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- 1832 / (Creation)
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Biographical history
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The volume once belonged to Telegraphs / Signals N.C.O. Dmitriy Nikolaevich Tikhonov, and was found at Sevastopol, 8 October 1855 by John ('Redan') Lewes, Llan-llyr (Llanlear), co. Cardigan, major, 3rd Foot.
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Scope and content
A volume of transcripts, in Church Slavonic, from the 'Lives of the Saints', of the life of Christ, the life and suffering of Varvara, the martyr, the life of Varlaam, the first abbot of the Cave monastery of Kiev, and the life of Tito, the presbyter. The title-page, which is misleading, reads as follows: 'Mykola Koval' malorossiiskaya povi'st' nyneshnavo vremi'ni sochinenie Nikolaya Vengera Nikolaev 1832g.' [Mykola, the smith. A Ukrainian tale of the present time. The work of Nikolai Venger Nikolaev, 1832].
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Church Slavonic.
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Finding aids
The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).
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Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 11984A.
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Name access points
- Varvara, Saint, d. 306 (Subject)
- Jesus Christ -- Biography. (Subject)
- Varlaam, Saint (Subject)
- Tito, d. ca. 1190 (Subject)
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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
November 2009.
Language(s)
- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971);