The historie of Cambria, now called Wales

Title

The historie of Cambria, now called Wales

Alternative Title

Full title: The historie of Cambria, now called Wales : a part of the most famous yland of Brytaine, written in the Brytish language aboue two hundreth yeares past / translated into English by H. Lhoyd gentleman ; corrected, augmented, and continued out of records and best approoued authors, by Dauid Powel doctor of diuinitie.

Creator

Caradoc, -1147?

Publisher

[London] : 1584 Imporinted at London By Rafe Newberie and Henrie Denham

Date

1584

Format

[16], 22, [2], 401, [13] pages : illustrations (woodcuts), portraits ; 20 cm. (4to)

Description

"It is .. more likely that Caradog wrote his work in Latin than in Welsh" (DNB). The original is not known. This English version was in fact assembled and translated by Llwyd from various Welsh sources and expanded by Powell.

At foot of title: Cum priuilegio.

Imprint from colophon.
'A description of Cambria' is a revision, by Humphrey Llwyd, of a work by Sir John Price.

"Cadwalader. The beginning of the principalitie and gouernement of VVales" (caption title) begins new pagination on C1r.

Includes index. The last leaf is blank.

Provenance

Armorial bookplate and book label of the Earl of Westmoreland, 1856.

Original limp vellum binding.

Purchased on the Schulich-Woolf Fund.

Contributor

Llwyd, Humphrey, 1527-1568, translator.

Powell, David, 1552?-1598, editor.

Price, John, Sir, 1502?-1555, contributor.

Language

English

Identifier

Dated 1584 .C37
STC 4606
ESTC S121940

Files

Title page
Binding
"An admonition for the reading of the Britiſh words"
Owen Gwyneth
Cadwalader

Collection

Citation

Caradoc, -1147?, “The historie of Cambria, now called Wales,” Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection, accessed March 29, 2024, https://schulichwoolf.omeka.net/items/show/10.