Dangos 78 canlyniad

A composite manuscript containing a miscellany of Welsh triads, proverbs and religious poetry written in the late sixteenth century.

Coats of arms, coloured, of the founders of Welsh and Border Counties families, comprising 'The Aancient descent of diuers noble and worthie howsen and gentlemen of great worshipp springring from them' and 'The names of such other gentlemen as came into wales and ther, or in the marches therof have lande and possessions where they inhabite, by certen descent of inheritance Ther first Auncestors being eyther Englishmen, Danes, Normans or Irishe men, and at this present growen to be great howses of worshipp in walles'.

A collection of awdlau and cywyddau, including a substantial section of poems ascribed to Guto'r Glyn (pp. 151-300) and Dafydd ap Gwilym (pp. 355-379). The manuscript also includes a copy of Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe (pp. 87-100). Gwenogryn Evans states that pp. 1-22, 335-406 and 410-33 are written in an archaic style in the early part of the seventeenth century, while pp. 23-85, 101-33 and 151-303 belong to the last quarter of the sixteenth century. Other parts of the manuscript are later additions, except the vellum leaf (pp. 305-6).

A volume containing a treatise on arms, copied in 1678 'allan or Llifr a fenthyciais i gan Sion Mathews o Ruabon'. It includes the arms of Arthur and other figures from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia from Brutus onward, arranged alphabetically and mixed up with historical personages; there are 178 entries in all (pp. 3-25). This is followed by tracts including 'Bonedd y Gwyr Gore' (pp. 25-28), and a letter from Thomas Maurice to Dr John Davies of Mallwyd (pp. 345-354).

'Cerdd Rhobin ab Huw a elwir ym mhlith y Beirdd Rhobin Ddu o Fôn, wedi ei 'sgrifennu ai Law ei hun wrth erchiad William Fychan Esq: Penllywydd yr Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas o Gymmrodorion 1772', being an autograph poem by Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu o Fôn) written at the instigation of William Vaughan of Corsygedol and Nannau, 1772.

Welsh poetry relating for the most part to the families of Nannau and Cors y Gedol, together with a history of the Gwydir family, etc. Pages 1-184 and 197-213 were transcribed, [c. 1690], by 'John Davies, commonly called John David Laes, a family poet at Nannau' (pp. iii, 497); pp. 217-232 and 289-295 are in the autograph of the Rev. William Wynn (p. 295); and pp. i-vii, 497-498 are in the hand of Lewis Morris of Anglesey. The remainder of the manuscript seems to belong to the first quarter of the eighteenth century.

Pedigrees of some English families; 'The Pedigree of ye Griffiths of Llys y Penrhun in ... Llandygay ...'; and miscellaneous historical material relating mainly to Cheshire.

A transcript of the romance of the Holy Grail, with annotations in later hands.

A volume containing transcripts of 176 poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym, apparently written in three different hands.

Notes, in Latin, on the Institutes of Justinian (ff. 1-44 verso), followed by a brief list of busts, statues, etc. (two leaves cut out between ff. 77 and 78, traces of writing on stubs) (f. 77 verso), and a catalogue of medallions [i.e. Roman and Greek coins] and of cameos and intaglios (f. 86, very brief) (ff. 86-88 verso). The medallions are described in some detail, in English and Latin. As the MS has been written from both ends this catalogue starts on f. 88 verso.
Inside the back cover there are two loose sheets (contemporary), one of scribblings and the other a short bill in French.

The Vulgate text of St Luke's Gospel preceded by the usual prologue (F. Stegmuller, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, Madrid, 1950-61, no. 620) (ff. 1-121 verso). Lucas, syrus natione, et antyochenus, arte medicus ... (f. 2) quam fastidientibus prodesse. Quoniam quidem multi conati sunt ... et benedicentes deum. The prologue has interlinear glosses by the scribe of the text, some of them giving variant readings. The text has marginal and interlinear glosses by the scribes of the text. These are the Glossa Ordinaria with a good number of additional marginal glosses (comparison with the Glossa Ordinaria in PL 114) all, so far as has been ascertained, deriving from Ambrose and Bede. There are further glosses on the text and on the Gloss in several contemporary smaller glossing hands, probably including both the main scribes, interlined and in the outer margin. Text flanked by gloss, varying number of columns. 35-38 lines (hands A and B), 44 lines (hand C, except when he has to match A or B), the text on alternate lines. Written above the top line. Ruling in plummet includes three sets of three lines at top, middle and bottom of the written space drawn across the full width of the page.
Written in good textura by three hands: A, ff. 1-17, 37-41 , 43 recto-verso; B, f. 17 verso; C ff. 18-32 verso, 42 recto , 44-121 verso. C writes a textura prescissa except when matching A or B. The Gloss is written in a smaller textura by each of the scribes, additional glosses in small glossing hands. Omissions by A have been made good by C. Ink is black-dark brown. Syntax letters and marks appear a few times (e.g. ff. 1 recto-verso, 11 verso).

