Manuscripts

This poem is preserved in a collection of Lewys Glyn Cothi’s poems in Llst 7, a manuscript of the first quarter of the sixteenth century. This part of Llst 7 is thought to be a copy of a manuscript in the hand of the poet himself (see GLGC xxx–xxxi). Lewys’s poems in Llst 7 were copied by John Davies, Mallwyd in BL 14871 in 1617, and BL 14963 is a copy of BL 14871 by Owain Myfyr.

Title

The poem has no title in Llst 7. The title in BL 14871 is I Sant Niclas.

List of manuscripts

Llst 7, 59–60 (unknown hand, 1505 × c.1530)

BL 14871, 264v (John Davies, 1617)

BL 14963, 245r (Owen Jones ‘Owain Myfyr’, 1768 × 99)