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Title
Date(s)
- 1848 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
i, 166 ff. (blank from f. 39 verso) ; 225 x 180 mm.
Leather over boards with brass lock and key; panel stamped, with gold tooling inside covers and gilded page edges. Label of W. Houghton, Stationer, 162, New Bond Street, inside back cover.
Context area
Archival history
'G1942' (pencil on f. 166)
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bernard Quaritch Ltd; London; Purchase; April 2018; 99866636102419.
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Scope and content
Manuscript poem, 1848, in an unknown hand, entitled 'Aber-Conway or a Gleaning from Cambrian History', concerning the tribulations of Eleanor de Montfort, wife of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd (ff. 2-39). It is apparently unpublished.
The poem is subdivided into four Cantos, with Canto III also including 'Llewellyn's Song' (ff. 28-29 verso). It is preceded by an introduction, possibly in a different hand, which confuses Llywelyn ap Gruffydd with his grandfather Llywelyn the Great (f. 1 verso). The poem is dated 29 June 1848, and signed by means of a monogram, possibly 'SJ' or 'JS' (f. 39). There are minor emendations throughout, mostly in ink.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
One leaf cut out after f. 164. Some page edges affected by damp. Front cover and ff. i, 1-6 re-attached at NLW, 2019.
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Name access points
- Montfort, Eleanor de, 1252-1282 -- Poetry (Subject)
- Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, -1282 -- Poetry (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
April 2019.
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Rhys Jones.