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- [c. 1545 - 17 cent., first ½]. (Creation)
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Peniarth MS 178 i Extent: 70 pp. : Dimensions: 152 x 102 mm.Peniarth MS 178 ii Extent: 88 pp. : Dimensions: 146 x 98 mm.Bound in half leather. The old vellum covers have been bound at the end of the manuscript.Some leaves are very frayed and brittle, especially at the very beginning, where the first fourteen leaves and the end of part ii have been damages by rodents.Some leaves are very frayed and brittle, especially at the very beginning, where the first fourteen leaves and the end of part ii have been damages by rodents.
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Part i of the manuscript seems to have originally belonged to Peniarth MS 177.
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Scope and content
The manuscript consists of two parts: The first part comprises a collection of pedigrees in the hand of Gruffudd Hiraethog, with some later additions, c. 1545, in the same hand. The second part of the manuscript comprises pedigrees; a list of receipts in the hand of Rhys Cain; etc.
One of the other hands is that of Siôn Cain.
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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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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), 991-994.
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Digital version available http://hdl.handle.net/10107/5093053 (December 2019)
Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Formerly Hengwrt MSS 376 (which has been altered from 372 and was previously 7) & 385.
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Preferred citation: Peniarth MS 178 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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