Amryw,

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

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 21942A.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004260319
      (alternative) (WlAbNL)0000260319
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1716, 1753-1756 /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • Welsh.
  • Physical Description
    • viii, 103 ff. (paginated 1-204) ; 155 x 95 mm. Stitched in paper covers with parchment wrapper (part of a legal document, 17th cent.) with leather corner-pieces.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A copy of Hugo Grotius, Gwirionedd y grefydd Grist'nogol ... a gyfieithwyd gan Edward Samuel ... (Y Mwythig: John Rhydderch, 1716), with eight folios stitched in at the beginning of the volume containing verse and prose in the hand of Thomas Williams, 'Merchant Taylor', 1753-1756, including a Welsh version of the legend of the Wandering Jew (ff. i-v) and 'Englynion i bont llanrwst', 1635, attributed to 'John Roger, wever of llwyn Bleuddun in llan-llechid Parish' (f. viir-v). Transcripts of poetry by Rhys Prichard, vicar of Llandovery, and other verse also appear on pp. 2, 13-16 of the printed work.

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 21942A.

Other Finding Aids

The description is also available, together with a detailed list of contents, in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume VIII (Aberystwyth, 1999).

Custodial History

Owned by the Reverend John Ellis, curate of Llanllechid, and given by him 'John Ellis of Maes y Groes' to Thomas Williams in 1729 (see title-page and pp. 56, 185, 198). Owned by Edward Evans, ?1765 (p. 124) and Owen Morris, 1769-96 (pp. 23, 186 and inside back cover).

Additional Information

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