Great Britain -- History -- Early works to 1800.

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Transcripts made by Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), 1764, including: 'Bishop Humphreys's notes on A. Woods Athenae Oxonienses as far as it regards Wales'; correspondence relating to the publishing of Moses Williams's dictionary; a history of Britain 'from the time of Maximus the Tyrant (so called) to the retreat of the Loegrian Britains to their countrymen in Wales and Basse Bretagne…'; correspondence of Lewis Morris; poems by Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Lewis Glyn Cothi, Iolo Goch, Ieuan Deulwyn, Gruffudd Llwyd ap Gweflyn, Rhys Goch Eryri, Gutun Owain, Gruffudd Llwyd ap Dafydd ab Einion (in the hand of Rhys Jones, Blaenau), William Wynn (Llangynhafal), Sion Tudur, and Ieuan Dew Brydydd; material relating to Meddygon Myddfai; an extract relating to John Dafydd Rhys; etc.

Hywel's Laws, &c.

A manuscript in the autograph of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) containing transcripts of the Laws of Hywel Dda from an unidentified manuscript (ff. 1-9) and from the White Book of Hergest (ff. 63-67); a transcript of a commonplace book, temp. James I, the contents of antiquarian interest, being mostly concerned with Druidism and early British history (ff. 25-49); a list of the contents of the White Book of Hergest (f. 68) and transcripts of parts of it (ff. 69-74); a list of the hundreds, commotes and parishes of Wales (ff. 87-110); and various other extracts, etc.
For the text beginning at f. 75 see Peniarth MS 267, pp. 83, 86, 115; for the text beginning at f. 84 see op. cit., p. 26; for the text beginning at f. 86 verso see op. cit.; for the text beginning at f. 111 see op. cit., pp. 53-76.

Y Casgliad Brith,

A collection of prose texts including 'Imago Mundi' (beginning wanting); weather lore; 'Ystorya Adaf ar wir groc'; proverbs (A-O); the life of St Catherine; 'Llythyr brenhin yr India'; the duration of the world; times of moonrise; geometry; interpretation of dreams; 'Y gorcheston'; triads; 'cynneddfeu meddawt'; 'cynghoreu Kadw'; woes; 'rhinwedau efferen Sul'; 'py delw y dyly [dyn] gredu y duw'; chronology to 1321; 'Breudwyt Pawl'; 'rhinwedeu lloer'; a note on early British history; 'y tri broder da'; 'Diwed Meir Vorwyn'; 'Adrian ac Ipotis'; 'Ystorya Titus'; 'Enryveddodeu Ynys Brydein'; 'Pwyll y Pader'; and the life of St David (end wanting).

Historia Brittonum ...,

A manuscript written in two hands containing Historia Brittonum, et Cronice de Gestis ac Nominibus Regum Anglie. Beginning at p. 132 is a brief continuation of the Chronicles down to Henry VI in a later hand.