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Title
Date(s)
- 1826-1876 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
84 ff. (old pagination 3-86; ff. 59 verso-69 verso blank; ff. 70-83, 84 verso, inverted text) ; 150 x 100 mm.
Half leather with blind tooling.
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Dr Glyn Tegai Hughes; Tregynon; Donation; 1997; A1997/65.
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Scope and content
A volume containing Welsh poetry in free and strict metres, in the hand of David Evans (Dewi Dysul), Llandysul, Cardiganshire (see W. J. Davies, Hanes Plwyf Llandyssul (Llandysul, 1896, repr. 1992), pp. 253-5), mostly written by himself and relating to local events and personalities. Also included are diary entries, 1839-1872, relating to the weather and agricultural memoranda (ff. 70-81verso, inverted text).
The volume contains a Welsh carol, 1828 (ff. 1-2), Welsh poems sent as Valentines, 1850-1851 (ff. 13, 15, 33), a poem in praise of Llanover Hall, [1860s] (f. 52 verso), a poem in praise of John Hopkins (Ioan Glan Tees), 1863 (ff. 53 recto-verso), a Welsh metrical version of Mother Shipton's Prophecy, 1873 (f. 59), a poem on the death of the son of David Davies (Glan Cunllo), 1867 (f. 55 verso), and a chart of early-nineteenth century Welsh poets compiled by John William Thomas (Arfonwyson), [c. 1840] (f. 74 verso).
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Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- Welsh
Script of material
Language and script notes
Welsh.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Original front cover missing, repaired at NLW; leaf missing before f. 1.
Finding aids
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Existence and location of copies
Digital version available http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4639419 (viewed June 2016)
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Title based on contents.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23692A.
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- Llanover Hall (Wales). (Subject)
- Hopkins, John, 1826-1886 (Subject)
- Davies, David, Glan Cunllo, 1837-1867. (Subject)
- Shipton, Mother (Ursula) -- Prophecies. (Subject)
- Thomas, John William, 1805-1840 (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
May 2009.
Language(s)
- English
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Sources
Archivist's note
Description revised by Rhys Morgan Jones;
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