VI. Sources
I. Collections of manuscripts
The name of the collection is denoted by a sm. cap. initial without a stop; the number of the ms. follows, and generally the number of the page or folio, separated by an oblique stroke; thus p 99/469 means Peniarth ms. 99, page (or folio) 469. The mss., except those of the Brit. Mus., are numbered as in the Historical Manuscripts Commission’s Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language. r. after a reference indicates that the words quoted appear in the Report. As many of the quotations are taken from transcripts in some of which only the p. or fol. of the opening lines of a poem was given, the reference may be to the piece beginning on the p. or fol. named.
- a = British Museum Additional Manuscripts.
- c = Cardiff Free Library Manuscripts.
- j = Manuscripts in the Jesus College Library, Oxford.
- Ỻ = Llanstephan Manuscripts, now in the National Library of Wales.
- m = Mostyn Manuscripts, at Mostyn Hall.
- p = Peniarth Manuscripts, now in the National Library of Wales.
- Stowe = British Museum Stowe Manuscripts.
ii. manuscripts and texts
O.W. materials are distinguished thus †. References are not usually given to the pages of ox., ox. 2, juv. and m.c., as Loth Voc. forms an index to these mss. The reference is to pages except where otherwise stated below.
†a.c.: Annales Cambriæ in Y Cymmrodor ix 152–169; reference to years. [Early 12th cent. literal transcript of late 10th cent. orig. by scribe ignorant of Welsh, see Phillimore’s preface.]
a.g.: Athrawaeth Gristnogavl [Milan 1568]. By Morys Clynoc; ed. by G.R. Cymmrodorion Soc. Reprint 1880.
a.l.: Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales…2 vols. 1841.
b.a.: The Book of Aneirin = c 1, circa 1250. Facsimile and Text by J. Gwenogvryn Evans. Pwllheli 1908. [Parts are transcribed literally from older copies not understood by the scribe.]
bar.: Barddas… With trans. and notes by J. Williams ab Ithel. i Llandovery 1862; (ii London 1874). [Late Gwentian.]
