| Description | ‘A catalogue of all the earles of Penbroke’ (fols 4–40), dated 1624 (fols 38v, 39v). Text on rectos; pedigrees, with painted coats of arms, on versos. Similar in many respects to NLW 24076, a manuscript in the hand of George *Owen, York Herald, the present manuscript appears to be in the hand of an amanuensis (or otherwise Owen himself writing less formally); it lacks the fine penwork initials found in NLW 24076. Folios 1–2 and 66–7 are blank; fols 3 and 41–65 ruled but otherwise blank. For particulars of the text, cf. NLW 24076. Some minor corrections by a contemporary hand (e.g. fols 29v, 30, 32v); an addition on fol.40 is datable >1630.
Folios i–ii constitute a letter, dated 1906, from Colonel Henry Howard of Wigfair, par. St Asaph, to ‘my dear Pembroke’ [Sidney Herbert, the 14th earl] gifting the manuscript to the latter; Howard on fol.iii notes that it once belonged to the library of John *Lloyd of Hafodunos and Wigfair.
Small 4o. 70 fols (fols i–iii, 1–67). Original limp vellum, gilt, in the same style as NLW 24076. |