Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1401x1500, 1609x1613] / John Jones, Gellilyfdy and others. (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
Peniarth MS 364i Extent: 72 ff. (foliated 3 blank ff. + 66 ff. (also paginated 1-166 pp.) + 3 blank ff.) ; Dimensions: 195 x 147 to 204 x 157 mm. Peniarth MS 364ii Extent: ff. (foliated 3 blank ff. + 6 ff. + 7 ff.) : Dimensions: 209 x 140 mm. Rebound at NLW.
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The manuscript is in two parts. The first part comprises charms, directions on how to make circles, a copy of John Leland's Epigrams, problems, memoranda, Welsh verses, and a list of owners of Welsh manuscripts, apparently compiled by John Jones, Gellilvydy about 1611. The second part is a fifteenth-century treatise on palmistry, with diagrams.
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
Latin, English, Welsh.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part I (Aberystwyth, 1940-3), 5 and in Prof. Edward Bensley, Catalogue of Peniarth Manuscripts which are Wholly or Partly in Latin (NLW), 61.
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 Hengwrt MSS 430 & 546, & 67.
Note
Preferred citation: Peniarth MS 364 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Leland, John, 1506?-1552. (Subject)
- Jones, John, Gellilyfdy, ca. 1585-1657/8 (Subject)