Sub-fonds NLW MSS 21387-433. - Miscellaneous papers

Identity area

Reference code

NLW MSS 21387-433.

Title

Miscellaneous papers

Date(s)

  • [c. 1590]-1900 (Creation)

Level of description

Sub-fonds

Extent and medium

47 volumes.

Bound into volumes at NLW.

Context area

Name of creator

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Miscellaneous papers created or collected by Iolo Morganwg, including poetry and prose in Welsh and English; autobiographical and biographical material; vocabularies; papers relating to work as a monumental mason, stonemason and builder; broadsides and other political material; Unitarian and theological papers; pedigrees; topographical notes; and advertisements.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 21387-21433.

These papers were in no particular order when they came to the Library and an attempt has been made to group together items of a similar nature.

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Conditions governing access

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

Script of material

Language and script notes

English, Welsh, Latin, some French and Italian.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

The descriptions are also available in NLW, Schedule of Miscellaneous Papers from the collection of Iolo Morganwg among the Family Papers presented by Mr. Iolo Aneurin Williams and Miss H. Ursula Williams, London, 1953-4 (1978)

Allied materials area

Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

Related units of description

Sub-fonds E (Iolo Morganwg papers) contains many loose papers of a nature similar to the present manuscripts (had cataloguing work on the archive continued in the 1970s it is reasonable to suppose that many of those papers would have been treated similarly).

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Notes area

Note

Title based on contents.

Note

Formerly Iolo A. Williams MSS 96-143.

Note

Preferred citation: NLW MSS 21387-433.

Alternative identifier(s)

Virtua system control number

vtls005703875

Project identifier

ISYSARCHB72

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Description identifier

Institution identifier

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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Physical storage

  • Text: NLW MSS 21387-433.