4 Books : Welsh Icons United

 

12 October – 15 March 2014

A rare opportunity to see the most important Medieval Welsh manuscripts brought together under one roof.

 

Celtic scholar William Forbes Skene’s Four Ancient Books of Wales (1868) was a pioneering attempt at separating the historical element from the imagined and fictitious in old Welsh poetry. The four iconic manuscripts described by Skene are brought together for the first time in an exhibition celebrating the earliest literature in Welsh: the Black Book of Carmarthen and Book of Taliesin from the National Library of Wales, the Book of Aneirin from Cardiff Central Library and the Red Book of Hergest from Jesus College, Oxford.

 

Events - 

 

18 October 2013: 1.15 pm

 

The Red Book of Hergest - Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards explores the contents and significance of the largest and one of the most significant Welsh medieval manuscripts.

 

Free admission by ticket - by phone, 01970 632548 or on-line

 

 

27 November 2013: 1.15 pm

 

The Gododdin - Gwyn Thomas muses on the earliest old Welsh poetry and the work to translate the text. *** Event held in Welsh with simultaneous translation.***

 

Free admission by ticket - by phone, 01970 632548 or on-line

 

 

22 January 2013: 1.15 pm

 

The look at the Book of Taliesin - Marged Haycock

 

Free admission by ticket - by phone, 01970 632548 or on-line