Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1710s]-[1790s] (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
i, 182 ff. (ff. 88 verso-99, 104 verso-176 verso blank) ; 315 x 200 mm.
Leather covers over boards with double fillets and rolls in blind; Dutch marble endpapers.
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A volume compiled, [1710s]-[1790s], by various hands, containing poems, songs and commonplace entries, together with miscellaneous printed material including song-sheets and newspaper cuttings. Many of the items, which have been pasted on or inserted between the leaves, are connected with Brogyntyn and Wynnstay. The volume was originally used for exercises in navigation.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
English, French, Welsh, Latin.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Several leaves removed throughout; items pasted onto complete or trimmed folios or tipped in.
Finding aids
A detailed list of the contents is available at https://archives.library.wales/external_documents/brogi29.pdf
Generated finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available on microfilm at the Library.
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: Brogyntyn MS I.29 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Brogyntyn Estate (England and Wales) (Subject)
- Wynnstay Estate (Wales) (Subject)
- Williams Wynn family, of Wynnstay. (Subject)
- Owen family, of Brogyntyn, Clenennau, and Glyn. (Subject)