Aberystwyth National Library of Wales Cwrtmawr MS 314-315D

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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 Middle Welsh Version A
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)
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
Modern Research Literature Lewis (1929)Lewis (1925, 1958, 1967)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript