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Iolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers Welsh poetry
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Notebooks (2)

Twenty-two notebooks and bundles, 1817-[1839], containing notes and memoranda by Taliesin on a variety of subjects. The volumes comprise notebooks, 1817-[1839] (T2/8, 10) and undated (T2/1-6, 12-15); bundles of miscellaneous loose papers (kept in old covers) (T2/7, 9, 11); old covers with no contents (T2/16-17); and notebooks relating to Welsh Triads (T2/18-22, as well as parts of T2/10).

Notes

Miscellaneous notes broadly relating to Welsh and Glamorgan history, Welsh literature and related subjects. They comprise: bundles of loose papers (T3/1-2) and notebooks (T3/3-14) containing notes and memoranda on a variety of historical subjects, including Bonedd y Saint; notebooks and loose notes on Welsh poetry and poets (T3/15-18); miscellaneous notes on sayings, idioms, etc. (T3/19); a few recipes for ink and toothache (T3/20); miscellaneous fragments, together with three maps drawn on tissue paper (T3/21); a bundle of annotated wrappers used by Taliesin to sort some of his and his father's papers (T3/22 – see also T13/7); six booklets, 1838-1839, containing extracts from manuscripts relating to Wales at the British Museum and Bodleian Library (T3/23); a bundle of foolscap sheets containing mostly genealogical texts relating to Welsh saints and legendary figures (T3/24); and a transcript of a lecture on Oriental languages 'Delivered by Professor [Duncan] Forbes at K[ing's] C[ollege] London', November 1837 (T3/25).

Poetry, word lists and Triads

Two bundles of Welsh and English poetry mostly by, or in the hand of, Iolo Morganwg, 1776-[1826] (E6/1-2), and three notebooks containing poetry and some prose, [late 18 cent.]-1822 (E6/3-5); together with bundles of loose papers containing miscellaneous word lists (E6/6-7), Welsh Triads (E6/8), and medicinal, food and other recipes, 1776-1821 (E6/9).

Rolls

Three paper rolls, on rollers, containing four cywyddau by Iolo Morganwg, dated 1799-1810 (E10/1), Welsh poetry by Iolo, including over 100 englynion and forty-two dyrïau, dated 1778-1816 (E10/2) and Iolo's bardic alphabet, [c. 1817] (watermark 1815) (E10/3); together with another blank roll and an empty roller (E10/4-5). Also in the box is a bundle of papers containing a 'Survey for Mr Davies Pantysgallog', [1824] (E10/6); a few miscellaneous maps and drawings (E10/7); and three scraps of parchment, one containing a miniature painting of some goats (E10/8-10).