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Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic inscriptions

A slate inscribed on one side with a man's lower body and legs, slightly overlapping a stag with antlers, together with some geometric lines and a few letters or part of a word.
The slate is one of five broken fragments of one original slab, along with SF 13-14, 23, 26; the man's head and torso are to be found on SF 23.

Mitre

A slate inscribed on one side with a drawing of a bishop's mitre; the inscription is unusually deeply incised.

Geometric inscriptions

A slate inscribed on one side with geometric lines in the shape of a grid, together with some rough and illegible letters, and on the reverse with a few rough marks.

Geometric inscriptions

A slate inscribed on one side with deeply incised lines forming part of a grid pattern. This slate and the fragment now SF 33 were formerly two parts of a single larger slate. A very similar grid pattern is also found on SF 31.

NLW Minor Deposits

  • GB 0210 MINDEPS
  • Fonds
  • [1400x1420]-1998

This is a numbered series currently (August 2006) reaching 1615. The deposits included in it are minor in the sense that they consist of single items, or small groups of documents or papers where the group has been treated as a single item. There is one medieval missal, a few literary manuscripts, a large number of registers and other records from chapels, and much else.

Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) manuscripts

Manuscripts, mostly in the hand of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), containing mainly transcripts of material of Welsh antiquarian, historical and literary interest, from sources which include royal genealogies, poetry, pedigrees, Brut y Tywysogion, Thomas Pennant, grammatical notes, etc.; also included are fifteenth-century tracts, seventeenth-century treatises, correspondence of Evan Evans, legal notebooks of Paul Panton, senior, and Paul Panton, junior, correspondence of Thomas Falconer (d. 1792), etc.

Evans, Evan, 1731-1788

The Merthyr Fragment

  • NLW MS 21972D [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
  • File
  • [15 cent., first ¼]

Three surviving folia of a lost manuscript in Middle English, written by a professional scribe during the first quarter of the fifteenth century, containing parts of the ‘Nun’s Priest’s Link' and 'Nun's Priest's Tale’ from Geoffrey Chaucer’s 'Canterbury Tales'. Textual contents: f. l recto, VII2784-2820 (B2, 3974-4010) and 'Here endeth the p(ro)loge and bygynneth the tale'; f. 1 verso, VII2822-2860 (B2, 4012-4050); f. 2 recto, VII3021-3058 (B2, 4211-4248); f. 2 verso, VII3060-3098 (B2, 4250-4288); f. 3 recto, VII3184-3222 (B2, 4374-4412); f. 3 verso, VII3223-3262 (B2, 4413-4452).
The folia were formerly tipped in at the back of a copy of Dr John Davies’s Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Dictionarium Duplex (1632). Linne R. Mooney has suggested that the Merthyr Fragment may be in the hand of Adam Pinkhurst; see Alexandra Gillespie and Daniel Wakelin (eds.), The Production of Books in England 1350-1500 (Cambridge, 2011), p. 199n.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400

Latin inscription

A slate inscribed on one side with the words 'Davyd Gwynn monachus', written in outline letters, with '... amen' beneath.

Latin epitaph

A slate inscribed on one side with the Latin epitaph 'hic iacet ffrater D[avi]d Gwyn', together with several lines and other markings, including a few possible letter shapes.

Anthropomorphic inscription

A slate inscribed on one side with the optical illusion of a human head in profile, showing a different head when inverted. There are also geometric patterns and lines.

The Hengwrt Chaucer old covers

Oak boards and their tanned leather covers, the boards possibly medieval in date, removed from the Hengwrt Chaucer (Peniarth MS 392) before the manuscript was rebound in 1956.

Panton Manuscripts

  • GB 0210 MSPANT
  • Fonds
  • [15 cent.]-[19 cent., first ½]

Manuscripts and papers formerly owned by Paul Panton of Plas Gwyn, Anglesey, mainly of Welsh antiquarian, historical and literary interest, including the manuscripts of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd); papers of Paul Panton, senior, and Paul Panton, junior; and manuscripts of, or relating to, antiquarian and literary figures such as William Williams, Beaumaris, Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, and Thomas Pennant.

Panton, Paul, 1727-1797, collector.

Miscellanies.

