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Adroddiad Blynyddol 1952

Adroddiad Blynyddol 1952

ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL / ANNUAL REPORT 1951-52

PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES 1952001 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs K Abery, . Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A large number of photographic plates of Brecknockshire, , and Border County interest, including plates of architectural features, places of historic interest, etc. (Dept of Pictures and Maps)

H M ARTHUR 1952002 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H M Arthur, LL.B., . Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Seven miscellaneous works, including the fourth edition of Brightman's The Revelation of St John, 1644 (Dept of Printed Books).

THE HISTORY OF `THE TIMES' 1952003 Ffynhonnell / Source Colonel the Hon John J Astor, . Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description On behalf of the proprietors, Colonel Astor has presented the two parts of the fourth and final volume of The History of 'The Times' (Dept of Printed Books). The Library's set of the volumes of this magnificent work is now complete. Not only is it a historical document of the first importance, but it is also a monument of typographical excellence. The historical value of the work is enhanced by the use made of material additional to the archives of The Times Offfice. For example, use has been made of the Milne Papers at New College, the Asquith Papers at Balliol, and the Lloyd George and other papers in the possession of Lord Beaverbrook. The two parts between them run to over 1,000 pages and include long appendices and a most thorough index.

SIR H IDRIS BELL 1952004 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir Harold Idris Bell, C.B., O.B.E., D.Litt., F.B.A., . Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description The donor continues to supply the Library with, among other learned publications, offprints of articles or reviews by him mainly on the subject of Greek papyrology (Dept of Printed Books). He also frequently passes on to the Library copies of the works he has received for review. Among his more recent donations are Le Mikyas ou Nilometre de l'Île de Rodah, by Kamel Osman Ghaleb Pasha, an offprint of an article by him in The Indian Archives (Vol. 14, 1950) on 'The Custody of records in Roman Egypt', and a copy of the Oxford Almanack for 1951.

DR LUKE BOOKER 1952005 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Dulcie Booker, Bridgend. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A file of documents relating to the educational and ecclesiastical career of Dr Luke Booker, 1785-1814 (NLW MS 16047E), including the instrument of his appointment as chaplain to the Prince of , 28 November 1814, and the diploma of his doctorate at Aberdeen, 1791; the marriage licence of Thomas William Booker of Pentyrch, 1824, and papers relating to his appointment to a deputy lieutenancy, 1831; four deeds, 1692-1819, relating to properties in Llantrissent, Llantwit Vaerdre, and Pentyrch; an account book of Dr John Thomas Casberd, 1818-19; and a song beginning 'In the tenth Book of Job'.

BRITISH RECORDS ASSOCIATION 1952006 Ffynhonnell / Source The British Records Association. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Five documents, 1784-1880, relating to properties in and Old and , co. Radnor, Llanfihangel Penbedw, co. Pembroke, and and Tremain, co. Cardigan.

DIARIES OF L J BROWN 1952007 Ffynhonnell / Source The Relatives of the late Mr L J Brown, Dolgelley, per Mr Harold R Crabtree, . Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Personal records of Leonard Joseph Brown (d. 1951), an employee in the Clerical Department of the Great Western Railway, Paddington, who spent his retirement first at Barmouth and subsequently at Ty'n-y-ceunant, Islaw'r-dref, Dolgelley. They consist of 307 thick notebooks and fifty-two smaller draft notebooks being his diaries, with a few gaps, for 1892-1948, their main Welsh interest being detailed accounts of his 581 ascents of Cader Idris; registers of his correspondence, 1939-40, 1943-4; a register of over 5,000 snapshots taken by him, 1906-40; a volume of statistics of his mountain ascents, holiday travels, and walks, 1892-1951; individual accounts by him of the ascent of numerous British mountains, including Snowdon, Cader Idris, Pumlumon, Brecknock Beacons, Elidyr Fawr, Elidyr Fach, Sugar Loaf, Mynydd Pen Cyrn, etc.; and leaves abstracted from the diaries of his uncle L. W. Brown (1846-1926) of Bath, and a volume of extracts from the same diaries, 1870-1921, recording visits to , the first in 1873 and the last in 1904, on behalf of Messrs C. Milsom and Sons, pianoforte dealers, Bath. Mynegai

CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON 1952008 Ffynhonnell / Source The Carnegie Institution of Washington, per The Director. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description The two most recent of the valuable publications of this Institution received by the Library are Vegetation of the Sonoran Desert, Vol. I, by Forrest Shreve, 1951, and Excavations at Nebaj, Guatemala, by A. Ledyard Smith and Alfred V. Kidder, 1951 (Dept of Printed Books).

JOHN CLEMENT 1952009 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr John Clement, . Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Two interesting works on the history of the Christian Church in the United States of America, a subject on which the donor is a recognised expert (Dept of Printed Books). They are:- British humanitarianism: essays honouring Frank J. Klingberg, ed. by S. C. MacCulloch (Philadelphia, 1950), and The Catholic Movement in the American Church, by George E. de Mille, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia, 1950).

JEAN VAN EYCK ET LE POLYPTYQUE 1952010 Ffynhonnell / Source Professor P Coremans of the Laboratoire Central des Musees de Belgique and Professor J Lavalleye of the University of Louvain, per The British Council (Fine Arts Department). Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of Jean Van Eyck et le Polyptyque: deux problemes resolus. Par Emile Renders (Bruxelles, 1950) (Dept of Pictures and Maps). No. 1790 of an edition which is limited to 2,000 copies and which will never be repeated. It is a magnificently produced work in two quarto volumes. The first volume, printed in large type, consists of text in which the author claims to prove that the celebrated polyptych of the Holy Lamb on the altar of the Church of St Bavon in Ghent is entirely the work of Jan van Eyck, and was not, as has been generally accepted, begun by his brother Hubert and then completed by him. The author even maintains that Jan had no brother named Hubert. The second volume consists of beautiful plates in monochrome, those giving details of the painting being marked with the letters J or H according as they are, in the author's view, the work of Jan van Evck or of his pretendu frere, as the author dubs Hubert. Study of these details, so the author maintains, reveals not two separate artists but two distinct periods in the evolution of one and the same artist, and that one Jan van Eyck.

DR DAVIES 1952011 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs E Clement Davies, . Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts of the late Dr Morgan Davies, including his analysis of allusions to Britain and to places in Britain in Ptolemy, the Itinerary of Antonine, Notitia Imperii, the Anonymous Geographer of Ravenna, Tabula Peutingeriana, and Richard of Cirencester; notes on Caesar's 'De Bello Gallico'; a study of Latinized British names, a list of Brythonic personal names found in Greek and Roman authors; a study of Welsh terms of relationship; a copy of a letter to David Davies, esquire, afterwards Lord Davies of , concerning the location of the National Library and National Museum of Wales, 25 April 1905; a translation into Welsh of Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; and a volume of press cuttings of articles by Dr Morgan Davies under his own name and under his pseudonym, 'Teryll y Bannau'.

