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Title
Date(s)
- [1850]-1855 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
iii, 79 ff. (alternate openings blank; f. 67 verso to end blank) ; 340 x 245 mm.
Bound in contemporary brown morocco over boards with recessed blind stamped panels; four raised bands on spine; red watered silk doublures and end-papers, with gold dentelles inside covers; gilded and gauffered page edges; 'Mona Vetusta' (in gold on red morocco lettering-piece on spine).
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
'Hawkesyard Priory' and 'W.III.7' (pencil on f. i)
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Christie's South Kensington; London; Purchased at auction, lot 218; 14 February 2007; 004516633.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A volume, [1850]-1855 (watermarks 1849, 1850), containing pen, ink and wash drawings of ancient buildings and archaeological remains in Anglesey with accompanying text. The volume appears to be the work of Helen Spode (née Heywood), and also her husband, Josiah Spode of Hawkesyard Hall, Staffordshire, and of Plas Gwyn and Beaumaris.
The layout consists typically of a page of text in black and red ink and an illuminated initial in Celtic style, with a drawing on the facing page (thirty-five in total); additional drawings often form vignettes in the text. A few of the drawings are initialled 'H.S.' (ff. 12, 31 verso, 39, 41) and 'J.S.' (ff. 10, 33). Subjects include various cromlechs, churches and castles; the majority are in the east of the island, including Beaumaris (ff. 1 verso-13) and Penmon Priory (ff. 14 verso-26). The volume also includes a single parchment leaf (f. 67) containing a copy of the illumination on f. 8 verso of the Bangor Pontifical (now in Bangor University, Welsh Library, Special Collections, Cathedral Collection).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Covers lightly rubbed and scuffed.
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Text
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Notes area
Note
Original title.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23961E.
Alternative identifier(s)
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Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Spode, Josiah, 1823-1893. (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
May 2011.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones.