No. 3 in NLW, Schedule of Sotheby Collection (1931)
Preferred citation: Sotheby MS C2.
Previously C.2.
Title based on contents.
Published
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales
A sixteenth-century manuscript containing a medical treatise in Welsh, recipes, charms, and an astrological fragment; a treatise on uroscopy in English; poetry, including a cywydd by Ieuan Brydydd Hir (hynaf); 'Llythyr Aresdotlys [...] o gadwedigaeth korff dyn ac gavas ynte yn hemyl yr havl [...]' (pp. 228-237); and a prologue to a work which is called 'Compod' ('o herwydd I vod ef yn comprehendio [...] kompod Manuwel') (pp. 197-200).
The manuscript is written in several hands of the early to late sixteenth century, possibly including that of its original owner Bened ap Rhys (Bened Feddyg) of Llanelidan, Dyffryn Clwyd, as well as Tudur ab Elise (see p. 150).
Repaired at NLW with some loss of text, in particular pp. 23-30 (4 ff.) and 153-157 (2 ff.), which are stubs only. Leaves missing after pp. 46 (3), 48 (1), 68 (1), 100 (3) and 154 (1); leaves cut out after pp. 40 (1), 110 (1), 174 (2), 176 (3) and 184 (1).
'William ap Benett' (p. 3); 'Hughe ap William' (p. 1) and 'Hugh ap Willyam ap Bened' (p. 227); 'llyfer John ap Hugh ap William Bened' (p. 183); 'llyfr Sion ap Huw ap Wiliam ap Bened ap Rys o lan lidan 1616 yr xvj o Ionor' (p. 186).
Available on microfilm at the Library.
Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
Usual copyright laws apply.
William Marx, Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru), Aberystwyth, The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist 14 (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 66-67.
W. Gerallt Harries, 'Bened Feddyg: A Welsh Medical Practitioner in the Late Medieval Period', in Wales and Medicine: An Historical Survey, ed. by John Cule ([London], 1975), pp. 169-184.