Medical precepts and prescriptions, &c.,

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

  • Reference
    • GB 210 Llanstephan MS 10 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls006070469
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1515 /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • Welsh, English.
  • Physical Description
    • 92 pp.Half bound.End wanting; the bottom right-hand corners of pp. 1-14 are torn and imperfect.End wanting; the bottom right-hand corners of pp. 1-14 are torn and imperfect.
  • Location
    • DE/SOUTH SA/OPEN SHELVES
      ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A manuscript in the hand of 'David ap Griffith effyriad' (see pp. 13, 14) containing medical precepts and prescriptions (pp. 15-27, 54-92), material of botanological (pp. 28-40), physiological (pp. 41-49) and theological (pp. 1-12) interest, and poetry (pp. 13-14, 50-53). The section on botany includes a Latin-Welsh vocabulary of plant names. Poetical works cited are those of Taliesin, Dafydd ap Gruffydd and Gruffudd Gryg.
There are traces of the hand of Sir Thomas Wilems (p. 40), and also of another hand on many folios.

Access Information

Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.

Note

Formerly Shirburn MS C. 40.

Preferred citation: Llanstephan MS 10 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].

Other Finding Aids

J. Gwenogvryn Evans, Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language, vol. II, part II (London, 1903), pp. 442-3.

Alternative Form Available

Available on microfilm at the Library.

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