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- 1696-[early 18 cent.] (Creation)
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94 ff. (f. 94 verso inverted text) ; 190 x 115 mm.
Full leather over boards with double blind fillets.
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'Johannes Tibbots ejus Liber 1696' (f. 1); 'Rich[ar]d Pughe's Book 1725' (inside front cover); '£15.00' in hand of Dafydd Hughes, Llandudno (f. 1).
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A volume, 1696-[early 18 cent.], in the hand of John Tibbots, later Vicar of Darowen, compiled mostly whilst a student at Oriel College, Oxford, containing notes and transcripts in English, Latin and Welsh on subjects including theology, church history and logic and including also several sermons.
The notes are taken from several books, including [Matthew Parker], De Antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae (London: J. Day, 1572, STC 19292) (f. 3); Henry Aldrich, Artis Logicae Compendium (Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1691, Wing A896) (ff. 6-11); Jeremy Collier, Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects, Part 2 (London: R. Sare and H. Hindmarsh, 1697, Wing C5253), pp. 17, 25 (f. 23 verso); John Tillotson, Sermons Preach'd Upon Several Occasions (London, 1678, Wing T1260bA), pp. 175-200 (ff. 24-33); three sermons from The Works of the Reverend and Learned John Lightfoot D.D. (London, 1684, Wing L2051), pp. 1135-40, 1163-4, 1303-5 (ff. 33 verso-45 verso); [Simon Patrick], A Discourse of Profiting by Sermons (London: T. Basset, B. Tooke, F. Gardiner, 1683, Wing P790), pp. 2-9 (ff. 46-48); John Goodman, A Sermon Preached...at the Guild-Hall Chappel on Decemb. 18th 1681 (London: R. Royston, 1681, Wing G1126), pp. 1-33 (ff. 52-62); James Ussher, The Annals of the World (London: J. Crook and G. Bedell, 1658, Wing U149), pp. 1-2 (f. 63 recto-verso); John Tillotson, Six Sermons (London: B. Aylmer and W. Rogers, 1694, Wing T1268), pp. 247-286 (ff. 64-71 verso); [Charles Leslie], An Answer to a Book (London: [n. pub.], 1692, Wing L1120), pp. [vii]-[xxii], 1-19 (ff. 77 verso-82 verso); [Francis Gastrell], Some considerations concerning the Trinity (London: E. Whitlock, 1696, Wing G303), pp. 1-12 (ff. 83-86 verso); [Louis Jobert], The Knowledge of Medals (London: William Rogers, 1697, Wing J755), pp. 1-5 (ff. 88-89 verso); and John Wagstaffe, The Question of Witchcraft Debated (London: Edward Millington, 1669, Wing 198), pp. 4-15 (ff. 90-91). The single text in Welsh is a short homily to be read to repenting adulterers, entitled 'Coffaad bur neu Ddarn o rybydh i dorwyr priodas a godinebwyr...', apparently unpublished (ff. 74 verso-77). A short memorandum concerning butter, [1792], is on f. 2 verso.
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Covers worn; folios torn out after ff. 4, 17, 50, 65, 92, 93 and 94; a few folios affected by damp.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23956B.
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- Tibbots, John, 1677 or 1678-1735 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. (Subject)
- Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575. (Subject)
- Aldrich, Henry, 1647-1710. (Subject)
- Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726. (Subject)
- Tillotson, John, 1630-1694. (Subject)
- Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675. (Subject)
- Goodman, John, 1625 or 6-1690. (Subject)
- Ussher, James, 1581-1656. (Subject)
- Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722. (Subject)
- Gastrell, Francis, 1662-1725. (Subject)
- Jobert, Louis, 1637-1719. (Subject)
- Wagstaffe, John, 1633-1677. (Subject)