WELSH PERIODICALS-continued. 5512 MSS. in North Wales; on the Invasions of Britain; Mythology of the Ancient the same, Vol. II, part 2, 8vo. sd. 5s 1843 Contents: Historical Account of the Monasteries and Abbeys in Wales, by the Rev. P. Williams-Historical Account of the Castles of Glamorgan and Monmouth, by J. Harding Account of the Flintshire Castles, by H. Maxwell-Catalogue of Welsh MSS. etc. in North Wales, part II, by A. Ówen -Essay on Welsh Poetry, by W. Davies. 5513 CYMMRODOR (Y) embodying the Transactions of the Cymmrodorian Society of London, edited by the Rev. Rob. Jones and T. Powell, Vols. I-IV pt. 1, in 9 parts, 8vo. sd. £3. 3s 1877-81 Articles on Welsh History Language, Literature, Anthropology, Folk Lore, by Lewis Morris, Prof. Rhys, Rev. E. Owen, Rev. J. Davies, Prince L. L. Bonaparte, Brinley Richards and John Thomas. 5514 EFANGYLDD, Yr (the Messenger), a Monthly Magazine, containing literary articles and Poems by Welsh Writers, with Music by eminent Bards, complete from the commencement to May, 1835, 5 vols. in 53 parts, 8vo. sd. 78 6d 1831-35 This interesting periodical was the forerunner of the "Haul," hereinafter mentioned, and which commenced in July, 1835. 5515 HAUL, Yr (the Sun), a monthly Magazine of Literature, Politics, Religion and Science, containing Essays and Poetical Pieces by DAVID OWEN (Brutus), the Rev. T. PRICE (Carnhuanawc), and other eminent Welsh Writers, a complete set from the commencement to 1856, 21 vols. in 258 parts, 8vo. sd. £4. 1835-56 5516 POWYS-LAND CLUB. Collections, Historical and Archeological, relating to Montgomeryshire, issued by the Powys-Land Club, Vols. I to VI, 6 vols. 8vo. plates and woodcuts of Seals, Arms, Churches, Ancient Utensils, etc. the first vol. in half green morocco, the rest clean in parts, £5. 1868-73 These Collections are printed only for subscribers, the number of whom is limited to 100. The subscription price is one guinea per annum. 5517 SEREN GOMER, neu Gyfrwng Gwybodaeth Cyffredinol i'r Cymry, cyhoeddwyd gan J. Harris, 1818, 1819 and 1820, 3 vols. 8vo. Abertawe, 1818-20 uncut, 7s A very rare Welsh Periodical. Four numbers in the volume for 1818 are wanting. 5518 TRAETHODYDD (Y) a Welsh periodical, various numbers from 1845 to 1868, for completing sets Publications of the Welsh Manuscript Society: 5519 LIBER LANDAVENSIS; or Ancient Register of the Cathedral Church of Llandaff, edited with English Translations and Notes; by W. J. REES, royal 8vo. nearly 700 pp. facsimiles of ancient MSS. cloth, 21s 1840 "The Liber Landavensis is the ancient Chartulary or Register Book of the Cathedral of Llandaff, in which are recorded memoirs of its most eminent prelates, grants of endowments, and other particulars respecting the Church and Diocese. It was compiled in the early part of the twelfth century from older materials, and is one of the most valuable authorities we possess for the antiquity of the British Churches; as such it well deserved the attention of the Society for the Publication of Ancient Welsh MSS., and is an auspicious commencement of their literary career."-Athenæum. PUBLICATIONS OF THE WELSH MANUSCRIPT SOCIETY-continued. 5520 HERALDIC VISITATIONS OF WALES, AND THE MARCHES, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and James I, by Lewis Dwnn, Deputy Herald at Arms for Wales: from original Manuscripts, together with an Introduction, and numerous explanatory notes; edited by SIR SAMUEL RUSH MEYRICK, 2 vols. impl. 4to. facsimiles, pedigrees and coats of arms, Out of print anD VERY RARE, cloth, £12. 15s 1846 the same, Vol. II, separately, impl. 4to. facsimiles and autographs, cloth, £5. 5521 1846 These volumes are most important and interesting to the ancient Families of the Principality, and to those who claim a Welsh descent; as they embody an inexhaustible stock of genealogical History from the earliest ages to the time of James I, and in many instances the descents are, in the notes, continued to the present representatives. "The work is one of those standard books of reference without which the Welsh antiquary can hardly prosecute his genealogical researches." Archeologia Cambrensis. 