Hergest

Hergest, THE RED BOOK OF, the name usually given to a great manuscript, the chief repository of Welsh literature, now preserved in the library of Jesus College, Oxford. It owes its name to Hergest Court, a seat of the Vaughans, for whom most likely it was originally compiled. It is a folio volume of 360 vellum leaves written in double columns, from the beginning of the 14th to the middle of the 15th century. Its eleven prose tales were printed by Lady Charlotte Guest, together with the romance of the Hanes Taliesin, under the name of Mabinogion, although in the Red Book itself that name is applied to four only.