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- [1779x1800] / (Creation)
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220 pp. (seventy-eight pages blank). Bound in full brown mottled calf.
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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'].
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Welsh.
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The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).
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Formerly known as Mysevin 21.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 13241C.
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- Meilyr Brydydd (Subject)
- Gwalchmai ap Meilyr, fl. 1130-1180 (Subject)
- Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd, fl. 1140-1170 (Subject)
- Owain Cyfeiliog, Prince of southern Powys, ca. 1130-1197 (Subject)
- Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr (Subject)