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- [1570 x 1579] (Creation)
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71 ff. (ff. i-v + pp. 1-132). Folios i-v are modern fly-leaves ; 173 x 137 mm. ‘Bound in leather’ [RMWL]; rebound at NLW.
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Owned by Thomas Evans (‘llyfr Thomas ap Ivan o Hendreforfydd’, p. 5), who made additions on pp. 1, 3 (‘Henwau prydyddion y klymiad kynta ar gerdd’), 61 (his own pedigree), 112 (an englyn dated 1624) and 132. In 1717, when copied for Moses Williams in Llanstephan MS 114, the manuscript was owned by Richard Mostyn of Penbedw. Laid down on f. iv is the book-plate of Watkin Williams of Penbedw [died 1808] with added inscription ‘Peniarth ms No. 32’ initialled by W.W.E. Wynne; also a note ‘H M Cotton the gift of William Wynne Esq’ [father of W.W.E. Wynne] and another ‘Returned to me by Miss Cotton’s executor in 1815 after her death’.
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Bardic grammar, beginning ‘Llyma ddosbarth Edern dafod aur’ (pp. 5-131). On its texts, very close to those of Wiliam Cynwal in Cardiff MS 1.16, see Gramadegau’r Penceirddiaid, eds G.J. Williams and E.J. Jones (Caerdydd, 1934), p. liii and pp. 183-4. All in the formal secretary hand of David Powel with display in fere-textura; a few notes (e.g. pp. 52, 92, 107) are in his characteristic italic.
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Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
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Welsh.
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Finding aids
A detailed list of the manuscript's contents may be found in J. Gwenogvryn Evans, Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language, vol. I (London, 1898-1905), 942.
Description based on Daniel Huws, A Repertory of Manuscripts and Scribes c.800-c.1800 (Aberystwyth, 2022), I, 402.
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Digital version available https://hdl.handle.net/10107/6105971 (November 2023)
Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Formerly Ancient Peniarth MS 32.
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Preferred citation: Peniarth MS 157 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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October 2023.
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Description revised by Maredudd ap Huw.
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