DAVIES, GREGYNOG 1952012 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Miss Gwendoline E Davies, C.H., per Miss Margaret S Davies, LL.D., Gregynog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Five volumes of outstanding interest and value, consisting of two medieval manuscripts and three printed books. The earlier of the two manuscripts, both of which are of great charm and beauty, is the 'Sherbrooke' Missal, a manuscript written in a stately hand of about 1310 and admirably decorated in the East Anglian style (NLW MS 15536E). There is no indication of its original home, but from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth it was the property of the Sherbrooke family. William Morris owned it later, and from his library it passed into the famous collection of Henry Yates Thompson in 1898. Additional offices written in the margin in a fifteenth century hand include those of SS David, Chad and Winifred. The other manuscript is the 'De Grey ' Book of Hours, a fine example of English illumination of the first half of the fifteenth century (NLW MS 15537C). It belonged to the De Grey family of Blisworth, Northamptonshire. A note opposite the Calendar refers to the death of Elizabeth Grey, wife of Sir John Grey of Blisworth. This Sir John Grey was a great-grandson of Reginald, third Baron de Grey of Ruthin, whose animosity towards Owain Glyn Dwr led to the latter's rising. This manuscript also was in the Yates Thompson collection. Two of the printed books are famous in the history of printing (Dept of Printed Books). The earlier of the two is the edition of Jacopo da Voragine's Golden Legerld in Caxton's translation, printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1512. It is unfortunately imperfect, some leaves being missing, but it remains a handsome volume, finely bound as it is in rich brown Levant morocco, with gilt edges, and the back and sides blindtooled with a floral design. The other is a copy of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer produced by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press in 1896 - the book which is generally regarded as the highest achievement in the art and craft of modern printing. The third book presented is a copy of the 1577 Geneva edition of the English Bible (Dept of Printed Books). Nodiadau Restricted access to Manuscripts.

DAVIES, GREGYNOG 1952013 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Margaret S Davies, LL.D., Gregynog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A valuable and interesting collection of eighty-eight etchings by some of the most eminent European masters of the art during the last 500 years (Dept of Pictures and Maps). The collection comprises five etchings by Albrecht Durer (1472-1528), including 'The Nativity' and 'The Virgin with the Monkey'; three by Harmensz van Rijn Rembrandt (1606-69), including 'Christ in the Garden of Olives' and 'Rembrandt leaning on a stone sill'; sixteen by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), 'The Thames Set' published in 1871; five by Jean Louis Forain (1852-1931); two by Anders Leonard Zorn (1860-1920); and fifty-seven by Augustus John (b. 1878), many of which had previously been lent for exhibition at the National Library in 1948. The etchings by Forain and John were presented in memory of the late Miss Gwendoline Davies, CH, and those by Whistler in memory of the late Mrs. Edward Davies, Broneirion, Llandinam. Two files of Welsh folk-songs collected by Dr J. Lloyd Williams, some of which have been printed in The Journal of the Welsh Folk-Song Society (NLW MSS 17342-3E).

M F H DE THOMAS, CHUBUT 1952014 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs M F H de Thomas, Chubut, Argentine. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript collection of poems entitled 'Rhai o Gerddi'r Wladfa: detholiad o gerddi gwladfaol o eiddo gwahanol awduron' (NLW MS 15402C).

W J ELLISS, 1952015 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W J Elliss, Aberdaron. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description In addition to the interesting and rather unusual work, The Imperial Constantinian Order of St George, by H. I. H. Prince Rhodocanakis, 2 vols (London, 1870), the donor has presented about forty books of Welsh biography and modern Anglo-Welsh literature (Dept of Printed Books). The latter category includes several of Rhys Davies's works autographed by the author and a representative collection of Arthur Machen's works. A portrait in oils by J. C. Rowland, 1855, of George William Bulkeley Hughes (1835-87), Plascoch, , second Chief Constable of Anglesey (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

D W EVANS, PENMAENMAWR 1952016 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr D W Evans, Penmaenmawr. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Three volumes of the manuscript journal Efrydydd Phonographia, 1890-2, and papers relating to 'Cymdeithas Llaw-fer Gymraeg' (NLW MSS 15247-9B).

CASTELL GWALLTER LODGE OF THE ORDER OF TRUE IVORITES 1952017 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr and Mrs Gwilym Evans, , nr Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Records of the Castell Gwallter (Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn) Lodge ('Cyfrinfa Castell Gwallter') in the Aberystwyth District Branch of the St David's Unity of the Order of True Ivorites: I. Manuscript volumes:- six ledgers of receipts and disbursements, 1841-68, 1875-1908 (NLW MSS 17308-12D, 17313E); three contributions books, 1841-68, 1901-23 (NLW MSS 17314-6D); an attendance book of officers' meetings, 1841-1921, together with a list of the original members and those subsequently enrolled, 1841-72 (NLW MS 17317D); and a list of persons deputed to pay daily visits to sick members, 1844-55, 1875, together with some particulars of receipts and disbursements, 1863-4 (NLW MS 17318B). II. Unbound documents:- declarations that sums of money cited in notes of hand belonged to the Lodge, 1842-8; a declaration by Jenkin Jenkins of the Black Lion, Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn, saddler, and others, that a sum of £160 mentioned in a deed of mortgage of even date was the property of the Lodge, 27 Dec. 1844 (NLW MS 17319E); a list of persons indebted to the Lodge ('Personau ag i mae'r Blwch yn ei gofyn ') to 11 June 1845; a notebook kept by the secretary, Isaac Williams, schoolmaster, , giving dates of first payments of relief to members ('Pa bryd y dechreuasant bwyso ar y blwch'), 1847-59; a table of contributions made on specified occasions (funerals, dinners, etc.), 1849-51; an agreement (not executed) for the erection of a dwelling-house for the Lodge, 1853; letters of transfers to the Lodge, 1848, 1875; notices by members of inability to work and ability to resume employment, and medical certificates, 1846, 1868-79; a few letters to the secretary, 1846-60; minutes of meetings of the Lodge, 28 March 1873, and of the Aberystwyth District Branch, 25 June 1846, 6 April 1848, 6 October 1852, 19 April 1867, Good Friday, 1868, and 7 January and 3 June 1874 (NLW MS 17320C); statements of half-yearly receipts and disbursements, 1868-75; vouchers, 1850-80, the majority of which relate to the erection of the Lodge meeting house in 1853; miscellaneous accounts, 1848-79 and undated; numerous death certificates, 1876-93, 1904 (NLW MS 17321E); and an undated petition of John Lewis, of the schooner Ocean, to the Lodge for assistance to raise his vessel stranded on the Cornish coast. III. Printed matter (Dept of Printed Books):- (a) official literature of the St David's Unity, including various editions of rules and regulations, 1859, 1868, 1878, 1896; minutes and resolutions (Welsh and English) of annual, half-yearly, and quarterly meetings, 1842-3 ('yn nghyd a chyfrifon Undebiaeth Iforaidd Caerfyrddin'), 1854, 1867-75, 1877-80, 1896; agenda ('Rhagdrefn') of the annual conference, 1874; a statement of account, 1849-50; the inaugural address (Welsh and English) of Mr Edward Evans, Aberdulais, to the annual conference, 1897 calendars ('Y Blwyddiadur'), 1904, [1905]; A few Directions ('Ychydig Gyfarwyddiadau') issued by the Board of Directors to members in connection with the National Insurance Act, 1912; Ivorites' Magazine, Nov. 1942; a form of procedure ('Aelodiaeth') on the admission of new members; and blank forms of transfer of members; (b) rules of the Aberystwyth District Branch (Welsh and English), 1892; and (c) annual statements of accounts ('Dangoslen Cyfrifon') of the Castell Gwallter Lodge, 1862-3, 1867-8, 1870-1, 1889-90, 1899-1900, 1902-3, 1903-4, 1905-6, 1907-9, 1920, and blank forms of demands for the payment of contributions.

