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Title
Date(s)
- [17 cent.] (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
ii, 239 ff. (paginated 1-237, 237a-b, 238-351, 351a-b, 352-373, 373a-b, 374-472) ; 195 x 140 mm.
Bound in white vellum; single and double black lines; page edges speckled red; 'HEN GRONICL' (in gold on label on spine).
Context area
Name of creator
Name of creator
Name of creator
Archival history
'Cors-y-gedol Library' ticket; the name 'William Roland' occurs in three places.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The Welsh texts of Dares Phrygius and of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written in a seventeenth-century hand.
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
Language of material
- Welsh
Script of material
Language and script notes
Welsh.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Badly affected by damp; initial leaves very brittle; ff. 1-64 damaged, especially at the bottom outer corners, with some loss of text.
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), p. 56.
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 Mostyn MS 115.
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 3034B [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Dares, Phrygius. (Subject)
- Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154. (Subject)
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Language(s)
- English