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Title
Date(s)
- [17 cent., second ½] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
iii, 320 ff. ; 370 x 240 mm.
Leather over boards with gold tooling; 'SPENCE[R] GENEALOG[Y] MS.' (leather label on spine); page edges stained red.
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Biographical history
Archival history
'[£]13-0-0' on f. iii; donated to Llandovery College on 10 May 1851 by it's founder Thomas Phillips (1760-1851) (bookplate inside front cover); manuscript press mark 'K.a.19.' on book plate and on f. 1; deposited at the National Library of Wales by the Warden and Headmaster of Llandovery College in 1949, along with some ninety printed books; recalled (with the books) by Llandovery College in 2005.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Llandovery College, per Mr T. D. Williams, Bursar; Llandovery; Purchase; February 2006; 004447517.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A volume, [17 cent., second ½] (watermark similar to Churchill 401), containing Scriptural genealogies (ff. 2-68) and the 'Onomasticon', a dictionary of individuals and peoples mentioned in the Bible (ff. 70-316 verso), both compiled by a certain William Spenser, gent.
The genealogies show the descent of Jesus Christ from Adam and Eve but also include pedigrees for the Twelve Tribes of Israel (ff. 8-31 verso); other peoples and empires appearing in the Old and New Testaments are represented by genealogies or by lists of individuals as appropriate (ff. 33-68); the section on the Roman Empire lists other figures appearing in the New Testament (ff. 57-68). As well as the Bible the compiler has made use of other sources including Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews (see ff. 138 verso, 161 verso, 187 verso, 195, 245); there are also extracts from Thomas Godwyn [Goodwin], Moses and Aaron: Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites Used by the Ancient Hebrewes (London: printed by Iohn Haviland, 1625, STC 11951), pp. 58-60 (f. 261 verso), 61-66 (f. 127 verso). The preface (ff. 2 recto-verso) consists mainly of excerpts from Works of the Great Albionean Divine Mr Hugh Broughton, ed. by John Lightfoot (London: printed for Nath. Ekins, 1662, Wing B4997), pp. 376 (2nd Tome), 689 (3rd tome). Many names and headings are picked out in red ink, with names of prophets in green ink. Various additions and marginal notes have been added to the Onomasticon in the same hand.
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Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Leather on most of front cover and part of spine missing; two leaves cut out after f. 69.
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Note
Original title.
Note
Previously NLW Minor Deposit 137B.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23941E.
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Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Jesus Christ -- Genealogy. (Subject)
- Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612. (Subject)
- Goodwin, Thomas, 1586 or 7-1642. (Subject)
- Josephus, Flavius. Antiquitates Judaicae. (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
February 2012.
Language(s)
- English
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Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones;