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- 1619-[c. 1634] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
137 ff. (old foliation 1-157, with errors; ff. 3 verso-5, 6-8, 30, 33, 35, 58 verso, 60 verso-118 verso blank) ; 195 x 140 mm.
Original brown leather binding with double blind fillets; lozenge-shaped piece of leather with gilt-tooled design pasted on each of the covers.
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Note in different seventeenth-century hand to the main hand of MS: 'Md that I Rice Pugh borowed of Rich: Salusbury the loane of Veronius de vitis apostolorum [&] Bulingere [in iudes?]' (inside front cover). The note on f. 58, later-seventeenth century, may record payment of a parish rate in Conway, which is close to Gloddaeth. Does not appear in any catalogue. Lot 1495 in the Mostyn sale at Christie’s, 24 Oct. 1974.
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A volume of medicinal recipes and pedigrees written, 1619-[c. 1634], by Richard Salusbury, probably the descendant of Dean Ffowlk Salusbury of St Asaph whose pedigree occurs on ff. 29 verso, 30 verso-31. Except for notes on the inside of the front cover, ff. 58, 59, 119, 126 verso, 128, and the pedigree on ff. 59 verso-60, the hand is that of Richard Salusbury throughout.
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Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
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English, Welsh.
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Finding aids
A detailed list of the manuscript's contents may be found in NLW, Catalogue of Mostyn MSS Purchased in 1974 (1975), pp.144-147, available at the Library.
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Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Watermark is a pot with initials P.O., similar to Churchill no. 460 (French, c. 1611).
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Drawings and designs are to be found on ff. 1, 8 verso, 33-4, 51, 57, 128 verso-37 verso. Decorated initial Letter on f 9. Margins ruled on ff. 9-16, 18 verso, 19 verso-20, 22 verso-25 verso, 59 verso-60.
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Title based on contents.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 21251B [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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- English