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- [1823x1881] (Creation)
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33 ff. (ff. 10-11 blank) ; 210 x 170 mm.
Guarded and filed at NLW.
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Purchased from Messrs Maggs Bros, London, 1941.
ff. 28-33: Purchased from the Rev. D. Creigfryn Jones, St Davids, 1942.
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Scope and content
Translations by George Henry Borrow of a Cornish prose text (ff. 1-4), and of Welsh poetry, including works by Iolo Goch, Deio ab Ieuan Du, Roger Cyffin, Goronwy Owen, Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu yr Ail o Fôn) and Huw Morys, and a translation from Greek of an ode in praise of Rome (f. 4 verso), with notes by Borrow and others.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
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English.
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Note
Versions of some of the items were published in George Borrow, Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery (London, 1862) and Welsh Poems and Ballads, ed. by Ernest Rhys (London, 1915).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 13937B.
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Subject access points
- Cornish literature -- Translations into English.
- Welsh poetry -- 1400-1550 -- Translations into English.
- Welsh poetry -- Early modern, 1550-1700 -- Translations into English.
- Greek poetry -- Translations into English.
- Rome -- Poetry.
- Welsh poetry -- 1100-1400 -- Translations into English
- Welsh poetry -- 18th century -- Translations into English
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- Deio ab Ieuan Du, fl. 1450-1480 -- Translations into English. (Subject)
- Cyffin, Roger, fl. ca. 1587-1609 -- Translations into English. (Subject)
- Hughes, Robert, 1744-1785 -- Translations into English. (Subject)
- Morys, Huw, 1622-1709 -- Translations into English. (Subject)
- Iolo, Goch, active 1345-1397 -- Translations into English (Subject)
- Owen, Goronwy, 1723-1769? -- Translations into English (Subject)