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- [15 cent.] [with later hands of unspecified date]. (Creation)
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40 ff. (foliated v ff. + 31 ff. (folios 1-28 also paginated 1-54 pp.) + 4 blank ff.) : vellum ; 286 x 191 to 292 x 200 mm. Rebound at NLW.
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The following note occurs in the manuscript: 'This fragment of an Old English MS was given me William Morris of Holyhead by Mr Edward Jones of Caernarvon about the year of our lord 1737'.
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A copy of the translation by Chaucer of the 'De Consolatione Philosophie of Boethius'; two letters from F. J. Furnivall; and a printed copy of Chaucer's 'Boethius'.
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Item: 2.1. Action: Digitized. Action identifier: Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI). Date: 20140811. Site of action: NLW. Authorization: NLW. Authorizing institution: Bill Endres of the University of Kentucky. Extent: ff. 1, 6, 8, 17v, 24. Type of unit: Folios.
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Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
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Middle 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), 9.
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Digital version available http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4398051 (viewed September 2018)
Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Formerly Hengwrt MS 328.
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Preferred citation: Peniarth MS 393 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 (Subject)
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus, ca. 480-524. De consolatione philosophiae -- Translations into English (Subject)
- Furnival, F. J. (Subject)
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 (Subject)
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