Ffeil Peniarth MS 11 [RESTRICTED ACCESS]. - Ystoryaeu Seint Greal,

Added on f. 280 verso in hands of [15 cent.] are an inscription ‘Gaude virgo mater Christi’, medical recipes in English, and an englyn; and on f. 281 verso, ‘Iste liber constat Dauid ap Gruf[ ]’. On f. 280 verso, in a hand of [15-16 cent.], is a couplet from Hywel Dafi’s marwnad for Ieuan Swrdwal. Like others of Hywel Fychan’s manuscripts, the Greal had evidently migrated to near Brecon. The hand of [16 cent., first ½] that began the foliation (on ff. 1-6) signposted the text throughout with marginal headings (e.g. ff. 6 verso, 56 verso, 109, 110, 205 verso). Inscriptions of [16 cent.] include: ‘Iste liber constat Johannes Griffy[ ]’ (f. 281 verso); a hand noted ‘hyd yma’ at the foot of f. 154; Wyllyam John on f. 281 (previously blank) wrote his name together with tags in Welsh and Latin and an englyn apparently commemorating a loan of the Greal by ‘yr offisial’. By around 1600 the location of the manuscript becomes more certain. John Watkin Ieuan wrote his name inside the cover, on f. iv and on f. 1 [Robert Vaughan noted in NLW MS 5262: ‘Greal: gan Sion Watkin Ieuan o dre Ddyfynoc’, see Daniel Huws, Medieval Welsh Manuscripts (Cardiff, 2000), p. 300]. His son, Watkin John, signed his name on f. iv and wrote the names of Hugh Powell ‘de Castell Madock’ [par. Llandyfaelog Fach, Brec., d.1624] and Sybill Powell. About this time extracts from the manuscript were made by Siôn Dafydd Rhys in Peniarth MS 118. Robert Vaughan eventually secured the manuscript. He transcribed some of the text in Peniarth MS 254. The manuscript became no.49 in old Hengwrt catalogue B. A Richard Llwyd label is pasted on the upper cover; an‘R. Wmes Vaughan’ book label inside the cover. Notes on the manuscript by W.W.E. Wynne are laid down on ff. iii, iv and v.