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Title
Date(s)
- 1760-[c. 1764] (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
[i], 45 ff. (foliated 3-16, 50-80) ; 205 x 160 mm.
Quarter leather and marbled papers over boards
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Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A composite volume, 1760-[c. 1764], containing miscellanea mostly in the hand of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), including [?a copy of] a letter from Evan Evans, [1761x1766], written at the request of Robert Wynn of Garthewin, Llanfair Talhaiarn, giving a brief survey of Welsh poetry (ff. 3-4); extracts from Lewis Morris's notes on the battle of Argoed Llwyfein (ff. 5-6); 'Canu Urien', with a translation (ff. 7-12); a letter, 26 July 1760, from Will[ia]m Lloyd, Bangor, to [Evan] Evans, at Trefriw, containing a Latin poem (ff. 13-16); Welsh and English poetry, including one work by Evan Evans (ff. 50-78); and an account of a manuscript at Hengwrt (ff. 79-80).
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Welsh, Latin, English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Folios 17-49 missing (and noted as such in a note on f. 16 verso by the editors of the Myvyrian Archaiology); leaves missing after f. 80; bindings disintegrating.
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), 846.
Generated finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Notes area
Note
Formerly Panton MS 39.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 2007B.
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Title based on contents.
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
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Place access points
Name access points
- Hengwrt Estate (Llanelltyd, Wales) -- Library (Subject)
- Wynn, Robert, of Garthewin (Subject)
- Morris, Lewis, 1701-1765 (Subject)
- Lloyd, William, 1717-1777 (Subject)