Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1721-1722 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
Llanstephan MS 189i: 354 ff.
Llanstephan MS 189ii: 145 ff.
Bound in full calf.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Inside the cover is the bookplate of 'John M. Traherne, F.R.S.', who gave the volume to 'The Lord Bishop of St. David's, August 1851'.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A manuscript containing 'Lexicon Cambro-Britannicum' by William Gambold, late of Exeter College, Oxford, later rector of Puncheston in Pembrokeshire. Part i of the manuscript contains an English-Welsh dictionary of '88 sheets, writ in 7 months' and completed 'Sep. 14. 1722'. The material was 'collected out of Dr. Davies's Latin-Welsh Dictionary, the Welsh translation of the holy Bible, several approved Welsh Authors, and common use'. There are three columns to each folio. Part ii contains a Welsh-English dictionary of '36 sheets', begun 'Nov. 27. 1721' and completed 'Feby. 17th 1721/2'. There are three columns to each folio.
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, Welsh.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
J. Gwenogvryn Evans, Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language, vol. II, part II (London, 1903), p. 776.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available on microfilm at the Library.
Available as a facsimile at the Library.
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Llanstephan MS 189i is numbered '24', also '91'.
Note
Preferred citation: Llanstephan MS 189i & ii [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Davies, John, 1567-1644 (Subject)