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- 1758, [c. 1765] (Creation)
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72 ff. (paginated i-vi, 1-138; old foliation 1-30, 1-35; pp. 130-134 blank) ; c. 240 x 185 mm.
Quarter leather and marbled paper over boards; '[Engly]nion y Beddau &c' (ink on spine); bookplate of Evan Evans inside front cover.
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Scope and content
A composite volume, mainly in the autograph of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), copied from manuscripts of Lewis Morris and others 'ynghylch y flwyddyn 1765' (p. i), including 'Englynion y Beddau' (pp. 1-15) and 'Englynion y Clywed' (pp. 15-28); 'Gildas Nennius' (pp. 49-60). The second part (ff. 1-35) contains 'Hanes Taliessin' (pp. 61-69); genealogies taken from a manuscript of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt (pp. 80-89); extracts from Dares Phrygius, Brut y Brenhinedd and Brut y Tywysogion (pp. 97-101); Bonedd y Saint (pp. 109-115); 'Hanes yr ymrysson rhwng Edmund Prys a W. Cynwal' (pp. 117-123); notes and extracts; etc.
A letter, 7 December 1758, from Lewis Morris, Penbryn, to Evan Evans, Llanllechid, is tipped into the volume (pp. 135-138).
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Conditions governing access
Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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Language and script notes
Welsh, English.
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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), 861-862.
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Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Note
Formerly Panton MS 55.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 2022C.
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Title based on contents.
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Name access points
- Taliesin (Subject)
- Morris, Lewis, 1701-1765 (Subject)
- Vaughan, Robert, 1592-1667 (Subject)
- Cynwal, Wiliam, -1587 or 1588 (Subject)
- Prys, Edmund, 1544-1623 (Subject)