File NLW MS 12623B. - New English-Welsh dictionary,

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NLW MS 12623B.

Title

New English-Welsh dictionary,

Date(s)

  • [1771x1800] / (Creation)

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The fly-leaf bears the name 'C. Newling, 1785', and the title-page is inscribed (in a hand different from that of the manuscript notes), 'Canon Newlings copy with his notes'.

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An interleaved copy of William Evans: New English-Welsh Dictionary (Carmarthen, 1771), with copious manuscript additions, largely in the form of classical and Anglo-Saxon equivalents. The owner and annotator of the volume was probably the Reverend Charles Newling, headmaster of Shrewsbury school, 1754-1770, and prebendary and treasurer of the cathedral church of Lichfield, 1770-1787.

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Language of material

  • English
  • Welsh
  • Latin

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English, Welsh, Latin, etc.

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Finding aids

The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).

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Note

Preferred citation: NLW MS 12623B.

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vtls004959235

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH

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  • English

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Archivist's note

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).

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  • Text: NLW MS 12623B.