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- [c. 1760]. (Creation)
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68 ff. (many leaves torn out) ; 200 x 155 mm.
Limp leather covers.
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Archival history
Signatures of later owners, 'John Roberts' and 'Evan Williams', XVIII2 cent., on f. 16v and f. 47.
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Bought from Mrs Florence Jones, Rhyl, the purchase being funded by the Friends of the National Library of Wales,; 1989
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A manuscript containing prose texts and strict metre poetry in Welsh in the hand of Robert Richard, an otherwise unknown scribe, c. 1760 (see notes on ff. 1, 29v), with a few later additions. Place-names mentioned in accounts added on ff. 47v and 68v suggest the volume to have been in the Betws Abergele area, co. Denbigh, in the late 18th century. The prose includes 'Erra Pater' (ff. 1-10v) and other prognosticatory texts (ff. 10v-13); astronomical memoranda (ff. 13-15v, 43r-v); 'Histori y Saith Wyr Doethion o Rufain' (ff. 17-29v); 'Athrawieth Historaeawl ...' (ff. 29v-41v); 'Histori y Saith Gyscadur' (ff. 42-3); 'Llyma fal i mae un yn tebygu ei ardeml ... sef ei deml gorphorol' (ff. 44v-6v); and 'Histori o hanes Adda ag Efa' (ff. 46v-7). The poetry comprises englynion including an englyn 'a ganwyd am gladdedigaeth Bytheiad Llewelyn ap Ierwerth Drwyn-dwn ...' (f. 18v); 'Erfynniad Taliessin' (f. 44); and cywyddau by Syr Dafydd Owain, Gwilym ap Siôn ap Dafydd, Huw Morys, Ieuan Brydydd Hir, John Prichard, Maredudd ap Rhys, Siôn Dafydd Lâs, Siôn Phylip, Wiliam Llyn and Wiliam Phylip (ff. 48-68).
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Welsh.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 22683B.
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- Davies, John, d. 1694 Poetry by, transcript of, NLW MS 22683B, ff. 67-8 (Subject)
- Gwilym ap Siôn ap Dafydd Cywydd by, transcript of, NLW MS 22683B, ff. 54-5 (Subject)
- Ieuan Brydydd Hir, active 1440-1470. Cywydd by, transcript of, NLW MS 22683B, ff. 61v-2v (Subject)
- Maredudd ap Rhys, fl. 1440-1483 Poetry by, transcript of, NLW MS 22683B, ff. 56-7 (Subject)
- Morys, Huw Cywydd by, transcript of (c. 1760), NLW MS 22683B, ff. 57v-9 (Subject)
- Owain, Dafydd, active 1540-1570 Poetry by, transcript of (c.1760), NLW MS 22683B, ff. 66-7 (Subject)
- Phylip, Siôn, approximately 1543-1620. Poetry by, transcript of, NLW MS 22683B, ff. 59v-61v (Subject)
- Phylip, William, 1579-1669 Poetry by, transcript of, NLW MS 22683B, ff. 62v-5 (Subject)
- Prichard, John, 1821-1889 Cywyddau by, transcripts of (c. 1760), NLW MS 22683B, ff. 48-53 (Subject)
- Richard, Robert, fl. ca. 1760 Manuscript in hand of (c. 1760), NLW MS 22683B (Subject)
- Wiliam Llŷn, 1534 or 5-1580 Poetry by, transcripts of, NLW MS 22683B, ff. 55-6 (Subject)
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- English