Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1925-1927 / (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
224 ff. ; 270 x 180 mm. and less.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Two photostat copies (one positive and one negative) of Brogyntyn MS I.7, made in New York in 1926 while the manuscript was on loan to Acton Griscom, then preparing his edition of The Historia Regum Britanniӕ of Geoffrey of Monmouth (London, 1929) (each copy 92 ff., unfoliated); together with an off-print of Acton Griscom, 'The Date of Composition of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia: New Manuscript Evidence', Speculum, I (1926), 129-156, signed by the author and sent to Lord Harlech (ff. 93-111); and twelve letters, 1925-1927, mainly from Acton Griscom, New York, to Lord Harlech, August 1925-July 1927, with one letter from J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., New York, to Harlech, 10 December 1925, and one from Harlech to Griscom, 5 August 1927, concerning arrangements for Brogyntyn MS I.7 to be deposited temporarily in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, for Griscom's use (ff. 112-32).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Letters arranged chronologically.
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
Latin, English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Generated finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available on microfilm at the Library (the negative photostat copy of MS I.7 has not been filmed).
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: Brogyntyn MS II.54(h) [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Pierpont Morgan Library. (Subject)
- Griscom, Acton, 1891- -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Ormsby-Gore, George Ralph Charles, Baron Harlech, 1855-1938 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154. Historia regum Britanniae. (Subject)
- Griscom, Acton, 1891- (Subject)
- Ormsby-Gore, George Ralph Charles, Baron Harlech, 1855-1938. (Subject)
- Morgan, J. P., Jr. (John Pierpoint), 1867-1943. (Subject)
- Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154. (Subject)