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Title
Date(s)
- [c. 1460]-1750 (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
Peniarth MS 326i: 283 ff. (foliated 4 blank ff. + 69 ff. + 1 f. (cover) + 3 ff. + 1 f. (cover) + 29 ff. + 1 f. (cover) + 68 ff. + 104 ff. + 3 blank ff.) : 237 x 43 to 301 x 182 mm.
Peniarth MS 326ii: 180 pp. (foliated and paginated 3 blank ff. + 168 pp. + 3 blank ff.) : 189 x 144 to 199 x 151 mm.
Peniarth MS 326iii: 103 ff. (foliated 3 blank ff. + i f. + 39 ff. + i f. + 41 ff. + i f. + 14 ff. + 3 blank ff.) : 145 x 94 to 154 x 95 mm.
Originally in 8 bundles but now rebound at NLW into three parts.
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Bundles 1 and 2 comprise medical recipes and other texts in English; bundle 3 comprises copies of the wills of Robert Vaughan and Hywel Vaughan, with indentures, bills of complaints and other documents; bundle 4 comprises bills of Madam Vaughan; bundle 5 comprises fragments of poetry, also vocabularies by the Rev. William Wynn; bundle 6 contains a Botanologium, a Treatise on Urine and other texts, [c. 1460]; bundle 7 comprises 16th and 17th century Welsh religious and moral texts; and bundle 8 comprises a collection of medical recipes in English and Welsh.
The fragments range in time from c. 1460 to 1750. Bundles 1, 2 (part ii), 3, 4 and 5 are contained in Peniarth MS 326 i; bundle 2 (part ii) is contained in Peniarth MS 326 ii; and bundles 6, 7 and 8 are contained in Peniarth MS 326 iii.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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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
English, Welsh, Latin.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
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), 1124.
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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
Formerly Hengwrt MS 548.
Note
Preferred citation: Peniarth MS 326 i-iii (bundles 1-8) [RESTRICTED ACCESS].