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Barddoniaeth Lewys Dwnn, &c.,

An autograph volume of the poems of Lewys Dwnn entitled 'Llyfr Cowyddav ag odlav ag ag [sic] englynion o waith Lewys Dwnn brydydd o ssir drevaldwyn a debyd herocht att arms dios holl gymrv dann glarenssis a noroy day o frenhinioedd yr arfav sowthward a northward . . . ', with one poem by Simwnt Fychan, etc.

Dwnn, Lewys, approximately 1550-approximately 1616

Llyfr achau Simwnt Fychan

All in the hand of Simwnt Fychan apart from a few additions of 17 cent. (ff. 164-166, 172 recto-verso). Selective list of contents: Achau'r Mortimeriaid (f. 1); Plant Brychan Brycheiniawc (f. 4); Gwehelyth Deheubarth (f. 9); Enwau pymthegllwyth a pha leoedd ydd oeddynt (f. 18 verso); Plant yr Arglwydd Rhys (f. 20); Achau'r saint (f. 26); Ach Harri VII (f. 28 verso); [Dosbarth arfau] 'Megys y darparwyd yn yr oes gyntaf...' with painted arms (f. 85); Armorial, painted arms (f. 115 verso); Ach Mary, ferch Ed. Lloyd, Blaenial, a briododd Owen Thelwall, Plas-y-ward, [added 1650] (f. 164); 'Mewn hen llyfr o gyfraith Howel Dda...' [an extract from the lost 'Llanforda MS'] (f. 234 verso); 'Oed Krist pan vu varw Rogr ap John ... .1479', an obit list [occurs in other MSS]. Obit of Sim. Thelwall added, 1586 (f. 311); Plant yr Arglwydd Rhys (f. 339). The pedigree on f. 293 recto-verso is dated 1567. Notes from many sources.

Simwnt Fychan, approximately 1530-1606

Llyfr Mawr Gruffudd Hiraethog,

An informal collection of pedigrees in both narrative and tabular form in the variable hand of Gruffudd Hiraethog. Compiled between 1550 (pp. 216, 303) and 1558 (pp. 151, 379, 447, 453) with later additions. Apart from pp. 405-19, the pedigrees are almost all north Welsh. On p. 2, in the hand of Robert Vaughan, ‘Y llyvr mawr y mae Gr Hiraethog yn galw hwnn’ [of which Peniarth MS 133 also formed a part, see P.C. Bartrum, ‘Notes on the Welsh genealogical manuscripts’, Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1976, 106]. For Gruffudd’s named sources, see P.C. Bartrum, ‘Genealogical sources quoted by Gruffudd Hiraethog’, National Library of Wales Journal, 26 (1989-90), 1-9.
On pp. 99-106 and 305-8 are short Welsh armorials in blazon in Welsh, the former, of south Wales bias, drawn in part from ‘llyfr Lewys y Glyn’ [Lewys Glyn Cothi] (pp. 100, 107). On pp. 3-38 is an index in the hand of Wiliam Llŷn, whose foliation 1-248, with irregularities, is on pp. 41-463. Traces of several disrupted earlier foliations survive. Collaborating hands are Simwnt Fychan (pp. 45-6, 49-53, 79, 91, 393-5, and on p. 382 an autograph englyn, and on p. 426 his signature and a calligraphic alphabet), Huws’ X179 (pp. 157-66, 169-70, 171, 327) and Richard Longford (p. 345). There appear to be five collaborating hands, some of them resembling that of Gruffudd Hiraethog: A (fols 107-15); B (p. 167); C (pp. 381-2, once a folded sheet, containing annals and englynion); D (pp. 383-91 and 429-30, the latter leaf is displaced, containing text which came, as Robert Vaughan notes on p. 383, ‘allan or llyfr gwyn o Hergest’ [printed in National Library of Wales Journal, 17 (1971-2), 238-48]); E (pp. 457-62). E, under the heading ‘Swyddinbych Kwmwd Issaled’, transcribes the pedigree of ‘Mayster Robert ap Res ap Meredyth’ [died 1534, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, s.n. Ellis Price], citing ‘iache … o waith Tudyr [A]led a Robertt Iachwr [Robert ab Ieuan ap Hywel]’; the damaged colophon on p. 462 (probably copied with the text) names the scribe ‘[ ... ]s ap Robert ysgolhaic’ and mentions his wish that the book be preserved at ‘blas Mayster Doctor [ ... ]’.

