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- 1723-1790 / (Creation)
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Extent and medium
162 ff. (Paginated 1-323; pp.42-212, 289-314 are blank; pp. 213-288, 315-322 inverted text) ; 165 x 110 mm.
Leather cover, eighteenth century, probably original, with blind tooling.
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Inside the front cover is the date 1723 and around the outer edges of the leaves is the comment "Thomas John is the true owner of this booke 1724".
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
W. Rhys Nicholas; Porthcawl; Purchase; March 1978
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Scope and content
A manuscript, said to be from the Dre-wen district, Newcastle Emlyn, containing (pp.1-41) eight 'halsingod' carols by David Davies [?vicar of Bridell, co. Pembroke, see Geraint Bowen, "Yr Halsingod", Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1945, p. 88]. Two of the 'halsingod' are said to have been composed in 1667 and 1672, but they were all copied between 1723 and 1727. At the end of the manuscript (pp. 315-323) are details of financial loans made to farmers [in the Crymych and Llanfyrnach areas of co. Pembroke] between 1777 and 1790. Also included (pp. 213-288) is a transcript of a medical work entitled "Pro Bono Publico the Sick Man's Companion or Dr Nevett's Mite to his fellow Creatures".
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- English
- Welsh
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English, Welsh.
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Title supplied from contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 14933A.
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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
September 2006.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Original description by Dafydd Ifans, adapted by Nia Mai Daniel,