White paper of Rhydderch

the White paper of Rhydderch (in Welsh Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch ) is one of the most famous Manuscrit S of Welsh language. He was probably written with the abbey of Strata Florida ( Ystrad Fflur ) with the Wales. He among largest of the Welsh manuscripts, is gone back to approximately 1350. The manuscript is written by a scribe of the kingdom of Deheubarth for Rhydderch ab Ieuan Llwyd, of Glyn Aeron, with Ceredigion. With the Red book of Hergest , the Book of Taliesin , and the Llyfr Of Caerfyrddin , this manuscript is estimated one of the treasures of the Welsh Littérature of the Middle Ages. One finds there several of the tales and accounts including the Mabinogion (except the Dream of Rhonabwy ), and other texts in prose. At the end of the Middle Ages the manuscript is divided into two books, the Peniarth 4 and Peniarth 5 , and is kept since the beginning of the XXe century to the National library of Wales, with Aberystwyth.

Sources

  • “White Book off Rhydderch”. In Meic Stephens (ED.) (1998), The new companion to the literature off Wales . Cardiff: University off Wales Near. ISBN 0-7083-1383-3.
  • Parry, Thomas (1955), has history Welsh literature off. Translated per H. Beautiful Idris. Oxford: Clarendon Near.

External bond

  • the White paper of Rhydderch to the website of the National library of Wales.

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