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Date(s)
- [mid 17 cent.] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
54 ff. (modern pagination in pencil 1-108; original pagination in ink [41]-104, 121-[1]52) ; 135 x 95 mm.
Nineteenth-century binding, cloth over boards with double gold fillets on spine; 'LIFE OF ST. WINIFRED' (in gold on label on spine).
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Archival history
Note in eighteenth-century hand (p. 53); 'Presented to The Wigan Free Public Library by Mr Councillor J[ames] Hilton, 68 Scholes, Wigan. August 1889' (bookplate inside front cover); note, [?1890s], in the hand of 'H[enry] T[ennyson] F[olkard]' (d. 1916), Chief Librarian of Wigan Free Public Library (p. 3).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bonhams; Oxford; Purchased at auction, lot 67; 27 November 2012; 006341660.
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Scope and content
An incomplete manuscript copy, in an unknown hand of the mid-seventeenth century, of Robert, Prior of Shrewsbury, The Admirable Life of Saint Wenefride..., translated from the Latin by I[ohn] F[alconer] ([Saint-Omer], 1635, STC 21102) (pp. 5-104).
The Life consists of two Books, the first comprising 22 Chapters, the second 16 Chapters; the surviving transcript consists of Book I from near the beginning of Chapter 7 to the beginning of Chapter 21 (pp. 5-68), Book II from the end of Chapter 3 to the beginning of Chapter 11 (pp. 69-100), and part of Book II, Chapter 16 (pp. 101-104). Based on the surviving original pagination, it is probable that the transcript was originally complete: there are approximately 20 leaves missing before p. 5 (original pagination p. [41]), and eight between p. 68 (p. 104) and p. 69 (p. 121); an unknown number are missing after p. 100 (p. [1]52), however only half of the final paragraph of Chapter 11 is lacking. Pages 1-4 and 105-108 are nineteenth-century fly-leaves.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Many leaves missing before p. 5 and after pp. 68, 100 and 104, prior to rebinding; most leaves repaired prior to rebinding; pp. 5-6, 101-104 damaged with some loss of text; page edges trimmed slightly, with partial loss of many original page numbers; many leaves affected by corrosion due to ink and by damp; spine damaged.
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Title based on contents.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 24035A.
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Name access points
- Winifred, Saint. (Subject)
- Robert, prior of Shrewsbury, d. 1167. (Subject)
- Falconer, John, 1577-1656. (Subject)
- Folkard, Henry Tennyson, 1850-1916. (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
February 2013.
Language(s)
- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones;