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- [1840s], [?1873] (Creation)
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34 ff.
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Miscellaneous loose notes and other papers of Charlotte Guest, relating to the Mabinogion, comprising a transcript of the text 'Pann aeth llu y lychlyn' from the Red Book of Hergest, in the hand of John Jones (Tegid), dated 22 March 1842 (f. 1); notes on 'The Seven wise Men', 'Amys and Amelion' and 'Bevis' (ff. 2-4); two leaves of notes relating to the 'History of Taliesin' (ff. 5-6); a note, [early 1840s], by Carnhuanawc concerning the translation of the 'Mabinogi of Taliesin' printed in Cambrian Quarterly Magazine, 5 (1833) (f. 7); an abstract of the first two chapters of the French prose version of Perceval le Gallois, together with a transcript of the chapter titles for the 'Elucidacion de Hlystoire du Graal' [see Mabinogion… (1849), I, 395-6] (ff. 8-9); a note on Southey's introduction to the Morte d'Arthur (f. 10); various further notes (ff.11-22); part (pp. 401-408 only) of Aneurin Owen's 'Catalogue of Welsh Manuscripts, etc., in North Wales, No. II', from Transactions of the Cymmrodorion or Cambrian Metropolitan Institution, 2.4 (1843) (ff. 23-26); and an offprint of part (pp. 17-32) of an unidentified edition of 'Li Livres Du Saint Graal', in French but with footnotes and marginal annotations in English, [?1873] (ff. 27-34).
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English, French, Welsh.
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