Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [17 cent.]-1969 / (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
18 volumes.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Rev. Ivan Thomas Davies ([c. 1852]-1931) was born in Llanuwchllyn, Merionethshire. He attended Spring Hill College in Birmingham, returning to Llanuwchllyn to set up a business selling coal and lime. He assisted Kuno Meyer (1858-1919) with the glossary of his edition of Peredur ab Efrawc (Leipzig, 1887), and corresponded with other academics, and prominent individuals from the Llanuwchllyn area. He acquired manuscripts of Wmffre Dafydd ab Ifan and Gwilym Hiraethog and local records. In 1893 he was ordained as minister of Llandderfel and Llandrillo Congregational churches, in Merionethshire, where he stayed until he retired in 1929. He died on 6 February 1931, aged 79.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Deposited by Dr Llewelyn ap Ifan Davies (son of Ivan T. Davies), Cemmaes Road, Machynlleth, 1945-1963, and converted into donations in 1966. Further donations 1966, 1974.
NLW MS 23935D; Dr Llewelyn ap Ivan Davies; Cemmaes Road; Donation; 1966; 0200500249.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Manuscripts of works by Wmffre Dafydd ab Ifan, Llanbrynmair, [1620x1660], and others; accounts, rentals and chapel records relating to Llanuwchllyn, Llandderfel and Llandrillo-yn-Edeirnion, and the Glanllyn estate, Merionethshire, 1785-1878; commonplace books, 1717-1824; letters, mainly to Ivan T. Davies, from O. M. Edwards, T. E. Ellis, Professor Kuno Meyer and others, 1869-1929; and other items relating to the Rev. Ivan T. Davies, 1872-1969.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Action: All records deposited at the National Library of Wales have been retained..
Accruals
Accruals are not expected.
System of arrangement
Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 19660-74, 21192-3, 23935D.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Welsh, English, Greek, Latin.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Hard copies of the catalogue are available at the National Library of Wales.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Title based on name of donor. NLW MSS 19660-72 were previously NLW Minor Deposits 591-605.
Alternative identifier(s)
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Project identifier
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Glanllyn Estate (Wales) (Subject)
- Edwards, Owen M. (Owen Morgan), 1858-1920 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Rees, William, 1802-1883 -- Manuscripts. (Subject)
- Meyer, Kuno, 1858-1919. (Subject)
- Wmffre Dafydd ab Ifan, fl. 1600?-1664? (Subject)
- Rees, William, 1802-1883 (Subject)
- Ellis, Thomas Edward, 1859-1899 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Davies, Ivan T. (Ivan Thomas), -1931 -- Archives (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows ANW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
November 2003.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
The following sources were used to compile this description: NLW, Schedule of Ll. ap Ifan Davies Collection; Pugh, John, 'Y Diweddar Barch. Ifan T. Davies, Llandrillo', Y Dysgedydd, CXVII (1937), 235-238.
Archivist's note
Compiled by Rhys Jones for the ANW project.