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A volume containing memoranda, 1627-1639, in the hand of Lewis Anwyl of Parc, Merionethshire, and Cemais, Montgomeryshire, with additions, 1648-1656, in the hands of his daughter Catherine Owen (née Anwyl) (f. 12) and her husband William Owen of Brogyntyn, Shropshire, and Clenennau, Caernarvonshire (ff. 11 verso-12, 13), recording family births, marriages and deaths, and other events, and including an account by Lewis Anwyl of the death, 14 May 1637, of his first wife Frances, daughter of Sir William Jones, Castellmarch, Caernarvonshire, with a description of her virtues (ff. 7-11).
Notes in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne of Peniarth, identifying the writers of the additional memoranda, occur in pencil on ff. 11 verso-12, 13; a note in ink by him questioning the age given on f. 158 verso of Edward Herbert, Cemais, is tipped in as f. 159a. A transcript of the manuscript was published by Wynne in 'The Anwill Manuscript', Montgomeryshire Collections, 9 (1876), 357-364.

A volume containing mainly pedigrees of North and South Wales families written by two principal scribes of the circle of George Owen of Henllys, Pembrokeshire.
(a) Pages 1, 7-209, 223-232, 239-256 and possibly 372-373 are written by a scribe who, although experienced in penning a good secretary hand and in executing ornate headings, is often inaccurate in his transcription of Welsh personal and place-names; he also wrote the line 'Owain ap Gruffith /i/ gelwid Gwinn ap Gr: yn jawn' on p. 41, in italic (examples of the same italic hand are found in the margins of pp. 19, 66, 113, 355, 356, 361 and elsewhere). This section comprises a collection of pedigrees mostly of North Wales families, including 'Bonedd y Saint' (pp. 84-90); the prose text 'Pedwar Marchog ar Higen oedd yn llys Arthur' (end wanting) (pp. 37-38); the dates of battles in the 'Wars of the Roses' (pp. 31, 208); five englynion, including one by Richard Davies, bishop of St Davids (p. 1), and other englynion dispersed among the pedigrees (pp. 57, 78, 92, 114-115, 170), together with the series of forty englynion entitled 'Campod Manuwel' (pp. 223-232); and the prose piece 'Disgrifiad Arfau', a Welsh translation of the heraldic treatise 'Tractatus de Armis', attributed to John Trevor, bishop of St Asaph (pp. 239-256). The ultimate source of this section is the collection of pedigrees and other texts written, [c. 1510], by 'Syr' Tomas ab Ieuan ap Deicws in Peniarth MS 127 (see p. 53); however, internal evidence suggests that the scribe was copying from the transcript of Peniarth MS 127 in NLW MS 17112D rather than directly from the original (see p. 104, where he begins copying the note 'Darfu examinatio y llyfrev newydd hyd yma' which occurs on f. 66 verso of NLW MS 17112D, before he realized his mistake). Both Brogyntyn MS I.15 and NLW MS 17112D preserve the original order of the text of Peniarth MS 127, which has been subsequently disarranged in binding. (b) Pages 211-212, 269-371, 374-411 are written by another experienced scribe whose display script is almost indistinguishable from that of the first scribe. These pages contain pedigrees mostly of South Wales families and include two copies of 'Llyma enway Kwnkwerwyr y rhai a vyant yngwlad Vorgannwg ay harfay' (pp. 280, 361-362), a third containing merely a short list of the conquerors' names (p. 310), and two copies of 'Llyma achoed Saint ynys Brydain' [= 'Bonedd y Saint'] (pp. 363-365, 385-386). The text on pp. 211-212, as indicated by a note in the hand of George Owen of Henllys at the head of p. 211, was copied in 1596 from the manuscript of 'Hyw Lewis Sr morgan' of Hafodwen, Carmarthenshire, which 'D'd ap Ienkin m'edd o Vachynlleth' wrote in 1586; the original is now NLW MS 3055D (Mostyn MS 159), pp. 232-233. The text on pp. 271-343 is partly derived from a manuscript written in 1513 by the Carmarthenshire poet and genealogist Ieuan Brechfa for 'Mastr John ap Henry ap Rees', with some of the pedigrees brought down to the second half of the sixteenth century; Ieuan Brechfa's manuscript does not seem to have survived; it is not Peniarth MS 131, pp. 199-308, which is thought to be in his hand. The source of pp. 345-411 is unknown, although the text on pp. 347-365 follows very closely that in Peniarth MS 143, pp. [?1-3], 4, 47-48, 7-19, 33-46, 49-52, written by the same mid-sixteenth century scribe who wrote many of the religious texts in Cardiff Central Library Havod MS 22. A leaf containing a prophecy in English verse, written in a late-sixteenth century hand, has been tipped in after the main text (pp. 413-414).

A volume containing a transcript of a sermon preached on 5 November 1712 by the Rev. John Price, vicar of Wrexham from 1687 until 1716, when he was ejected as a non-juror and anti-Hanoverian following riots in the town in 1715 (see Alumni Oxoniensis and Alfred Neobard Palmer, The History of the Parish Church of Wrexham (Wrexham, [1886]), pp. 66-67).

Manuscripts, mostly in English or Latin, deposited at the National Library of Wales in 1938.

A composite volume in two sections, the first, [15 cent., first ¼ (after 1401)] (ff. 1-18), containing the Anglo-Norman treatise on Seneschaucy (ff. 4-7), Walter of Henley's treatise on husbandry in Anglo-Norman (ff. 7-10), and various legal texts (ff. 1-4, 10-18 verso); the second, [14 cent, first ½], a defective copy of an unidentified Latin text on vaticination (ff. 19-24). The two sections were probably not bound together until after 1837.
Section i is written by a single hand, in anglicana, in uniform script in pale ink, apart from f. 18 verso, which was evidently filled later by the same hand. Section ii is written in anglicana by a single hand of the first half of the fourteenth century, in brown ink. There is no rubrication. The scribe exaggerates ascenders in top lines and decorates them with profile heads. There are six stabmarks in the inner margin.

A Bible, written in France, [13 cent., first ¼]. Texts: 'Hic incipit epistola beati Ieromini ...' [Friedrich Stegmüller, Repertorium biblicum medii aevi (Madrid, 1950-80) 284] (ff.1-2); Stegmüller 284 repeated (ff. 3-4); and The Bible (ff. 5-352). The OT, compared with the order established about 1230 in Parisian Bibles (see for instance N. R. Ker and A. J. Piper, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries (Oxford, 1969- ), I, 96-97) lacks the Prayer of Manasses and 2 Ezra. The unusual NT order is: Gospels, Acts, Catholic Epistles, Pauline Epistles and Apocalypse. For the OT, prologues are lacking for 2 Chronicles, Ecclesiastes and Wisdom (the Paris prologues for the latter two are added by another hand in the margin), that for Tobit is Stegmüller 349, while the series for the Minor Prophets, Amos to Machabees, is Stegmüller 512, 516, 522, 525, 527, 529, 532, 535, 540, 544 and 551. The only prologues in the NT are, for the Gospels, Stegmüller 590, 607, 615 and 624, for Acts 640; for the Catholic Epistles (James) Jacobus ecclesie ierosolimitane post apostolos curam et regnum suscepit ... uel inuisibiliter percutiat; and for the Epistle to the Romans, Stegmüller 662. The hand which added the prologues in the margin of the OT also added in the margin the standard prologues for the Pauline Epistles up to Philippians.
The text was corrected throughout, before decoration (see f. 104); it was annotated and further corrected by several thirteenth-century hands. Some of the larger omissions, neatly made good in the margin by the scribe, have their text otiosely repeated, in circles, by a contemporary hand. Between 2 Chronicles and Esther, chapter divisions were revised by one of the correcting hands, in conformity with the Paris Bible, most notably in Esther, where nine chapters become sixteen. The text is lightly glossed throughout, by pen and plummet, by the same thirteenth-century hands. Cited by glosses, apart from the Fathers, are Bede (ff. 281 verso, 323), Raban (f. 270), Hugh of St Victor (ff. 5, 245 verso, 258, 323 verso), Richard of St Victor (f. 160) and 'Ray[mund]' (f. 166).

