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- 1578–1585 (Creation)
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236 pp. (foliated and paginated iv ff. + 220 pp. + 4 blank ff.) : paper ; 202 x 146 mm. Rebound at NLW. Original covers included.
125 ff. (ff. i-v + pp. 1-100, 81x–100x, 101–220). Folios i-iv are modern, f. v an original fly-leaf, pp. 215-16 modern ; 202 x 146 mm. ‘Bound in old sheepskin’ [RMWL]; rebound at NLW, the old covers bound in as pp. 217-20.
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Archival history
Annotation in the hand of David Johns occurs on, e.g., pp. 105-6, 110, 193-5. There are additions and notes in the hand of Thomas Wiliems (e.g. pp. 126, 198, 210 with his initials); he copied Richard ap John’s text in British Library Additional MS 31055, apparently in 1591. The evidence that Wiliems ‘evidently had it bound’ [RMWL] does not seem to survive. Richard ap John made a copy of his own text in 1593 in Peniarth MS 160. On the evidence for use of the manuscript by Henry Perri in his Egluryn Phraethineb (1595), see Llên Cymru, 2 (see above). On p. 1 is the signature of John Davies [of Mallwyd], with date 1620; notes on pp. 14, 15 and 161 are probably in his hand. Listed by Robert Vaughan in Cat. A s.n. ‘W.1.2.7’.
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Simwnt Fychan’s ‘Pum Llyfr Kerddwriaeth’ (pp. 1-157) followed by William Salesbury’s treatise on rhetoric (pp. 157-97), in the hand of Richard ap John, carefully written and rubricated. Copied in 1578 (p. 17) and 1579 (p. 175) from Simwnt Fychan’s text in Jesus College Oxford, MS 15 [see Gramadegau’r Penceirddiaid, eds G.J. Williams and E.J. Jones (Caerdydd, 1934), p. liv; Llên Cymru, 2 (1952-3), 71-81]. Readings from the awdl by Einion Offeiriad to Rhys ap Gruffydd (on pp. 137-43) are printed in Y Cymmrodor, 26 (1916), 138-40. Added on pp. 199-209, also in the hand of Richard ap John, writing in 1585 (p. 209), are translations from Latin made in 1585 by David Johns of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd: ‘Llyma weddi ... Awgwstin’ [see National Library of Wales Journal, 7 (1951-2), 297-8] and ‘Dengran gwahaniaeth kristnogion y byd’ [printed from here in Rhyddiaith Gymraeg, eds T.H. Parry-Williams and Thomas Jones (Caerdydd, 1954 & 1956), I, 71-5].
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Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
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Welsh.
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Finding aids
A detailed list of the manuscript's contents may be found in J. Gwenogvryn Evans, Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language, vol. I (London, 1898-1905), 946.
Description based on Daniel Huws, A Repertory of Manuscripts and Scribes c.800-c.1800 (Aberystwyth, 2022), I, 403.
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Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Formerly Hengwrt MS 66.
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Preferred citation: Peniarth MS 159 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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October 2023.
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Description revised by Maredudd ap Huw.