File NLW MS 3020D [RESTRICTED ACCESS] - Descriptio Angliae et Genealogiae Regum Angliae

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Reference code

NLW MS 3020D [RESTRICTED ACCESS]

Title

Descriptio Angliae et Genealogiae Regum Angliae

Date(s)

  • 1445-[16 cent.] (Creation)

Level of description

File

Extent and medium

68 ff. (foliated i-ii, iia, 1-65) ; 320 x 210 mm.

Context area

Name of creator

Name of creator

Archival history

Bookplate of Thomas Mostyn, 1744.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Two tracts - (a) a description of England, in fifteen chapters, compiled in 1445, beginning 'tractatus iste compendiose extractus de diversorum historiographorum diversis ... describit Angliam ... '; (b) a genealogical chronicle in the same hand projected from Adam to Brutus and from Brutus to Henry VI, but in execution brought only to Edward I, with a continuation in a sixteenth century hand to Henry VIII (1518). The pattern of this genealogical chronicle is that of the Promptuarium Bibliae attributed to Petrus Pictaviensis. The text begins 'Adam in agro damasceno ...' (cf. Thomas Jones, Y Bibyl Ynghymraeg (Cardiff, 1940), p. xiii) and has lines added for the Saxons, kings of Britain, princes of Wales, the different divisions of Saxon England, kings of England, princes of Demetia, princes of Venedotia, &c.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

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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

  • Latin

Script of material

Language and script notes

Latin.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, I (Aberystwyth, 1940), p. 261.

Allied materials area

Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

Digital version available http://hdl.handle.net/10107/6050734 (April 2023)

Available on microfilm at the Library.

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Note

Title based on contents.

Note

Formerly Mostyn MS 172.

Note

Preferred citation: NLW MS 3020D [RESTRICTED ACCESS].

Alternative identifier(s)

Virtua system control number

vtls004365712

GEAC system control number

(WlAbNL)0000365712

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Institution identifier

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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Status

Level of detail

Dates of creation revision deletion

Language(s)

  • English

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Physical storage

  • Text: NLW MS 3020D [RESTRICTED ACCESS]; $z - Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies..
  • Microform: $h - MEICRO NLW MS 3020D.