Barddoniaeth (fac.)

A negative photostat facsimile of Welsh MS. 2 in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, being an incomplete early eighteenth century collection of poetry, largely in the form of 'cywyddau', by Sion Philip, Rhisiart Philip, Edmund Price [sic], William Cynwal, Evan Bry[dy]dd hir, Lewis Môn, Sion Cent, Tudyr Aled, David ap Gwillim [sic], David Nanmor [sic] and others. On p. 76 is a text of 'Brenin dlysau ynys Brydai[n]'. Later eighteenth century additions include a certificate of a declaration of an oath by Edd. Vaughan of Lanymowddy, Merioneth, 2 November, 1750, that a red heifer sold at Dinnas Mowddy and the herd from which it is taken are free from the infection now raging among horned cattle in the Kingdom.

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John Rylands Library; Manchester; Purchase; 1959.

Title based on contents.

The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961).

January 2009.

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

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At the time of the compilation of the calendar (NLW, J. Gwenogvryn Evans MS 70a), the original manuscript belonged to Mr J. E. Cornish, 16 St Ann's Square, Manchester. Later eighteenth century additions to the manuscript include the names of Dafudd Rolant, Anne Williams, Meredith Wiliam Griffith (1774), Evan William(s) (1762), Jane William of Tyddun Mawr, Risiart Evan, etc.

See NLW, J. Gwenogvryn Evans MS 70a, which contains a calendar, in the hand of Dr Evans, of the contents of the original manuscript.

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