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- [1726-1729, 18/19 cent.]. (Creation)
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The volume belonged to Davudd Roberts (1789), 'Dafydd y Garth' (1814), Owen Owens (1815), David Price otherwise 'Dewi Dinorwig' (1826), Owen Williams, Waunfawr (who acquired it from Thos Edwards, watch and clockmaker, Corwen, in 1843), and John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd').
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A manuscript described as 'Llyfr o hen areithiau a Chywyddau' in the hand of Michael Prichard of Llan Llyfni. It contains poetry, largely in the form of 'cywyddau', by Michael Prichard, Sion Phylipp, Sion Tydur, Rhys Cain, Huw Llwyd Cynfel, Robert ab Howel ab Morgan, William Llyn, Dafydd ab Euan ab Owen, y Rhys ab Ednyfed, Owen Griffith, Thomas Lloyd [recte Prys] (Plas Iolyn), Dafydd Manuel, Wmphrey Dafydd ab Ifan ('Clochydd Llann brenn Mair'), Elis Rowland, Gryffydd ap Llywelyn Fychan, Wiliam Cynwal, Edward ap Rhys, and Thomas Llwyd (Penmen), and anonymous poems; 'Hanes y Twrstan, neu araith S. Tudyr', 'Breuddwyd Sion Tudur', and 'Prognosticasiwn Sion Tydur'; and a mediaeval Welsh glossary ('Llymma bart o'r hen Gymraeg; ar iaith arferedig wrthi') extracted from a book of Thomas Price of Plas Jolyn. The volume was compiled during the period 1726-9. There are a few additions in other hands, among them 'englynion' in praise and in memory of Michael Prichard by William Elias, [Griffith Williams] ('Gutyn Peris'), etc. At the end are two incomplete indexes, the one by Michael Prichard and the other by Owen Williams, Waunfawr. The spine is lettered 'Michael Prichard MS'.
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Welsh, English.
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Preferred citation: 17B.
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- Prys, Thomas, 1564?-1634 (Subject)
- Prichard, Michael, ca. 1709-1733 -- Poetry (Subject)
- Prichard, Michael, ca. 1709-1733 -- Death and burial -- Poetry (Subject)
- Prichard, Michael, ca. 1709-1733 (Subject)
- Williams, O. (Owen), 1790-1874 (Subject)
- Elias, William, 1708-1787 (Subject)
- Williams, Griffith, 1769-1838 (Subject)