Ystorya Gwlat Ieuan Vendigeit (Llythyr y Preutur Sion)
By (Author) Gwilym Lloyd Edwards
University of Wales Press
University of Wales Press
26th October 1999
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
891.66
Hardback
176
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
A critical study of a Welsh translation of Ystorya Gwlat Ieuan Vendigeit, a letter supposedly sent by Prester John to Manuel, emperor of Constantinople about 1165, comprising presentations of two translations of the document, taken from manuscripts Jesus College 119, Peniarth 15, 47 and 267, an appreciation of the text and its significance in Welsh literature, and detailed notes.