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55 ff. (paginated 1-109) ; 400 x 245 mm.
Bound in light brown calf, with gilt tooling, by H. Stamper; lettered on the spine 'R. Merricke. Antiquities of Glamorganshire. In autograph of Sir E. Walker'; arms of Henry Pelham Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle embossed in gilt on the upper cover.
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Auctioned as lot 1058 in the Clumber Library Sale at Sotheby's, 14 February 1938, and presumably purchased by Maggs Bros. For a note on the provenance of the volume see Rice Merrick, Morganiae Archaiographia ... , ed. by Brian Ll. James (1983), p. xxvi.
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A transcript, with additions, by Sir Edward Walker, herald and secretary at war, of 'Morganiae Archaiographia' or 'A Booke of the Antiquityes of Glamorganshire ... 1578' by Rice Merrick (Rhys Amheurug) of Cottrell, St. Nicholas, Glamorgan. The work was privately printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Middle Hill, in 1825, and reproduced, with notes by James Andrew Corbett, in 1887. The transcriber's additions, completed on 3 April 1675, consist largely of 'A Briefe History of the Originall Descent of ye most Noble Famly of ye Grandvilles, or de Grana Villa, vulgarly called Grenviles, or Greenfeilds, descended from ye Dukes of Normandy, faithfully collected out of seuerall ancient writings in the Tower, & elsewhere. Anno D'ni. 1639', illustrated with one hundred and one coats-of-arms painted in colour.
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English.
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The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).
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Rice Merrick, Morganiae Archaiographia: A Book of the Antiquities of Glamorganshire, ed. by Brian Ll. James (Barry Island: South Wales Record Society, 1983).
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'23/a', 'History', '15' (deleted), 'XX' and '338' in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 11700E.
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September 2009.
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Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS.