Bonedd y Saint

The Bonedd y Saint (Descent of the Saints) is a list of British saints, each saint or group of saints being being given with his or her ancestry.

Different Versions

The first version is believed to have been created during the 12th century, but the earliest version is from the third quarter of the 13th century. There are three manuscripts of this first version. The letters assigned are those in P. C. Bartrum (1966):

A. Peniarth MS. 16, fos. 53^v—54^v, ‘Bonhed y Seint’ (third quarter of the 13th century)
B. Peniarth MS. 45, pp 296–91, ‘Bonhed Seint Kymry’ (late 13th century)
Dd. Hafod MS. 2, fos. 209^v–212^r, ‘Bonhyd Seynt’ (second half of 14th century). Sometimes called the ‘Llannerch MS.’

This version contains 63 sections. Sections 64–71 first appear in:

E. Lanstephen MS. 28, pp. 69–75, by Gutun Owain (c. 1475).

Sections 72–76 first appear in:

G. Peniarth MS. 127, pp. 43–49, by Thomas ap Ieuan ap Deicws (c. 1510).

A few new items appear in the main body of the text in G as well as:

C. Peniarth MS. 12, fo. 25^r–v, ‘Boned y Seint’. These pages really belong to Peniarth MS 4 (The White Book of Rhydderch) (c. 1320) and were restored to it in 1940.
D. Hafod MS. 16, pp. 110–12, (No title) (c. 1400).
—–— Peniarth MS. 50, ‘Y Gwtta Cyfarwydd’ (1415–56), p. 86 containing a selection of items from the above.
F. Peniarth MS. 27, part 2, pp. 67–70 (last quarter of the 15th century).

There are numerous later manuscripts which contain the additional items 77–99.

See Bartrum (1966, pp. 51–54 for a complete listing.

References

Full Edition

• Bartrum, P. C. (Ed.) (1966). Bonedd y saint. Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts (pp. 51–67).

Web

• Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts [“Bonedd y Saint"]. Family Search: Community Trees. Retrieved from http://histfam.familysearch.org/showsource.php?sourceID=S305&tree=Welsh

A. Peniarth MS. 206, fos. 53^v–54^v

• Baring-Gould, Sabine and Fisher, John (Eds.) (1913). Appendix Genealogies of the Welsh Saints: A. Bonedd y Saint. In The lives of the British saints (Vol. IV, pp. 369–71).

B. Peniarth MS. 45, pp. 286–91

• Baring-Gould, Sabine and Fisher, John (Eds.) (1913). Appendix: Genealogies of the Welsh Saints: B. Bonedd y Saint. In The lives of the British saints (Vol. IV, pp. 371–73).

Dd. Hafod MS. 2, fos. 209^v–212^r

• Wade-Evans, A. W. (Ed.) (1944). Bonheyd Seynt. In Vitae sanctorum Britanniae et genealogiae (pp. 320–3).

E. Llanstephan MS. 28, pp. 69–75

• Wade-Evans, A. W. (Ed.) (1931). Bonedd y saint. In Archaeologia Cambrensis 86 (pp. 163–70)

G. Peniarth MS. 127, pp. 43–49

• Wade-Evans, A. W. (Ed.) (1933). Bonedd y saint. In Revue Celtique 50 (pp. 378–54)

C. Peniarth MS. 12, fo. 25^r–v

• Phillimore, Egerton (Ed.) (1886). A fragmemt from Hengwrt MS. no. 202. [VII.] Boned y seint. In Cy. VII (pp. 133–34)

D. Hafod MS. 16, pp. 110–12

• Wade-Evans, A. W. (Ed.) (1933). Bonedd y saint. In Revue Celtique 50 (pp. 24–28)

F. Peniarth MS. 27, part 2, pp. 67–70

• Wade-Evans, A. W. (Ed.) (1933). Bonedd y saint. In Revue Celtique 50 (pp. 363–70)

Caerdydd 3.242 page 110

• Thomas, Peter Wynn; Smith, D. Mark and Luft, Diana. (Eds.) (2007). Caerdydd 3.242 page 110. Bonedd y saint. Welsh Prose 1350-1425.
  • Retrievable from http://www.rhyddiaithganoloesol.caerdydd.ac.uk/en/ms-page.php?ms=Card3242&page=110

22. Harleian MS. 4181

• Rees, William Jenkins. (1853). (Ed., Trans.) Pedigrees of the Welsh Saints. In The Lives of the Cambro-British Saints (Welsh text, pp. 265–68; English translation, pp. 598–601).
  • Retrievable from (Welsh text) http://books.google.com/books?id=rmtlAAAAMAAJ&dq=intitle%3ACambro-British&pg=PA265#v=onepage&q&f=false, (English translation) http://books.google.com/books?id=rmtlAAAAMAAJ&dq=intitle%3ACambro-British&pg=PA598#v=onepage&q&f=false
  • English translation retrievable from http://www.celticchristianity.infinitesoulutions.com/saints_genealogy.html