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Title
Date(s)
- [late 15 cent.], 1650, [18 cent.] (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
50 ff. (paginated 1-66, 69-102) ; c. 205 x 150 mm.
Re-bound at NLW, 1978. Old covers (quarter leather and marbled paper over boards, with bookplate of Evan Evans) preserved separately.
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A composite volume in three parts, dated to the late-fifteenth century (pp. 1-32), 1650 (pp. 33-48) and the eighteenth century (pp. 49-102), containing astrological material (pp. 2, 15-16, 95-98, 26-32); names of plants in Latin and Welsh (p. 3); charms (pp. 4-6); the Paternoster, with every sentence explained (p. 7b); theological tracts (pp. 10-14); a commentary on the Prophecies, dated 5 May 1650 (pp. 33-48); fragments of Bruts (pp. 49-64, 71-74, 83-94); a list of the hundreds and commotes of Wales (pp. 99-100) and of the parishes of Carmarthenshire (pp. 101-102); etc.
On p. 6 is the note 'Gruff: llwyd ap Madoc Dd. a wnaeth y llyvyr hwnn i T. ap howel'.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
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
Welsh, Latin.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Pages 67-68 missing in 1978.
Finding aids
Historical Manuscripts Commission, Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language, ed. by J. Gwenogvryn Evans, 2 vols (London: HMSO, 1898-1910), II (1905), 867.
Generated finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available on microfilm at the Library.
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Formerly Panton MS 68.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 2034B.
Note
Title based on contents.
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Subject access points
- Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
- Botany -- Early works to 1800.
- Latin language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. -- Welsh -- Early works to 1800
- Theology -- Early works to 1800.
- Prophecies -- Early works to 1800.
- Parishes -- Wales -- Carmarthenshire -- Early works to 1800
- Wales -- Boundaries -- Early works to 1800
- Carmarthenshire (Wales) -- Boundaries -- Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Welsh -- Wales
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- Wales
- Charms -- Wales