The exhibitions and collections team are busy organising the autumn season’s exhibitions.
The highlight of the season will be the 4 Books exhibition – Welsh Icons United.
A rare opportunity to see the most important medieval Welsh manuscripts together.
The four iconic manuscripts described by Skene are brought together for the first time for an exhibition celebrating the earliest literature in Welsh:
• The Black Book of Carmarthen
Boston Manuscript
• The Book of Taliesin
• The Book of Aneirin
• The Red Book of Hergest
There will also be an opportunity to see some other Welsh treasures, including:
• Two parts of the White Book of Rhydderch (c. 1350) being shown side by side for the first time
• Hendregadredd manuscript (c.1300) which was found in a wardrobe and includes the handwriting of Dafydd ap Gwilym
• The Boston manuscript of the Laws of Hywel Dda (c.1350- 1400) the latest addition to the nations treasures.
This will be second visit to Wales for the Red Book of Hergest from Jesus College Oxford since its exile in 1701 (the first visit was to the National Library in 1982)
How about organising a visit to the National Library to see these treasures and to go on one of our guided tours of the Library to learn more about the Library’s history, its collections and its building.
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