Welsh Journals

CYLCHGRAWN LLYFRGELL GENEDLAETHOL CYMRU THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES JOURNAL VOLUME XII. Winter, ig6i. NUMBER 2. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS c. 1147-C.1223 INTRODUCTORY NOTE This bibliography embraces both printed editions of the works of Giraldus de Barri, more usually known as Giraldus Cambrensis or Gerald of Wales, and the literature on Gerald's life and works. Within certain limits, it aims at comprehensiveness. The first section, section A, of the bibliography itself lists the printed editions of Gerald's own works, including collections of extracts, but not isolated extracts, that appeared before the publication of the Rolls Series edition in 1861-91. Extracts, sometimes of equivalent length, which appeared afterwards and were derived from the Rolls Series Text have been omitted. Major omissions from the text of works that appear from their title to be complete have been indicated and notes are also given indicating texts founded upon earlier editions. In the absence of any such notes, the edition is, as far as I can ascertain, an independent one. Some information about the manuscripts used will be found in the sections on manuscripts and printed editions in the preface, but as it could not be given with any thoroughness or consistency, it has been omitted from the bibliography proper. The arrangement in this section is by date under headings for collected editions, selected editions and separate works but all the revisions or reprints of one edition have been kept together under the same entry number, so that the 1806-7 edition of Holinshed's Chronicles, for instance, follows immediately upon the 1587 edition. Editions having separate editors, however closely based on an earlier text, have been treated separately, so that Powel's text of the Welsh treatises will be found under Camden and Hoare also, with references to the original. Latin texts and translations have not been separated but free adaptations and trans- lations have a separate sequence following orthodox versions of the text. Included under the headings for separate works are references to their appearance in collected and selected editions, so that the number of editions and their chronological sequence can be easily grasped.