Welsh Journals

CYLCHGRAWN LLYFRGELL GENEDLAETHOL CYMRU THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES JOURNAL VOLUME I. Summer, 1940 NUMBER 3. EDITORIAL NOTES This number, like its two predecessors, contains contributions by persons who are not members of the Library Staff-Dr. Robin Flower, Deputy-Keeper in the Department of Manuscripts at the British Museum, and Mr. Herbert M. Vaughan, of Tenby, a member of the Council of the Library and Chairman of its Books Committee. A third contribution, viz. a Hand-list of Incunabula in the National Library of Wales which has been compiled by Dr. Victor Scholderer, Deputy-Keeper in the Department of Printed Books at the British Museum and an authority on fifteenth century printed books, although originally intended for this number, now accompanies it as a Supplement,-Series i, No. I. To these three contributors the Editor tenders grateful thanks. In his contribution Dr. Flower describes the contents of Peniarth MS. 386 (Hengwrt MS. 362), one of the Peniarth manuscripts in languages other than Welsh which were not catalogued by the late Dr. Gwenogvryn Evans for the Historical Manuscripts Commission. These manuscripts have recently been handlisted by Mr. E. D. Jones, the Library's Keeper of Manuscripts and Records; his hand-list, promised as a Supplement to the present number of the journal, will, however, appear more appropriately as a Supplement to the next number, which will be a Sir John Williams centenary number. It will be recalled that the Peniarth Manuscripts in Welsh and other langu- ages formed, with the Shirburn Castle collection of early Welsh printed books, the most important portion of the valuable contribution made