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- [mid-17cent., not before 1654]. (Creation)
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180 ff. (pp. 1-361, jumping from 76 to 78) ; 195 x 151 to 154 mm. Quarto. Formerly ‘sewn, with stout old leather covers’ [RMWL]. Rebound at NLW.
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On p. 1, ‘Rev. Lewis Owen of Waen fach Llanegryn’. Many headings have been added by a hand of [mid-18 cent.] (e.g. pp. 35, 41, 292); this does not appear to be the hand of David Ellis [died 1795; cf. RMWL], though Ellis in Cwrtmawr MS 12 did transcribe from this manuscript in 1794, when it belonged to Griffith Roberts. The hand of Griffith Roberts occurs on pp. 32 and 269. There is annotation by another hand of [18 cent.] in pencil on, e.g., pp. 82, 87, 301. Pages 324-59, loose papers of [19 cent.] now on guards, relate to Guto’r Glyn and the contents of the manuscript; they include letters to W.W.E. Wynne from Howel W. Lloyd.
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A collection of the work of Guto’r Glyn, followed on pp. 234-321 by other cywyddau of [15 cent.], all in the hand of Robert Vaughan, writing [mid-17cent., not before 1654]. The beginning of the manuscript was already wanting when it was paginated in [18 cent.]; its end is also wanting. Vaughan added a few variant readings (e.g. pp. 9-11). One watermark appears to be Heawood 3627 [not before 1654].
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Action: digitized. Authorization: Prosiect Guto'r Glyn Prosiect. Site of action: The National Library of Wales. Action agent: Digitisation Unit. Status: committed to preserve.
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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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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), 927-932.
Description based on Daniel Huws, A Repertory of Manuscripts and Scribes c.800-c.1800, vol. I (Aberystwyth, 2022), 400.
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Digital version available https://hdl.handle.net/10107/1439192 (March 2012)
Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Formerly Hengwrt MS 253.
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Preferred citation: Peniarth MS 152 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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October 2023.
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Description revised by Maredudd ap Huw.
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