This is a composite volume containing: an index by William Maurice to the Laws of Hywel Dda; Adversaria Historico Britannica, extracts from a large manuscript of the Bruts by John Jones, apparently Peniarth MS 264, the books of Plasyward and other old manuscripts which are not named, from Brutus to the time of Ifor and Ynyr; a fifteenth century copy of an extent of the lordship of Chirkeslond made in the 15th year of Richard II (This extent is said to be of the lordship of Oswestry and appears as such in the catalogue in spite of the thickness of eight inches which is there given. It is here broken up into two parts by the insertion of a copy of a grant of customs, 2 April 1571, but it appears to be quite complete. The error of regarding it as a survey of Oswestry may have arisen from a note which appears at the end of the text recording its transfer by Dd Edmunds, receiver, to Thomas Edwards, surveyor, of the lordship of Oswestry); chronological extracts from Welsh chronicles; a copy with translation into English by William Maurice in 1672 of Gutto'r Glyn's cywydd to Sir Roger Kynaston, and copies of the following cywyddau: Tudur Aled to Sir Thomas Kynaston, Gutto'r Glyn to the Earl of Pembroke, and Sion Ceri to Humphrey Kynaston; William Maurice's letter on Brennus addressed to Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt; 'Cambropapismus Enervatus & Triumphatus per Tyronem quendam Succenturiatum Evangelicae Militise, Cambrobritanum, AD 1653' - criticisms by William Maurice of a work concerning the due time and place for worship which appears to have been written by Dr Griffiths and translated into Welsh by Ric: Jervis [These were presumably Dr George Griffith, rector of Llanymynech, the antagonist of Vavasor Powell, and bishop of St Asaph after the Restoration, and Richard Jervis, vicar of Llansilin, that is, William Maurice's own parish. It purports to be a draft of a work which he intended to publish, and has the following 'imprint':- 'Lansilin. Printed by Martin Mar=temple & Haly Mock=holydayes for Oliver Cancellor=criticus & Erasmus Altarmastix & are to be sould at their Anti=missall Shop at ye signe of the Holy Misselltoe in ye geniculation=Crosse=Street, over against ye Clero=druid's Consecrated Oake in Pater=noster=lane']; 'Tystiolaethau Tadau ac Athrawon iawn=grediawl hen a Newydd am Demlau a Dyddiau gwylion dan y Testament Newydd', an appendix or a sequel by William Maurice to the preceding work; copy of a chronicle in English from the Flood to Edward the Confessor; excerpts from Thomas Philpott's Villare Cantianum; notes on Speed's Chronicle; criticisms of Camden; the heraldic arms of a large number of Welsh families; and extracts from the New Testament arranged under the titles of Law and Gospel.

Laws of Hywel Dda.

The laws are preceded by a calendar in the same hand; the first folio contains accounts and astronomical memoranda, and the last folio contains poetry by Robin Ddu, Rhys Vardd and Taliesin, in a later hand. In addition to the laws are examples of pleadings taken from Carmarthenshire and proverbs. There are marginal notes by William Maurice of Llansilin and others.

Miscellaneous tracts

A manuscript containing scholastic tracts including disputations on Aristotle's 'De Anima' said to have been collected by Master Benedict and pronounced by the Master Regent of 'Fragfordie' [sic] in 1418; treatises on 'ars algoristica', physiology, and astronomy; 'liber de causis', probably the work of David Iudaeus [David ben Yom Tov]; 'comptus norembergensis'; and fragments of other texts, including a sheet containing verses beginning 'lumina lauas surgens gelida manus vnda' (cf. Schola Salerni).

Ben Yom Tov, David, active 14th century

Welsh inscription

A slate inscribed on one side with a single line of Welsh, reading 'ys vaw athannedd', and on the other with a Welsh inscription partly reading 'Amorth gor...' and '[?Genn]yf ...'. There are also various geometric patterns and other marks on both faces, including what appears to be part of a pattern of nested squares (c.f. SF 32).

Welsh inscription

A slate inscribed on one side in Welsh, reading 'annerch vab y keth … ddigon … ennyf' and lower down '...nnerth ogan', together with a profusion of the letter 'w'. This face has a reddish colour (dye or chalk, likely applied at NLW for previous exhibitions).
On the other face are a few lines and other markings, possibly including some letters.

English inscription

A slate inscribed on one side in English: '... wryttyn by dan Jho Hew...'; a good deal of further writing is present but is water-worn.

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