5522 DOSPARTH EDEYRN DAFOD AUR: or the ancient Welsh Grammar, compiled in the thirteenth century, by Edeyrn the Golden Tongued, by command, and at the desire of Llywelyn Ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales; Rhys Vychan, Lord of Dynevo and Vstrad Towy; and Morgan Vychan, Lord Paramount of Morganwg; and which received the sanction of a National Jury. With an English translation, and copious notes, edited by J. WILLIAMS AB ITHEL, thick 8vo. cxxvii and 350 pp. cloth, 20s 1855 The Editorial Notes, in a smaller type, are incorporated in the Text of Edeyrn, with the view of supplying deficiencies, and rendering the work complete as a practical Grammar of the Cymraeg from the sixth century to the present day. It consists of Four main parts: 1. Orthography; 2. Parts of speech; 3. Syntax; 4. Prosody. Under the last head, in addition to the rules furnished by Edeyrn, are given also the numerous and interesting regulations relative to poetic compositions which are to be found in "Y Pum Llyfr Kerddwriaeth," a MS. work of rare merit, which is printed entire in its original form. Altogether, it is expected that this will prove the standard Grammar of the Welsh language, calculated as it will be to aid in the composition of modern Cymraeg, and to unravel the peculiar structure of the ancient and medieval literature. 5523 BARDDAS; OR BARDISM, a collection of original documents, illustrative of the Theology, discipline, and usages of the BardoDruidic System of the Isle of Britain, with translations and notes, by J. WILLIAMS AB ITHEL, Vol. I, all published, thick 8vo. xxxv and 425 pp.-a portion of the second volume, containing "Privilege and Usage," pp. 9-168, being all ever printedtogether 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, 10s 1862-72 The curious matter brought to light for the first time in this volume, cannot fail to attract the particular attention of scholars, and to open a new and interesting era in the History of Welsh Literature. The Welsh and English Text are placed opposite each other, an arrangement more convenient for the Scholar, who may wish to test the accuracy of the translation by a reference to the original. The portion of the unfinished second volume, described above, was discovered during the examination of Mr. Rees' stock, after its purchase by Mr. Quaritch; and as there is no possibility of its completion, it is now added to the first volume, that Welsh scholars may have the work complete as far as it was printed. M. HENRI MARTIN wrote to the Athenæum, April 24, 1875: "Il est PUBLICATIONS OF THE WELSH MANUSCRIPT SOCIETY-continued. bien regrettable que le tome 2e, qui contiendra des pièces très singulières se fasse si long-temps attendre." As will be seen by the above a good fragment of the second volume is for sale; no more will ever be published. 5524 Lives oF THE CAMBRO BRITISH SAINTS, from ancient Welsh and Latin manuscripts, with English Translations and Notes; by W. J. REES, royal 8vo. 680 pp. facsimiles, cloth, £1. 1s 1853 Containing the Lives of the following British Saints: - Bernacus (Brynach), Beuno, Cadoc, Carantocus (Carannog), David (Dewi), Gundleus (Gwynllyw), Iltutus (Illtyd), Kebius (Cybi), Paternus (Padarn), and Winifred (Gwenfrewi). Also an Appendix, containing the Lives of Saints Catherine, Margaret, Aidus, Breudanus, and Tatheus.-Achau y Saint ;-Pedigrees of several British Saints, Account of Brychan, Prince of Brecknock, Ancient British History, &c. Together with Supplementary notes to the Liber Landavensis. 5525 MEDDYGON MYDDVAI; or the Physicians of Myddvai; being a compendium of the medical practice of the celebrated Rhiwallon and his sons, Cadwgan, Gruffudd, and Einion, of Myddvai, in Caermarthenshire, physicians to Rhys Gryg, Lord of Dynevor and Ystrad Towy, son of Gruffydd Ap Rhys, the last prince of South Wales, about the year 1230; from various Ancient MSS. in the libraries of Jesus College, Oxford, Llanover, and Tonn; accompanied by an English translation. To which is prefixed the curious legend of the Lady of the Lake, called Llyn-y-van, from whom the above physicians were said to be descended. And a copious Herbal, edited by