Volume 1

A catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British museum / Compiled and edited by Edward Owen.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
Date:
1900-1922
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British museum / Compiled and edited by Edward Owen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [200] 518. ff. 111-196$. The Brut y Tywysogion, A.D. 681 to 1332; an early seventeenth century translation into Latin. It has been termed the book of Hergest, and the book of Margam, but “ is in fact a translation of the Brut y Tywysogion, only going on some way beyond the Rolls edition” (Hardy, Descr. Cat., iii, No. 383). [201] 436. Lives of various Saints ; 14 cent. A collection compiled in the abbey of Ramsey. ff. 107-109. Life of St. Wenefred. Hardy, Descr. Cat., i, No. 514; see also No. 511. [202] 443-5. A register (in three volumes) of Crown presentations to ecclesiastical preferments during the reign of Elizabeth: vol. I, 1-25 Eliz.; vol. II, 25-33 Eliz.; vol. 01,34-45 Eliz.; 16-17 centt. Contains the Welsh preferments. Indices to each year for the several dioceses. [203] 446. f. 114. An abstract of inquisitions taken respecting con- cealed lands in various parts of the country, 1688 ; 17 cent. One inquisition relates to lands in the county of Monmouth. [204] 447. (a). A collection entitled Monasteralia, being transcripts of the foundation charters of a number of monastic houses; 17 cent. Included are f. 8b, Neath ; f. 17b, Llantony. ((b) ff. 61-61 $. Extracts from the chronicle of Tintern abbey ; 17 cent, (c) ff. 64-64$. Extracts from the chronicle of Llanthony abbey “ in Wallia ” ; 17 cent. Similar extracts to those in Cotton, Cleop. C. iii (which see). (d) f. 72. Genealogical notes of the lords of Chirk and Penkethlyn.