ar y Bragod Gowair (with 'Ar y Kras Goweir y maent', etc.), 'Llyma ymddiddan a vu rhwng Adrian ag Eppig', 'Llyma Ache ag ymddiddane a vu rrwng Selyf ap D'dd brophwyd a Marcholffus', 'Hen chwedl Diawl y Dwndwr' (incomplete) (Y Brython, 1860, pp. 136-7), 'Herodraeth' [i.e. Llyfr Arfau or Disgrifiad Arfau] (incomplete), 'Llyma Ddosbarth y Saith Gelfyddyd', 'Prophwydoliaeth y Bardd Cwsg', 'Prophwydoliaeth y Wennol', 'Cynghorion i amryw ddolurie' (Y Brython, 1860, pp. 339-40), 'Klod Kerdd Dafod', (see D. Gwenallt Jones 'Clod Cerdd Dafod', Llen Cymru I, pp. 186-7), 'Achau Powys' (Y Brython, 1860, pp. 124-7), 'Chronicl Cymreig' (incomplete), 'Mynachlog yr Ysbryd Glân' (Y Brython, 1860, pp. 361-5), 'Arwyddion Dydd Barn' (Y Brython, 1860, p. 56), 'Buchedd Marthin Sant', 'Llyma ystori VII doethion Ryvain (Y Brython, 1860, pp. 81-94) (with variant readings), 'Hanes Gwidw' (Y Brython, 1860, pp. 241-6), 'Arglwydd Glyndwr' (Y Brython, 1860, p.345), 'Siartrau y Waen' (Y Brython, 1861, pp. 337-9), 'Rinwedd y Ceilog' (Y Brython, 1860, pp. 56-7), 'Llyma ystori teitys vab ysbysionys' (Y Brython, 1860, pp. 41-4), 'Pa le y claddwyd y Prydyddion hyn' (Y Brython, 1860, pp. 137-8), 'Rhinweddau croen Neidr' (Y Brython, 1860, p. 137), ['Man-gofion'] (Y Brython, 1860, p. 269), etc |
| Catalogues and Research Literature | |
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| Catalogue | NLW catalogue: https://archives.library.wales/index.php/testunau-cymraeg-yn-llaw-w-h-mounsey, Cwrtmawr MS finding aid: https://archives.library.wales/downloads/cwrtmawr-manuscripts.pdf |
| Modern Research Literature | Lewis (1929), Lewis (1925, 1958, 1967) |
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