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The Red Book of Hergest (Welsh: Llyfr Coch Hergest), Oxford, Jesus College, MS 111, is a large vellum manuscript written shortly after 1382, which ranks as one of the most important medieval manuscripts written in the Welsh language. It preserves a collection of Welsh prose and poetry, notably the tales of the Mabinogion and Gogynfeirdd poetry ...
The Four Ancient Books of Wales is a term coined by William Forbes Skene to describe four important medieval manuscripts written in Middle Welsh and dating from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. They contain primarily texts of poetry and prose , some of which are contemporary and others which may have originated from traditions dating back to ...
Carte Manuscripts; Codex Nuttall 16th century, Mixtec; Red Book of Hergest 14th about century, Welsh; Voynich manuscript unknown language; Rohonc Codex mostly known as an unknown or 19th-century attempt to forge Hungarian (Székely) Runes
The stories of the Mabinogion appear in either or both of two medieval Welsh manuscripts, the White Book of Rhydderch or Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, written c. 1350, and the Red Book of Hergest or Llyfr Coch Hergest, written about 1382–1410, though texts or fragments of some of the tales have been preserved in earlier 13th century and later ...
The White Book of Hergest (Welsh: Llyfr Gwyn Hergest, sometimes given as Llyfr Gwyn o Hergest) was an important Welsh manuscript compiled in c. 1450. It contained many Welsh poems and prose texts and was a significant source for several antiquaries of the 17th and 18th centuries, but disappeared in the early 19th century, probably being destroyed in a fire in a London bookbinder's shop in ...
The Welsh Triads (Welsh: Trioedd Ynys Prydein, "Triads of the Island of Britain") are a group of related texts in medieval manuscripts which preserve fragments of Welsh folklore, mythology and traditional history in groups of three. The triad is a rhetorical form whereby objects are grouped together in threes, with a heading indicating the ...
Llyfr Coch Hergest: Shortly after 1382: Welsh: The Red Book of Hergest: Vellum manuscript: Mabinogion; the poetry of the Gogynfeirdd: Llythr Pennal: 1406: Latin: Pennal Letter: A vision of an independent Wales: Owain Glyndŵr: Llyfr Taliesin: 1st half of 14th century: Old/Middle Welsh: Book of Taliesin: Early medieval poetry: Taliesin: Llyfr ...
The book Meddygon Myddvai, published in 1861 by John Pughe, collects together most of the materials attributed to the Physicians, which it groups under two manuscripts. What it terms the "first" manuscript is the material included in the Red Book of Hergest, corrected by comparison with other copies.