File NLW MS 22362B - Cronfa Owain Myfyr

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NLW MS 22362B

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Cronfa Owain Myfyr

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  • [c.1789]-1903 (Creation)

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vi, 161 ff. (partly paginated 1-111, 215-67; many blank leaves). 195 x 160 mm. Vellum over boards

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Signatures of 'Hugh Maurice' (inside back cover), 'G. H. Jones (Gutyn Arfon), Bettwsycoed. Gor: 1895' and 'Owen Arfon Jones, Gogarth View, Cadnant Park, Conwy. Gor. 1919' (inside front cover).

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Donated by David E. Hughes,; Llandudno,; 1987

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A volume, c. 1789-1801, containing Welsh medieval prose texts and later verse, mainly in the hand of Owen Jones ('Owain Myfyr', 1741-1814). Other hands include Hugh Maurice (ff. 64-74) and Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg') (ff. 110v-11v). The prose includes texts relating to cerdd dant, copied mainly from 'Llyfr Rhobert ap Huw o Fodwigen' [BL Add. MS 14905]; 'Cato Cymraeg', 'Ystori y Llong Foel', 'Breuddwyd Paul Abostol' and other texts, 'o Lyfr Mr Thomas or Gest yn Eifionydd Mehefin 1777' [Richard Thomas (1753-80)] (ff. 14-33); 'Y Diharebion Cymraeg' (ff. 66-79); 'Y Pedwar Brenin ar ugain o'r Brytaniaid ... allan o Lyfr Havod Uchdrud' [? Havod MS 5] (ff. 112-23); and 'Llyma val y descennodd Pendevigaeth Gymru yn oes Vaelgwyn Gwynedd ...' 'Tomas Wiliams o drevriw allan o hen vemrwn a gawsei y cof hwnn' [NLW MS 16962] (ff. 131v-6). The verse includes 'Casgliad o Benillion o waith Anonymows', collected by William Jones, Llangadfan (ff. 79v-110). Tipped into the volume are a list of contents compiled by Griffith Hugh Jones ('Gutyn Arfon'), a note on the above collection of penillion, and two letters to 'Gutyn Arfon' from O. M. Edwards, 1900 (f. v), and Robert David Rowland ('Anthropos'), 1903.

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  • Welsh

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Welsh

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 22362B

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vtls004272667

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(WlAbNL)0000272667

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  • Text: NLW MS 22362B.