Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [17 cent.] (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
90 ff. ; 185 x 145 mm.
Repaired and re-bound at NLW (old vellum covers preserved at end of volume).
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
'Robert Williams His Book = 1730' (f. 43 verso); 'Mary Evans her Hand' (ff. 45, 68 verso)
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A seventeenth-century manuscript in several hands, containing englynion, cywyddau, carolau, dyriau and other poems in free metre in Welsh and English. The following are some of the poets represented: Tudur Aled, Sion Tuder, Gytto'r Glyn, John Brwynog, Thomas Powel, Robert ap Hugh Delyniawr, Rowland Vaughan, Hugh and John Kenricke, Syr Hugh David o Sir Henford, Syr Hugh Roberts, Robin Ddu and Ficker Llan ddyfri. Among the poems in free are 'Ymddiddanen rhwng Mr. John Gruffyth a Richard Boulkley' (ff. 45-46 verso), a second poem on a similar theme (ff. 19 verso-20), published as 'Ymddiddan rhwng Mr. John Griffith, Llanddyfnan, a'i ewythr Mr. Bwlclai, yn 1647' in Hen Gerddi Gwleidyddol 1588-1660, Cymdeithas Llen Cymru 2 (Cardiff, 1901), pp. 16-18; and a copy of 'Karol y wraig o ganan' (ff. 80-81 verso) which differs slightly from that published in Casgliad o Hanes-Gerddi Cymraeg, Cymdeithas Llen Cymru 4 (Cardiff, 1903), pp. 11-15.
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
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
- Latin
- Welsh
Script of material
Language and script notes
Welsh, English, Latin.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Several leaves mutilated; the poem at the end is incomplete.
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available on microfilm at the Library.
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
No. 5 in NLW, Schedule of Sotheby Collection (1931)
Note
Preferred citation: Sotheby MS A1.
Note
Previously A.1.
Note
Title based on contents.