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- [1546x1563]-[1567x1581] (Creation)
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ii, 21 ff. (foliated 1, 1a, 2-20; ff. 1-1a a single leaf folded in half for binding; ff. 12 recto-verso, 13 verso-20 verso blank) ; 305 x 210 mm.
Half-bound in red morocco in 1891 under the direction of Mr E. Maunde Thompson of the British Museum; 'THE FIRST EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY, WELSH' (in gold on spine). The bond (f. ii) was previously part of the old cover.
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'25' on label on f. ii, in reference to the 1778 catalogue of the Llannerch Library (now NLW MS 17126D).
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An autograph translation into Welsh, [1567x1581], by Richard Davies, Bishop of St. Davids, of the Pastoral Epistles of St. Paul to Timothy, Titus and Philemon (ff. 2-11); this is apparently a new translation of these Epistles by Davies, following the publication of Salesbury's 1567 New Testament (see Glanmor Williams, Bywyd ac Amserau'r Esgob Richard Davies (Cardiff, 1953), pp. 108-109).
Also included is a bond, on parchment, dated 2 April [1565], signed by William Salesbury, incurred for the purpose of publishing the first Welsh editions of the Book of Common Prayer and New Testament (f. ii verso; Latin and English); a draft petition, [1546x1563], urging the translation of the New Testament into Welsh (ff. 1-1a; English); and a note by D. R. Thomas on the contents of the manuscript, 1891 (f. 13; English). For a transcript of the translation see D. R. Thomas, The Life and Work of Bishop Davies & William Salesbury… (Oswestry, 1902), pp. 148-175.
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Welsh, Latin, English.
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Digital version available: http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4682811 (viewed November 2016)
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The Ven. D. R. Thomas, The Life and Work of Bishop Davies & William Salesbury : With an Account of some Early Translations into Welsh of the Holy Scriptures and the Prayer Book, together with a Transcript of the Bishop's Version of The Pastoral Epistles of St.Paul from the autograph MS at Gwysaney now first published… (Oswestry, 1902)
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Hywel D. Emanuel, 'The Gwysaney manuscripts', in National Library of Wales Journal, 7.4 (Winter 1952), 326-343 (pp. 338-9).
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Formerly Gwysaney MS 27.
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Digitised at NLW in 2015; ff. 13 verso-20 verso, being modern (1891) blank flyleaves, were deliberately ignored; the foliation of the volume has been slightly emended: the bond, previously f. i, is now f. ii; the preceding flyleaf is now f. i; the draft petition, previously f. 1, is now ff. 1-1a.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 17115E.
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- Salesbury, William, 1520?-1600? (Subject)
- Thomas, D. R. (David Richard), 1833-1916 (Subject)
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