Welsh Manuscripts Society

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] 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.

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.  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.

External links

• Meic Stephens, Hen bersoniaid llengar, Oxford University Press