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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…  

The Llanbeblig Book of Hours

Reference: NLW MS 17520A Books of Hours were amongst the most popular texts of the Middle Ages in Western Europe. They were created in their tens of thousands and many survive in libraries and…  

The 'Hengwrt Chaucer'

Reference: Peniarth MS 392D The 'Hengwrt Chaucer' is undoubtedly one of the greatest treasures of the National Library of Wales and one of the best known outside Wales. It is one of the most…  

White Book of Rhydderch

Reference: Peniarth MS 4 Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch (the White Book of Rhydderch) is one of the most notable and celebrated manuscripts in the National Library of Wales. It is the earliest…  

De Consolatione Philosophiae

Reference: Peniarth MS 393D Here is a copy from c. 1380, of a translation by the notable poet Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) of  De Consolatione Philosophiae (The Consolation of…  

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