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- [c. 1685-1698] (Creation)
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126 ff. (ff. i-iii + pp. 1-246) ; 193 x 152 mm. ‘In old leather cover’ [RMWL]; rebound at NLW, the old covers bound in.
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Archival history
Among inscribed names of [18 cent., first ½]: Thomas Jones, 1735 (pp. 8, 178, 207), Griffith Ellis (pp. 149, 205), John Cadwaladr [probably of Llandrillo] (pp. 179, 195, 210, the last recording his birth in 1698, following other family memoranda), William Roberts (pp. 179, 195), Rowland Jones (p. 195), Hugh Thomas (p. 245). Paper label ‘XXIII’, [19 cent.], on the old cover.
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Scope and content
Cywyddau of [15-17 cent.], notably by Siôn Cent, canu rhydd and englynion of [17 cent.], including many autograph by Owen Gruffydd, who wrote the manuscript about 1690 (e.g. pp. 133, 141-2, 148, 173, 194, 229), but in part perhaps as early as c. 1685 (see pp. 46, 117). Pages 195-210 are an insertion, and written in his later hand, including one autograph poem dated 1698 (p. 209). Owen Gruffydd added englynion in blank spaces.
Other hands of [18 cent., first ½] also made additions, including Daniel Griffyth (englynion on pp. 204-5, his signature also on p. 96), Robert Anwyl (an English englyn on p. 18), and three other hands (englynion and cerddi on pp. 239-46).
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Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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Welsh.
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Finding aids
A detailed list of the manuscript's contents may be found in J. Gwenogvryn Evans, Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language, vol. I (London, 1898-1905), 932-933.
Description based on Daniel Huws, A Repertory of Manuscripts and Scribes c.800-c.1800, vol. I (Aberystwyth, 2022), 401.
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Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Formerly Hengwrt MS 457.
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Preferred citation: Peniarth MS 153 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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Title based on contents.
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Tipped in on f. ii is a fragmentary octavo leaf containing part of an autograph cywydd by Gruffudd Hiraethog, probably a stray from some Hengwrt manuscript. Many leaves are damaged by damp, with loss of text; all leaves split at NLW and mounted.
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October 2023.
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Archivist's note
Description revised by Maredudd ap Huw.