Showing 575 results

Archival description
Peniarth Manuscripts Collection
Print preview View:

241 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects

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

Recipes,

A collection of cookery recipes with some medical prescriptions owned at one time by Catherine Nanney.

[Catherine Nanney] [?and others].

Recipes,

A fully-indexed collection of culinary and medicinal recipes made by Madam Sidney Wynne of Melai, 1715.
A number of dried ferns and leaves which had been placed in the book are now in sixteen separate envelopes.

Sidney Wynne.

Recipes,

A collection of recipes and bills of fare by James Smith, a Salop cook, 1698.

Smith, James, cook

Recipes,

A miscellaneous collection of culinary and medicinal recipes partly written by Meryell Williams of Ystumcolwyn.

Meryell Williams and others.

Recipes,

A collection of culinary and medical recipes made by Meryell Williams of Ystumcolwyn, with a full index to the contents.

Meryell Williams.

Recipes and miscellanea,

A volume in the autograph of Mrs Elizabeth Baker comprising miscellaneous culinary recipes; transcripts of notes on the culture of potatoes; notes on horticulture; an extract relating to Irish mineralogy; and a transcript of an address by the city of Dublin to his Excellency Marquis Cornwallis.

Elizabeth Baker [? and others].

Pump Llyfr Cerddwriaeth,

A manuscript in the hand of Roger Morys, Coed Talwrn, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd comprising Pump Llyfr Cerddwriaeth; a transcript of a Grammar from the Red Book of Hergest; vocabularies; and Dosbarth Cerdd Dant.

Pum Llyfr Cerddwriaeth, etc.

Simwnt Fychan’s ‘Pum Llyfr Kerddwriaeth’ (pp. 1-157) followed by William Salesbury’s treatise on rhetoric (pp. 157-97), in the hand of Richard ap John, carefully written and rubricated. Copied in 1578 (p. 17) and 1579 (p. 175) from Simwnt Fychan’s text in Jesus College Oxford, MS 15 [see Gramadegau’r Penceirddiaid, eds G.J. Williams and E.J. Jones (Caerdydd, 1934), p. liv; Llên Cymru, 2 (1952-3), 71-81]. Readings from the awdl by Einion Offeiriad to Rhys ap Gruffydd (on pp. 137-43) are printed in Y Cymmrodor, 26 (1916), 138-40. Added on pp. 199-209, also in the hand of Richard ap John, writing in 1585 (p. 209), are translations from Latin made in 1585 by David Johns of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd: ‘Llyma weddi ... Awgwstin’ [see National Library of Wales Journal, 7 (1951-2), 297-8] and ‘Dengran gwahaniaeth kristnogion y byd’ [printed from here in Rhyddiaith Gymraeg, eds T.H. Parry-Williams and Thomas Jones (Caerdydd, 1954 & 1956), I, 71-5].

Pum Llyfr Cerddwriaeth, etc.

‘Pum Llyfr Kerddwriaeth’ (pp. 1-151), followed by William Salesbury’s treatise on rhetoric (pp. 151-88). Copied ‘allan o lyfr Simwnt Vachan’ in 1593 for Dafydd Salbri [David Salusbury of Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch and Dolbadarn] by Richard ap John (colophon on p. 140). The source was Jesus College Oxford MS 15 [Gramadegau’r Penceirddiaid, eds G.J. Williams and E.J. Jones (Caerdydd, 1934), pp. liv-lv] but the intermediary was Peniarth MS 159, copied by Richard ap John himself in 1578 [see Llên Cymru, 2 (1952-3), 71-81]. On p. 189 is ‘Dewis bethau Davydd Melienydd’. Englynion by Siôn Phylip are added by a hand of [16-17 cent.] on p. 190. The contents were copied in [17 cent., first ½] in NLW MS 13065.

Pum Llyfr Cerddwriaeth,

The text of Pum Llyfr Cerddwriaeth probably in the hand of John Davies of Nannau (p. 103); and John Davies's pedigree in the hand of David Jones, Trefriw (p. 146).

Psalms,

A copy of 'The Psalms of David done into English Vers ...' by Sir Phillip Sidney.

Proffwydoliaethau Taliesin a Myrddin,

A manuscript in several 16th century hands, including that of John ap Rhys, comprising prophecies attributed to Merlin, Taliesin and others; poetry of Tudur Aled; pedigrees; the Divisions of the Lordship of Powys; and the Blessed Oil.
Various dates occur in the manuscript, for example 1541(p. 183) and 1588 (p. 219); other leaves were written temps Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

Precedents,

Transcripts of writs, pleadings, and other legal instruments, taken mainly from records of cases in Devon, Cornwall and London.
Other than headings, many pages are blank.

Results 101 to 120 of 575