Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [16 cent., first ΒΌ]-[late 16 cent.] (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
121 ff. (paginated 1-242; old foliation (by openings) 1-10, 16-23, 27, 29-38, 40-55, 59-63, 65-67 on pp. 4-118 passim) ; 225 x 155 mm. and less.
Repaired and re-bound at NLW (previous parchment covers retained at end of volume)
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Name of creator
Biographical history
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
'William ap Benett' (p. 3); 'Hughe ap William' (p. 1) and 'Hugh ap Willyam ap Bened' (p. 227); 'llyfer John ap Hugh ap William Bened' (p. 183); 'llyfr Sion ap Huw ap Wiliam ap Bened ap Rys o lan lidan 1616 yr xvj o Ionor' (p. 186).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A sixteenth-century manuscript containing a medical treatise in Welsh, recipes, charms, and an astrological fragment; a treatise on uroscopy in English; poetry, including a cywydd by Ieuan Brydydd Hir (hynaf); 'Llythyr Aresdotlys [...] o gadwedigaeth korff dyn ac gavas ynte yn hemyl yr havl [...]' (pp. 228-237); and a prologue to a work which is called 'Compod' ('o herwydd I vod ef yn comprehendio [...] kompod Manuwel') (pp. 197-200).
The manuscript is written in several hands of the early to late sixteenth century, possibly including that of its original owner Bened ap Rhys (Bened Feddyg) of Llanelidan, Dyffryn Clwyd, as well as Tudur ab Elise (see p. 150).
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
- English
- Latin
- Welsh
Script of material
Language and script notes
Welsh, English, Latin.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Repaired at NLW with some loss of text, in particular pp. 23-30 (4 ff.) and 153-157 (2 ff.), which are stubs only. Leaves missing after pp. 46 (3), 48 (1), 68 (1), 100 (3) and 154 (1); leaves cut out after pp. 40 (1), 110 (1), 174 (2), 176 (3) and 184 (1).
Finding aids
William Marx, Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru), Aberystwyth, The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist 14 (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 66-67.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available on microfilm at the Library.
Related units of description
Publication note
W. Gerallt Harries, 'Bened Feddyg: A Welsh Medical Practitioner in the Late Medieval Period', in Wales and Medicine: An Historical Survey, ed. by John Cule ([London], 1975), pp. 169-184.
Notes area
Note
No. 3 in NLW, Schedule of Sotheby Collection (1931)
Note
Preferred citation: Sotheby MS C2.
Note
Previously C.2.
Note
Title based on contents.