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- [c. 1400] (Creation)
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176 ff. (ff. i-viii + 1-149) : parchment ; 205 x 142 mm. Foliation of [16-17 cent.], repeating 59-68. Columns numbered 1-676 by J. Gwenogvryn Evans.
Bound in blind-tooled calf of [16-17 cent.], rebacked. Folios v and 149 are leaves from an early printed book, used as waste by the binder of [16-17 cent.].
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Archival history
Inscribed in 1635 by John Jones of Gellilyfdy (f. 89); his transcript of the manuscript is in Peniarth MS 266. His gall-stains have obscured the text on some pages and in two marginal inscriptions, on ff. 56 verso and 89. Folio viii, of parchment, contains J. Gwenogvryn Evans’s list of contents; ff. 146-8 are three leaves from Evans’s print of the Red Book text, included to represent the lost text of a lacuna.
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Scope and content
The set of historical texts: Ystoria Dared (ff. 1-17, cols 1-66); Brut y Brenhinedd (ff. 17 verso-89, cols 67-441) and Brut y Tywysogion (ff. 89 verso-143, cols 443-665); followed by Brut y Saeson (ff. 143-145 verso, cols 665-76), breaking off abruptly in the year 979. All are very close to the corresponding texts in the Red Book of Hergest [see Brut y Tywysogyon: Red Book of Hergest Version, ed. and trans. Thomas Jones (Cardiff, 1955), pp. xxviii-xxix, and Studia Celtica, 12/13 (1977/78), 176]. All are written in two columns by the Red Book scribe, X91, with 2- and 3-line initials in red. Lacunae due to the loss of leaves 1 and 10 in quire 5, the whole of original quire 9, leaves 5 and 6 of quire 17, and the final quire. On the erratic foliation, see below; J. Gwenogvryn Evans numbered the columns allowing, however, in his numeration for the columns that would have been in lacunae. The text of the original f. 1 made good by a hand of [16-17 cent.] on a supplied leaf (f. 1). Headings in textura by a hand of [15 cent.] (e.g. ff. 59 verso, 87); annotation and textual correction by several hands of [15 cent.] and [16 cent.] (e.g. ff. 41 recto-verso and 93, ff. 79 and 82, ff. 94 verso and 114 verso, f. 56, f. 123 verso, ff. 127 verso and 135 verso). Rebound in [16-17 cent.]; at this rebinding quires were signed I-XVII, skipping a number somewhere between VII and XI (= quire 10).
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Conditions governing access
Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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Welsh.
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Finding aids
A detailed list of the manuscript's contents may be found in J. Gwenogvryn Evans, Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language, vol. I (London, 1898-1905), 341-342.
Description based on Daniel Huws, A Repertory of Manuscripts and Scribes c.800-c.1800 (Aberystwyth, 2022), I, 342.
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Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Formerly Hengwrt MS 15.
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Collation: 1 (10; 1 a supply leaf), 2 (10), 3 (10; 4 and 7 singletons and 8 wanting), 4 (10), 5 (10; wants 1 and 10), 6–15 (10), 16 (10; wants 5 and 6).
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Preferred citation: Peniarth MS 19 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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March 2024.
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Archivist's note
Description revised by Maredudd ap Huw.