- Peniarth MS 211 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
- Ffeil
- [1515x1547].
A treaty between Henry VIII and Francis I against the Turks.
A treaty between Henry VIII and Francis I against the Turks.
Geiriau perthnasol i benodau neilltuol,
Lists of Welsh - Latin words selected under specific topics, including 'God', 'Heaven', 'Earth', 'man and his members', and 'the house and furniture' in the hand of John Jones, Gellilyfdy, 1632.
A collection of statutes, writs, and other legal instruments, including the Provisions of Merton, the Statutes of Westminster I and II, the Statute of Merchants, the Statute of the Exchequer, and the Statute of Winchester.
The consuetudinary of Sarum.
Miscellaneous astronomical treatises, psalms, prayers, and litanies - 'sortes apostolorum que numquam fallunt'; and the 'secretum secretorum' attributed to Aristotle.
Notes, disputations and discourses on philosophy and logic; a list of questions discussed at Dublin University, 19 April 1599; a short discourse of objections and answers touching the philosophers' stone by Ja: Doueson; etc.
James Dowson [?and others].
Love poetry; geometrical propositions; notes on Italian grammar; and a text on 'refrayninge the tonge'.
A transcript of Admirandum & inestimabile opus Steganographiae A Joanne Tritemio Abbate Spanheymensi Anno Christi CDD conscriptum nunc demum d tenebris & pulueribus, in quibus sepultum hactenus iacuit, erutum diligentia et studio Jacobi Casteluitrei. Londini CDDXCI.
'La passion de nostre seigneur Jhesucrist translatee de latin en francois'; and a religious poem. Illuminated.
Also included is an envelope of notes by J. A. Herbert.
Records relating to Merionethshire
Notebook entitled 'Extracts from ancient Records principally relating to Merionethshire, and some Pedigrees' in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne. Inscribed 'Peniarth MS No. 44' on p. i.
Wynne, William Watkin Edward, 1801-1880
Two bifolia containing part of Bede's De natura rerum (cap. 27-48), written in Wales in the twelfth century.
Ecclesiastica historia gentis Anglorum,
A copy of Bede's Ecclesiastical History. On the last page is a copy of the Treaty of Lambeth, 1217, between Henry III and the Dauphin.
A copy of the translation by Chaucer of the 'De Consolatione Philosophie of Boethius'; two letters from F. J. Furnivall; and a printed copy of Chaucer's 'Boethius'.
A collection of Welsh poetry compiled by one scribe in the first half of the fourteenth century.
The volume includes poems relating to the historical/folklore character Taliesin including poems to Urien Rheged, Armes Prydain Fawr.
Awdlau Cynddelw, Breuddwyd Pawl, &c.,
A collection of Welsh poetry compiled in the thirteenth century and a collection of Welsh poetry and prose compiled in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
The volume is divided into two sections: The first section includes verse by Cynddelw; the second section includes the following poems: Cyfoesi Myrddin, Yr Afallenau and Yr Oianau, and the following prose: Breuddwyd Pawl, Cynghorau Cadw Hen and Ystoria Judas.
The Romance of Charlemagne as written by Ieuan Ysgolhaig in 1336.
The folios have been misarranged in the binding. This text seems to be the prototype of the version in Peniarth MS 5 (White Book of Rhydderch), Peniarth MS 10, and Jesus College Oxford MS 111 (Red Book of Hergest).
The manuscript is made up of five fragments. The main texts include the Credo, with a commentary; the prophecy of Merlin, with a commentary; a version of Macsen Wledig; triads; and Bonedd y Saint.
F. iv is from a musical manuscript.
Historia Gruffudd fab Cynan and natural treatise
A manuscript in the hand of a single scribe dating from the second half of the 13th century and comprising Historia Hen Gruffud fab Cynan (p. 1); a treatise on earth, water, air and fire (p. 17); a treatise on the planets (p. 20); and a series of Welsh proverbs in verse (p. 27).
Memoranda in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne have been pasted onto the inside of the front cover. Ff. iii-iv contain a letter from J. Williams ab Ithel, 25 January 1862
Brut y Tywysogion and grammar,
Secular and religious prose and narrative texts by three scribes dating from c. 1330.
The texts include a biblical history (p. 1); Brut y Tywysogion (p. 65), with a continuation from 1282 to 1332 (p. 292); Kyfoesi Myrddin a Gwenddydd (p. 302); and a Welsh grammar (p. 305).
Fragment of Brut y Brenhinedd,
A fragment of the Welsh prose Brut y Brenhinedd written by a single scribe and dating from 1477.