The text of that part of Leland's Itinerary which concerns Wales, beginning 'All the way yt I rode between Hales and Pershore ...' (see L. Toulmin Smith, The Itinerary in Wales of John Leland in or about the years 1536-1539, London, 1906, p. 40) (ff. 1-42). Part of the first paragraph of the text on f. 1 is also to be found on f. vii, which appears to be an abortive beginning to this copy of the Itinerary. The text of the Itinerary in our MS follows Toulmin Smith's edition fairly closely (op. cit. pp. 40-126), and the fact that the section on 'Castles in Montgomerikeshire', etc. (Toulmin Smith, pp. 53-57) which Toulmin Smith supplied from Stow's copy of Leland's original MS, but which is now missing from Leland's MS, is not included in our MS (see f. 6), suggests strongly that the writer of our MS was either copying Leland's MS in the Bodleian library (MS Gen. Top. e12) or a copy of it made after Stow's time. Two other items in our MS (ff. 47, 49) are said to have been copied from Leland's MSS, in the Bodleian. There are however minor differences between our text of the Itinerary and Leland's as printed.
The volume also includes a brief note on Worcestershire (f. vii); extracts from Latin text: 'Ex libro Roberti Prioris Salapesbiriae de vita S: + Wenefredae Virginis ad Guarinum Priorem Vigorniae' (marginal note 'E codice M-S: Jo: Leylandi in Bibliotheca Bodleiana Oxonii existente') (ff. 47-48 verso); Latin notes on the early history of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge: 'Ex Collectionibus Johannis Rowse de Antiquitate Oxonii et Academiae' (marginal note, as above f. 47) (ff 49-51 verso); and Latin notes on the (legendary) early history of the university of Cambridge: 'Ex veteri sed fabuloso Libro incerti Authoris de antiquitate Ca[n] tabrigiensi' (ff. 51 verso-52 verso).

Apparently the chronicle of the reign of Charles V found in Les Grandes Chroniques de France (Grandes Chroniques de Saint-Denis) but unable to compare with any of the printed texts (ff. 1-59). The prologue on f. 1 ('Au non du pere ... les autres plus indignes') corresponds word for word with that to the chronicle of the reign of Charles VII (see below, f. 177) except for the substitution of V for VII. The text of f. 1 is written by a later hand to make good the loss of probably two leaves of the original manuscript, see below. Possibly the placing of Jean Chartier's prologue at this point is due to a misunderstanding by this later hand. From f. 2 on, chapters are numbered and headed by brief summaries. The text of f. 2 begins in chapter 3.
Also included is apparently Jean Juvenal's chronicle of the reign of Charles VI with the continuation attributed to Gilles le Bouvier (ff. 63-172). Unable to compare with a printed text. Cf. B. L. Royal MS 20. E. v. Chapters numbered and headed by brief summaries, as in the table. Together with another two fragments: the first of whcih we are unable to compare with a printed text of Jean Chartier's chronicle. Cf. BL Royal MS 20. C. ix. Chapters numbered and headed by brief summaries, as in the table (ff. 177-339); the second of which we are unable to compare with the chronicle of the reign of Louis XI which was added to some of the early printed editions of Les Grandes Chroniques de France (ff. 340-444 verso).

