Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- [1475x1500] / (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
176 ff. (foliated iii ff. + 169 ff. + 4 blank ff.) : part vellum ; 187 x 123 to 214 x 144 mm.
Rebound at NLW. One of the old covers has been included in the manuscript.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Transcripts of treatises on Latin grammar (one of which is subscribed 'explicit donatus'); notes on figures of speech; Latin poems; an englyn; proverbs; and prayers, including an invocation to St David.
The greater part of the volume is in the autograph of one Thomas Pennant.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Latin, English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part I (Aberystwyth, 1940-3), 4 and in Prof. Edward Bensley, Catalogue of Peniarth Manuscripts which are Wholly or Partly in Latin (NLW), 55.
Generated finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available on microfilm at the Library.
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Formerly Hengwrt MS 209.
Note
Preferred citation: Peniarth MS 356 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- David, Saint, active 6th century (Subject)
- Pennant, Thomas, fl. 1475 (Subject)