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Iolo Morganwg and Taliesin Ab Iolo Manuscripts and Papers (GB 0210 IOLNWG) Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Cymorth chwilio | Finding Aid - Iolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers (GB 0210 IOLNWG) Cynhyrchir gan Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Argraffwyd: Mai 04, 2017 Printed: May 04, 2017 Wrth lunio'r disgrifiad hwn dilynwyd canllawiau ANW a seiliwyd ar ISAD(G) Ail Argraffiad; rheolau AACR2; ac LCSH Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH https://archifau.llyfrgell.cymru/index.php/iolo-morganwg-manuscripts archives.library .wales/index.php/iolo-morganwg-manuscripts Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Allt Penglais Aberystwyth Ceredigion United Kingdom SY23 3BU 01970 632 800 01970 615 709 [email protected] www.llgc.org.uk Iolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers Tabl cynnwys | Table of contents Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information .............................................................................................. 3 Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch ......................... 5 Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content .......................................................................................................... 5 Trefniant | Arrangement .................................................................................................................................. 6 Nodiadau | Notes ............................................................................................................................................. 6 Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points ............................................................................................................... 7 Llyfryddiaeth | Bibliography ........................................................................................................................... 7 Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions ............................................................................................................ 7 - Tudalen | Page 2 - GB 0210 IOLNWG Iolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information Lleoliad | Repository: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Teitl | Title: Iolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers ID: GB 0210 IOLNWG Virtua system control vtls003844446 number [alternative]: Project identifier ANW [alternative]: Dyddiad | Date: [16 cent.]-[20 cent., first ¼] (dyddiad creu | date of creation) Disgrifiad ffisegol | 169 volumes, 28 boxes. Physical description: Iaith | Language: Ancient Greek Iaith | Language: English Iaith | Language: French Iaith | Language: Italian Iaith | Language: Latin Iaith | Language: Welsh Dyddiadau creu, golygu a dileu | Dates of creation, revision and deletion: Nodyn | Note The following sources were used in the compilation of this [sourcesDescription]: description: Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 (London, 1959); Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004; online ed., October 2005) <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/ article/29498> [accessed 22 April 2014]; NLW, List of Manuscripts from the collection of Iolo Morganwg... (1978); NLW, Schedule of Miscellaneous papers from the collection of Iolo Morganwg... (1978); NLW, Schedule of Printed Books, Letters, and Papers relating to Iolo Morganwg and members of his family... (1955); NLW, Schedule of the Letters addressed to Iolo Morganwg or written by him... (1957); NLW, Schedule of the Letters addressed to 'Taliesin ab Iolo' or written by him... (1959); NLW Annual Reports, 1954 and 1955; NLW, Papurau'r Athro Griffith John Williams Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 3 GB 0210 IOLNWG Iolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers P1/4/114-6 (letters, 1953-4, from E. D. Jones, NLW, concerning the donation of the fonds). Nodyn | Note Title based on contents of fonds. [generalNote]: Nodyn | Note Papers donated by Mrs J. Mackinlay in 1955 (the 'Mackinlay [generalNote]: Group') were originally catalogued as a separate sequence (designated M1-82; see NLW, Schedule of Printed Books, Letters, and Papers relating to Iolo Morganwg and members of his family... (1955)). With the exception of M68, M70 and M72-82, which are now NLW MS 19899E, they were subsequently integrated into the rest of the archive (see NLW MSS 21281-2E, 21285-6E, 21397E, 21410E and 21419-20E). Nodyn | Note Formerly known as the 'Iolo Aneurin Williams Manuscripts' or [generalNote]: 'Casgliad Iolo A. Williams' (named for the donor of the majority of the archive). Those manuscripts catalogued up to the 1970s were previously designated Iolo A. Williams (or IAW) 1-145. Nodyn | Note Twelve printed books (some annotated) belonging to Iolo Morganwg [generalNote]: or Taliesin ab Iolo have been transferred to the existing 'Casgliad Iolo Morganwg' in the Printed Collections Department (August 2016). These comprise the seven volumes numbered 1-4, 6, 7-8 in NLW, Schedule of Printed Books, Letters, and Papers relating to Iolo Morganwg and members of his family... (1955); together with copies of Thomas Llewelyn, Remarks on the British Tongue... (1769), John Davies, Antiqvae Lingvae Britannicae... Rudimenta (1621) and Edward Williams, Salmau yr Eglwys yn yr Anialwch (1812), donated by Iolo A. Williams, January-August 1959; a copy of the 'Salmau Cân' of Edmwnd Prys from the Ellis Wynne edition of the Welsh Book of Common Prayer (1710), donated by Iolo A. Williams and Ursula H. Williams, 1954; and an incomplete copy of The Historie of Cambria, ed. by David Powel (1584, STC 4606). A further four volumes noted in the NLW Annual Reports 1958-60 (Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (1792) and Mark Wilks, The Origin and Stability of the French Revolution. A Sermon… (1791) bound in one volume, The Book of Common Prayer (1802) and Hymns for Public Worship (1802) also bound in one volume, Owen Jones and William Owen[-Pughe], Barddoniaeth Dafydd ab Gwilym (1789) and Thomas Richards, A Welsh Grammar (1804)), and the remaining four volumes listed in the 1955 Schedule have not been located. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 4 GB 0210 IOLNWG Iolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch Nodyn | Note Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg, 1747-1826), stonemason, poet and literary forger, was born 10 March 1747 in Llancarfan, Glamorgan, to Edward Williams (1715-1795), stonemason, and Ann Matthews (1713-1770), and lived for most of his life in Flemingston (or Flimston), Glamorgan, apart from periods spent in London, Kent and elsewhere. His only schooling came from his mother and from the numerous poets who taught him their craft. He worked as a monumental mason and builder. He also tried his hand at various other trades but with little success; he was imprisoned for debt in Cardiff Gaol in 1786. In 1781 Iolo married Margaret Roberts (1749-1827). They had four children, of which two, Margaret (b. 1782) and Taliesin (1787-1847), survived into adulthood. Iolo Morganwg died at Flemingston on 18 December 1826. Iolo had various literary, antiquarian and political interests. He wrote poetry in both Welsh and English, his Poems Lyrical and Pastoral appearing in 1794. He became a Unitarian from about 1797 and wrote many hymns, published in Salmau yr Eglwys yn yr Anialwch (1812, 1827 and 1834). Following the French Revolution he had radical sympathies. However he has become notorious for his forgeries and fabrications. The edition of Dafydd ap Gwilym published in 1789 contained an appendix of additional poems which were in fact written by Iolo. The Myvyrian Archaiology (1801, 1807), of which he was an editor contained many of his fabrications. These forgeries went largely undiscovered until the early twentieth century. His interest in the ancient druids led to his unveiling of the Gorsedd of Bards of Great Britain, which first met on Primrose Hill, London, in 1792. He claimed it to be a miraculous survival from ancient times and it persists as an integral part of the ritual and pageantry of the National Eisteddfod. However it too was invented by Iolo. Following Iolo's death his son Taliesin, a schoolmaster in Merthyr Tydfil, edited his manuscripts and upheld his legacy, apparently completely oblivious to the forgeries. Hanes Gwarchodol | Custodial history Following Taliesin Williams's death in 1847 his son Edward produced a catalogue of the manuscripts and papers of Iolo Morganwg in the family's possession, divided into four groups, Classes A-D (additionally Class E consisted of printed books, see T13/2). Some years later a large portion of the papers were acquired by Lord and Lady Hall, Llanover. These were deposited in the National Library in 1916 (see NLW, Llanover Manuscripts) and consisted of the majority of Class B (24 out of 30), all 75 volumes in Class C and a further 17 volumes apparently not listed by Edward Williams (confusingly these were then designated as Class E). Besides Taliesin's papers, the manuscripts and papers donated by Iolo Aneurin Williams and family from 1953 onwards consist mostly of the papers in Class D and a few of the missing Class B. The vellum rolls listed as Class A remain missing. Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content Manuscripts and papers of Iolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo, [16 cent.]-[20 cent., first ¼], comprising correspondence of Iolo Morganwg, 1676-1826; manuscripts and other papers,
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