Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [c. 1627]-1630 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
iv, 312 ff. (old foliation 1-408 with gaps caused by the excision of many leaves; ff. 21 verso, 304-305 verso, 311-312 verso blank; bound in incorrect order, ff. 299-303 (old foliation 354-357) should be placed after f. 274 (old foliation 349); end wanting) ; 200 x 145 mm.
Rebound, [early 19 cent.], in blind-tooled pigskin, on five raised bands with 'BRITISH POETRIE' and 'PORKINGTON MANUSCRIPT No 12' in gilt on spine; inlaid into each cover is a blind-stamped panel, c. 170 x c. 120 mm., on a darker brown calf, incorporating Oldham, no. 577 (found also on MS I.2), [16 cent., first ½] (possibly 1520s).
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
'Lowry Evans her Booke 1691' and 'Lowry Evans her Booke 1692' on f. 176 recto-verso.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A volume containing Welsh poetry in strict and free metre, including a poem dated 1627 (f. 280), in an unidentified hand of the early seventeenth century; the same hand also wrote NLW MS 6471B and Jesus College, Oxford MSS 139 and 140.
The scribe was copying from at least six different manuscripts, the beginnings and ends of which he usually indicates, e.g. 'dechre llyfyr Mr Iohn peers' (f. 1), 'dechre llyfyr arall (ff. 60 verso, 225 verso) and 'diwedd i llyfr yma' (ff. 135, 225 verso). Books begin on ff. 1, 60 verso, 105, 135 and 225 verso; the sixth book probably began in the gap resulting from the excision of leaves between ff. 245 and 246. Additions include a poem, dated 1630, written in a contemporary hand on ff. iii-iv; englynion on ff. iv verso, and on f. 176 verso, probably in the hand of Lowry Evans; verses in free metre in an early-nineteenth century hand tipped onto f. 305; and a subject index of contents of the volume when it was complete in a hand of the second half of the seventeenth century on ff. 306-310.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (Brogyntyn MS I.6). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4584823. Date: 20030207. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (Brogyntyn MS I.6) : Edges of some pages damaged. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (Brogyntyn MS I.6). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4584823. Date: 20031114. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: G. Edwards. Status: Manuscript Volume (Brogyntyn MS I.6) : Removed plastic label from spine, strengthened folios iii, iv, 1-8, repaired folios 305a-c. Institution: WlAbNL.
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.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Leaves missing after ff. 24, 35, 36, 57, 64, 117, 133, 147, 174, 176, 200, 245, 274, 281 and 298 (some 105 ff. in total) and an unknown number at the end; upper half of f. 282 missing.
Finding aids
A detailed list of the contents is available at https://archives.library.wales/external_documents/brogi06.pdf
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
Publication note
E. D. Jones, 'The Brogyntyn Welsh Manuscripts', National Library of Wales Journal, 6 (1949-50), 223-248.
Notes area
Note
Formerly Porkington MS 12.
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: Brogyntyn MS I.6 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Evans, Lowry, fl. 1691-1692. (Subject)