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- [1751x1787] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
i, 214 ff. (paginated 428; several old foliations; some leaves blank) ; 205 x 160 mm. and less.
Leather over boards; 'Brithwai[th] Vol. 8' (ink on spine); bookplate of Evan Evans inside front cover.
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Lewis Morris ('Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn', 1701-1765) was a poet and scholar.
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Name of creator
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Scope and content
A composite volume in the hand of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) containing notes on the Statute of Rhuddlan by Lewis Morris (pp. 1-11); Welsh poetry with Latin translations (pp. 12-32) and further Welsh poetry, by Iolo Goch, Lewis Glyn Cothi, Guto'r Glyn, Hywel ap Dafydd ab Ieuan ap Rhys (Hywel Dafi) and others (pp. 237-408); notes on musical notation (pp. 33-84) and on 'the music of the antient Britons' (pp. 90-99); a poem to 'J. W. Parry or twr gwyn' by Goronwy Owen (pp. 85-89); a list of manuscripts at Hengwrt in 1738, including Dr John Davies's Dictionary (p. 100); 'Vocabula Gallica' (pp. 101-116); chronicles, including an account of the British Princes by Bishop Humphreys (pp. 117-140) and a copy of 'Llyfr W. Llyn' (pp. 409-428); 'Gosodiad, Mesureu, Rhyfeddodeu etc. Ynys Brydein' (pp. 141-190); and 'The Saxon Heptarchy' (pp. 191-236); etc.
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Accruals
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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, English, Latin.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Bindings disintegrating.
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), 862-863.
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Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Notes area
Note
Formerly Panton MS 56.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 2023B.
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Title based on contents.
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Access points
Subject access points
- Statutes -- Wales -- Rhuddlan
- Musical notation -- Early works to 1800
- Music -- History -- Early works to 1800
- Kings and rulers -- Chronology -- Early works to 1800
- Saxons -- England -- History -- Early works to 1800
- Wales -- History -- Chronology -- Early works to 1800
- Welsh poetry -- To 1100 -- Translations into Latin
- Welsh poetry -- 1100-1400 -- Translations into Latin
- Welsh poetry
Place access points
Name access points
- Hengwrt Estate (Llanelltyd, Wales) -- Library (Subject)
- Glendower, Owen, approximately 1354-1416 -- Poetry (Subject)
- Davies, John, 1567-1644 (Subject)