Gruffudd Hiraethog, -1564

Pedigree of Gawen Goodman of Ruthin

  • NLW MS 24106G.
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  • 1584

Pedigree and achievement, 1584, of Gawen Goodman of Ruthin, compiled by Simwnt Fychan and drawn by Richard Thomlyns of Denbigh, with eighty-eight other coats of arms, nearly all fully painted.
The pedigree shows Goodman's descent, through the female line, from twenty-five prominent ancestors, mostly Welsh, represented by twenty-five shields in two rows at the top of the pedigree; the arms of royal houses are surmounted by gold crowns. The remaining sixty-three coats of arms, the majority of which are impaled, are scattered throughout the pedigree. Personal names are enclosed in roundels. The pedigree includes Gawen's younger brother Gabriel (Dean of Westminster, 1561-1601) and other siblings, as well as Gawen's children and those of his other brother Godfrey. The achievement is placed at the lower right-hand base.

Thomlyns, Richard

Welsh poetry

A collection of Welsh strict-metre poetry of the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including works by Ieuan Gethin ab Ieuan ap Lleision, Iolo Goch, Lewys Mon, Tudur Aled, Hywel Cilan, Gutun Owain, Guto'r Glyn, Ieuan ap Tudur Penllyn, Dafydd Llwyd o Fathafarn, Rhys Pennardd, Tudur Penllyn, Morus ap Hywel ap Tudur, Deio ab Ieuan Ddu, Gruffudd Hiraethog, Rhys o'r Hengaer, Wiliam Cynwal, Edward Brwynllys, Dafydd Nanmor, Sion Ceri, Huw Arwystl, Dafydd ap Siancyn ap Dafydd ap y Crach, Wiliam Llŷn, Rhys Cain, Rhisiart ap Hywel ap Dafydd ab Einion, Hywel Rheinallt, Gruffudd Llwyd ap Dafydd ab Einion Llygliw, Sion Tudur and Tomas Derllys. A cursory examination of the items included in the manuscript suggests that about ten of the poems are not recorded in other manuscripts. The volume is written in several hands of the late sixteenth century including those of Simwnt Fychan (ff. 73-75) and Wiliam Cynwal (ff. 79-81), two of the bardic pupils of Gruffudd Hiraethog, and also the hand of Rhys Cain, the herald bard of Oswestry, who was a pupil of Wiliam Llŷn, another of Gruffudd Hiraethog's pupils (ff. 4-6 verso, 101 verso-148 verso).

Simwnt Fychan, approximately 1530-1606

Llawysgrif Mostyn Talacre

  • NLW MS 21582E.
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  • [17 gan., canol]

Llawysgrif, [17 gan., canol], yn ôl pob tebyg yn llaw William Maurice, Llansilin, yn cynnwys barddoniaeth gaeth Gymraeg, cywyddau gan mwyaf, o waith o leiaf chwech ar hugain o feirdd. = A manuscript, [mid-17 cent.], probably in the hand of William Maurice, Llansilin, containing Welsh strict-metre poetry, mostly cywyddau, by at least twenty-six poets.
Priodolir y cerddi i'r beirdd canlynol: Tho[mas] Prys (ff. 1, 8-9), Y Meister Sion Tudur (f. 1 recto-verso), Sr. Gruffydd Owen (ff. 1 verso-2 verso, 5 verso-6 verso, 10 recto-verso, 24 verso-25), y Bedo Brwynllys (ff. 2 verso-3), Bedo Aryrddrem (ff. 3, 21 verso, 26), Huw Arwystli (ff. 3 recto-verso, 26-27), Rys Cain (f. 4 recto-verso), Morys Dwyfech (ff. 5 recto-verso, 25-26), Sion Phylip (ff. 6 verso-7), Sr Dafydd Owain (ff. 7 verso-8), W[illia]m llŷn (ff. 9 recto-verso, 12 verso-13), Sr Phylip Emlyn (ff. 10 verso-11), Ifan Dyfi (ff. 11-12), Dafydd ap Gwilim (ff. 12 recto-verso, 16, 17 verso-18, 20-21, 27 recto-verso, 28-29 verso, 30 verso), Sion Cain (ff. 13 verso-14), y Meistr Hughe Machno (ff. 14-15), Einion ab Gwalchmai (f. 15 verso), Sion Mowddwy (f. 16 verso), Tudur Aled (f. 17 recto-verso), Dafydd ap Edmwnt (ff. 18 verso-19), Dafydd Nanmor (f. 19 recto-verso), Gwillim tew brydydd (ff. 19 verso-20), Lewis Môn (f. 21), William Cynwal (ff. 21 verso-23, 24), 'Mr Roberts or tu hwnt ir môr' [Dr Gruffydd Robert, Milan] (ff. 23 verso-24) a Simwnt Vychan (ff. 27 verso-28, 30). Mae ambell i gerdd yn ddienw (ff. 4 verso-5, 7 recto-verso, 16, 18 recto-verso, 22 recto-verso). Mae yna nodiadau o ramadeg barddol, yn trafod yr englyn unodl union a'r englyn unodl cyrch, ar f. 30. Ceir nodiadau yma ac acw, mewn llaw o'r ddeunawfed ganrif, yn awgrymu dyddiadau blodeuo'r beirdd (e.e. f. 3: '1500 medd Thomas Richards'); daw y rhain o restr yn Thomas Richards, Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Thesaurus... (Bryste, 1753). = The poems are attributed to the following: Tho[mas] Prys (ff. 1, 8-9), Y Meister Sion Tudur (f. 1 recto-verso), Sr. Gruffydd Owen (ff. 1 verso-2 verso, 5 verso-6 verso, 10 recto-verso, 24 verso-25), y Bedo Brwynllys (ff. 2 verso-3), Bedo Aryrddrem (ff. 3, 21 verso, 26), Huw Arwystli (ff. 3 recto-verso, 26-27), Rys Cain (f. 4 recto-verso), Morys Dwyfech (ff. 5 recto-verso, 25-26), Sion Phylip (ff. 6 verso-7), Sr Dafydd Owain (ff. 7 verso-8), W[illia]m llŷn (ff. 9 recto-verso, 12 verso-13), Sr Phylip Emlyn (ff. 10 verso-11), Ifan Dyfi (ff. 11-12), Dafydd ap Gwilim (ff. 12 recto-verso, 16, 17 verso-18, 20-21, 27 recto-verso, 28-29 verso, 30 verso), Sion Cain (ff. 13 verso-14), y Meistr Hughe Machno (ff. 14-15), Einion ab Gwalchmai (f. 15 verso), Sion Mowddwy (f. 16 verso), Tudur Aled (f. 17 recto-verso), Dafydd ap Edmwnt (ff. 18 verso-19), Dafydd Nanmor (f. 19 recto-verso), Gwillim tew brydydd (ff. 19 verso-20), Lewis Môn (f. 21), William Cynwal (ff. 21 verso-23, 24), 'Mr Roberts or tu hwnt ir môr' [Dr Gruffydd Robert, Milan] (ff. 23 verso-24) and Simwnt Vychan (ff. 27 verso-28, 30). A few further poems are anonymous (ff. 4 verso-5, 7 recto-verso, 16, 18 recto-verso, 22 recto-verso). There are notes from a bardic grammar, discussing the 'englyn unodl union' and the 'englyn unodl cyrch', on f. 30. Notes added here and there, in an eighteenth-century hand, give suggested floruit dates for the poets (e.g. f. 3: '1500 medd Thomas Richards'); these are taken from a list in Thomas Richards, Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Thesaurus... (Bristol, 1753).

