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- [1783 × 1791] (Creation)
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93 ff. (ff. i-iii + pp. 1-180) ; 203 to 205 x 160 mm. Original half-leather and pasteboard covers.
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Archival history
The two parts were bound together by 1791 (‘e libris Griffithii Roberts 1791’ inside upper and lower covers).
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Scope and content
A composite manuscript, comprising:
(i) pp. 1-95. A copy in the hand of David Ellis [died 1795] of the double text of the Gododdin derived from Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), written [1783 x 1791] [on the derivation and date, see Brynley F. Roberts (ed.), Early Welsh Poetry: Studies in the Book of Aneirin (Aberystwyth, 1988), p. 52].
(ii) pp. 105-80. Welsh vocabularies, etymological notes, Welsh names of fish and birds, etc., derived from the collections of Evan Evans in NLW MS 1988B, in the hand of Griffith Roberts, written not before 1788 (p. 163). Pages 175-180 are blank.
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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), 936-937.
Description based on Daniel Huws, A Repertory of Manuscripts and Scribes c.800-c.1800, vol. I (Aberystwyth, 2022), 401.
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Digital version available https://hdl.handle.net/10107/6139539 (December 2023)
Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Formerly Hengwrt MS 190. The Hengwrt number on the spine is 190, on the cover 189.
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Preferred citation: Peniarth MS 154 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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October 2023.
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Description revised by Maredudd ap Huw.
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