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Salusbury

Reference: NLW MS 5390D The Salusbury family was praised and mourned by many major poets of the sixteenth century. This manuscript serves as a window on the cultural life of a diverse and…  

Brogyntyn Lute Book

Reference: Brogyntyn MS I.27 The Brogyntyn I.27 manuscript is part of the collection of manuscripts from the Brogyntyn Library near Oswestry deposited at the Library in 1934. It contains music…  

Steganographia

Reference: Peniarth MS 423D Peniarth MS 423D is a volume of astrological texts written in Latin. It is a transcript, dated 1591, of Steganographia by Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516), which was…  

Elis Gruffudd's Chronicle

Reference: NLW MS 5276D & 3054D In circa 1552 Elis Gruffudd completed his massive chronicle of the history of the world, which was then divided in two. In the first part, NLW Manuscript 5276D…  

Beunans Ke

Reference: NLW MS 23849D This Cornish manuscript, now NLW MS 23849D, containing an incomplete, sixteenth-century copy of a hitherto unknown play in Middle Cornish, is an exciting discovery. It…  

The Battles of Alexander the Great

Reference: Peniarth MS 481D Peniarth 481D is a manuscript written on parchment in the late 15th century. The manuscript is in two parts, and it is likely that both parts were bound together as…  

A Gutun Owain Manuscript

Reference: NLW MS 3026C This manuscript, which was created between 1488 and 1498, is part of the Mostyn family collection and is sometimes referred to by its old name, Mostyn 88. It is a…  

The Vaux Passional

Reference: Peniarth MS 482D Peniarth 482D is a manuscript written by one scribe, on parchment, probably in London, either in the late 15th century, or at the beginning of the 16th. As in the…  

Black Book of Basingwerk

Reference: NLW MS 7006D The late fifteenth-century parchment manuscript known as the Black Book of Basingwerk (Llyfr Du Basing), now NLW MS 7006D, is mainly the work of the Welsh poet and…  

Beunans Meriasek

Reference: Peniarth MS 105B Until Beunans Ke (NLW MS 23849D) came to light very recently, Beunans Meriasek was the only known saint's play in Middle Cornish, and its rediscovery in the 1860s…  

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