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- [14-15 cents] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
130 ff. (foliated 1-131, with f. 131 a modern leaf) : Parchment ; approx. 210 x 155 mm. (trimmed irregularly).
A modern NLW note on the binding on f. 131 reads: ‘Ni chofnodwyd mwy am rwymiad llawysgrif Hendregadredd pan ddaeth i Ll.G.C. nag a welir yn J. Morris-Jones a T.H. Parry-Williams, Llawysgrif Hendregadredd (1933), t. x. Ail-rwymwyd y gyfrol gan atgyweirio rhai dalennau yn 1956. Anfoddhaol oedd y defnyddiau a gymerwyd at y gwaith hwn ac yn 1979 datgymalwyd y rhwymiad a gwaith atgyweirio 1956. At yr ail-atgyweirio cymerwyd memrwn newydd, wedi’i staenio rhag edrych yn or-wyn, a ‘collagen’ (croen selsig), gan ddefnyddio pâst blawd ac ychydig o gelatin ynddo. Rhoddwyd toddiant spermaseti 1.5% ar y dail er mwyn eu meddalu ac ymlacio, a’u sychu o dan bwysau ysgafn. Ail-rwymwyd mewn byrddau derw a ddaeth yn rhodd i Ll.G.C. gan Iarll Powis yn 1942, wedi’u torri o dderwen fawr a gwympodd ym mharc y castell yn 1939’. Internal rear cover stamped ‘J. Bowen’. NLW binding codes of 8/23 and 13/35 written in pencil on f. 1.
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The Hendregadredd manuscript, containing poems by the Gogynfeirdd bards, etc.
The contents of the manuscript were published by the University of Wales Press Board in 1933 under the title of Llawysgrif Hendregadredd.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Item: 2.1. Action: Digitized. Action identifier: Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI). Date: 20140806. Site of action: NLW. Authorization: NLW. Authorizing institution: Bill Endres of the University of Kentucky. Extent: f. 89. Type of unit: Folio.
Item: 1.2. Action: Condition reviewed. Date: 20151007. Site of action: National Library of Wales. Action agent: Iwan Bryn James, with Maredudd ap Huw and Ann Parry Owen (CAWCS). Status: abrasion damage noted on f. 27, lns. 14-17 (not noted by the editors in 1933, but clearly present on the film of 1978), and f. 80 verso, lns. 19-24, the impact having also possibly lifted some letters (damage having occurred between the filming of 1978 and the digitisation of 2003). Institution: WlAbNL.
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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
Welsh.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Digital version available http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4632443 (May 2016)
Digital version available https://www.library.wales/discover-learn/digital-exhibitions/manuscripts/the-middle-ages/hendregadredd-manuscript (May 2016)
Available on microfilm at the Library (NLW Film 746). This microfilm, dated 31 October 1985, appears to be a Diazo negative copy of an earlier Diazo master negative, dated 3 November 1978, which survives at the Library. Monochrome image print-outs of the manuscript, possibly copied from the 1978 microfilm, and provided for the Poets of the Welsh Princes Project, are available at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. It appears that the manuscript was not microfilmed anew as part of the programme of microfilming manuscripts at the Library during the 1990s.
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Notes area
Note
Varying form of title: The Hendregadredd Manuscript.
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 6680B [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
Note
Proteomic analysis samples taken by eraser on 7 February 2023 from the surface of the lower part of folio 18 recto, right hand side, identified the parchment species as calf.
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Name access points
- Hendregadredd Estate (Wales) -- Library. (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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- English
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