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- [15 cent.]. (Creation)
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170 ff. (foliated ii ff. + 168 ff.) + 1 envelope : vellum ; 294 x 208 mm.
Wooden boards covered with velvet.
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Archival history
The manuscript was not part of the sale to Sir John Williams but was later bought by the Misses Davies of Gregynog and presented to NLW in 1921. For further details see Eiluned Rees, 'Bookbindings in the National Library of Wales 3', National Library of Wales Journal, 24.1 (Summer 1985), 147-8 (p. 148).
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Scope and content
The 'Disticha Catonis', with an English paraphrase in verse; the wars of Alexander - 'historia Alexandri magni regis Macedonie'; and an incomplete text of 'Historia sanctorum trium regum'. Illuminated.
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Conditions governing access
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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Latin, 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), 18.
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Digital version available: http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4393138 (viewed September 2018)
Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Formerly Ancient Peniarth MS 38.
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Preferred citation: Peniarth MS 481 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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- Cato, Dionysius (Subject)
- Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. (Subject)
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