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Evans, J. Gwenogvryn and John Rhys (Eds). The Text of the Book of Llan Dav. National Library of Wales, 1979. Facsimile Edition. This quarto volume is a 1979 facsimile edition of The Text of the Book of Llan Dav, originally issued to subscribers in Oxford in 1893 as volume IV of the Series of Old Welsh Texts. Edited by J. Gwenogvryn Evans and John Rhys, the work provides a diplomatic reproduction of the twelfth-century Gwysaney Manuscript, also known as the Liber Landavensis or Llyvyr Teilo, which serves as a foundational source for the history of the Diocese of Llandaff and the Old Welsh language. The book is bound in the publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering and horizontal bands to the spine. The interior includes a half-title page, a title page printed in red and black ink using blackletter type, an errata list, and an extensive scholarly preface detailing the manuscript's provenance and previous transcriptions. A significant feature is the inclusion of a fold-out sepia-toned facsimile plate depicting a medieval illumination from the original manuscript. The copyright page indicates the work was printed at Gloucester by John Bellows in 1893 and reproduced by the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1979. ISBN 0 901833 87 8.