Book of Taliesin
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.
| Book of Taliesin | |
|---|---|
| Aberystwyth, NLW, Peniarth MS 2 | |
facsimile, folio 13 | |
| Also known as | Llyfr Taliesin |
| Date | First half of the 14th century |
| Size | 38 folios |
| Contents | some 60 Welsh poems |
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).
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