Welsh Manuscripts Society

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The Welsh Manuscripts Society, also known as the Society for the Publication of Ancient Welsh Manuscripts, was an organisation formed in Abergavenny, Wales, in 1837. [1]

It was led by prominent members of the clergy and other notables including Taliesin Williams. It had the purpose of collecting, studying, and, as a text publication society, of publishing manuscripts relating to the ancient poetry, prose and historiography of Britain and Wales. [2]

In 1856 the society published a Welsh language grammar said to have been written by Davod Aur Edeyrn. [3] [4] Its final publication was Barddas; or, a collection of original documents, illustrative of the theology, wisdom and usages of the Bardo-Druidic system of the isle of Britain, edited and translated by Rev. John Williams (Ab Ithel). The first volume appeared in 1862; and the second volume, in an incomplete form, in 1874.

William Rees of Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, was the printer and publisher for the Welsh Manuscripts Society. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Meic Stephens (23 September 1998). The New Companion to the Literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. ISBN   978-0-7083-1383-1 . Retrieved 24 October 2012.
  2. ↑ Dillwyn Miles (1992). The Secret of the Bards of the Isle of Britain. Gwasg Dinefwr Press. ISBN   978-0-9519926-0-9 . Retrieved 24 October 2012.
  3. ↑ Wikisource-logo.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Edeyrn, Davod Aur". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  4. 1 2 "REES, WILLIAM (1808 - 1873), printer and publisher | Dictionary of Welsh Biography". biography.wales. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
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