A manuscript of Welsh pedigrees, compiled by the sixteenth-century poet and transcriber, Wiliam Cynwal (dec. 1587) of Ysbyty Ifan. The hand of Wiliam Cynwal runs throughout the MS, there are however a few minor additions to the text by later hands scattered throughout the work. Each genealogy is preceded by a heading locating or naming the family seat; a bolder script is then employed at the beginning of the genealogy proper and sometimes subsequently when a sub-section is introduced. There is rubrication on ff. 5, 117 verso and 292 verso. The aim and scope of the MS is set out by the scribe in an introductory note on f. i, where it is said that the intention is to record the pedigrees of the gentry of Gwynedd, Powys and parts of the counties of Cheshire and Shropshire. He also states his intention of preparing a similar MS to include the pedigrees of the families of the seven counties of Deheubarth. Before the end of the present MS, however, the transcriber has diverted a significant portion of his MS to record details of South Wales families. This MS, like several of Cynwal's other genealogical MSS, concentrates on tracing the maternal ancestors of the families in question. Genealogical and heraldic MSS in his hand include: Bangor 5943, BM Harleian 1961 and Peniarth 128 and 183.
The MS opens with the following preface: 'Y llyfr hwnn a ddechrevais i Wiliam Kynwal pryd[ydd] hel i Iachav ai yscrivennv p[an] oedd oed Krist 1565 ac ynddo yr wyf yn Roi Iachav boneddicion gwynedd a ffowys a phart o sir gaer lleon ac o sir y mwythic a llyfr arall yr wyf yni wnevthvr o Iachav boneddicion saith sir dehevbarth y llyfr hwnn a yscrifenais o amafaelion (sic). lyfrav yn gowiraf ac ygellais drwy boen travael ac anhvnedd ac er hynny medd y ddihareb ni chair dim heb i vai velly o bydd neb ar vol Inav awypo yn sikr [fod] bai ar y llyfr hwnn adolw[yn] I ymendio ac yn gyntaf [ ]Kair y dabl [ ] ch [ym]ovynner [ ]' (f. i).

An incomplete text of Brut y Brenhinedd (one of the Welsh translations of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae). The first quarter of the text is missing as well as a large portion at the end of the MS. After a few fragments of ff. 1-5, the present text begins: 'Ac gwedi hynny vn map a aned iddaw a sef oedd henw hwnnw lles vap koel ac gwedi marw i dad a chymryt o honaw yntav koron y deyrnas holl weithredoedd da i dad a chwnychodd ef ev gwnevthvr megis y doedid y mae ef oedd koel ... dechre llosgi [ny gorffowysswys eny los]ges y kastell A gwrtheyrn ynddaw' (ff. 6-119 verso) [i.e. it corresponds to Llanstephan MS 1, ff. 43 verso-66 verso, Henry Lewis (ed ), Brut Dingestow, pp. 61-118, section IV. l9-VIII. 2, or Brynley Francis Roberts, 'Astudiaeth Destunol o'r tri chyfieithiad Cymraeg cynharaf o Historia Regum Britanniae Sieffre o Fynwy', PhD, Wales (1969), pp. 78-123, (the Peniarth 44 version)]. The text belongs to the Llanstephan 1 version of Brut y Brenhinedd, cf. the introduction to Brynley F. Roberts, Brut y Brenhinedd, Llanstephan MS 1 Version ([Dublin], 1971).
The manuscript also contains a stray leaf from an early-seventeenth century MS containing verses from a Welsh free-metre love-song / religious poem (f. 120), and an incomplete horoscope, XVI/XVII c. (f. 32 verso). Folios 1-5, 31, and 63-119, are fragmentary to varying degrees. The text is written on every other opening of the MS, the intervening pages having been left blank, apart from the additions in later hands found on folios 32 verso and 44.

Cywyddau and awdlau written in a seventeenth-century hand, comprising mainly poems by Thomas Prys (derived from NLW MS 3031B) (pp.19-141), Dafydd ap Gwilym (derived from NLW 3066E) (pp.195-295), Wiliam Cynwal (some derived from NLW 3030B) (pp.307-498), Guto'r Glyn (pp. 559-606), Siôn Tudur (pp. 685-751) and Tudur Aled (pp. 799-826).

The 'Topographia Hibernica' and 'Expugnatio Hiberniae' of Giraldus Cambrensis, with initial capitals, etc., in red and green.

A report submitted on 7 March 1729/30 to Francis Hare, bishop of St Asaph by J. Wynne, Garthmeilio [?rector of Corwen], on his visitation of Llanycil church and parish in 1729/30.