The Explanatio in Psalmos attributed to Haimo of Halberstadt (ff. 1-68 verso), here imperfect by the loss of a quire at the beginning: ']ipse semper est rex iudeorum ... et corpore spirituali et subtili'. The text, corresponding to Migne, Patrologia Latina cxvi, cols. 237-693, begins in the commentary on Psalm 15 and, unaccountably, breaks off at the foot of the first column of f. 68 verso, where the remaining column would have sufficed to complete the commentary on Psalm 150. Written in England, the manner of writing in omissions and the 'dragon initials', but not the script, are suggestive of Canterbury or Rochester.
Written by one good hand. Punctuation by point and punctus elevatus; hyphens. Ink brown. Omissions are regularly made good by writing in small in the margin with a signe-de-renvoi, sometimes by the scribe, sometimes by another hand, sometimes, otiosely, by both (cf. N. R. Ker, English Manuscripts in the Century after the Norman Conquest (Oxford, 1960), p. 50). Nota marks are by the scribe. Spaces for tituli, at least up to f. 45, were originally left blank, perhaps to be filled in in red; they were later filled in in ink, by the scribe, in capitals. Between ff. 21 verso and 45, tituli, written small, now partly cropped, appear in the outer margin.

A lawyer's cause book containing memoranda, in Latin and English, relating to pleas heard, 1626-1636, in various courts, most notably Chancery, Star Chamber and the Exchequer, mainly originating in Monmouthshire, Herefordshire, London, Glamorgan and Breconshire, with a few from Shropshire, Bristol, Gloucester and Carmarthen, most of the parties' names being Welsh.

A Latin treatise on universal philosophy, [c. 1590], attributed to R. D. Arrowsmith (f. 1), whose identity has not been further established: 'Tractatus In vniuersam Philosophiam prolectore R. D. Arosmitheo Incipiunt Prolegomina in eadem die mensis Januar[ii] 29' ('1590' added by another hand). First line, 'Philosophiæ: nomine præstantissima rerum omnium cognomine ...'; last line, '... mensurari tempore eas tamen operationes anime separatæ mensurari pronunc temporis discreti' (ff. 1-357 verso).
Marginal glosses have been added by the scribe and another hand of similar date, including the following: 'men are false and so are you/neuer nature fram[']d a creature/to enjoy and then proue true', [17 cent., first ½] (f. 137).

An untitled and apparently unpublished English treatise on predestination by an anonymous author, discussing the views of various theologians of the late sixteenth and early seventeeth centuries: 'The principall End of the labour which brought this worke was by was by [sic] the helpe of God ... the spiryt of Ch[rist] to whom all these Euils do betide of despayre and securely go to bee spurned' (ff. 1-69).
Written by two hands, a main one (ff. 1-56 verso, 62-69 verso) and a second (ff. 56 verso-60, last line of f. 69 verso).

A volume of sermons written in a cramped italic hand of the early seventeenth century on the following texts: 'O Lord we come nigh vnto thee wth our lipps let not o let not our harts be farre from thee' (ff. 1-2 verso); I Timothy iii. 9, 'Holding ye mystery of ye faith in a pure conscience' (ff. 5-12 verso); I Timothy iii. 9 (ff. 13-22 verso); Acts vii. 6, 'And when he dead sayd this, he fell asleepe' (ff. 23-29 verso); Luke xxii. 37, 'Woman I know him not' (ff. 38-44 verso); 'A notable lesson for those proud & peremptory enthusiastes of our dayes ...' (f. 45); Luke i. 46-7, 'My soule doth magnifie ye Lord' (ff. 47-55 verso); 'On[e] good turne calles for another' (ff. 56-61); John xii. 27, 'Ye holy child seemes to be in a quandary' (ff. 61 verso-64 verso); Acts xix. 38, 'The law is open & there are deputies' (ff. 65-71 verso); Acts xix. 38, 'The law is open & there are deputies let them implead on an other' (ff. 72-78 verso); and Romans ii. 23, 'For Circumcision verily profiteth if thou keepe ye law' (ff. 80-85 verso).
On f. iii verso is a list in the same hand of the following royal and other eminent patrons of learning: Henry VII and Elizabeth his wife, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Queen Mary I, Queen Elizabeth I, James I, Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond, Sir Thomas Bodley, William Camden, Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, Cardinal John Kemp, archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Nicholas Kemp, Thomas Kemp, bishop of London, Richard Lichfield, archdeacon of Middlesex, Sir Henry Savile, Sir William Sidney, Walter Stapleton, Dr White and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, archbishop of York.

