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Tabl cynnwys | Table of contents

Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information ...... 3 Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content ...... 3 Nodiadau | Notes ...... 4 Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points ...... 4

- Tudalen | Page 2 - NLW MS 23988B. An Omnium Gatherum,

Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information

Lleoliad | Repository: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Teitl | Title: An Omnium Gatherum, ID: NLW MS 23988B. Virtua system control vtls004603384 number [alternative]: Dyddiad | Date: [1820s] / (dyddiad creu | date of creation) Disgrifiad ffisegol | 174 ff. (numerous blank leaves, including ff. 118-159, 161-172); Physical description: an additional 3 pencil and chalk drawings of Classical subjects are kept loosely with the volume (NLW MS 23988iB) ; 180 x 110 mm. Contemporary red half morocco. Lleoliad ffisegol | ARCH/MSS (GB0210) Physical location: Iaith | Language: English Iaith | Language: French Iaith | Language: Welsh Dyddiadau creu, golygu a dileu | Dates of creation, revision and deletion: Nodyn | Note Original title. [generalNote]: Nodyn | Note Preferred citation: NLW MS 23988B. [generalNote]:

Hanes Gwarchodol | Custodial history 'Harriette Grant, Gnoll Castle, Glamorganshire' (f. 2).

Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content

A manuscript album, entitled 'An Omnium Gatherum' (f. 1 verso), compiled during the 1820s (dated 1822 and 1826 on ff. 73 verso, 106) by Harriette Grant (1789-1863; later Harriette Wingfield Stratford), daughter of Henry Grant (1743-1831) of Gnoll Castle, . The volume includes literary excerpts, antiquarian notes, riddles, and poems, written in English, French and Welsh, together with numerous well-

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 3 NLW MS 23988B. An Omnium Gatherum, executed watercolur, ink and pencil studies, some noted as being 'after Rembrandt' (ff. 1 verso, 7 verso, 10, 16, 17 verso). The drawings include views of the Vale of Ebbw from Abercarne (f. 5), Castle (f. 40), view from the fishing stool at Gnoll (f. 41 verso), Llantwit Church from the terrace at Gnoll Castle (f. 58), the upper lodge at Gnoll (f. 69), part of the chapel of (ff. 78 verso, 80), Arthur's Stone in Gower (f. 81 verso), a female Glamorgan peasant (f. 98), a male Welsh peasant (f. 99), Church (f. 100 verso), a female peasant (f. 104), Gnoll Castle (f. 105 verso), and Melin Crython (f. 160).

Nodiadau | Notes

Nodiadau teitl | Title notes

Ffynhonnell | Immediate source of acquisition Bonham's; Oxford; Purchased at auction, lot 521; 3 December 2008; 004603384.

Disgrifiadau deunydd | Related material The Gnoll Estate Papers are held at the West Glamorgan Archive Service, Swansea.

Nodiadau eraill | Other notes • Statws cyhoeddiad | Publication status: Published • Dynodwr sefydliad | Institution identifier: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points

• Gnoll Castle (Neath, Wales) • Melin Crythan (Neath, Wales : Mill) • Neath Castle (Neath, Wales) • Neath Abbey (Neath, Wales) • St. Mary's (Church : Briton Ferry, Wales) • St. Illtyd (Church : Llantwit Major, Wales) • Riddles (ffurfiau dogfennol) | (documentary form) • Alphabets -- Charts, diagrams, etc (pwnc) | (subject) • Peasants -- