Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1875x1919]. (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
65 vols.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Whitley Stokes (1830-1909), lawyer and Celtic scholar, qualified as a barrister in 1855 and worked in a legal capacity in India from 1862 to 1882. He is most famous, however, as a Celtic scholar, having studied Irish, Breton and Cornish texts and published numerous works in this field. He obtained many honourary degrees and was a Fellow of the British Academy. Kuno Meyer (1858-1919), of Hamburg, was a Celtic philologist, an accomplished linguist and translator and noted also as a poet. He made the Irish language the great passion of his life, encouraging its regeneration through the learning and maintenance of the tongue and, in 1903, founding a school of Irish studies and scholarship.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Acquisition; 1922
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A collection, [1875x1919], made by Whitley Stokes and Kuno Meyer of photographic facsimiles of Irish manuscripts, or of Latin manuscripts containing Irish glosses, etc.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 4631-4695.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- iri
- Latin
Script of material
Language and script notes
Irish, Latin.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The descriptions, with a detailed index, are also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume II (Aberystwyth, 1951).
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MSS 4631-4695.
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
GEAC system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Stokes, Whitley, 1830-1909 -- Archives (Subject)
- Meyer, Kuno, 1858-1919 -- Archives (Subject)
- Stokes, Whitley, 1830-1909 (Subject)
- Meyer, Kuno, 1858-1919 (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
September 2005.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
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 II (Aberystwyth, 1951);