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Date(s)
- 1741-1778 / (Creation)
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Extent and medium
56 ff. (some leaves cut out) ; 195 x 145 mm. Limp boards with cover from English Botany, September 1801.
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
'John David Griffith Howel His Hand and Pen 1747' (f. 2); 'John David of Abargwilly' (f. 55 verso); 'John Jones his Diverting Copy 1778' (f. 9 verso); 'John Howells His Copy 1778' (f. 22); with several other names of XVIII-XIX cent.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Marlborough Rare Books; London; Purchase; 1983
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Scope and content
Copy-book of John David Griffith Howel of Abergwili, co. Carmarthen, 1741-1778, containing calligraphic exercises in the principal contemporary scripts, together with multiplication tables, rough calculations and a few jottings. Some of the exercises have been adapted from the books of English writing-masters: ff. 2 verso, 3 verso from John Davies of Hereford's The Writing Schoolemaster (London, 1636), f. 36 verso from Edward Cocker, The Clerk's Tutor for Writing (London, 1667), and f. 53 verso from ibid., The Pen's Transcendency (London, 1660).
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Language of material
- English
- Welsh
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English, Welsh.
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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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Preferred citation: NLW MS 21906B.
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This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.
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- English