Transcripts,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

Reference
- GB 210 Llanstephan MS 147 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
Alternative Id.
Dates of Creation
- [1601x1742] /
Name of Creator
- David Parry, Reverend Samuel Williams and Moses Williams.
Language of Material
- Welsh.
Physical Description
- i-ix, 196 ff. (original foliation I-V, 1-168; ff. 79 verso - 196 verso inverted text on one side only (original foliation I-IX, 1-104, with one blank folio and f. 20 numbered twice)). Half bound.
Location
- DE/SOUTH SA/OPEN SHELVES
  ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A manuscript containing transcripts by David Parry from the Red Book of Hergest, together with other poetry, the volume being compiled before it was given to Jesus College, Oxford in 1701. The contents of the volume are as follows: A Welsh Grammar copied from the Red Book of Hergest (col. 1117), with collations by Samuel Williams from Llanstephan MS 3, p. 472 (original foliation I-Vb, 1-7); a copy of the poetry on cols 1143-1356 of the Red Book of Hergest (original foliation 7-12b, original pagination 13-168, 169-265); followed by sixteen leaves at the end of the manuscript containing poems by Robin Ddu o Fôn, Tudur Aled, Rhys Nanmor and others, together with the pedigree of Sir Rhys ap Thomas.
Samuel Williams has copied a good many of the older material in a modernised orthography on the side left blank by the original copyist. There are also marginalia in the hand of Moses Williams. A note, probably in the hand of Samuel Williams, on p. 265 (original pagination) reads 'All the Poetry collated March 27 . 1722'.