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Bibliographic information

Language: Latin

Covers years: A.M. 1–A.D. 1286

Manuscript: London, National Archives, MS E. 164/1, ff. 1r–13r (s. xiii/xiv)

The Breviate Chronicle (Testun-B yr Annales Cambriae)

Testun-B yr Annales Cambriae

Mae'r cronicl Breviate i'w gael yn ffolios 1r-13r yn llawysgrif MS E.164/1 yn yr Archifau Gwladol yn Llundain.  Mae'r llawysgrif hon hefyd yn cynnwys crynodeb o Lyfr Domesday, ac mae'n debyg iddi gael ei hysgrifennu yn abaty Sistersaidd Glyn-nedd yn ail hanner y drydedd ganrif ar ddeg.  Mae'r cronicl yn dechrau gyda hanes y byd o'i greu gan fynd ymlaen i'r flwyddyn 1286.  Mae'n amlwg fod y testun sydd ar gael yn cynnwys blwyddnodion wedi eu codi o nifer o wahanol ffynonellau, gyda rhai o'r rhain yn cael eu dwyn ynghyd am y tro cyntaf yng Nglyn-nedd yn ail hanner y drydedd ganrif ar ddeg.

Yn 1848 golygodd Henry Petrie'r adrannau hynny o'r croniclau Harleian, Breviate a Cottonian a oedd yn ymwneud â'r blynyddoedd hyd at 1066.  Am y cyfnod hwn, mae'r un testun ffynhonnell yn sail i bob un o'r tri chronicl hyn; y testun ffynhonnell hwn oedd cronicl Tŷ Ddewi, a oedd mewn bodolaeth ddim diweddarach na 954, pan luniwyd patrwm y cronicl Harleian, ac a barhawyd yn Nhŷ Ddewi ar ôl hynny.  Roedd cyfiawnhad felly dros i Petrie labelu'r tri chronicl hyn i'w ddibenion fel testunau A-, B- ac C- un cronicl ffynonellol, a alwodd yn llac yn Annales Cambriae, sef 'Blwyddnodion Cymru'.  Cymerwyd yr un enw wedyn o'i gyd-destun gwreiddiol a'i gymhwyso at y tri chronicl yn eu cyfanrwydd gan John Williams (Ab Ithel), a ddilynwyd yn ei dro gan nifer o ysgolheigion eraill.  Fodd bynnag, gan fod adrannau diweddaraf y croniclau Breviate a Cottonian yn tarddu o ffynonellau gwahanol, mae'n well defnyddio'r labelau croniclau 'Harleian', 'Breviate' a 'Cottonian'. 

Fe wnaeth Kathleen Hughes alw'r cronicl Breviate yn gronicl 'PRO', oherwydd bod y llawysgrif yn cael ei chadw bryd hynny yn y Swyddfa Cofnodion Cyhoeddus (Public Record Office). Ond gan fod honno bellach wedi dod yn rhan o'r Archifau Gwladol yn Kew, mae'r label 'PRO' yn amhriodol.  Ni ddylid cymysgu rhwng y cronicl hwn a set o flwyddnodion o'r Mers a geir yn yr un llawysgrif, a alwyd yn ‘Breviate annals’ gan J. Beverley Smith ac a olygwyd gan J. Longueville Jones.

Ben Guy

Editions & Translation

  • David N. Dumville, Annales Cambriae, A.D. 682-954: Texts A-C in Parallel (Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, 2002). [parallel with the Harleian and Cottonian chronicles, 682–954]
  • Henry Gough-Cooper, ‘Annales Cambriae, from Saint Patrick to AD 682: Texts A, B & C in Parallel’, The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwest Europe, 15 (October, 2012) [accessed 19 November 2014]. [parallel with the Breviate and Cottonian chronicles, <682]
  • Henry Gough-Cooper, Annales Cambriae: the B text, from London, National Archives, MS E164/1, pp. 2–26 (2015)
  • J. E. Lloyd, ‘The Text of MSS. B and C, of “Annales Cambriae” for the Period 1035–1093, in Parallel Columns’, Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1899–1900), 165–9. [parallel with the Cottonian Chronicle, 1035–93]
  • Henry Petrie, with John Sharpe, Monumenta Historica Britannica, or Materials for the History of Britain, from the Earliest Period: Volume 1, ed. Thomas Duffus Hardy(London: G.E. Eyre & W. Spottiswoode, 1848), 830–40. [confl. with the Harleian and Cottonian chronicles, ‘444’–1066]
  • P. M. Remfry, Annales Cambriae: a Translation of Harleian 3859; PRO E. 164/1; Cottonian Domitian, A1; Exeter Cathedral Library MS.3514 and MS Exchequer DB Neath, PRO E. 164/1 (Shrewsbury: Castle Studies Research, 2007), pp. 163–201. [transl.]
  • John Williams ab Ithel, Annales Cambriae (London:  Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860). [confl. with the Harleian and Cottonian chronicles]

