The Book of Llandaff

Item date: 12th century
Grant Value: 250
Item cost pre-decimal: 2500
Item date acquired: 1959
Item institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion

The Book of Llandaff was the most valuable book of Welsh interest remaining in private hands; it was purchased together with a holograph revised translation of the Epistles to Timothy ... by Richard Davies Bishop of St Davids one of the most important records of the translation of the Bible into Welsh; four 16th century MSS of Welsh poetry and pedigrees and a number of other MSS of value for local history. Illustrated as frontispiece to AR

Item Provenance
Gwysaney Manuscripts