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Letters Patent being a licence to Ieuan ap Tud' Lloit to purchase lands in Keirchioc in the township of Llaghelghet.

Book of Hours, mainly of Sarum use, with calendar. The volume has associations with the Caernarfon district.

1. Angharat vergh Gruffuth free tenant of the townships of Trefgadrod and Bodedern in the commote of Lliwan;
2. Ieuan ap tud. Lloyt, free tenant of the township of Arryannell.
   Grant of messuage in Bodeder, her right in Mad' ap Eyngni, her villanus of the said messuage with his issue, and four acres of land and her rights in David Weth Bagh and 4s. and 2d. rent.

1. Ken ap Gruff' Dwyn, free tenant of the Lord of the King, of the township of Bodedern in the commote of Llywan;
2. Hoell ap Ieuan ap Eden' free tenant of Kaerdedoc in the commote of Tall'.
   Release of lands specified in Sotheby Deeds 3.

1. David Grwym ap Gwervill verch Vlethyn, free tenant of the commote of Meney;
2. Ieuan ap Cad. Ap Dd.
   Mortgage of land with a dwelling house at Rosgolyn, and land at Sybylltyr and Bryngwathon.

Grant in tail made by David Voille, rector of the Church of Penmayne, to Sir John Penrees, kt, and Margaret his wife, of the manor of Horeton, and the m’s, lands, etc., in the fees of Penrees. With remainder to the said John and his heirs; then to William Penrees, his brother, and his heirs; then to Morgan Penrees his brother, and his heirs; then to Isabella his sister, and her heirs; failing these, to the right heirs of the said John. [Latin]. Witnesses: Robert ap Thomas, steward of Gower; Robert Penrees, Richard Maunsell, John Boner, John de la Mare, John Cade. Dated at Oxynwych, 2nd Oct., 18 Rich. II [1394]. Round seal, red wax, 1 in. St. John the Baptist, with the Agnus Dei, in a canopied niche, with tabernacle work at the sides (25mm).
S’ IOHANNIS TASEMAN.

Grant by Sir John Penrees, kt, to David Voille, Rector of Penmayne, and John Boner of Cheriton, of the manor of Horeton, and all his m’s, lands, etc., in the fee of Penrees. [Latin]. Witnesses: Robert ap Thomas. steward of Gower; Robert Penrees, Richard Mauncell’, John de la Mare, John Boner. Dated at Oxynwich, 20th June, 17 Ric. II [1394]. Round seal, red wax (23mm). A shield of arms, per pale indented. Within a Gothic panel of eight points ornamented with ball - flowers along the inner edge. SIGILLU . IOH’IS. PENREYS. D’NI . DE. OXENWYCH’.

A gathering of a manuscript of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, comprising the prologue and the text of the end of Book IV, chapter VII. The verso and recto of f. 3 are blank, but there is no lacuna in the text, so that the scribe must have turned over two leaves. The writing suggests the end of the 14th century as the date of the transcription, and a note at the beginning shows that the manuscript belonged to Reginald de Wolstone, a canon of Hereford. This Reginald died about 1411. The paper provides some excellent examples of the bunch of grapes watermark which is sometimes dated as late as 1450, or even later.

