Medieval Welsh Manuscripts

Twentieth-century work on Welsh manuscripts has been dependent on the publications of Gwenogvryn Evans a century ago. This text provides a coherent view of the Welsh manuscript tradition and detailed studies which have transformed our understanding of some of the key manuscripts.

Daniel Huws, the world's leading authority on the codicology of Welsh manuscripts. A giant standing on the shoulders of such giants as J. Gwenogvryn Evans, W. E. Lindsay, and N. Denholm-Young Huw's work represents the very best of scholarship on welsh manuscripts over the past half century, and his discussions of codicology stand as examples of the very best work in the field this is the most important work on Welsh manuscripts to appear in the last half century, and one of the most important in the field of codicology. It should bring the discussion of welsh manuscripts into the mainstream of the field.'