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Price, John, Sir, 1502?-1555
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Amrywiol farddoniaeth a llenyddiaeth

A miscellany of prose and verse in the hand of John Davies (or David), Pentre Vidoc (i.e. Pentre Foelas). It includes 'Efengyl Nicodemus'; a chronicle of historical events from A.D. 542 to 1463, 'Ex libro Joannis prise Militis Ag allan o lyfr Tho. William pysugwr'; a fragment of a work on geography and astronomy; 'Yr achosion y dyle pob dyn ymochel rhag Meddwdod'; 'trioedd'; 'Dymma Historia am y sawl o Droea ai Distrowiad. A yscrifenwyd Gyntaf yn Roeg gan Daret frigius Ac a Goppiodd Fouk Owen o Nantglyn allan o hen lyfr oedd wedi ei yscrifennu ar Felam er ys 300 o Flynyddoedd yn y Flwyddyn 1669. Ac a Gopiodd Sion Dafydd, o Bentre Vidoc (neu Bentre'r Voylas) yn y flwyddyn 1754', being a version of the 'brut' of 'Dares Phrygius' followed by the 'prologue' to 'Brut y Brenhinoedd' and a version of the first part of 'Brut y Brenhinoedd' down to the death of Brutus; and miscellaneous poems.

Chronology of scriptural works in Welsh,

A manuscript in the hand of Moses Williams containing 'A Chronological Account of the several Editions of the Scripture in Welsh', which included 'a thin Book in Qto, that contained among other things, the Lord's Prayer & the Decalogue', which 'I suppose was done by Sir John Pryse [London, 1567]'. Loose in the manuscript is a letter from 'Rich: Morris to W. Jones'.

Moses Williams.

The commonplace book of Sir John Price,

  • NLW MS 9048E.
  • File
  • [1901x1961].

A photostat facsimile of Balliol MS 353, a commonplace book of Sir John Price (1502?-1555). The manuscript contains genealogical memoranda relating to the family of John Price (Siôn ap Rhys) and his wife, Johan Williamson, notes on Welsh bardic grammar, proverbs, triads, and miscellaneous memoranda; transcripts of Welsh poetry including eulogies of the compiler and of his ancestors. The poets represented include Bedo Brwynllys, Dafydd ab Edmwnd, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Dafydd Llwyd ab Einion Llygliw, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd [Dafydd Llwyd Mathafarn], Dafydd Nanmor, Gruffudd ap Maredudd, Gruffudd Gryg, Gruffudd Hiraethog, Gwilym ab Ieuan Hen, Huw Pennal, Hywel Dafydd ab Ieuan ap Rhys, Mr Harri (Cydweli) [Harri ap Hywel ('Mastr Harri')], Hywel Llwyd ap y Gof, Hywel Swrdwal, Ieuan Deulwyn, Ieuan ap Rhydderch ab Ieuan Llwyd, Ieuan ap Tudur Penllyn, Ieuan Du'r Bilwg, Ieuan Gethin ab Ieuan ap Lleision, Ieuan Tew, Iolo Goch, Lewis ap Richard alias Morgannwg, Llywelyn ap Maredudd ab Ednyfed, Llywelyn ap Owain, Madog Benfras, Rhys Nanmor, Siôn Cent, Siôn Mawddwy, Thomas Vychan [Vaughan], Taliesin ('yr awdl fraith'), and Tudur Aled. The principal items of Welsh prose are anecdotes relating to Coch y Powtsh, Christopher Mathew of Glamorgan, and Tudur Aled, under the title 'Geiriau digri yr hwnn ny ellir y hadrodd mewn Iayth arall'; a text entitled 'Kyngor y wr ddwyn y vuchedd yn galh ac yn gymedrol'; and a bardic grammar.

The Description of Wales; Officium Beate Marie; &c.

Three copybooks, in the autograph of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), containing a copy of Sir John Price's The Description of Wales (Oxford, 1673) (NLW MS 2017iB); the Officium Beatæ Mariæ in Welsh from a copy made by Dafydd Ddu Hiraddug (NLW MS 2017iiB, pp. 1-30); extracts from the library of Thomas Tanner (NLW MS 2017iiB, pp. 31-43); and material relating to Gerald of Wales taken from John Leland (NLW MS 2017iiiB).