Language English Media type print (hardback) Originally published 1848 | Publication date 1848 Pages 712pp (first edition) Country United Kingdom | |
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Subject Welsh Bardic and Druidic beliefs Publisher W. Rees, Longman & Co., Welsh Manuscripts Society Similar Iolo Morganwg books, Other books | ||
The Iolo Manuscripts are a collection of manuscripts compiled into a Welsh Bardic and Druidic theology book written by Iolo Morganwg, edited by Taliesin Williams and published in 1848. The book is subtitled "A selection of ancient Welsh manuscripts, in prose and verse, from the collection made by the late Edward Williams, Iolo Morganwg, for the purpose of forming a continuation of the Myfyrian archaeology; and subsequently proposed as materials for a new History of Wales: with English translations and notes". The discussion regarding the authenticity of some of the manuscripts is ongoing and the subject of study at the University of Wales. John Michell remarked in 1984 that "The controversy about which of them (Iolo’s manuscripts) are genuinely ancient and which are of Iolo’s writing is still brewing…".