Compilation
The manuscript was written between about 1382 and 1410. One of the several copyists responsible for the manuscript has been identified as Hywel Fychan fab Hywel Goch of Buellt. He is known to have worked for Hopcyn ap Tomas ab Einion (c. 1330 - after 1403) of Ynysforgan, Swansea, and it is possible that the manuscript was compiled for Hopcyn.
According to scholar Daniel Huws, it is "by far the heaviest of the medieval books in Welsh, the largest in its dimensions and the thickest".
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