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Title
Date(s)
- [late 18 cent.]-[1840s] (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
181 ff. (paginated i-iv, 1-298, 309-328, 331-370; some pages blank, including 14-36, 284-9, 334-40, 348-51, 356-70) ; 370 x 235 mm.
Reversed calf over boards with blind tooling; Price family arms stamped in black ink on front cover; 'PEDIGREES & MANUSCRIPTS' (red morocco label on spine).
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Bookplate of Price family of Plas Cadnant inside front cover.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bloomsbury Auctions; London; Purchased at auction, lot 32; 28 October 2010; 006053540.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A volume, [late 18 cent.]-[1840s], containing pedigrees, in several hands, mostly of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire families. The earlier portions, [late 18 cent.] (pp. 37-140), were copied mostly from Llyfr Melyn Tyfrydog (now NLW MS 23969F); later additions, [?1820s] (pp. 5, 151-283), are derived from the Taicroesion Manuscript (now NLW MS 19058E and Bangor MS 13564) or from intermediate copies.
A note by Jonathan Jones of Caernarfon in NLW MS 825D (inside front cover), dated 1855, describes the present volume as having been copied 'about 60 years ago from Llyfr Melyn Tyfrydog' by Robert Jones, for John Price (d. 1804) of Mona Lodge, Amlwch, with the pedigrees being continued by Price's son, John Price of Cadnant. The volume also includes descriptions of the Five Royal Tribes of Wales and the Fifteen Tribes of Gwynedd, partly in Welsh (pp. 137-150), and various antiquarian notes and statistics [in the hand of John Price of Cadnant] (pp. 290-355), including lists of Anglesey Sheriffs to 1843 (pp. 309-323), and transcripts relating to Amlwch parish church (pp. 341-347). Items loose within the volume, including a pedigree of the Bulkely family in the hand of John Price (watermark 1825), and a newspaper cutting, [1881], listing Caernarvonshire landowners, have been placed in an archival envelope. The contents of the manuscript are listed on pp. i-iv, 1-2.
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Conditions governing access
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
5 ff. cut out between pp. 298 and 309; 1 f. cut out between pp. 328 and 331; joints splitting.
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Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 24014E.
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Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- St. Eleth (Church : Amlwch, Wales) (Subject)
- Ellis, John, 1684-1728 (Subject)
- Hughes, Hugh, 1693-1776 (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
October 2012.
Language(s)
- English
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Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones.