་ ་ད ི་ ༤ཏིང་ལུ 6-17-10 70420 PREFATORY NOTE. With the consent of the Council the Editor has devoted the thirtieth volume of Y Cymmrodor to a reproduction of the full text of the Liber de Invectionibus of Giraldus Cambrensis, taken from photographs of the original manuscript now preserved in the Vatican. The work of transcription and collation has been carefully carried out by Mr. William S. Davies, B.A., of the Swansea Grammar School (a son of one of the earliest members of the existing Council), who has also contributed the Introductory Essay dealing with the contents of the Liber. Mr. Davies wishes to acknowledge his obligations to Mr. E. Ernest Hughes, M.A., University College, Swansea, for advice and encouragement extending over a long period, and to Mr. L. Stanley Knight, M.A., F.R.Hist.S., for assistance rendered in revising the proofs of the text. Pains have been taken to make the reproduction an accurate copy of the manuscript. The more important of the transcriber's errors have been noticed as they occur, but it was not considered necessary to call attention to minor errors of spelling, to inaccuracies in the enumeration of chapter headings, or to discrepancies between the list of chapter headings and the actual contents of the text. For the Index free use has been made of that which is included in the eighth volume of the Rolls series of the works of Giraldus Cambrensis. |