Brenhinedd y Saesson or The Kings of the Saxons:

First Edition 1971 8vo  li, 428 pp (comprising extensive critical introduction, parallel text and translation, extensive textual notes, and index) 1 monochrome photographic facsimile frontispiece plate.  Original publisher’s textured burgundy cloth boards; spine lettered in gilt very good condition.  In very good dustwrapper with a faded spine.

Representing Volume XXV of the Board of Celtic Studies History and Law Series, this work is the definitive critical edition and English translation of Brenhinedd y Saesson (“The Kings of the Saxons”). Edited and translated by Professor Thomas Jones of Aberystwyth, it provides a vital complementary text to Brut y Tywysogyon. The chronicle combines a version of the native Welsh annals with material drawn from English historical sources (notably an Anglo-Saxon chronicle source and Winchester annals). Jones presents the Middle Welsh text facing the English translation on parallel pages, collated from the two surviving primary witnesses: British Library Cotton MS. Cleopatra B v and the Black Book of Basingwerk (National Library of Wales MS. 7006). The extensive introduction and textual notes unravel the complex textual transmission, date of composition, and historiographical significance of the compilation.