JOHN WILLIAMS (`AB ITHEL') 1952018 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr A D Ffoulkes-Jones, . Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Letters and papers of Rev John Williams (Ab Ithel), MA, (1811-62), rector of , co. Merioneth, and his family (NLW MSS 17163-90). Among the papers are page-proofs of parts of Brut y Tywysogion (NLW MS 17163D); drafts and incomplete copies in manuscript of several of Ab Ithel's printed works, including Y Gododin (NLW MS 17167E), The Traditionary Annals of the Cymry (NLW MS 17168E), Druidism (NLW MS 17169E), Brut y Tywysogion (NLW MS 17164E), and Annales Cambriae (NLW MS 17165E); contributions to The Cambrian Journal, of which he was editor (NLW MS 17171E0; his address at the Conway , 1861 (NLW MS 17187A); papers relating to his collation to the rectory of Llanymawddwy, 19 September 1849 (NLW MS 17189E); the indenture of apprenticeship of John Williams, his son, 23 April 1856 (NLW MS 17189E); 'The Church of England independent of the Church of Rome in all ages' (NLW MS 17175B); sermons in English and Welsh (NLW MS 17184C); 'A few plain and practical Observations on Anglican Education' (NLW MS 17185B); the prize essay on the question 'whether the British Druids offered human sacrifices' by 'Hu Gadarn' (NLW MS 17173D); an essay entitled 'Traethawd ar Ddarganfyddiad yr America Gan Madog ab Owain , yn nghylch y ddeuddegfed ganrif' by 'Columbus' (NLW MS 17188C); an essay 'On the state of Agriculture and the progress of Arts & Manufactures in Britain, during the period & under the influence of the Druidical System' by Rev John Jones, MA, (see Archaeologia Cambrensis, Supplement 1850) (NLW MS 17176E); 'Y Telynwr Cymreig, sef cyfarwyddiadau i ddysgu'r Delyn' by 'Dafydd Frenin' (NLW MS 17177F); four essays on 'Y manteision a ddeillia i'r Cymry o ddysgu yr iaith Seisnig' by 'Uthr Bendragon', 'Eiddil', 'Gwir Gymro', and 'Y cynyg cynta' 'rioed' (NLW MS 17188C); a history of Wales to the death of Llewelyn (NLW MS 17178E); and sections of a work on Christianity in Britain (NLW MS 17179E). Some of the letters are addressed to Ab Ithel, others to his wife and daughters (NLW MS 17190D). The correspondents include J. C. Campbell, , I. Clarke, Ruthin, Owen Wynne Jones ('Glasynys'), James Kenward ('Elfynydd'), Augusta [Hall], Lady , T. R. Lloyd ('Estyn'), R. W. Morgan ('Mor Meirion'), William Rees, Llandovery, W. J. Rees, Cascob, W. F. Skene, John Thomas ('Pencerdd Gwalia'), Arthur Hill-Trevor, Viscount Dungannon, Eliza Waddington, Llanover, John O. Westwood, Hammersmith, Morris Williams ('Nicander'), and Ab Ithel himself. Other items comprise two photograph albums (Dept of Printed Books), two volumes of press cuttings and extracts (NLW MS 17181E), a few sketches, a volume of medical and household recipes (NLW MS 17180C), and a group of letters, 1884-5, relating to the Ab Ithel Memorial Fund. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

TAILOR'S ACCOUNT BOOK 1952019 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr E C Evans, . Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description An account book of , tailor, of Lampeter, 1885-1907 (NLW MS 15244D).

R L GAPPER 1952020 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr R L Gapper, B.Sc., A.R.C.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Minutes of the Llanaelhaiarn school board, 1877-96 (NLW MS 16551D); and a builder's account book, 1904-8 (NLW Amryw 35/20).

Y DDEISEB GYMRAEG 1952021 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr William George, LL.D., . Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Letters and papers, 1938-42, relating to 'Deiseb Genedlaethol yr Iaith Gymraeg, 1939', in connection with which the donor was the prime mover. The material includes autograph letters, press cuttings, committee minutes, drafts of the Petition, and reports of meetings held at , , and Bay.

MYFANWY GRIFFITH 1952022 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Myfanwy Griffith, Llanwnog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A book of press cuttings, mainly on subjects of interest, compiled by Thomas Hamer Jones (NLW Minor Collections, Mrs Myfanwy Griffith).

JOHN GRIFFITHS, BOMBAY SCHOOL OF ART 1952023 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs H M Groves, Yetminster. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A further collection of material relating to the donor's father, John Griffiths, Principal of the Bombay School of Art (see Annual Report, 1950, p. 27) (Dept of Pictures and Maps). It includes a bas-relief modelled by John Griffiths from an engraving of Raphael's 'Three Graces'; a sketch in oils by John Griffiths depicting 'The Return - Tiger Shooting in East Berar', 1883; nine sketches by John Griffiths chiefly of Indian scenes and including a water-colour view of Ajanta, 1872; a painting of a woman's head by G. F. Watts, 1865; and an etched portrait of John Griffiths by John Lockwood Kipling, 1865.

BROGYNTYN 1952024 Ffynhonnell / Source The Right Hon Lord Harlech, K.G., P.C., G.C.M.G., D.C.L., LL.D., Brogyntyn. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A valuable collection of thirty-five works in single volumes and a collection of tracts in eleven composite volumes (Dept of Printed Books). The former consist mostly of eighteenth-century English works on a variety of topics, including numismatics, heraldry, history, and law, with a few examples of French and Italian literature. Of far greater interest are the composite volumes, containing as they do a representative collection of early eighteenth-century tracts dealing with the political and religious controversies of the time. The value of such tracts as sources for contemporary history was stressed when a similar donation by Lord Harlech was recorded in last year's Report. As was the case in the earlier collection, here again the tracts have generally been carefully assembled, so that tracts bearing on the same controversial issue are found together in the same volume. Many of these tracts, of course, were published anonymously, and some have remained anonymous to this day. But others are identified as the work of, among others, Richard Bentley, Anthony Collins, Daniel Defoe, Francis Hare, Richard Harley, Charles Povey, Jonathan Swift and John Wills or Willes.

W J HEMP, CRICIETH 1952025 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W J Hemp, M.A., F.S.A., Criccieth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Book labels of the Carmarthen Reading Society, c. 1834, the of Carmarthen Book Society, W. Cox's Circulating Library, Aberystwyth, 'Laws for the regulation of the . . . Carmarthen Circulating Library' (Dept of Printed Books), and genealogical memoranda relating to John Thomas of Thavie's Inn, 1804 (NLW MS 18426E). A signed water-colour drawing of Aberystwyth harbour, c. 1870, by David Cox, junior (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

MOSES DAVIES () 1952026 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr Laura K Maule Horne, Upper Parkstone, Dorset. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A group of business records, 1859-1916, of Moses Davies, auctioneer, estate agent and valuer, of Llanfyllin. It consists of over 1,200 sale books, valuations for probate, and inventories of properties largely in northern Montgomeryshire and southern ; three ledgers containing details of proceeds and expenses of sales, commission accounts, and valuation accounts; correspondence; sale catalogues and posters, and sale notices in the form of newspaper cuttings. Among them are a valuation, 4 February 1899, of the library (now in the National Library of Wales) and furniture of Rev Owen Jones, Llansantffraid; a notebook containing details of the daily receipts of tolls at the Llansantffraid gate, 1870-1; and a collecting book towards the purchase of the tolls of Llanfyllin Fair, 1871.

MEDICAL BOOKS 1952027 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr Lloyd W Hughes, Bottwnog, . Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Six English medical works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, together with G. Bidloo's Anatomia humani corporis (Amsterdam, 1683) (Dept of Printed Books).

ARDUDWY CHORAL FESTIVAL COMMITTEE 1952028 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr William Humphreys, Harlech. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A minute book, 1900-9, of the Rural Deanery of Ardudwy Choral Festival Committee (NLW MS 15242C).

