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A Gutun Owain Manuscript

Reference: NLW MS 3026C This manuscript, which was created between 1488 and 1498, is part of the Mostyn family collection and is sometimes referred to by its old name, Mostyn 88. It is a…  

The Vaux Passional

Reference: Peniarth MS 482D Peniarth 482D is a manuscript written by one scribe, on parchment, probably in London, either in the late 15th century, or at the beginning of the 16th. As in the…  

Black Book of Basingwerk

Reference: NLW MS 7006D The late fifteenth-century parchment manuscript known as the Black Book of Basingwerk (Llyfr Du Basing), now NLW MS 7006D, is mainly the work of the Welsh poet and…  

Beunans Meriasek

Reference: Peniarth MS 105B Until Beunans Ke (NLW MS 23849D) came to light very recently, Beunans Meriasek was the only known saint's play in Middle Cornish, and its rediscovery in the 1860s…  

Poetry by Lewys Glyn Cothi

Reference: Peniarth MS 109 Peniarth MS 109 is a volume of cywyddau by Lewys Glyn Cothi, one of the most notable Welsh bards of the 15th century. It contains 106 poems in the form of elegies to,…  

A Middle English Miscellany

Reference: Brogyntyn MS ii.1 This mid-fifteenth-century miscellany of prose and verse, formerly known as Porkington 10, is one of the most important medieval English manuscripts at the…  

The 'De Grey' Hours

Reference: NLW MS 15537C To judge from the number of surviving examples, Books of Hours were the most popular texts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Western Europe. They range from…  

Pennal Letter

On 31 March 1406, Owain Glyndŵr sent a letter, now know as the Pennal Letter, to Charles VI King of France requesting assistance for help in his rebellion against English rule. In it he sets out…  

Piers Plowman

Reference: NLW MS 733B Piers Plowman by William Langland (?c. 1330-c. 1386) is one of the most famous poems in Middle English. Some fifty manuscripts of the text survive, but there are…  

Dafydd ap Gwilym and the Cywyddwyr

From spoken to written word As an increasing number of people, including poets, learnt to read and write during the Middle Ages, the practice of recording Welsh poetry in manuscripts began to…  

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