Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Cwrtmawr MS 314-315D

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Welsh12
Location	Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
Siglum/Shelfmark	Cwrtmawr 314-315D
Page/Folio range

Textual Content and Tradition
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

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	Ystori Doethion Rhufain, in Y Brython (1860), Foulkes, Cymru Fu (1862)

Note
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. (Added by Jane Bonsall)

Authorship and Production
Scribe	William Henry Mounsey
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	1860 - 1877
Source of Date of Manuscript Production

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

Contents and Additional Texts
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
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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