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- 1445-[16 cent.] (Creation)
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68 ff. (foliated i-ii, iia, 1-65) ; 320 x 210 mm.
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Bookplate of Thomas Mostyn, 1744.
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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.
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Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
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- Latin
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Latin.
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Finding aids
The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, I (Aberystwyth, 1940), p. 261.
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Digital version available http://hdl.handle.net/10107/6050734 (April 2023)
Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Formerly Mostyn MS 172.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 3020D [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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- English