This manuscript is apparently in the same hand as large portions of the Red Book of Hergest and Peniarth MS 32. The contents, with few exceptions, are manifestly taken from Jesus College MS 2 and Peniarth MS 5. Pp. i-vi belong to the fifteenth century and contain pedigrees (p. i) which are somewhat difficult to decipher; triads (p. ii); and poetry by Dafydd ap Gwilym and Ieuan Dew Brydydd (p. iv-vi).
The twenty folios which are missing between ff. 20b and 21 now form part of Peniarth MS 12, pp. 77-116. For f. 26 (Y llyvyr hwnn yw y trydydd llyvyr or llyvyr aelwir Kyssegyrlan Vuched ...) see Llyvyr Agkyr Llandewivrevi, pp. 86-103; for f. 41b (Dangos pa delw ydyewir y tat ar mab ar yspryt glan ...) see ibid., pp. 162-3; for f. 42 (Mal hynn y digawn ytat ar mab ar yspryt glan ...) see ibid., p. 138-40; for f. 43b (Dangos y mod y dylyo dyn gredu ...) see ibid., pp. 141-4; for f. 46 (Llyma seith rinwed yr eglwys) see ibid., pp. 145-6; for f. 47 (Valhyn ydyweit hu sant o wedi y pader) see ibid., pp. 147-51, l. 3; for f. 52 (Breudwyt bawl) see ibid., p. 152-6; for f. 54b (Llyma ebostyl y sul) see ibid., pp. 157-9, l. 6; for f. 56 (Rinwedeu offeren sul) see ibid., p. 151; for f. 56b (Ypotis weithon y gelwir hwnn) see ibid., pp. 128-37; for f. 62b (Valhyn y treythir o ach dewi ...) see ibid., pp. 105-18; for f. 71b (Dywededic vu hyt hynn o vuched dewi sant ...) see ibid., pp. 119-27. The text at f. 80 (Historia de Adamo morituro et de Seth in paradiso ...) is the same as that in Peniarth MS 32, p. 239 (cf. Bodley MS Laud Misc. 471, f. 66). The Welsh text at f. 84b corresponds with chapters I-XLI of B. Harris Cowper's edition of The Apocryphal Gospels, pp. 29-82.For f. 125 (Ystorya titus aspassianus) see Peniarth MS 5, f. 36; for f. 129b (Llyma ual ytreythir o ystorya pilatus ...) see ibid., f. 10; for f. 131 (The end ... of the Life of St Catherine) see ibid., f. 21; for f. 132 (Buched meir vadlen) and for f. 135b (Llyma weithyon vuched martha) see ibid., f. 26; for f. 137 (Purdan padric ...) see ibid., f. 58, but with verbal differences throughout. At f. 160 (Athrawon agawssant y geluydyt honn ...) note that in the older MSS the month Rhagfyr (December) comes before Tachwedd (November). For f. 160b (Argoelon y vlwydyn ...) cf. Peniarth MS 12, p. 124; for f. 163 (Dy gygor ath gyssul yw ...) see ibid., p. 125. For f. 164b (Llyma ual y treythir o gynghoreu catwn ...) cf. Peniarth MS 3, p. 31 and 27, ii (pp. 16-20). For f. 172b see Peniarth MS 14, pp. 1-20, omitting items under pp. 6, 7, 14; there are slight verbal differences in the text and a tendency to insert passages about the 'Catholic faith' and the 'virgin mother'. The end of the manuscript is missing: the final words are 'Lleidyr oed gynt . ae enw ebbo ... tebygu na ladyssei y magyl arnaw . yn y lle nessau attaw aorugant ar uedyr'. A letter dated at Talgarth on 19 September 1719 and addressed to 'the Rev. Moses Williams att Dyfynnog in Breconshire' is bound in at the end of the manuscript.

A slate inscribed on one side with a face, a quatrefoil resembling a four-leaf clover, part of a large outline letter 'e' and a variety of other unidentified shapes and scribblings.
The slate is one of five broken fragments of one original slab, along with SF 13-14, 23 and 25; the letter 'e' is part of the epitaph on SF 13-14, with several preceding letters likely to have been lost due to spalling.

A slate inscribed with two knots on one side, one perhaps unfinished, and a third knot on the reverse.

A slate inscribed on one side with deeply incised lines forming part of a grid pattern. This slate and the fragment now SF 35 were formerly two parts of a single larger slate. A very similar grid pattern is also found on SF 31.

A slate inscribed on one side with a few angular lines.

A book of Hours, of unidentified Use, in Latin with a few rubrics in Catalan, [first half of the fifteenth century], from Catalunya or the Pyrenees, containing Calendar (ff. 1-11 verso), Gradual Psalms (ff. 12-27), the Hours of the Virgin, the Mass of the Virgin (ff. 80-6 verso), the Office of the Dead (ff. 87-140), the Penitential Psalms (ff. 141-56), and Litany (ff. 156-66 verso).
The Calendar includes many saints whose cult was particularly important in Spain and Catalunya, including Agatha, Eulalia (of Barcelona, Feb. 12, and [?of Merida], Dec. 10), Baudelius, Quiteria, Justa and Rufina of Seville, Abdon and Senen of Cordoba, Laurence, Felix of Gerona, Theccla, patron of Tarragona, Callistus, patron of Seville, Cecilia, Barbara; similarly the Litany includes Just and Pastor of Alcala de Henares, Cyricus, Theccla and Eulalia; others, such as Radegunde of Poitiers, Tropimus of Arles and Rufus of Avignon mentioned are associated with south and western France. Prayers to St Eulalia are also included in Lauds (f. 51 verso) and Vespers (f. 74 verso). Rubrics by hand I in Catalan on ff. 85 verso-86 verso crossed out, but mostly legible, confirm provenance in the paísos catalans.

A slate inscribed on one side with overlapping Latin inscriptions, of which the phrases '…deo cui nomera erat' and '…gr[atia]m nocis apta[m] dimittere' are legible, together with the name 'rys ap gr'. In addition there are a number of parallel lines inscribed into the slate, with the two longest joined at one end in a curved 'm' shape, and part of a circular pattern. On the reverse are some geometrical patterns.
There is a reddish colour to the written side of the slate (dye or chalk, likely applied at NLW for previous exhibitions).

A slate inscribed on one side with the name 'David Grythor' and a geometric pattern.

A slate inscribed on one side with two zoomorphic sketches, one of which appears to be a dog, together with at least four similar geometric designs, possibly horoscopes. On the reverse face is one other example of the same geometric design.

A slate inscribed on one side with a picture of the lower half of a long-haired, bearded human face.

A slate inscribed on one side with a few letters, including p, h and s. There is a reddish colour to this side of the slate (dye or chalk, likely applied at NLW for previous exhibitions).