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- [16 cent., second ½] (Creation)
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iii + 353 ff. (old foliation 362 ff.; ff. 68-84 verso, 105 verso-115, 142 verso-163 verso, 166 verso-171, 261-287 verso, 312 verso-316 are blank)
Modern red morocco.
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Reinforcing strips from old binding (some with SV's hand on them) include 4 strips of a MS of XV cent., ?on canon law. Referred to by Edward Lhuyd (Parochialia i, p. 7); Lhuyd's hand on f. 21 verso.
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All in the hand of Simwnt Fychan apart from a few additions of 17 cent. (ff. 164-166, 172 recto-verso). Selective list of contents: Achau'r Mortimeriaid (f. 1); Plant Brychan Brycheiniawc (f. 4); Gwehelyth Deheubarth (f. 9); Enwau pymthegllwyth a pha leoedd ydd oeddynt (f. 18 verso); Plant yr Arglwydd Rhys (f. 20); Achau'r saint (f. 26); Ach Harri VII (f. 28 verso); [Dosbarth arfau] 'Megys y darparwyd yn yr oes gyntaf...' with painted arms (f. 85); Armorial, painted arms (f. 115 verso); Ach Mary, ferch Ed. Lloyd, Blaenial, a briododd Owen Thelwall, Plas-y-ward, [added 1650] (f. 164); 'Mewn hen llyfr o gyfraith Howel Dda...' [an extract from the lost 'Llanforda MS'] (f. 234 verso); 'Oed Krist pan vu varw Rogr ap John ... .1479', an obit list [occurs in other MSS]. Obit of Sim. Thelwall added, 1586 (f. 311); Plant yr Arglwydd Rhys (f. 339). The pedigree on f. 293 recto-verso is dated 1567. Notes from many sources.
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- Welsh
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Welsh.
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Note
Preferred citation: Cardiff MS 4.265.
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