J. WILLIAMS AB ITHEL, M.A., and translated by JOHN PUGHE, thick 8vo. xxx and 470 pp. cloth, published at 21s, reduced to 10s 1862 "Rhys Gryg was the son of Rhys ab Gruffyd, prince of South Wales, and lived in the former part of the 13th century. He was a distinguished warrior, and fought with various success in the wars which were carried on in Wales almost without intermission during his life. According to old usage he had his domestic Physician, namely Rhiwallon, who was assisted by his three sons, Cadwgan, Gruffydd, and Einion, from a place called Myddvai, in the present county of Caermathen, whose rights and privileges, as enjoined by law, were worthily maintained and upheld by him. Under his patronage these men made a collection of valuable medicinal recipes applicable to the various disorders to which the human body was then subject. But though this collection bears their name, we are not to suppose that all the prescriptions contained therein were the result of the studies and experience of the Physicians of Myddvai. Some no doubt had been in the materia medica of Wales long before; a few indeed may be traced up to the time of Howel the Good, if not to the sixth century. Such, however, do not seem to have been reduced to writing, until the Physicians of Myddvai took the matter in hand, and produced the work which is now for the first time printed. The original manuscript is supposed to be one lately transferred from the library of the Welsh Charity School in London, to the British Museum. Of this there are several copies; the one adopted as the basis of the present volume is from the Red Book, in Jesus College, Oxford, which was carefully collated by the Rev. Robert Owen, B.D., Fellow of the said College, with a transcript made by the late Mr. Saunders, from Mr. Rees of Tonn's copy; which MS. was moreover copied about 1766, by William Bona, of Llaupumsaint, from another belonging to Iago ap Dewi of Llanllawddog. "A knowledge of medicine was preserved in the descendants of this family, and they continued to practice as Physicians at Myddvai without intermission until the middle of the last century. "The second portion of this volume purports to have been compiled by Howel the Physician-son of Rhys, son of Llewelyn, son of Philip the Physician, PUBLICATIONS OF THE WELSH Manuscript SOCIETY―continued. a lineal descendant of Einion, the son of Rhiwallon, from the Books of the first Physicians of Myddvai. William Bona made a transcript from the Book of John Jones, Physician, of Myddvai, the last lineal descendant of the family, A.D. 1743. The late Iolo Morganwg took a copy of this MS. in 1801, and it is his copy that forms the text of our volume." 5526 THE IOLO MANUSCRIPTS, a selection of ancient Welsh MSS. in prose and verse, from the collection made by THE LATE EDWARD WILLIAMS (IOLO MORGANWG), for the purpose of forming a continuation of the Myvyrian Archaiology; and subsequently proposed as materials for a new HISTORY OF WALES; with English Translations and Dates, by his son, the late TALIESIN WILLIAMS (AB IOLO), royal 8vo. 700 pp. plates of ancient Crosses and facsimiles, cloth, OUT OF PRINT, RARE, £2. 12s 6d 1848 e. CONTENTS: History; Ecclesiastical Antiquities; Fables; Tales; Poetry by Rhys Goch and others; and Miscellanies, including Charters, Proverbs, etc. This volume contains reprints of MSS. intended to be included in the Myvyrian Archæology, and is a necessary supplement to that work. "This collection makes one of the most interesting volumes that I ever saw in Welsh. It contains so much valuable information."-Tegid. Irish Historical and Archæological Irish Academy: For the TRANSACTIONS, see ante pp. 100-101. 66 5527 LEABHAR BREAC—the "Speckled Book"-otherwise styled The Great Book of Dun Doighre:" a collection of pieces in Irish and Latin, transcribed towards the close of the fourteenth century; now for the first time published, from the original manuscript in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, imperial folio, on toned paper, hf. calf, £3. 