Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1618-1622 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
472 + 42 pp. (pages between pp. 390-91 and between pp. 353-366 have been excised; first eleven pages blank, excepting a few odd notes of no interest) : Vellum (pp. 13-24, 31-2, 45-84, 317-328) ; 85 x 70 mm.
Vellum, with brass clasps, one of which has been torn away.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Formerly in the collection of Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore; many different names have been written, passim, in the manuscript.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
An extremely interesting manuscript - probably the smallest Welsh manuscript in existence, though it is 1.5 inches thick - which was written by Thomas Evans, Hendreforfudd, 1618-1622, and consists mostly of prayers and englynion.
Bound up between pp. 12 and 13 is a copy of an early edition of the Llyfr Plygain or Primer, dated 1618 and containing 42 pp. but imperfect as it contains none of the prayers, litany or psalms. This is probably the volume referred to by Gweirydd ap Rhys in Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, pp. 402-3; it is not mentioned in Angharad Llwyd's Catalogue of the Pengwern MSS (Transactions Cymmrodorion, 1828, p. 50).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 253A). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4287275. Date: 20040302. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 253A) : Clasps and board edges damaged, covering contracted, part of front pastedown missing, one tipped in gathering loose, covering materials loose. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 253A). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4287275. Date: 20041209. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: D. Williams. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 253A) : Repaired damaged pages, reattached loose pages. Institution: WlAbNL.
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- Welsh
Script of material
Language and script notes
Welsh.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Daniel Huws, A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes c. 800-c. 1800, 3 vols (Aberystwyth, 2022), I, 119.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Creator ref. no.: Williams MS 455
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 253A
Note
Title based on contents.