page_title: Black Book of Basingwerk
hierarchical_section_title: Black Book of Basingwerk
caption_attribution_description: English: Jump to navigation Jump to search Welsh manuscript written c. 1460
context_page_description: The Black Book of Basingwerk is an illuminated manuscript in the National Library of Wales containing, among other texts, a Welsh translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. It is mostly the work of the Welsh poet and scribe Gutun Owain. The illumination is limited to three decorated initials, and two marginal drawings now barely visible to the naked eye.
context_section_description: The Black Book of Basingwerk (Welsh: Llyfr Du Basing) is an illuminated manuscript in the National Library of Wales (NLW MS 7006D) containing, among other texts, a Welsh translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. It is mostly the work of the Welsh poet and scribe Gutun Owain (fl. 1460–1500).  The illumination is limited to three decorated initials, and two marginal drawings now barely visible to the naked eye.
caption: Incipit page of the Black Book of Basingwerk
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