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Title
Date(s)
- [16 cent., first ½] (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
292 pp.
Half bound.
Context area
Archival history
'Llyma law [Llt?] ap ddj ap Roser yn profi pin ac ink newydd' in the margin of p. 218.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A manuscript, written in two hands of the first half of the sixteenth century, containing Brut y Brenhined, the text also including the Prophecy of Myrddin.
The fly leaf has a note (1749) on the manuscript by Lewis Morris, who calls the manuscript Brut Tyssilio; there is another note by him at the end of the manuscript.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Welsh.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
The folios are worn at the corners in many places and folios are wanting at the beginning, middle and end.
Finding aids
J. Gwenogvryn Evans, Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language, vol. II, part II (London, 1903), pp. 427-428.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available on microfilm at the Library.
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Formerly Shirburn MS C. 34.
Note
Preferred citation: Llanstephan MS 5 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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Virtua system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Merlin (Legendary character) -- Prophecies (Subject)
- Morris, Lewis, 1701-1765 (Subject)