Secondary Scholarship

Secondary Scholarship - Specific to this version

  • Caroline Brett, ‘The Prefaces of Two Late Thirteenth-Century Welsh Latin Chronicles’, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies,35 (1988), 63–73.
  • Julian Harrison, ‘A Note on Gerald of Wales and Annales Cambriae’, Welsh History Review, 17 (1994), 252–55.
  • Daniel Huws, ‘The Neath Abbey Breviate of Domesday’, in Wales and the Welsh in the Middle Ages, ed. by R. A. Griffiths and P. R. Schofield (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2011), pp. 46–55.
  • J. Longueville Jones, ‘Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century. MS Exchequer Domesday’, Archaeologia Cambrensis, 3rd ser., 8 (1862), 272–83.
  • C. A. Seyler, 'The Early Charters of Swansea and Gower, Part I', Archaeologia Cambrensis, 79 (1924), 59–79.
  • J. Beverley Smith, 'Castell Gwyddgrug', Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, 26 (1976), 74–77.
  • J. Beverley Smith, ‘Historical Writing in Medieval Wales: the Composition of Brenhinedd y Saesson’, Studia Celtica,42 (2008), 55–86.
  • David Stephenson, 'The Chronicler of Cwm-hir Abbey, 1257–63: The Construction of a Welsh Chronicle', in Wales and the Welsh in the Middle Ages, ed. by R. A. Griffiths and P. R. Schofield (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2011), pp. 29–45.
  • David Stephenson, ‘Gerald of Wales and Annales Cambriae’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 60 (2010), 23–37.
  • David Stephenson, ‘Welsh Chronicles' Accounts of the Mid-Twelfth Century’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 56 (2008), 45–57.
  • David E. Thornton, ‘Locusts in Ireland? A Problem in the Welsh and Frankish Annals’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies,31 (1996), 37–53.

Secondary Scholarship: Annales Cambriae more generally

  • T. M. Charles-Edwards, Wales and the Britons 350–1064 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 346–59.
  • David N. Dumville, review of Kathleen Hughes, The Welsh Latin Chronicles: Annales Cambriae and Related Texts (1973), Studia Celtica,12/13 (1977–78), 461–67.
  • David N. Dumville, ‘When was the “Clonmacnoise Chronicle” Created? The Evidence of the Welsh Annals’, in Kathryn Grabowski and David N. Dumville, Chronicles and Annals of Medieval Ireland and Wales (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1984), pp. 209–26.
  • Nicholas Evans, ‘The Irish Chronicles and the British to Anglo-Saxon Transition in Seventh-Century Northumbria’, in The Medieval Chronicle VII, ed. by Juliana Dresvina and Nicholas Sparks (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011), pp. 15–43.
  • Erik Grigg, ‘“Mole Rain” and other Natural Phenomena in the Welsh Annals: Can Mirablia unravel the Textual History of the Annales Cambriae?’, Welsh History Review,24 (2009), 1–40.
  • Kathleen Hughes, ‘The Welsh Latin Chronicles: Annales Cambriae and Related Texts’, Proceedings of the British Academy,59 (1973), 233–58; repr. in her Celtic Britain in the Early Middle Ages, ed. by David N. Dumville (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1980), pp. 67–85.
  • J. E. Lloyd, ‘The Welsh Chronicles’, Proceedings of the British Academy,14 (1928), 369–91.
  • Howard Wiseman, ‘The Derivation of the Badon entry in the Annales Cambriae from Bede and Gildas’, Parergon, 17 (2000), 1–10.

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