Humphrey Lhuyd's History of Wales,

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

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 23202B
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004629183
  • Dates of Creation
    • [16 cent., second ½]
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • v, 171 ff. (original foliation 1-170; number 167 not used) ; 195 x 145 mm.
      Binding, mid XIX cent., by Stamper; green morocco gilt, five raised bands with 'Caradoc. History of Wales. Autograph MS. by T. Powell.' in gold on spine; arms of the 4th duke of Newcastle stamped in gold on front cover.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A volume, second half of XVI cent., probably in the hand of Thomas Powell (d. 1588), Parc y Drewen, Whittington, co. Salop, containing a much shortened text of Humphrey Lhuyd's English version of Brut y Tywysogion, upon which version David Powel based his Historie of Cambria, now called Wales ... (London, 1584) (see Brut y Tywysogion ... ed. Thomas Jones (Cardiff, 1952), pp. xiv-xviii. Omissions mainly involve passages relating to events outside Wales, church affairs and the papacy, anecdotes, explanations of Welsh personal and place-names, and the arguments against Polydore Vergil). Also included are a pedigree of the kings and princes of North Wales from Cadwaladr to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (ff. iv-v verso), a painted coat of arms of Cadwaladr (f. 1), and an index of personal and place-names (ff. 168-70 verso). Six lines of English verse are added in a contemporary hand on f. 171 verso.

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Acquisition Information

Sotheby's (lot 34); London; Purchase; 1993

Note

The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003).

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23202B

Alternative Form Available

Three other copies are known: BL, MS Cotton Caligula A VI; Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmolean Museum MS 847; and NLW, Llanstephan MS 177.

Archivist's Note

February 2009.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS.

Custodial History

Signature of Thomas Powell on f. 170 verso (cf. NLW Roll 11); signature of Charles Fairfax (1597-1673) on f. iii verso and 'Liber C Fairfax' on f. iv. Lot 1144 in the Clumber Sale, Sotheby's, 15 February 1939 (see also NLW MSS 11610D-11C, 11700E, 14699B-700A), and bought by the 12th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, whose armorial book-plate is inside front cover.

Additional Information

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