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Title
Date(s)
- [17 cent.]-[19 cent.] (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
Peniarth MS 440i: 65 ff. (foliated iii ff. + 59 ff. (previous numberings are crossed out) + iii ff.) ; 100 x 160 to 305 x 182 mm.
Peniarth MS 440ii: 4 ff. ; 321 x 202 mm.
Peniarth MS 440i re-bound at NLW.
Peniarth MS 440ii sewn together but unbound.
Context area
Name of creator
Name of creator
Biographical history
Name of creator
Biographical history
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
'Peniarth MS No. 63' and 'Given to me by Mrs Ormsby Gore' in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne occur in Peniarth MS 440ii, f. 1.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The manuscript is in two parts. The first contains an English poem entitled 'Faction Display'd', temp. Queen Anne; an account of the Vaughan family of Corsygedol mainly transcribed by Angharad Llwyd, with an original rental of the Corsygedol estate, 1637; a transcript by W. W. E. Wynne of Powell of Ednope's 'Pentarchia' from a manuscript at Brogyntyn, with a letter by the Rev. Robert Williams, Rhydycroesau. The second part comprises a booklet of extracts from a manuscript at Porkington (now Brogyntyn MS 14) in the hand of Lewis Anwyl relating to the families of Anwyl of Park and Owen of Porkington and Clenennau. Peniarth MS 440ii was published by W. W. E. Wynne in Montgomeryshire Collections Vol. IX (1876), pp. 357-64.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Item: 1.1 Loose Manuscript Documents (Peniarth MS 440ii). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4444109. Date: 20040226. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Loose Manuscript Documents (Peniarth MS 440ii) : Tears along folds. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Loose Manuscript Documents (Peniarth MS 440ii). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4444109. Date: 20041105. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: G. Edwards. Status: Loose Manuscript Documents (Peniarth MS 440ii) : Repaired tears. Institution: WlAbNL.
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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
Script of material
Language and script notes
English, Latin.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The description is also available in Graham C. G. Thomas, Peniarth MSS: Additional (Aberystwyth, 1990), 1.
Generated finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Notes area
Note
Peniarth MS 440i formerly numbered 59a, 71 & 80.
Note
Peniarth MS 440ii formerly Ancient Peniarth MS 63.
Note
Preferred citation: Peniarth MS 440i & ii [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Corsygedol Estate (Merioneth, Wales) (Subject)
- Brogyntyn Estate (England and Wales) (Subject)
- Vaughan family, of Corsygedol. (Subject)
- Anwyl family, of Park (Subject)
- Owen family, of Brogyntyn, Clenennau, and Glyn. (Subject)