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I Cymmrodor. VOL. XXXVI. CARED DOETH YR ENCILION." 1926. The Book of BasingBerk" dnb ms. Cotton Cleopatra B+D+ BY THE REV. VCTON GRISCOM, M.A., NEW YORK. THE purposes of this section will be (1) to discuss the opinions written about the Cotton MS. Cleopatra B.V.; (2) to indicate its probable relationship with the "Book of Basingwerk"; and (3) to analyze one or two further passages in order to give an estimate of its value in re- lation to the general problem raised by Professor Petrie. There are four parts to this manuscript, if the Bruts be divided, as they undoubtedly should be, namely: Brut y Brenhined, Brenhined [Brut] y Saesson, Leges Howelli Boni, and an incomplete Dares Phrygius. The two Bruts form one manuscript, and the Laws and Dares are also independent. There are in all 248 folios and folios 163 and 164 are apparently missing, to judge by the numbering, which skips from 162 to 165. This break occurs at the end of the Brut y Saesson; the Laws follow on folio 165. There appeared in the first volume of the Cambrian Register, 1795, the text of the Brut y Brenhined from this manuscript, with a close translation which, however, broke off in the second volume just before the mention of 1 For sections I and II, see Y Cymmrodor, vol. xxxv, pp. 49-116.