Peniarth 20 is an early Welsh manuscript, written on parchment, that is part of the

Peniarth collection Peniarth is a village and community in Meifod, Powys, Wales. It is 87.1 miles (140.2 km) from Cardiff and 156.9 miles (252.5 km) from London. It is represented in the Senedd by Russell George (Conservative). It is part of the Montgome ...

in the

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. It is also known as the ''Chronicle of the Princes'' because it contains an important version of the chronicle ''Brut y Tywysogion''.

Daniel Huws Daniel Huws (born 1932) is the world's leading authority of the last hundred years on Welsh manuscripts, with contributions that are held to represent a significant advance on those of John Gwenogvryn Evans. He is noted in particular for his stud ...

, the leading authority on Welsh manuscripts, has argued that the majority of Peniarth 20 dates from circa 1330. A date around the 15th century had previously been offered by

J. Gwenogvryn Evans John Gwenogvryn Evans (20 March 1852 – 25 March 1930) was a Welsh palaeographic expert and literary translator. Early life Evans was born at Llanybydder in Carmarthenshire. He was apprenticed to a grocer, but returned to school, one of his teac ...

. The Peniarth 20 manuscript contains four texts: the earliest known copy of Brut y Tywysogion, early religious prose in ''Y Bibl Ynghymraec'', the poem '' Kyvoesi Myrddin a Gwenddydd'' (The prophecy of Myrddin and Gwenddydd) is a dialogue between Merlin and his sister Gwenddydd, and a text of bardic grammar which summarises the instructions given to pupils during their training to become professional poets. The version of Brut y Tywysogion from Peniarth 20 is also found in

The Black Book of Basingwerk The Black Book of Basingwerk ( cy, Llyfr Du Basing) is an illuminated manuscript in the National Library of Wales (NLW MS 7006D) containing, among other texts, a Welsh translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's ''Historia Regum Britanniae''.

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