168 Dublin, 1876 5528 LEABHAR NA H-UIDHRI: Book of the Dun Cow, a Miscellany of Historical and Romantic Pieces, in Irish, imp. 4to. lithographed in facsimile from the original Vellum MS. written by Maolmuire Mac Ceileachair, grandson of Conn namBocht, about the end of the eleventh century, with the late Professor O'Curry's catalogue of its contents added in letter-press (pub. at £3. 3s), half morocco, £2. 2s Dublin, 1870 the same, imp. 4to. Joseph O'Longan's copy, with his MS. Notes, hf. bd. £3. 10s 5529 1870 Mr. Joseph O'Longan first transcribed the original for the present edition. The historical and philological value of the contents of this volume is so well recognized, that the publication of the text is a munificent boon to Celtic scholars. One part of the contents is a poem written in the year 592 by Dallan Forgaill, with a gloss interlined by Maolmuire. Only two hundred copies were printed. 5530 WILDE (W. R.) Catalogue of the Antiquities in the MUSEUM OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, 3 parts in 2 vols. complete, 8vo. woodcuts, cloth and sd. 25s Dublin, 1862-63 Contents: Stone, Earthen and Vegetable Materials (sold separately 28 6d) -Animal Materials and Bronze-Gold. 5531 THE BOOK OF LEINSTER, sometime called The Book of GLENDALOUGH: a collection of pieces in the Irish Language, compiled in part about the middle of the twelfth century, a IRISH ACADEMY-continued. 5532 lithographed transcript from the original MS. in the Library of 5532*. The above copies have not the Title, Preface, and Index. the same, PRINTED ON VELLUM, with the initials and capitals coloured so as to form an exact facsimile of the original MS. with the preliminary explicative matter added from a paper copy, magnificently bound in brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford, the sides tooled with ornaments from its Celtic patterns; a very fine book, £40. Dublin, 1878 The Book of Leinster is one of the most important of the fragments of Irish Literature that have come down to us. In addition to copies of the native prose historic accounts of the Táin Bó Cualnge, the Bórama, &c., it contains a large fragment of an early prose translation of the Historia de Excidio Troiae of Dares Phrygius; many of the poems and prose introductions of the Dindsenchas or legendary and traditional accounts of the origin of the names of places in Ireland; several historic poems, in which the legendary and traditional accounts of the early history of the country are preserved; Irish genealogies and hagiologies; and a great number of interesting stories, illustrative of the manners and customs, the modes of thought, and the state of culture, &c., of the people of Ireland just about the period of the Anglo-Norman Invasion. Irish Record Publications: 1861-63 5533 CALENDAR of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland. Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth, and Charles I, 3 vols. royal 8vo. 33s 5534 ANCIENT LAWS OF IRELAND. Senchus Mor, Law of Distress, etc. Irish and English, by Dr. O'Donovan and W. N. Hancok, 4 vols. roy. 8vo. facsimiles, hf. bd. £2. 1865-79 5535 LİBER MUNERUM Publicorum Hiberniæ, or the Establishments of Ireland, 1152-1827, being the Report of R. Lascelles, 7 parts in 2 thick vols. roy. folio, hf. russia neat, rare, £5. (1852) Issued for presents only by the Record Commission. The collection constitutes a storehouse of information relating to the history of Ireland, and containing the digest of an enormous mass of valuable documents. Copies have fetched £20 at Irish sales, 5536 HISTORICAL ATLAS OF ULSTER: Facsimiles of 31 County and Baronial Maps of Ulster, which have been copied, by order of the Lords of the Treasury, from the Original Maps executed about the year 1609. Plain, £1. 11s; coloured, £7, 8s 1862 These Maps possess much interest, as exhibiting the titles from the Crown of the landed proprietary of the present day in Ulster. 5537 MAP of Ireland, by Lawrence Noel, Dean of Lichfield, who died in 1576, out of print. 5538 COPY of Manuscript relating to Ireland by same author, out of print. 5539 VIEW of the Siege of Enniskillen, 1592, taken from McGuire by Capt. Dowdall, facsimile of the original plan "made and dun by John Thomas, Solder," a large sheet, 28 6d 1862 |