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- 1777 (Creation)
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NLW MS 2004iB: i, 195 ff. (foliated 1-195; paginated i-ii, 1-390) ; 195 x 155 mm.
NLW MS 2004iiB: 10 ff. (paginated 1-[20]) ; 400 x 320 mm. and less.
NLW MS 2004iB: Bound in calf; 'ANTIQUIT PAROCH MONÆ INSULAE' (gold on spine).
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A manuscript, 1777, mostly in the hand of Ieuan Fardd, containing 'Antiquitatum Parochialium Libellus at calcem perductus circa annum 1710. transcriptus a G[uilelmo] M[orris] 1726. Authore Hen: Rowlands, qui et author fuit libri jam permultis manibus triti, cui Titulus Mona Antiqua Restaurata'. The volume includes a chapter on Bellum Mariscum [Beaumaris] (ff. 173 verso-183 verso), which was omitted when Antiquitates Parochialis was printed in Archaeologia Cambrensis, vols I-IV (1846-1849) (NLW MS 2004iB).
Filed separately are some 10 ff. of loose papers, containing 'Few Notes on Mona Antiqua Restaurata by Rev: John Lloyd A.M. 1734'; copies of the inscription on the Cadfan stone in Anglesey; and a catalogue of the bishops of Bangor from St Daniel to Herring, 1737 (NLW MS 2004iiB).
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Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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Latin, English.
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Finding aids
Historical Manuscripts Commission, Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language, ed. by J. Gwenogvryn Evans, 2 vols (London: HMSO, 1898-1910), II (1905), 842-843.
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Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Formerly Panton MS 36.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 2004i & iiB.
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