File NLW MS 12531B. - The Pesaro (Venice) library,

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NLW MS 12531B.

Title

The Pesaro (Venice) library,

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  • [1901x1912]. (Creation)

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A volume lettered on the spine 'Catalogue of the late Pesaro Library at Venice', being a copy of a catalogue compiled in 1806 of the books which had formed the Pesaro library in Venice [and which had been purchased by Thomas Johnes of Hafod, co. Cardigan, in 1805]. The catalogue is in five sections, the first containing a list of Aldine editions arranged in chronological order, and the other four listing the remaining works according to language.

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Language of material

  • English
  • Latin
  • Italian
  • French
  • Spanish

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English, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish.

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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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For a note on the purchase of these books and on the published catalogue see Herbert M. Vaughan: 'The Hafod Press and Colonel Thomas Johnes, Author and Publisher', The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1911-12, pp. 1-22.

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 12531B.

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vtls004956503

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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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

February 2010.

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  • 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);

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  • Text: NLW MS 12531B.