Book of Taliesin
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This article is about the medieval Welsh manuscript. For the album by Deep Purple, see The Book of Taliesyn.
For other uses, see Taliesin (disambiguation).
The Book of Taliesin (Welsh: Llyfr Taliesin) is one of the most famous of Middle Welsh manuscripts, dating from the first half of the 14th century though many of the fifty-six poems it preserves are taken to originate in the 10th century or before.
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Book of Taliesin | |
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Aberystwyth, NLW, Peniarth MS 2 | |
Also known as | Llyfr Taliesin |
Date | First half of the 14th century |
Size | 38 folios |
Contents | some 60 Welsh poems |
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The volume contains some of the oldest poems in Welsh, possibly but not certainly dating back to the sixth century and to a real poet called Taliesin (though these, if genuine, would have been composed in the Cumbric dialect of Brittonic-speaking early medieval north Britain, being adapted to the Welsh dialect of Brittonic in the course of their transmission in Wales).