LETTERS & AUTOGRAPHS 1952029 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr A W S Jones, Wimborne Minster. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Letters and autographs of Walter Bezant, 1876, F. W. Farrar, dean of Canterbury, Stephen Graham, S. Reynolds Hole, dean of Rochester, 1893, Sir Henry Irving, 1900, Edward Jenkins, C. Kemble, 1851, E. Landseer, James Payn, John Ruskin, 1854, W. M. Thackeray, John R. Vernon, 1894, Hugh Walpole, 1932, and Charlotte M. Yonge, 1880 (NLW MS 15246D).

DR IORWERTH HUGHES JONES 1952030 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr Iorwerth Hughes Jones, Swansea. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Transcripts of Llanavan, co. Brecknock, parish register, 1635-1720 (NLW MS 16553B), a vocabulary of the Amman Valley dialect (NLW MS 16555B), and notes on John Penry by Rev E. Aman Jones (NLW MS 16554B). A dozen volumes, mainly of Welsh theological works of the nineteenth century, pamphlets dealing with the history and religious life of Swansea, and various parts of two Welsh periodicals required in the Library's files (Dept of Printed Books).

JOHN JONES OF MOCHDRE ETC 1952031 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J Maurice Jones, . Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts and diaries of Rev John Jones of Mochdre, , Caernarvon, and Rhos, 1849-52 (NLW MSS 16811-7A); with other family papers including letters addressed to S. Maurice Jones (NLW MS 16810D).

J W JONES 1952032 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J W Jones, Blaenau . Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Notebooks and poetry by Rev R. R. Morris, and the original manuscript of Caneuon R. R. Morris, 1852-1935. A design by Christopher C. Powell, 1944, for a memorial window to 'Morgan Llwyd o Wynedd' in Ffestiniog church (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Records relating to Calvinistic Methodist churches in Caernarvon by R. R. Morris; a soldier's commonplace book, 1917; and a sermon by W. J. Davies ('Glan Llyfnwy '). An exercise book in book-keeping by David Lloyd, Portmadoc, 1844. Accounts relating to Bethel (CM) Church, , 1910-19, and to Bowydd Church, 1943. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

M ANNIE SPRAKE JONES 1952033 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss M Annie Sprake Jones, Carmarthen. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description An illuminated address presented to William Jones by the students of the Barnsley School of Art, 1880, and a list of subscribers to the testimonial presented to him and his wife upon his retirement from the headship of the Carmarthen School of Art, 1921 (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

WILLIAM THOMAS (`ISLWYN') 1952034 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr T Owen Jones, Old Colwyn. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A portrait of William Thomas, 'Islwyn', presented by him to the donor's father (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

A R LLEWELLIN-TAYLOUR 1952035 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr A R Llewellin-Taylour, M.A., F.R.S.A., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A group of autograph letters and documents (NLW MS 15238E), including autographs of Adolphus- Frederick, duke of Cambridge, 1850, George Canning, 1822, John Churchill, duke of Marlborough, 1703, Charles Dickens, 1850, Charles James Fox, 1782, John Jervis, earl of St. Vincent, 1802, Charles Kingsley, 1862, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1859, George Monck, duke of Albemarle, 1660, Sir Walter Scott (undated), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (undated), Robert Stewart, viscount Castlereagh (undated), Arthur Wellesley, duke of Wellington, 1840; a bulletin on the health of King George III, 1810; a Treasury Warrant signed by Robert Walpole and others, 1729, and a Treasury Order signed by Lord North and others, 1759; a letter from Le Citoyen Pesch to Citoyen Lagan at Hamburgh, 1797; and an order signed by Napoleon Bonaparte, 1798. About thirty volumes chiefly of art books (Dept of Printed Books). There are several catalogues of exhibitions of paintings recently organised by the Arts Council, a copy of Hutchinson's Britain Beautiful, and illustrated works of Swiss topography. Among the other books are a few military handbooks published 1914-18. Holograph letters of Sir William Hoste, 1819 (NLW MS 14005E), and Captain Hardy, 1793 (NLW MS 14351A).

HENRY REES 1952036 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss E Lloyd, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Two letters, 1863-6, by Rev Henry Rees (NLW MS 16726A), and a press cutting of his speech at Wrexham, 20 February 1869.

PEDIGREE CHART BY SCOTT GATTY 1952037 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J D K Lloyd, M.A., Montgomery. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A pedigree chart by Scott Gatty, York Herald, 1892, showing the descent of John Spencer from Beli Mawr (NLW Rolls 48).

J H LLOYD (`PERYDDON') 1952038 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr J H Lloyd ('Peryddon'), Bala. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscript histories and reminiscences of Rhosygwaliau and Cefn-dwygraig by R. W. Davies and .

STONE MASON'S ACCOUNT BOOK 1952039 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr John Lumley, Talybont, Cards. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description An account book of a north Cardiganshire stone-mason, 1856-8 (NLW MS 15241C).

F F MADAN 1952040 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr F F Madan, M.A., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description About twenty works, mostly nineteenth-century English works, on a variety of subjects, such as politics, medicine and sport (Dept of Printed Books).

H A MORETON 1952041 Ffynhonnell / Source The Rev Canon H A Moreton, D.Litt., Hereford Cathedral. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Five early sixteenth-century works in English and Latin on theology and church history, printed in London, Oxford, Paris and Cologne (Dept of Printed Books).

IWAN MORGAN 1952042 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Iwan Morgan, M.A., . Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Fourteen volumes, mainly German, including editions of works by Rilke, Toller and Werfel, and a musical miscellany, containing about fifteen songs, mainly English, and seven pieces for the pianoforte by English, Italian and Spanish composers (Dept of Printed Books). A collection of paintings, engravings, etc. (Dept of Pictures and Maps) It includes views of Tintern, Llanthony, Raglan, and Monmouth painted on wood by J. Ashford; The Town Hall of Monmouth a line engraving by William Williams, [c. 1750]; a water-colour drawing of Rev Dr Jones (1731-1823), archdeacon of Hereford; ten engraved prints of Biblical scenes; and photographs of Indian Army Educational Training groups taken in 1936 and 1941. A collection of engraved prints, mainly of abbeys and churches and scenes in Cornwall and Yorkshire (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

OWEN LEWIS (`MADOG MÔN') 1952043 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W L Morris, , . Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description The poetical works of Owen Lewis ('Madog Môn', 1855-1946), consisting of holograph poems, press cuttings, typescript copies, and a volume of parts of Cymru, 1910-17, containing contributions by the author (Madog Môn Mss). Letters to Owen Lewis from F. Vallee and others (Madog Môn Mss). Press cuttings relating to Llanover and Abergavenny, a series of articles on the history of Anglesey by O. Williamson; and printed material (NLW Amryw Loose Volumes 38).

JOHN OWEN & CO 1952044 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H Parry, Nevin. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A file of charter parties of the firm of John Owen and Company, Caernarvon, 1872-93 (NLW MS 16832F).

WYNNSTAY THEATRE 1952045 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr and Mrs Charles H Paterson, Barnet, Herts. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Four tickets of admission to the Wynnstay Theatre, two of them dated 1783 and 1785, and a playbill advertising performances of 'As You Like It' and 'Harlequin's Invasion' at the theatre, 26 January 1785 (Dept of Pictures and Maps).

PENRY FAMILY MISCELLANEA 1952046 Ffynhonnell / Source The Misses Penry, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Notes of sermons and addresses by Rev T. A. Penry (NLW MS 15400B); notes on Azariah Shadrach and John Penry (1854-83), missionary; and a file of circulars and papers relating to the history of the English Congregational church, Aberystwyth, 1866-1920 (NLW MS 15401C). About twenty English works of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dealing with the Congregational denomination and its missions, including several works about John Penry.

ANEURIN JONES (`ANEURIN FARDD') 1952047 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Edgar Phillips ('Trefin'), Blackwood. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A file of papers relating to the life and work of Aneurin Jones ('Aneurin Fardd'), 1821-1904 (NLW MS 15239D).

