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A printed copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Britannie vtriusq[ue] regu[m] et principum origo & gesta insignia ex antiquissimis Britannici sermonis monumentis in Latinum traducta, 2nd edn ([Paris]: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 1517, Adams G445), containing marginal annotations and underlinings throughout, in Latin, Welsh and English, by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt (ff. 1-99 verso passim).
The annotations are written in at least two different inks and occasionally in pencil. Vaughan's inscription 'Dauydd ap Mredydd Glais a ysgrifennodd historia brenhinedd y Bryttanied o Vruttus hyd Gadwaladr Vendiged pan oedd Crist 1444 ar llyfr membrwn sydd gyda Mr Jon: Jones o Ysgeifiog', [?1620s], on f. 100 verso refers to the manuscript now Peniarth MS 22 (see Daniel Huws, Repertory).

An early version of the translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'.
This text was edited by Henry Lewis and published by the University of Wales Press Board in 1942 (see Brut Dingestow, ed. by Henry Lewis (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1942)).

Transcripts of Geoffrey's Historia, Brenhined y Saeson, Nennius, Gildas, Chronicles and Laws, possibly in the hand of John David Laes (John Davies).

Two photostat copies (one positive and one negative) of Brogyntyn MS I.7, made in New York in 1926 while the manuscript was on loan to Acton Griscom, then preparing his edition of The Historia Regum Britanniӕ of Geoffrey of Monmouth (London, 1929) (each copy 92 ff., unfoliated); together with an off-print of Acton Griscom, 'The Date of Composition of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia: New Manuscript Evidence', Speculum, I (1926), 129-156, signed by the author and sent to Lord Harlech (ff. 93-111); and twelve letters, 1925-1927, mainly from Acton Griscom, New York, to Lord Harlech, August 1925-July 1927, with one letter from J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., New York, to Harlech, 10 December 1925, and one from Harlech to Griscom, 5 August 1927, concerning arrangements for Brogyntyn MS I.7 to be deposited temporarily in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, for Griscom's use (ff. 112-32).

A volume containing a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniæ in the vulgate text, written in small textura probably, despite some appearances, by one hand (Acton Griscom saw three or four; see Griscom (1929), p. 35) of the late thirteenth century. It was written in England or perhaps in Wales; the late use of green in the penwork and the dark shade of the blue, almost blue-green, are reminiscent of contemporary Welsh manuscripts.
Two poems in French have been added on ff. 86 verso-88. Punctuation is by point and punctus elevatus. Ink, brown. A six-line initial on f. 1 of parti-coloured red and blue, elsewhere, alternate red and blue two-line initials for chapters. All initials are accompanied by elaborate penwork, fern and foliage motifs in red and green, varying from half to full column height. The penwork is much cropped at all edges. Chapter headings (whose hand suggests that the scribe may also have been the rubricator) are in red, line-fillers in red and initials within the text touched in red. In the margin of f. 39, partly cropped, is a competent drawing of Merlin in red, apparently by the rubricator. In the margins of ff. 10 and 42 are ink profiles of faces, apparently by the scribe. Some words on f. 1 have been retraced in blacker ink.

The Welsh texts of Dares Phrygius and of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written in a seventeenth-century hand.

A sixteenth-century manuscript containing the associated texts of Dares Phrygius and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Brut Tysilio.

The Welsh text of Brut y Brenhinedd written by the scribe of the Book of Taliesin (NLW Peniarth MS 2) during the first half of the fourteenth century. The text is followed by the pedigree of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.

A fragment of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Brut in English, containing most of the life of Arthur, including the prophecies of Merlin, written in anglicana by one hand of the late fifteenth century. Two-line blue initials for chapters; headings, paragraph marks and underlinings in red.
For the text of the manuscript see Brogyntyn Manuscript No. 8, trans. and transcribed by Rosalynn Voaden, introduction by Felicity Riddy (Moreton-in-Marsh: Porkington Press, 1991). For a full text of the Brut, see The Brut; or, The Chronicles of England, ed. by Friedrich W. D. Brie, 2 vols, Early English Texts Society, o.s., 131 and 136 (London, 1906, 1908). Our manuscript begins at the end of Brie's chapter 73 and continues to his chapter 101; his chapter 101 is in ours, followed on f. 18 verso by the beginning of a chapter on Cadwallader which is not in Brie (on the Cadwallader chapter see C. W. Marx, pp. 377-380, and Riddy, p. [vi]).