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Date(s)
- [16 cent., first ½]. (Creation)
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Extent and medium
184 pp.Half bound, labelled 'BRITISH HISTORY'.Wanting the end.Wanting the end.
Context area
Archival history
The manuscript is inscribed as follows: 'Llyma lyfyr Dd ab Ieuan o blwyf llangrallo tyst o W. Dd. y fab' (p. 57); 'llyma lyfyr dafydd ap Ievan o blwyf llangrallo. Tyst o sion ap Rys o dre lales ag a ddafydd thomas dafydd ag o Thomas howel llen ac o gryffyth treharn per me thomam Johnes' (p. 176). P. 1 is inscribed 'Moses Wiliams A.M., R.S. Soc. Ex dono D. J. Powell [of Talgarth - see Llanstephan MSS 27, 41, 45]'.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A manuscript, in the same hand as Llanstephan MS 61 and Jesus College MS 8, containing Brut y Tywysogion taken from the Red Book of Hergest.
Though there are many verbal omissions and changes, so many peculiarities are retained that there can be no doubt of its original.
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
Finding aids
J. Gwenogvryn Evans, Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language, vol. II, part II (London, 1903), p. 556.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Notes area
Note
Formerly Shirburn MS C. 8.
Note
Preferred citation: Llanstephan MS 62 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].