FAT STOCK IN WEST WALES 1952048 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Richard Phillips, M.Sc., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A detailed analysis of the records of the sales of fat stock in West Wales, 1940-50 (NLW MS 15347F), with a microfilm copy of the same (NLW Film 29).

POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE, LONDON 1952049 Ffynhonnell / Source The Polish Cultural Institute, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Oltarz Krakowski. [The Altar of Cracow.] By Wit Stwosz. Warsaw: Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy. 1951 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). This finely produced work in a large folio volume is the first of a projected series of the works of the masters of Polish realistic art. The Polish introduction of twenty-nine pages discusses fully the history of Stwosz (Stosz) and his place in Polish and European art. Stwosz came to Cracow from Nuremberg about 1477, and with him realistic art in Poland reached its climax. The decoration of the altar of St Mary's Church, Cracow, the largest Gothic altar in Europe, is his highest achievement. The scenes depicted on the altar are based on the Tree of Jesse and show incidents from the lives of Christ and the Virgin Mary. The introduction gives reasons for assuming that both the polychrome painting and the sculpture are equally the work of Stwosz. The 141 plates, many of them in colour, are meant not only to illustrate the artist's conception of the leading figures but also to give examples of his mastery over detail.

T IFOR REES 1952050 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr T Ifor Rees, C.M.G., LL.D., Rhydypennau, Cardiganshire. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description The original manuscripts of the operetta 'Madog' by J. T. Rees, with libretto by S. M. Powell (NLW MSS 16841-2D, 16844B).

MRS CYNFAB ROBERTS 1952051 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Cynfab Roberts, Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A schoolmaster's parchment certificate granted to Hugh Pritchard, 1865, with endorsements by HM Inspectors on the quality of his teaching at Cemaes, , and Llanerchymedd, 1866-82 (NLW MS 15236F). Letters, 1878-96, by Richard Davies, Treborth, T. C. Edwards, Griffith Ellis, Bootle, Thomas Lewis, Bangor, Edward Matthews, Sir Hugh Owen, D. Saunders, Owen Thomas and others (NLW MS 15237B).

JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY 1952052 Ffynhonnell / Source The John Rylands Library, Manchester. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description In addition to offprints of articles from its Bulletin the John Rylands Library continues to supply copies of its larger publications. The latest received is the Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Vol. 4. Documents of the Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine Periods (nos 552-717), ed. by C. H. Roberts and E. G. Turner (Dept of Printed Books).

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASHINGTON 1952053 Ffynhonnell / Source The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, per The Director. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description The latest addition to the Library's long file of the publications of this historic Institution is Smithsonian meteorological tables . . . by R. J. List, 6th ed., being vol. 114 of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (Dept of Printed Books).

R F TREHARNE 1952054 Ffynhonnell / Source Professor R F Treharne, M.A., Ph.D., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Seven recent historical works in Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian and modern Greek (Dept of Printed Books).

G H TURNBULL 1952055 Ffynhonnell / Source Professor G H Turnbull, M.A., Ph.D., Sheffleld University. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Copies of two works relating to Comenius by the donor, namely, Two pansophical works by John Amos Comenius and Johann Mochinger's opinion of the Didactica Magna of Comenius, both published at Prague (Praha) in 1951, together with the donor's edition of Letters written by John Dury in Sweden, 1636-8 (Dept of Printed Books).

SIR LEONARD TWISTON DAVIES 1952056 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir Leonard Twiston-Davies, K.B.E., D.L., LL.D., F.S.A., Monmouth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A seventeenth-century armorial pedigree roll of the family of Morgan of (NLW Rolls 224), with nineteenth-century pedigree charts of the Tudor or Tuder family (NLW MS 16581F).

IVOR WATERS 1952057 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr Ivor Waters, Chepstow. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Several numbers of two Chepstow newspapers and four Chepstow printed books (Dept of Printed Books).

N R LLOYD WILLIAMS 1952058 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss N R Lloyd Williams, Newton Abbot, Devon. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A group of papers relating mainly to the parish of , co. Merioneth, and to the Fronheulog family in particular. Besides material for a history of the parish of Llandderfel, pedigrees, extracts from parish registers, etc., there are original letters and documents including a writ of attachment, 23 June 1705; drafts of deeds, 1809 and 1811, relating to Tynyddol in the parish of Llandderfel; and the will of Rev Humphrey Lloyd of Llanfawr, co. Merioneth, clerk, 16 April 1838. Among the correspondents are R. Edwards ('Derfel'), Mary Foster, Brooklyn, and A. P. Whittingham. The group also includes a list of the names of overseers for the parish of Llandderfel, 1766-1899; a copy of a biographical note on Gaenor Hughes, Bodelith; an index to articles of Llandderfel interest in Bye-gones and other periodicals; and a list of Fronheulog MSS at Bala Theological College.

PEMBROKESHIRE DOCUMENTS 1952059 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr R Williams, St. Leonards-on Sea. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Six documents, 1858-91, relating to properties in , St Davids, and Whitechurch, co. Pembroke (NLW Deeds 545-50).

W EMYR WILLIAMS, WREXHAM 1952060 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr W Emyr Williams, LL.B., Wrexham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Letters and papers relating to the Wrexham and District Cymmrodorion Society, 1920-3 (NLW MSS 16820A, 16821C, 16822E). Papers of Gwern Fawr Mining Company, the South Hafod Mining Company, and the Wern and Truro Lead Mining Company, 1868-78 (NLW Amryw 33/8).

ROBERT AMBROSE JONES (`EMRYS AP IWAN') 1952061 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs G Wright, Hawarden. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description An illuminated address presented to Rev Robert Ambrose Jones ('Emrys ap Iwan'), upon his departure from Ruthin, 30 December 1894 (NLW 15333F).

GEORGE BORROW 1952062 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description 'A Tale of Oxford' in the autograph of George Borrow (NLW MS 16355B).

APPOINTMENT OF CLERK OF THE PEACE 1952063 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A document on vellum, being the appointment by Philip, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, of Thomas Cosen to be Clerk of the Peace for co. Cardigan, c. 1645 (NLW Misc Records 110).

WILLIAM PHILLIPS, BANGOR 1952064 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A typescript index to Cymru, 1891-1927, by Rev William Phillips, M.A., Bangor (NLW MS 15407E).

`THE DIALECTS OF ANCIENT GAUL' 1952065 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A microfilm copy of 'The Dialects of Ancient Gaul' by Joshua Whatmough (Dept of Printed Books).

BEOWULF 1952066 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description The Thorkelin transcripts of Beowulf in facsimile. Edited by Kemp Malone. Copenhagen, 1951 (Dept of Printed Books). The first volume in a projected series of facsimile reproductions of Early English manuscripts. The publishers, Rosenkilde and Bagger, of Copenhagen, have the co-operation of Allen and Unwin in Great Britain and of the John Hopkins Press in the USA. The editorial board also is international. The two manuscripts of Beowulf here reproduced are copies made in 1786 by Thorkelin, the Danish scholar, of the British Museum manuscript, the only one extant, though itself much damaged by fire in 1731. The express purpose of this series is to multiply exact copies of original documents so as to ensure a greater chance of their survival in the event of war.

ALBERTUS MAGNUS 1952067 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Alberti Magni. . . De bono. Primum ediderunt H. Kuhle, C. Feckes, B. Geyer, W. Kubel. Monasterii Westfalorum: In Aedibus Aschendorff, 1951 (Dept of Printed Books). Although it is numbered 28 this is the first volume to appear of a new critical edition, in forty volumes, of the works of Albertus Magnus (1193-1280), the 'Doctor Universalis' of the Middle Ages, whose lectures in Cologne were attended by St Thomas Aquinas. Work on this edition has been in progress since 1931, when the Albert-the-Great Institute was established in Cologne by Cardinal Schultze. Although it was well known to scholars, this is the first time that the treatise De Bono has been printed. It now appears in a critical and definitive text, and in a form which is an achievement in book production. The title-page especially, with its clear lettering in red and black, will deserve to be reckoned among the best examples of the art of modern fine printing.

FASTI ARCHAEOLOGICI 1952068 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Fasti archaeologici. Annual Bulletin of Classical Archaeology. Vol. 4. Firenze: Sansoni Editore, 1951 (Dept of Printed Books). This bibliographical work is a publication of the International Association for Classical Archaeology. The present volume, covering the year 1949, has been published with the aid of a grant from UNESCO, under the auspices of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Sciences. The term Classical Archaeology is here interpreted in a wide sense to include prehistoric archaeology in Greece and Italy as well as Christian and late antique civilisation and art. The book is more than a mere bibliographical list, for it gives a summarised statement of the contents of the more important books and articles.

HOMER'S `ILIAD' AND `ODYSSEY' 1952069 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Homere. L'Iliade (et l' Odyssee). Illustree par la ceramique grecque. Dessins de Notor (Vte de Roton). Preface de Jean Paul Alaux et Preface de Paul Claudel. 2 vols. Bordeaux: Editions Delmas (Dept of Printed Books).

LOS CLASICOS OLVIDADOS 1952070 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Los Clasicos Olvidados (Dept of Printed Books). Ninety volumes of this excellent series of the classics of Spanish literature have been recently added to those acquired some years ago when they began to be published.

SATHER CLASSICAL LECTURES 1952071 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Sather Classical Lectures (Dept of Printed Books). A number of volumes of this series of lectures by some of the foremost classical scholars of the world were purchased from a bookseller. The same bookseller has undertaken to try to secure for the Library the volumes still wanted to make its set complete.

STORIA DELLA LETTURATURA ITALIANA 1952072 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Storia della letteratura italiana. Arnaldo Mondadori editore. Milan, 1950. Vols. 1-5 (Dept of Printed Books). When this work is complete the Library will have secured a much-needed up-to-date and encyclopaedic work on the history of Italian literature.

JERUSALEM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT 1952073 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Jerusalem in the Old Testament: researches and theories. By J. Simons. Leiden, 1952 (Dept of Printed Books). This is the first volume of a series planned by the Nederlandsch Archaeologisch-philologisch Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten in memory of Frank Scholten, one of its principal founders. It is the first attempt to include in one volume all the latest data, literary and archaeological, concerning Biblical Jerusalem since the work of G. A. Smith which was published forty years ago.

PERMANENT COMMITTEE OF LINGUISTS 1952074 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Linguistic bibliography for the year 1949 and supplement for previous years. Utrecht, 1951 (Dept of Printed Books). This bibliography, covering works on all the languages of the world, is published by The Permanent Committee of Linguists, aided by a grant from UNESCO. The section on Celtic languages is of especial interest to the Library, if only as a model of what the corresponding section of Bibliotheca Celtica could become if it included articles in periodicals in addition to monographs.

E R HUBER 1952075 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Deutsche Verfassungsdokumente der Gegenwart (1919-1951). Zusammengestellt von E. R. Huber. Tubingen, 1951 (Dept of Printed Books). This is the second volume of a work entitled Quellen zum Staatsrecht der Neuzeit, the first volume of which contained documents illustrating the constitutional development of modern Germany up to 1918. The especial importance of the present volume lies in the documents relating to constitutional matters in Germany since 1945, but as these cannot be properly understood without a knowledge of the political situation in the days of the Weimar Republic, the most important documents which bear on the Weimar constitution are included.

SACRIS ERUDIRI 1952076 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Sacris Erudiri: jaarboek voor Godsdienstwetenschappen (Dept of Printed Books). This new periodical, which started in 1948 and of which four volumes have now appeared, is published by the of St. Pietersabdij, Steenbrugge. It is devoted to the study of early Christian literature in Greek and Latin. The articles are written in Dutch, French and English, with a Latin summary in each case. In the first volume appears an article in English stressing the need of a new corpus of Christian texts to supplant Migne's Patrology which is generally regarded as unsatisfactory. The third volume contains a bibliography of critical editions of Christian texts which have appeared since the publication of Migne's work, and which can be utilised in the Corpus Christianorum as it is proposed to name the new collection.

SIR FRANK BRANGWYN 1952077 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description The Book of Job, with thirty-three original signed etchings by Sir Frank Brangwyn, RA (Dept of Pictures and Maps). This copy is one of an edition of 110 copies printed on English hand-made paper and published by F. Lewis, Ltd., Leigh-on-Sea, 1948.

THE BRIQUET ALBUM 1952078 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description The Briquet Album: a miscellany in watermarks, supplementing Dr Briquet's Les Filigranes, by various paper scholars (Hilversum, The Paper Publications Society, 1952) (Dept of Printed Books). The original work, Les Filigranes, to which this is meant to serve as a supplement, was acquired by the Library with the Bourdillon Collection. It appears as Volume 2 in a series entitled Monumenta Chartae papyraecae historiam illustrantia and produced under the auspices of the Paper Publications Society which has its headquarters at Hilversum in Holland.

ABBE H BREUIL 1952079 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description 400 centuries of cave art. By Abbe H. Breuil. Translated by M.E. Boyle. Realized by F. Windels (Montignac, Dordogne: Centre d' Etudes et de Documentation Prehistoriques, 1952) (Dept of Pictures and Maps). A fully-illustrated account by the greatest authority on the subject, of the art of palaeolithic man as represented by the figures stencilled, drawn, painted, or engraved on the walls of certain caves in France and Spain, with two examples from Italy.

HANS BONNET 1952080 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Reallexikon der agyptischen Religionsgeschichte. By Hans Bonnet. (Berlin: W. de Grayter, 1952) (Dept of Printed Books). This should prove a very useful work of reference. It contains nearly 900 pages in double column. It is printed in type that is larger than that usually found in encyclopaedias, and the line illustrations are clear and effective. Every article is fully documented.

W F SCHIRMES 1952081 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Buchreihe der Anglia, Zeitschrift fur Englische Philologie. Bd. 1. John Lydgate: ein Kulturbild aus den 15. Jahrhundert. By W. F. Schirmes. (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1952) (Dept of Printed Books). The Library was already subscribing to Anglia as well as to its supplementary Beiblatt. This first volume of a new series of monographs published under the auspices of the same journal treats Lydgate as standing at the end of the period of decline of English literature that set in after Chaucer's time, and at the beginning of the period which culminated in Shakespeare. Particular attention is paid to his cultural background as a monk at the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds.

CYMMRODORION 1952082 Ffynhonnell / Source The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion,per Sir John Cecil-Williams, M.A., LL.D., London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Records of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, including minutes, 1873-1919, registers of members, a proposition book, and records of subscriptions, 1873-87, a petty cash book, 1873-87, an account book of the Record Series Fund, 1892-1919, cash books, 1879-1928, and an index of subscribers, 1895-1901 and 1914-25.

LLWYN 1952083 Ffynhonnell / Source Major J E M Dugdale, Penllwyn, Llanfyllin. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A group of over 700 records, 1623-1919, consisting largely of title deeds and abstracts of title, together with a few business letters, plans, and printed sale catalogues, relating to properties principally in Llanfyllin (including the manor of Brithdir), co. Montgomery, and to a lesser extent in , , Hirnant, Llandinam, , , , Llanfair, Llanfechan, Llanfihangel, , , Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Llansantffraid, , Llanwyddelan, Meifod, Pennant, , and , co. Montgomery; Brymbo, Denbigh, Llanrhaeadr-ym- Mochnant, and Llanynys, co. Denbigh; Gwyddelwern and Llanfawr, co. Merioneth; Aston Pigot, Aston Rogers, Bicton, Bictons Heath, Bushmoor, Ludlow, Melverley, Meole, Picklescott, Pontesbury, Shrewsbury, Westbury, Westley, Wollaston, Worthen, and Yagdens Lane, co. Salop; Crowley and Marston, co. Chester; and Appley, Astley, Crowton, Ditton, and Warrington, co. Lancaster. Nodiadau Schedule Available. Group I.

PENCERRIG 1952084 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs J Evan-Thomas, Pencerrig, Builth Wells. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description 250 deeds (seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries) relating to properties in the parishes of , Diserth, Llanbadarn-Fawr, Llandegley, Llandrindod, , Llanfaredd, Llanfihangel, , and , co. Radnor. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

SAM EVANS, CARDIFF 1952085 Ffynhonnell / Source Major Sam Evans, M.Inst.C.E., F.R.I.B.A., Cardiff. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A file of correspondence, papers and photographs relating to bridges over the River Dee, 1932-42, A collection of press cuttings and letters relating to Pont Llanrwst and Inigo Jones (NLW Minor Deposits 636B).

GLOUCESTER RECORD OFFICE 1952086 Ffynhonnell / Source Messrs Goldingham & Jotcham, Wotton-under-Edge, per Mr Irvine Gray, Records Office, Gloucester. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Fifteen deeds, 1790-1887, relating to The Royal Queen and other properties in Llanelly and Llangyndeyrn, co. Carmarthen, and one document, 1854, relating to an estate at Mold, co. Flint. Mynegai Llanelli

BRITON FERRY 1952087 Ffynhonnell / Source The Right Hon George Francis Child-Villiers, Earl of Jersey, per Messrs Freshfields, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Over 200 deeds and documents, 1693-1879, relating to the Briton Ferry estate in the parishes of Aberavon, Baglan, Briton Ferry, Lantwit-iuxta-Neath, Llansamlet, Michaelstone and elsewhere in co. . Nodiadau Schedule Available.

TRENEWYDD 1952088 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs Georgiana Margaret Johns, Trenewydd, Goodwick. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A third group of title-deeds, abstracts-of-title, wills, miscellaneous documents, and printed matter, 1488-1869, associated with the families of Thomas of Posty, parish of Bletherston, and of Kilkiffeth, parish of Llanychaer, Vaughan of Vorlan, parish of , Gwynne of Kilkiffeth and of Court, parish of Llanllawer, and Gibbin of Mynachlogddu, all in co. Pembroke. They relate to properties in Bletherston (Trefelen), Dinas, , , Henry's Moat, Llandilo, , Llanllawer, Llanwnda, Llanycefn, Llanychaer, Llanychllwydog, Llysyfran, Maenclochog, Meline, Mynachlogddu, , , Newport, St. Martin (), and Whitchurch-in-, co. Pembroke; Abergwili, Cenarth, Cilrhedyn, , Conwil Gaeo, Llanboidy, Llandisilio (Llandisilio Neved), Llangan, Llanglydwen, Llanllawddog, Llanllwni, and Newchurch, co. Carmarthen; and Llanarth, Llangoedmore, and Verwick, co. Cardigan. The group includes a lease of the tithes of the united parishes of Maenclochog, Llandilo, and Llangolman, 1775; a church rate assessment on the parish of Llangolman, 1797; a poor relief assessment on the parish of Llangolman, 1801; printed resolutions passed at a meeting held at Haverfordwest 'for the Purpose of taking such Steps as may be deemed expedient to remove the Panic . . . occasioned by the stoppage of so many Banks', 1825; tax assessments for the parish of Llanychaer, 1831-43; an order of the Poor Law Commissioners constituting the Haverfordwest Union, 1836, together with the Union's printed quarterly account, 1839, and lists of paupers and accounts for the parish of Llanllawer, 1839-57; and a printed circular letter on behalf of the Society for promoting the increase of Salmon at Fishguard, 1862. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

SARAH JANE REES (`CRANOGWEN') 1952089 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss A Gower Jones, M.A., . Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A holograph manuscript of 'Y Fodrwy Briodasol' by Sarah Jane Rees, 'Cranogwen' (NLW Minor Deposits 307A).

KERRY PARISH COUNCIL 1952090 Ffynhonnell / Source The Kerry Parish Council, per Mr J B Willans, F.S.A. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Additional parish records, consisting of vestry and overseers' minutes, 1854-1926 ( Parochial Records 32), a parish council attendance register, 1895-1909 (St Asaph Parochial Records 33), and a receipts and payments book, 1895-1905 (St Asaph Parochial Records 34).

LONDONDERRY 1952091 Ffynhonnell / Source The Most Honourable the Marquess of Londonderry, per Mr H C C Wilson, Seaham. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A group of about 1,200 estate records, 1546-1849, consisting largely of title deeds and a few abstracts of title, wills, letters, etc., relating to properties in Broniarth, Cemais, Churchstoke, Darowen, Kerry, , Llandinam, Llanfair, Llanfyllin, Llangurig, , , Llannerchrochwell, Llanwddyn, , Machynlleth, , Mochdre, Montgomery and , co. Montgomery; Dolgelley, , Llandecwyn, , , , Llanfihangel y Pennant, Llanfihangel y Traethau, Llangelynin, Llanymawddwy, , Talyllyn, and Towyn, co. Merioneth; Llangollen and Llantysilio, co. Denbigh; Llanfihangel Genau'r Glyn, co. Cardigan; and Llanegwad and Llanfihangel Yorwerth, co. Carmarthen. Among them are records relating to the tithes of Towyn, Llanfihangel y Pennant, Pennal and Talyllyn, 1756-1827, the Braichgoch and Geiwern Quarries, Talyllyn, 1834-44, lime works at Pimwern Farm, Pennal, 1805-13, and timber at Pantlludw, Pennal, 1777-85; and awards relating to sheepwalks in Llanidloes, Darowen, Penegoes, Machynlleth, Pennal and Talyllyn, 1808-49. Mynegai Dolgellau, Llanfihangel Iorath Nodiadau Schedule Available.

DR H B RODERICK 1952092 Ffynhonnell / Source Dr H B Roderick, O.B.E., T.D., M.D., M.Ch., F.R.C.S., Cambridge. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Minute books of the Cambridge Welsh Society, 1899-1932 (NLW Minor Deposits 73-8A), and a minute book of 'Cymdeithas y Mabinogion', 1935-45 (NLW Minor Deposits 79A).

WYNNSTAY 1952093 Ffynhonnell / Source HM Treasury Solicitor and the Trustees of the Wynnstay Settled Estates. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Two documents, 1571-2, relating to 'a pool of water called Pimbremear alias Llyntegidd', co. Merioneth. Nodiadau Schedule Available.

M P WATKINS 1952094 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr M P Watkins, Monmouth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A further group of papers from the office of Messrs. Vizard and Son, solicitors, Monmouth. It consists of deeds and probate papers relating to persons and properties in Bassaleg, Dixton, Gwernesney, Llandenny, Llandogo, Llanfrechfa, Llangattock-Vibon-Avel, Llanishen, Llansoy, Monmouth town, Rockfield, St. Maughans, Tintern, Trelleck, and Usk, co. Monmouth, Aberyskir, Llanfihangel Cwm Du, Llangattock, and , co. , and , co. Radnor, ranging from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries but mostly of the first half of the nineteenth century; election papers relating mainly to the borough of Monmouth in the nineteenth century, chiefly of an official nature, consisting in the main of lists of persons entitled to vote, claims for votes, objections to voting qualifications, and a poll book for the Borough of Monmouth election, 1831; Assessor's Certificates of assessed taxes for parishes in the Raglan district, 1863-70; letters, cases for counsel's opinion, and papers, concerning the election of the mayor of Newport, 1831-4; and maps of the railways of Havana and Argentine, 1913, and plans and sections of the Penllwyn railway and road in the parish of (Dept of Pictures and Maps). A volume of plans and sections of Monmouth roads, November 1855 (Dept of Pictures and Maps). Mynegai Llangatwg Feibion Afel

WYNNSTAY 1952095 Ffynhonnell / Source Lieut.-Col. Sir Owen Wynn, Bart., K.C.B., D.S.O., T.D., Plas-yn-Cefn, St. Asaph, and the Trustees of the Wynnstay Estates, per Mr J Iorwerth Williams, M.A., LL.B., . Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A further large group of manuscript volumes, deeds, correspondence, miscellaneous documents and papers, with some maps and plans, relating to the Wynnstay family and its estates and supplementing the groups deposited in 1933 and 1940 (see Annual Report, 1933-4, pp. 46-7, and 1940-1, p. 29, and The National Library of Wales Journal, II, pp. 26-32. 1. MANUSCRIPT VOLUMES. Over 500 volumes including: (a) Rentals of the Wynnstay estates (1629-1899); farm and cottage receiving rentals (1863-1919); tithe, chief and fee-farm rentals (1863-1919); estate rentals (1878-1911). (b) Cash books, ledgers, account and receipt books, including receipt books of William Williams, Esq., and of Sir John Wynn, (1710-40); household accounts (1779-81 and 1855-7); a tradesmen's time book (1856-7); accounts relating to charities (1861-1905); cash books (1865-95); estate payments (1866- 1911); Wynnstay Home Farm accounts (1892-1905); Llangedwyn cash books and ledgers (1898- 1911); ledgers (1900-19); rent audit books (1901-25); Wynnstay office accounts (1905-11); receipt books (1909-19); Wynnstay estate accounts (1911-19). (c) Four volumes of surveys with maps:- 'A survey and valuation of the Wynnstay estates in Cyfeiliog and by J. Probert' (1763); 'A survey and particular of the Wynnstay estates in Llanfihangel' (Mont.) (1817); 'A survey and particular of the Wynnstay estates in Llanfyllin, Meifod, Llansantffraed and Llanfechan' (1817); maps of farms in the parishes of Llangadfan and Garthbeibio. (d) Four volumes containing accounts of royalties received from lead mines and slate quarries (1868- 91). (e) A volume containing some colliery accounts (1816-17). (f) Three court leet books for the manor of Cyfeiliog (1820-42). (g) Inventories of household goods and furniture at Wynnstay (1749-90); three volumes containing pedigrees. (h) Upwards of eighty files of vouchers covering the last three decades of the nineteenth century, together with an index in forty-eight volumes. II. DEEDS. A collection of several thousand deeds dating from the early fourteenth century. They relate mainly to the six North Wales counties, especially to Denbighshire, Merioneth and Montgomeryshire, and to Shropshire. III. LEGAL PAPERS. These belong mainly to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and consist largelv of bills, answers, depositions, and briefs of cases conducted in Chancery and in the Court of Wards, several of the actions being concerned with the estates of Sir Robert Vaughan (d. 1624) and of Edward Vaughan of Llwydiarth. IV. VOUCHERS AND CORRESPONDENCE. There is a large number of vouchers for the period 1768-83 including receipts signed by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Richard Wilson and vouchers for work done on the Wynnstay playhouse (1782). In addition to correspondence dealing with estate matters there is for 1641-1736 and 1717-1813 a number of letters of historical and social interest. V. MANORIAL RECORDS. These, dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, relate mainly to the manor of Much Wenlock and include rentals, surveys, suit-rolls and presentments (1788-1857). There are also occasional items relating to other manors, e.g. a court roll of the College of St. Peter, Ruthin (1563-69); a court roll of the lordship of Ruthin (1564), and presentments for Valle Crucis, Wrexham Abbot, and Stansty (1791-5). VI. MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS. There remains a considerable group of miscellaneous papers and documents which have not been examined in detail, dealing with public affairs and offices as well as with estate matters. These date mainly from the middle of the sixteenth century. The following chronological list gives some indication of their scope and range:- a charter granted to Llanrwst (1424); a quietus for the revenue of Valle Crucis (1572-3); an inquisition post mortem on the estate of John Salesbury with a valor of the Rûg estate (1581); an inquisition concerning Prysor ffridd in Merioneth and Denbighshire (1590); the Receiver-General's accounts for North Wales (1591-2); The Rules and Statutes of Christ's Hospital, (1599); pedigree rolls in Welsh (late sixteenth century); a survey of the town of Ruthin (seventeenth century); a Denbighshire sheriff's accounts (1603-4); surveys of crown lands in Caernarvonshire (1608-42); orders and rules of Llanrwst hospital (1611-12, copy); an order of the Court of the Council in the Marches of Wales regarding a riot at Llysfaen wherein a fine of 1,000 marks was levied on Sir John Wynn (1615); a survey of Bromfield and Yale (1620, copy dated 1666); estreats of Merioneth Quarter Sessions (1624-6); an inventory of the personal estate of Sir John Wynn (1627-8); appointment of Sir Richard Wynn as Treasurer and Receiver-General (1629); Sir Richard Wynn's commission as Master of the Court of Wards (1634); papers and pamphlets relating to Irish affairs including the 'Adventurers' (1838-68); papers relating to the sequestration of the Llwydiarth estate of Edward Vaughan and to legal proceedings against Vaughan and Devereux, including material relating to Civil War incidents in Montgomeryshire (1640- 54); articles preferred against Edmund Hall, Rector of Llansantffraid (1646); patent, accounts, bonds, and correspondence of Watkin Kyffin, Sheriff of Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire (1657-66); appointment of Edward Herbert of Chirbury as quarter master of a troop of horse (1660); the commission of John Pursell as militia captain in Montgomeryshire (1662); a record of a forcible entry at Llwydiarth (1667); papers and printed matter relating to the Court of the Council in the Marches of Wales (1675-90); drafts and minutes of speeches against the repeal of the Test Acts (1675); papers relating to the case against Lord Arundell, agent and nuncio for the Pope, together with the evidence and testimony of Mr Oates (?1678); papers relating to Parliamentary elections in Montgomeryshire (1678-1727); a memorial and petition against the oppression of Lord Viscount Bulkeley and the destruction of Beaumaris Castle (1708-9); minutes of evidence on charitable corporations (1732); papers and correspondence relating to turnpike securities (1773-1850); a report on lead mines on Ruabon Mountain (1814); a report on lead mines on the Wynnstay estate (1871-2); copies of enclosure acts, railway bills, and maps and plans of railways in North and Central Wales (nineteenth century). Nodiadau Schedule Available.

THE RECORDS OF THE 1952096 Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description DIOCESE OF ST. DAVIDS Parochial Records. Registers of Bettws Evan, 1791-1837 (NLW CPD 014), and Brongwyn, 1788-1837 (NLW CPD 019).

DIOCESE OF ST. ASAPH Parochial Records. Registers of Gwyddelwern, 1691-1837 (NLW CPD 359), with terriers, 1774-91 (St Asaph Parochial Records 3), and assessments for the Cwm division, 1822, 1826, 1828 (St Asaph Parochial Records 4); and vestry books of Gwyddelwern, 1724-1883 (St Asaph Parochial Records 2-3). Mynegai Bettws Ifan

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