Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 12 Llyfr Hugh Evans
- Welsh, English, Latin
- s. xiv–xvii
- composite manuscript
- Welsh manuscripts
- paper + vellum
See more The compiler is Hugh Evans, who has been identified as a clergyman of this name who was active in Denbighshire.
(fl. 1550s–d. 1587)
A clergyman active in Denbighshire. Evans was born ca. 1523 in Wales. He graduated at Brasenose College in Oxford in 1548-9 and took his MA there in 1553. He held a prebendary at St Paul’s cathedral in 1558. In 1560 he moved to north Wales, where he became dean of St Asaph, Denbighshire (1560-1587); sinecure rector of Cwm, Flintshire (1566-1574); vicar of Northop, Flintshire (1571-1577); and vicar of Henllan, Denbighshire (1582-d.1587). Evans died on 17 December 1587, aged 64 (Marx 2015). It has been suggested (O'Rourke 2003) that he may well have been the same Hugh Evans who was responsible for compiling the composite manuscript NLW Peniarth MS 12.
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ff. iii-iv: front binding, 15th century, parchment, Latin liturgical texts.
ff. 82-87: back binding, 15th century, parchment, Latin liturgical texts and (ff. 86r-87v) Middle English Instructions on preparing for death
See ff. 82-87 below. These leaves were transferred from the ending of the MS to be used as flyleaves.
An English version of the Elucidarium. Incomplete.
Two quires containing an incomplete text of the Ystoria Lucidar in the hand of Hywel Fychan, with later additions by Hugh Evans at the beginning and end of the text. The leaves have been identified as deriving from Llanstephan MS 27 (Red Book of Talgarth).
Paper fragment of a Welsh catechism. O'Rourke regards this section as being in Hugh Evans’s hand, but the Welsh prose, 1300–1425 website attributes it instead to a hand of the 16th or 17th century.
Missal, Commendatio animae. Three leaves were transferred to the beginning of the manuscript (ff. ii-iv) to serve as front flyleaves.
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