Manuscript of Welsh poetry at Houghton Library, ca. 1630.

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Manuscript of Welsh poetry at Houghton Library, ca. 1630.

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Pt. 1 of this manuscript (p. 5-170) is a collection of poems by members of the Beirdd yr Uchelwyr, or Poets of Gentry, including poems of praise, request, satire, or thanks directed toward noble patrons; pt. 2 (p. 171-182) includes poems attributed to the Cynfeirdd, or Early Poets, Taliesin and Llywarch Hen, as well as a variety of nature and gnomic verses, some of which are not attributed to an author.

p. 5-182.

Harvard University, Fred N. Robinson Celtic Seminar

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Houghton Library

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In 1938 Keyes D. Metcalf, Librarian of Harvard College and Director of the Harvard University Library (1937-1955), proposed a separate library building for rare books and manuscripts. Through the generosity of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Harvard Class of 1929, Harvard became the first American university to construct a separate research facility for the housing and study of rare books and manuscripts. The Houghton Library, dedicated and opened in 1942, won major architectural awards and became a mo...

Taliesin

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Llywarch Hen, 496?-646?

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