Maurice, William, -approximately 1680

Llyfr Cywyddau

  • NLW MS 24175B.
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  • 1750-[1752]

Cyfrol, 1750-[1752], yn llaw Edward Llwyd, Llundain, yn cynnwys copïau o wyth deg pum cerdd, cywyddau yn bennaf. Ymysg y beirdd a gynrhychiolir mae Dafydd Nanmor (5), Doctor John Cent (7), Rhys ap Ednyfed (2), Guto'r Glyn (6), Dafydd ap Gwilym (4), Syr Dafydd Trefor (2), Lewis Glyn Cothi (4), Wiliam Llŷn (3), Tudur Penllyn (2), Bleddyn Fardd (5), Meilir Brydydd (2), Llywarch Brydydd y Moch (2), Lewys Môn (2), Simwnt Fychan (2), Siôn Tudur (7), Edward ap Ralph (2) a Iolo Goch (2). = A volume, 1750-[1752], in the hand of Edward Llwyd, London, containing copies of eighty-five poems, mainly cywyddau. Amongst the poets represented are Dafydd Nanmor (5), Doctor John Cent (7), Rhys ap Ednyfed (2), Guto'r Glyn (6), Dafydd ap Gwilym (4), Syr Dafydd Trefor (2), Lewis Glyn Cothi (4), Wiliam Llŷn (3), Tudur Penllyn (2), Bleddyn Fardd (5), Meilir Brydydd (2), Llywarch Brydydd y Moch (2), Lewys Môn (2), Simwnt Fychan (2), Siôn Tudur (7), Edward ap Ralph (2) and Iolo Goch (2).
Mae'n debyg i'r gyfrol gael ei ailddefnyddio fel llyfr nodiadau (gw. t. 251) ond oherwydd colled nifer o ddalennau ychydig iawn o olion o'r fath ddefnydd sydd wedi goroesi. Mae ychydig nodiadau mewn pensil ar tt. 247, 250-251 a thu mewn i'r clawr cefn mewn llaw diweddarach. = The volume was apparently reused as a 'Mamarandam Boock' (see p. 251) but due to the loss of several leaves little trace of such use remains. A few notes in pencil on pp. 247, 250-251 and inside the back cover are in a later hand.

Dafydd Nanmor, active 1450-1490