Parts of the Bible have been translated into Welsh since at least the 15th century, but the most widely used translation of the Bible into Welsh for several centuries was the 1588 translation by Willi
This tattered Welsh Bible from 1620 in Llanwnda church is said to have been rescued from the hands of French invaders in 1797
Memorial in St John's College, Cambridge to the Welsh Bible translators William Morgan and Edmund Prys; with quotations from Ecclesiasticus 44 and Psalm 121.
William Morgan was a Welsh Bishop of Llandaff and of St Asaph, and the translator of the first version of the whole Bible into Welsh from Greek and Hebrew.
Bible translations into Welsh
…Welsh since at least the 15th century, but the most widely used translation of the Bible into Welsh for several centuries was the 1588 translation by William Morgan, Y Beibl cyssegr-lan sef Yr Hen Destament, a'r Newydd as revised in 1620. The Beibl Cymraeg Newydd ("new Welsh Bible") was published in 1988 and revised…
Imagined portrait by T. Prytherch (1907)
Title page of Morgan's translation of the Bible
The opening page of The Book of Genesis in Morgan's Bible
Translators' Memorial, St Asaph