A volume of meditations and prayers written in a mid-eighteenth century hand, comprising the following: A Meditation for Sonday, 'I was glad when they said into [sic] me let us go into ye house of the Lord' (pp. 1-11); A Generall thanksgiving for Sonday, 'Worthy art thou O Ld of heaven & earth, to receive, glory & honour, & power' (pp. 11-19); Sonday Meditation before Chur[ch], 'O come let us Sing unto ye Ld let us hearttily rejoyce in ye strength of our salvation' (pp. 20-30); A short prayer for Morning, 'Almighty God heavenly father behold me O Ld prostrate before thee' (pp. 31-36 verso); Examination at Night, 'Now my Soul ye day is gone' (pp. 37-46 verso); and A Meditation for Monday, 'Since by allmighty providence I have another day added to my life' (pp. 47-54 verso).

A volume of prayers and devotions, written in 1708, arranged in two parts with indexes to each part on ff. 1-2 and f. 37 respectively.
The first part, which lacks a title page owing to the excision of a leaf between ff. i and 1, relates to religious duties and comprises an analysis of each topic with a table of Biblical texts and proofs on facing pages (ff. 1-35); the second part comprises a series of devotions and prayers entitled 'Devotions for Morning and Evening together with severall other prayers upon particular Occasions' (ff. 36-71 verso).

A printed copy of Marcus Vigerius, Decachordum Christianum ... Controuersiaque [d]e instrumentis dominice Passionis (Paris, 1517), printed by Josse Badius Ascensius in two parts, with the printer's woodcut device on title page of both sections, decorated initials throughout and illustrative woodcuts on ff. ii verso, xxxviii, lxxi verso, lxxxii verso, cvi, cxxvii, cxxxvii verso, cccv, cccxiii verso and cccxxiv of first part (for full description see Ph. Renouard, Bibliographie des Impressions et des Oeuvres de Josse Badius Ascensius (Paris, 1908), iii, 352-353, and Brigitte Moreau, Inventaire des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle, tome ii, 1511-20 (Paris, 1977), p. 455, no. 1725).
Numerous marginal notes in Latin, mostly textual glosses, have been added by an unidentified hand of the sixteenth century. The preserved pastedowns (f. 4, f. xxxiv at end) are parchment leaves from a treatise on canon law in Latin, [14 cent., first ½] (two columns, written space 125 x 95 mm.).

Letters and papers of Margaret Owen of Penrhos, parish of Llandrinio, Montgomeryshire, granddaughter of Sir Robert Owen of Clenennau and Brogyntyn (ff. 1-17), together with an autograph draft, 1836, by John Ralph Ormsby-Gore, of his poem 'The Knights of St John of Jerusalem' (published in 1838) (ff. 22-42).
The correspondence includes letters from Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale (later Piozzi), [1778]-1805 (ff. 2-3, 8-13), Dr Samuel Johnson, 8 March 1781 (ff. 4-5), and Fanny Burney, 11 November 1785 (ff. 6-7). A few items have been boxed seperately on account of their format (see Brogyntyn MS II.38ii).

A volume, [1760s]-[1770s], compiled by various hands, containing verse and prose, mainly relating to theatrical performances and to contemporary events and personalities.
Also included are a few records relating to the 57th Regiment of Foot (ff. 10, 43, 75, 88 verso-89 verso, 90 verso-91 verso, 92 verso and inside the back cover). Some of the items are numbered, and are indexed on f. 1 recto-verso.

A volume entitled 'Observations relative to the Character of King Charles Ist By Mr. Wm. Lily (the celebrated Astrologer)', comprising two short extracts copied, [mid-18 cent.], from 'Several observations upon the life and death of Charles late king of England', by William Lilly, which was published as an appendix to Mr. Lilly's History of his Life and Times: Written by Himself (London, 1715); with a brief account of the author (ff. 5 verso-6 verso).

A pedigree chronicle of biblical and British history from Adam to Edward IV, written not before 1461 and probably not after 1466 (none of Edward IV's children are shown), evidently in the same London or Westminster workshop as that postulated by Albinia de la Mare, Catalogue of the Collection of Medieval Manuscripts Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, by James P. R. Lyell (Oxford, 1971), p. 82, as the place of production of a number of closely related pedigree-chronicles in roll or roll-codex form, some in Latin and some in English. The hand looks the same as that of Lyell MS 33 (see ibid., plate VI), while the layout, decoration and miniature of the Fall are very similar. Near the miniature of the Fall is a note in English, [17 cent.].
The preface and biblical history derive from the Compendium Historiæ in Genealogia Christi (otherwise known as the Promptuarium Bibliæ) of Peter of Poitiers; see H. Vollmer, Deutsche Bibelauszüge des Mittelalters sum Stammbaum Christi mit ihren lateinischen Vorbildern und Vorlagen (Potsdam, 1931) and Thomas Jones, Y Bibyl Ynghymraec (Cardiff, 1940), where thirty-three manuscripts are listed on pp. xvii-xx. The text as a whole belongs to category B identified by de la Mare, op. cit., p. 83, a group of manuscripts compiled in the reign of Edward IV with which ours has features other than the text in common. For the work of a closely related illuminator see R. M. Thomson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College Oxford (Cambridge, 2011), p. 101.

Two copies, [early 18 cent.], of a letter addressed to 'Cousin Owen' [?Sir Robert Owen] and signed 'Row: Owen', offering the recipient comfort and advice on the death of his infant son. MS II.54(f) i, written in a neat italic hand, is probably the prototype of MS II.54(f) ii, a bound presentation copy written in a calligraphical italic hand. A comparison of the two copies shows that a number of words have been carelessly omitted throughout the text of MS II.54(f) ii; and a Latin verse which follows the letter in MS II.54(f) i has also been omitted. There are also some orthographical differences between the texts.

Printed items, 1635-1684, including two prospectuses, in the form of conjoint pairs of leaves, announcing disputations, for the degrees of doctor of medicine and doctor of theology respectively, at the University of Franeker, Holland, the one: ΣΥΝΦΕΩ dispvtatio medica inavgvralis, de suppressione mensium ... ex authoritate ... Henrici Rhala, J. U. Doct. & in illustri academia, quӕ est Franekerӕ, historiarum & eloquentiӕ professoris, ac p.t. rectoris magnifici, ... tueri conabitur Johannes Sadler, Anglus ... (Franekerӕ: Uldericus Balck, 1635) (ff. 1-2 verso), and the other: Ideӕ theologiӕ disputatio xxxl de redemtorum vocatione per sacramentorum exhibitionem in genere ... sub prӕsidio ... Johannis Clutonis, S.S. theologiӕ doctoris, defendendam suscipiet Hansonius Huss, Leov. Fris. (Franekerӕ: Vldericus Balck, 1635) (ff. 5-6 verso), each containing a Latin poem to the respective candidates, John Sadler and Hans Huss, by Lambrock Thomas (Cambro-Britanni, d. 1672), later dean of Chichester.
Also included are a small portion cut from the title page of another copy of the first prospectus together with another copy of the Latin poem to Sadler (ff. 3-4 verso); and a leaf containing a poem to a rhinoceros beginning 'This noble She Rhinoceros' headed by an engraving of the animal with the caption 'The prodigious & wonderfull Rhinoceros sold for 2320£ Sterling 1684' (f. 7).