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- [16-17 cents] / (Creation)
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282 pp. (foliated and paginated v ff. + 266 pp. + 3 blank ff.) ;295 x 203 to 309 x 210 mm.Rebound at NLW.The first eight pages are fragmentary.The first eight pages are fragmentary.
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An incomplete Welsh translation by Richard Owen [? 1552] of Joannes Ludovicus Vives: De institutione faeminae Christiana; 'proffwydoliaeth sibli ddoeth'; a Welsh vocabulary - 'henwau arglwydd', etc.; pedigrees - mythological and biblical, Welsh princes, 'Bonedd y Saint', etc.; accounts for corn and straw, 1589; an incomplete copy of the Welsh version of the Earl of Arundel's charter to the inhabitants of Chirk and Chirkland, 1334; a fragment of a transcript of Brut y Brenhinedd; a letter by John Ley; directions concerning preachers by James I; the assize of arms and tables of precedence; medical recipes; and a fragment of an English play (published in Malone Soc. Collections, vol IX (1977) pp. 24-9) in which the sexton of St Denys Church is a character.
The first eight pages are fragmentary.
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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, English.
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The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part I (Aberystwyth, 1940-3), 10.
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Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Formerly Hengwrt MS 326.
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Preferred citation: Peniarth MS 403 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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- Welsh language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Princes -- Wales.
- Saints -- Genealogy
- Corn -- Accounting
- Straw -- Accounting
- Knights and knighthood -- England.
- Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- Traditional medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- Chirk (Wales) -- Charters, grants, privileges.
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- Chirkland (Wales : Lordship) -- Charters, grants, privileges (Subject)
- Arundel and Surrey, Richard Fitzalan, Earl of, ca. 1313-1376 (Subject)
- Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540 -- Translations into Welsh (Subject)
- Henry II, King of England, 1133-1189. (Subject)
- Owen, Richard, fl. 1552 (Subject)
- Ley, John, 1583-1662. (Subject)
- James I, King of England, 1566-1625 (Subject)