RITILI0012.11'111% The sources for Old Welsh have never been eollecled. They may be found by eonsulting Thilmer's Inseriptiones Rritannim Christiana. (Berlin. 18761: Grammatien ('elf lea (2d ed., Berlin. 1871) ; Kuhn, lieitriipc tttr rcrrileirhemIcn Spruchforsehung, and vii.; and .1relomoloyia eambrensis (1873). The Libor Landarensis has been well edited by Bbys and Evans (Oxford, 1893). The laws are in Aneurin Owen's Ancient Laws and institutions of ll'a/rs (English Record Commis sion, 1851). For discussion of the material, with full references, see Rhys and Jones, 7'i1c People, ch. vi. (London, 1900). The most exten sive cull( (lion of Middle Welsh poets is The ilyryrian Arelueology of Wales, edited by Owen Jones, Edward Williams, 111111 \V. Owen fugue (1801; 2d ed, 1878). For the oldest poems see \V. F. Skene, 7'hr !"our Ancient Books of Wales (Edinburgh. 1868) ; also the Facsimile of the Black Book of Carmarthen, edited by .1. II. Evans (Oxford, 1888). IZIlys and Evans have published remarkably accurate editions of The llobinogion (Th., (SST) and The Brats 1890), f rom the Red Book of Ilergest. Other prose material
is contained in Robert Williams's Selections from the llengirrt Manuscripts (1876-92). To these references should 1w added finally the publica tions of the Welsh Manuscripts Society (mostly produced before the days of scientific Celtic philology) and the excellent. publications of the Society of Cymmrodorion (containing valuable texts and studies). For modern Welsh the most valuable reference is 7'he Oambrian Bibliography (Llyfryddimth y ('Drury) of Rowlands and Evans (Llanidloes. 18601. This contains a catalogue of all the Welsh books printed up to 1800. The best treatise on the early literary history of Wales is Thomas Stephens's Literature of the Kyntry (1st ed. 1849; 2d ed. 1876). A com mendable work on the modern period is the Hanes Llenyddierth Uyaireig o 1650 i 1850, by Charles Ashton (published by the National Eisteddfod Association in 1891). Critical com ments of value were made in Matthew Arnold's essay On the Study of Celtic Literature.