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Grant in tail made by David Voille, rector of the Church of Penmayne, to Sir John Penrees, kt, and Margaret his wife, of the manor of Horeton, and the m’s, lands, etc., in the fees of Penrees. With remainder to the said John and his heirs; then to William Penrees, his brother, and his heirs; then to Morgan Penrees his brother, and his heirs; then to Isabella his sister, and her heirs; failing these, to the right heirs of the said John. [Latin]. Witnesses: Robert ap Thomas, steward of Gower; Robert Penrees, Richard Maunsell, John Boner, John de la Mare, John Cade. Dated at Oxynwych, 2nd Oct., 18 Rich. II [1394]. Round seal, red wax, 1 in. St. John the Baptist, with the Agnus Dei, in a canopied niche, with tabernacle work at the sides (25mm).
S’ IOHANNIS TASEMAN.

Grant by Sir John Penrees, kt, to David Voille, Rector of Penmayne, and John Boner of Cheriton, of the manor of Horeton, and all his m’s, lands, etc., in the fee of Penrees. [Latin]. Witnesses: Robert ap Thomas. steward of Gower; Robert Penrees, Richard Mauncell’, John de la Mare, John Boner. Dated at Oxynwich, 20th June, 17 Ric. II [1394]. Round seal, red wax (23mm). A shield of arms, per pale indented. Within a Gothic panel of eight points ornamented with ball - flowers along the inner edge. SIGILLU . IOH’IS. PENREYS. D’NI . DE. OXENWYCH’.

The Welsh texts of Dares Phrygius (ff. 1-23 verso), Brut y Brenhinedd (ff. 24-141 verso), and Brut y Tywysogion (ff. 142-206 verso), written in a hand of the second half of the fourteenth century.

Book of Hours, mainly of Sarum use, with calendar. The volume has associations with the Caernarfon district.

Medieval medical texts, written in Italy in the fourteenth century: Nicolaus [Salernitanus], Antidotarium (ff. 1-21 verso); [Johannes de Parma], Collectiones omnibus capitulorum libri Mesue (ff. 22-25); Compilatio flebotomie de qualibet vena (ff. 25-26); recipes, 'Cassia fistulatum...' (ff. 26-27); recipes in two later hands of XIV or XV cent. (ff. 27-37).
Folios 1 and 2, 6 and 7, 18 and 19 are palimpsests. The lower script, partly legible under ultra-violet light, is from a book of transacts of a notary, Albericus [?], 'notarius sacri palatii', written not much earlier than the medical texts; there is reference in one document (f. 12) to 'villa de quart' [?Quart, near Aosta].

1. Mad' ap Dd. Ap Hoell rhingyll of the commote of Talleybolyon;
2. Hoell ap Hoell ap Ieuan.
   Receipt for 10s. relief and gobr of Will'm ap Hoell ap Ieuan free tenant of the King of the township of Caerdekoc and 20s. relief and gobr of Malt verch Will'm. ap Hoell ap Ieuan.

A gathering of a manuscript of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, comprising the prologue and the text of the end of Book IV, chapter VII. The verso and recto of f. 3 are blank, but there is no lacuna in the text, so that the scribe must have turned over two leaves. The writing suggests the end of the 14th century as the date of the transcription, and a note at the beginning shows that the manuscript belonged to Reginald de Wolstone, a canon of Hereford. This Reginald died about 1411. The paper provides some excellent examples of the bunch of grapes watermark which is sometimes dated as late as 1450, or even later.

1. Gwenllian verch Iddon ap Dd., free tenant of the Bishop of Bangor of the township of Cornwylann in the commote of Talebolion;
2. Mered' ap Dd. Ap Ior' free tenant of the same.
   Mortgage of Tythdyn Wenllian Goch, Tythdyn Gwilmot, Tythdyn yvwth, part of Tythdyn gwyn voel and Erw Hoel in the Township of Cowrnwylan aforesaid.

1. Gron' ap y Bongam, free tenant of the township of Maynolbadric, commote of Talb.;
2. Howell ap Dd. Ap Eign.
   Mortgage of lands in the hamlet of Clegyroc.

1. Hoell ap Tud' ap Ieuan, ringild of the commote of Turkelyn;
2. Mevane vergh Hoell ap Ior' duy.
   Receipt for 20s. being the relief and gobr of Gwne' vergh Hoell ap [...] duy ap Trah' [...] who died without heirs of her body.

