Dosparth Edeyrn Davod Aur; or, The ancient Welsh grammar, which was compiled by royal command in the thirteenth century by Edeyrn the Golden tongued, to which is added Y pum llyfr kerddwriaeth, or The rules of Welsh poetry, originally compiled by Davydd Ddu Athraw, in the fourteenth, and subsequently enlarged by Simwnt Vychan, in the sixteenth century: with English translations and notes, by the Rev. John Williams ab Ithel. Pub. for the Welsh mss. society.

Llandovery, W. Rees; [etc., etc.] 1856.

cxxviii p., 1 l., 359 p. 23 cm.

"The version, which forms the basis of the present volume purports to have been 'copied from a transcript of Mr. Lewis Richards of Darowen, Montgomeryshire, dated 1821, by the Rev. W. H. Rees, Cascob, Radnorshire, 1832.' Mr. Richards appears to have taken his copy from a ms. of Iolo Morganwg."--Pref., p. xiii.

English

June 01, 2002