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- [c. 1380-mid 15 cent.]. (Creation)
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151 ff. (foliated vii ff. + 144 ff. (folios 1-142 also paginated 1-284)). : vellum ; 202 x 132 to 199 x 139 mm. Bound in white vellum (old covers preserved).
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The Latin text was at one time in Hengwrt 8 and was afterwards bound with Hengwrt 311.
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The Laws of Hywel Dda, [c. 1380], (p. 1); religious and secular prose by a number of scribes, including a brief chronicle from the arrival of Brutus in 1230 BC to 1375 (of Welsh interest) and the number of years from the flood until the current year, 1404, (p. 225); Brutus Saxonum (p. 251); and englynion (p. 270), [pre 1416, mid-15 cent.].
The date of the foundation of Cardiff is noted in the Latin text. There are some later memoranda as well.
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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, Latin.
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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), pp. 363-366; a description of the manuscript and its Latin text can also be found in Prof. Edward Bensley, Catalogue of Peniarth Manuscripts which are Wholly or Partly in Latin (NLW), p. 3.
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Digital version available http://hdl.handle.net/10107/5819922 (April 2022)
Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Formerly Hengwrt MSS 311 and 8; at some point the volume was also numbered '4'.
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Preferred citation: Peniarth MS 32 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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