The White Book Mabinogion: Welsh Tales & Romances. Reproduced from the Peniarth Manuscripts - EVANS, J[OHN] GWENOGVRYN

Original publisher's light-brown cloth hardback, black lettering spine. black ornament frontcover, thick large 8vo: engraved frontispiece with photo-lithography, foreword with footnotes, xxviij, [2]pp., 648 columns [ = 324pp].. Printed on hand-made paper. Untrimmed. Fine copy. Volume VII: Old Welsh Text Series. Printed in 500 numbered copies. This copy not numbered. Reproduced from the Peniarth Manuscripts: The White Book of Rhydderch (NLW Peniarth MSS. 4 and 5) is a remarkable and unprecedented compendium of medieval Welsh prose and poetry, inscribed in the mid 14th-century, which is now bound in two volumes in the National Library of Wales. Peniarth 5, which originally preceded Peniarth 4, contains religious texts, the Welsh Charlemagne cycle and other matter: Peniarth 4 contains the earliest complete text of the Mabinogion tales and, as a whole, the White Book provides the earliest texts of much of the best of Welsh medieval secular prose. Pwllheli [Gwynedd], Published by J.G. Evans for Subscribers only. 1907 [Auteur: EVANS, J[OHN] GWENOGVRYN] [Jaar: 1907] [Titel: The White Book Mabinogion: Welsh Tales & Romances. Reproduced from the Peniarth Manuscripts]