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- [1767x1826] / (Creation)
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Paginated 1-206 (a few pages not numbered, pp. 182-191 twice).
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Miscellaneous papers and fragments containing notes, transcripts, lists, copies of his own poems, etc., by Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg') bound together in one volume. The contents include holograph copies of Welsh poems by Edward Williams himself using the bardic names 'Iolo Morganwg', 'I[orwer] th G[wili]m', and 'Ior[wer]th Morganwg'; transcripts of Welsh strict- and free-metre poems (often incomplete) including single stanzas attributed to Huw Morus and Edward Morus (pp. 60, 65), a few stanzas attributed to Gronwy Owain (p. 78), and an 'englyn' attributed to Iorwerth Fynglwyd (p. 141), etc.; a short list of Welsh names of 'different sorts of grass or hay in Glam[organ]' (p. 32); a short list of 'Glum[organ] proverbs' (p. 42 ); draft copies or transcripts of the words of two English election songs written in connection with a parliamentary election in co. Glamorgan [? the election involving Thomas Wyndham of Dunraven Castle and Capt. Thomas Windsor, R.N., in 1789] (pp. 75-6); a ? draft version of an English poem entitled 'Bardic Institutes, a Vision Written in an ancient Bardic circle on Morlais Hill near Merthyr Tidvil, Glam.' (pp. 80-82); excerpts from the work of various Welsh poets headed 'Quotations from Bards relating to usages, Institutes, mythology, Literature, etc., of the Bards' (pp. 83-4 and possibly 193-4); an incomplete copy of an English poem 'The Royal Shepherd' (p. 87); a note in Welsh recording a meeting held at Pen y Bont ar Ogwr [Bridgend, co. Glamorgan] to celebrate victories over [Napoleon] Bonopart (p. 90); a short list of Welsh strict poetic metres headed 'Dosparth Llawdden' (p. 101); a very brief note on 'Lords Halls of Courts and Justice at Coyty, Lantwit, St. Brides, St. Athan, Penmark, [and] Lancarvan [co. Glamorgan]' and 'Baronial Court Halls' of the vale of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire (p. 103); a list in Welsh of some of the traditional customs and pastimes of Glamorgan ('Hen Arferion a Defodau Morganwg') (pp. 105-06); an anecdote relating to Morgan ab Ithel o Forganwg, Hywel Dda, and Blegywryd (p. 107); an anecdote relating to efforts made to deprive the Welsh of education subsequent to the rebellion of Owain Glyndwr, the renewal or spread of the practice of writing by inscribing on wood, and the teaching of this practice to the bards of Gwynedd and Powis by Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal and Llawdden Fardd (pp. 115- 116); notes relating to Welsh poetic metres (pp. 139-40, 142, 183-4); a non-chronological list of events in English and Welsh history, 852-1415 ( pp. 143 + 48); a prose tale entitled 'Ystori Rhitta Gawr' (p. 144); statistical tables giving the population of twenty-one parishes in the hundred of Swansea [co. Glamorgan], and four parishes in the hundred of Carnawllon, Caermarthenshire, 1811 (p. 145); brief notes containing speculation as to the state of the province of Siluria [south-east Wales] at the time of the Roman withdrawal, with references to the ancient seminary at Carlion, place names reminiscent of the 'first Planters' of Christianity in the province, monumental inscriptions, etc. (p. 149); ? draft versions or transcripts of the words of Welsh psalm or hymn tunes (pp. 166-7); medicinal recipes in Welsh (pp. 187-90); notes on the 'corfan' or metrical foot in the class of poems called 'dyriau' (p. 184, second sequence); a list of towns, etc., in co. Glamorgan headed 'Town Halls of [ ]' (p- 195); miscellaneous Welsh word lists; miscellaneous triads; extracts from the works of various Welsh bards; and other miscellanea. Some of the notes have been written on the reverse of a promissory note signed by Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg') in London, 13 January 1794 (p. 96), the reverse side of an account rendered by Thos. Williams, marble mason, to Hercules Clarke, mason, in respect of a chimneypiece (pp. 164 + 169), and the reverse side and margins of a copy of printed proposals, May 1799, for publishing a periodical to be called Eurgrawn Cymraeg neu Drysorfa Gwybodaeth (pp. 187 + 190).
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English, Welsh.
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The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).
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Formerly known as Llanover C. 7.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 13094E.
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- Elections -- Wales -- Glamorgan -- 1789 -- Songs and music
- Bards and bardism.
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1814.
- Courts -- Wales -- Glamorgan
- Mansions -- Wales -- Glamorgan
- Mansions -- Wales -- Monmouthshire
- Poetics.
- Education -- Wales -- History.
- Medicine -- Wales -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- Traditional medicine -- Wales -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- City halls -- Wales -- Glamorgan
- Welsh poetry
- Welsh periodicals -- 18th century.
- Hymns, Welsh
- Glamorgan (Wales) -- Politics and government -- 18th century
- Glamorgan (Wales) -- Social life and customs.
- Wales -- History
- England -- History.
- Swansea (Wales) -- Population
- Carmarthenshire (Wales) -- Population
- Monmouthshire (Wales) -- History -- To 1063.
- Caerleon (Wales) -- History -- To 1063.
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- Great Britain. Parliament -- Elections, 1789 (Subject)
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 (Subject)
- Morgan ab Ithel (Subject)
- Llawdden, active 1450 (Subject)
- Hywel, King of Wales, -950 (Subject)
- Blegywryd, fl. ca. 945 (Subject)
- Glendower, Owen, approximately 1354-1416 (Subject)
- Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal, d. ca. 1485 (Subject)
- Owen, Goronwy, 1723-1769? (Subject)
- Morys, Huw (Subject)
- Morris, Edward, 1607?-1689 (Subject)
- Iorwerth Fynglwyd, fl. 1485-1527 (Subject)
- Williams, Thomas, marble mason (Subject)
- Clarke, Hercules (Subject)