1. Gruff', Eign', Ieuan, Weirvill and Lleu', sons and daughters of Gron' ap Ph' ap Eign', tenants of St. Hilary of the township of Llanelien;
2. Thomas Godfray.
   Mortgage for four years of the lands and tenements which came to the said Gron' from Nest vergh Ior' ap Mad', formerly the wife of Ph' ap Meil' duy, in the said township in the hamlet of Barrech. Witnesses: Mered' ap Ken' ap Mered'; Deikus ap Ken' ap Mered; Hoell ap Tudur ap Ieuan; Hoell ap David loytwyn; Hoell ap y penloyt.

The set of historical texts: Ystoria Dared (ff. 1-17, cols 1-66); Brut y Brenhinedd (ff. 17 verso-89, cols 67-441) and Brut y Tywysogion (ff. 89 verso-143, cols 443-665); followed by Brut y Saeson (ff. 143-145 verso, cols 665-76), breaking off abruptly in the year 979. All are very close to the corresponding texts in the Red Book of Hergest [see Brut y Tywysogyon: Red Book of Hergest Version, ed. and trans. Thomas Jones (Cardiff, 1955), pp. xxviii-xxix, and Studia Celtica, 12/13 (1977/78), 176]. All are written in two columns by the Red Book scribe, X91, with 2- and 3-line initials in red. Lacunae due to the loss of leaves 1 and 10 in quire 5, the whole of original quire 9, leaves 5 and 6 of quire 17, and the final quire. On the erratic foliation, see below; J. Gwenogvryn Evans numbered the columns allowing, however, in his numeration for the columns that would have been in lacunae. The text of the original f. 1 made good by a hand of [16-17 cent.] on a supplied leaf (f. 1). Headings in textura by a hand of [15 cent.] (e.g. ff. 59 verso, 87); annotation and textual correction by several hands of [15 cent.] and [16 cent.] (e.g. ff. 41 recto-verso and 93, ff. 79 and 82, ff. 94 verso and 114 verso, f. 56, f. 123 verso, ff. 127 verso and 135 verso). Rebound in [16-17 cent.]; at this rebinding quires were signed I-XVII, skipping a number somewhere between VII and XI (= quire 10).

1. Gruff' ap Mallt verch Wenll' verch [...] ap Kwnna, Cd. ap Mallt, Gwehwyfar verch Ethware verch Cd. ap Kwnna, Lleucy verch Ethware verch Cd. ap Kwnna, free tenants of the Bishop of Bangor of the township of Cornwylan;
   2 [...] Ap Gron.
   Grant of land in the hamlets of Kl ... ckamo (Partly illegible).

1. Ll' ap Ieuan ap Ior' free man of the townships of Boduaeo Dwgyvylchi and Bryn govvchaf in the counties of Caernarvon and Anglesey;
2. Gruff' ap Mad' ap Ieuan.
   Mortgage of lands.

1. John Williams;
2. David ap Ken' at Gron'.
   Power of attorney to deliver seisin of lands which he purchased of Madoc ap Ll. Vaughan in the commote of Lliwan, to Richard de Wodde, burgess of Bevmarres.

A volume containing a copy, written in a late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century hand, of the Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden to 1342 (ff. 1-307).
The text is written by one hand, except for notes on f. 1 verso, in anglicana, with variation in degree of currency and in ink; headings in fere-textura. There has been overwriting of the text in places, where letters were indistinct, notably on ff. 1-20. Correction of the text, despite first appearances, is all probably by the scribe, writing compactly (e.g. on ff. 52 and 62), as also is the inserted leaf containing omitted text (f. 279). There are six- to nine-line parti-coloured red/blue initials for the beginnings of chapters, infilled with good red and purple pen-work which includes beasts and foliage, with red/blue nerfs and flourished borders (f. 210 is a page where the pen-work was not completed); there are three-line blue initials for the index and two-line for chapters, all with red pen-work. The rubricator has mistaken many initials, including three of those which should form Higden's acrostic. On f. 52 are diagrams of Noah's ark. Headings, underlining, dates in the margin, paragraph marks and touching of initials in the text are all in red. An index to the Polychronicon is on ff. iii-xii.