Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- [c. 1525] (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
266 pp.
Half bound.
Context area
Archival history
The manuscript appears to have been used by Benjamin Simon.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A manuscript containing poetry by Dafydd ap Gwilym, Tudur Aled, Iolo Goch and other poets mostly of the second half of the fifteenth century. On p. 247 Huw Cae Llwyd has written: 'oydran jesy n dyrnasol / py ragor pymp ar higain / pymthec cant rifant y rain', which would date the manuscript at hardly earlier than 1525.
The style of the writing points to an earlier period, and the orthographical habit of writing - for example, 'kaid' to rhyme with 'eneid' (see p. 73, &c.) - belongs to the second half, if not the last quarter, of the fifteenth century (compare Llanstephan MS 7 and Peniarth MS 70).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Welsh.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
The folios are worn at the corners, imperfect at the beginning and end, and a few folios are torn or have been repaired.
Finding aids
J. Gwenogvryn Evans, Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language, vol. II, part II (London, 1903), pp. 428-433.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Digital version available http://hdl.handle.net/10107/1435107
Online version available on the Library's website https://www.library.wales/discover-learn/digital-exhibitions/manuscripts/the-middle-ages/dafydd-ap-gwilym-and-the-cywyddwyr (February 2011)
Available on microfilm at the Library.
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Formerly Shirburn MS C. 27.
Note
Preferred citation: Llanstephan MS 6 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Huw Cae Llwyd, fl. 1455-1505 (Subject)