Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1400x1420]-1998 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
1615 items.
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This is a numbered series currently (August 2006) reaching 1615. The deposits included in it are minor in the sense that they consist of single items, or small groups of documents or papers where the group has been treated as a single item. There is one medieval missal, a few literary manuscripts, a large number of registers and other records from chapels, and much else.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
Items will continue to be added to the series NLW Minor Deposits.
System of arrangement
Arranged in a single numbered series currently (August 2006) running from no. 1-1615 by the date of accession or processing of each item.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions noted on the 'Modern papers - data protection' form issued with their Readers' Tickets.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
- Welsh
Script of material
Language and script notes
English, Welsh.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Minor Deposits 1-1200 are described in a typescript Schedule of Minor Deposits (1975) which has its own index. NLW Minor Deposits above 1200 are described in files in the Library's South Reading Room.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Title based on contents of fonds.
Note
Mân Adnau 1247B converted to a donation, and transferred to T. I. Ellis and Mari Ellis Papers (MD 12), August 2018.
Note
Minor Deposit 822 withdrawn by its owners, January 1974; it was donated to the Library in September 2019 and is now NLW MS 24138E.
Note
Mân Adnau 1198B converted to a donation, and transferred to Prof. Richard Aaron Papers (No. 38), April 2024.
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
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Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
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
August 2006.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
The following source was used in the compilation of this description: NLW, Guide to the Department of Manuscripts and Records (Aberystwyth, 1994).
Archivist's note
Compiled by J. Graham Jones for the ANW project.