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Date(s)
- 1634- [18 cent.]. (Creation)
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Extent and medium
vi, 324 ff. ; 182 x 140 mm. Calf, 'Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin' in gold lettering on spine.
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Archival history
Previously deposited by Mr R. M. Thomas, Liverpool, 1935; withdrawn, 1950, and re-deposited, 1954, by his brother Mr W. Oswald Thomas, Cwyrt, Llannerch-y-medd, Anglesey. Inherited by Mrs Lynch under the will of her mother, the late Mrs M. E. Thomas, Cwyrt. Signatures and other marginalia show that the volume was owned in the 17th cent. by members of the Price family of Gerddi Bluog, descendants of Archdeacon Edmund Prys, e.g. 'Morganus Price filius Roberti Price de Gerthybliog' (Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin Gg8v), 'Edmund Price ai scryfenodd' (ibid Ee3), and by Ellis Wynne of Y Lasynys, rector of Llanfair, co. Merioneth, e.g. 'Ellis Wynne of Las Ynys' (ibid K8v), 'Ellis Wynne 1697' (ibid Dd1), and in the 17th and 18th cent. by Richard Poole of Tyddin y Felin, in the parish of Llanfair, and his family, e.g. 'Richard Poole is the true oner of this booke Anno Domini 1699' (ibid Bb4v), 'Richard Pool his Book 1731' (f. vi verso).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Mrs Lynch (per Mr W. R. P. George, solicitor, Porthmadog); Purchase; 1981
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A composite volume comprising Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin (Llundain, 1634) lacking title-page, and Llyfr y Psalmau, wedi ev cyfieithv a'i cyfansoddi ar fesvr cerdd yn Gymraeg by Edmund Prys, Archdeacon of Merioneth (Llundain, 1638) with many seventeenth- and eighteenth-century marginal and additional notes in Welsh, English, and Latin. The manuscript additions include a prayer in Welsh (Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin B8v), verse in Welsh by Ellizabeth Price 'i dyrfa Llandanwg'(ibid 06), englynion by 'H.M.' [Huw Morus] and 'H.E.R.' (ibid Aa1v), a riddle in Latin (ibid Gg7), and entries relating to the births and baptisms of the children of Richard Poole of Tyddin y Felin, Llanfair-iuxta-Harlech, co. Merioneth (f. ii, ibid Mm2v, Llyfr y Psalmau A1v), and of Richard Vaughan, esq., of Corsygedol (f. iv verso).
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Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- Welsh
- English
- Latin
Script of material
Language and script notes
Welsh, English, Latin.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The contents of NLW MSS 21701-22852 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 8 (Aberystwyth, 1999).
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Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 21728B.
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Name access points
- Poole, Richard, of Llanfair-iuxta-Harlech, fl. 1700 -- Family. (Subject)
- Vaughan, Richard, of Corsygedol -- Family. (Subject)
- Morys, Huw. (Subject)
- Price, Ellizabeth, of Gerddi Bluog. (Subject)
- Prys, Edmund, 1544-1623. (Subject)
- Price family, of Gerddi Bluog. (Subject)
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This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.
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Language(s)
- English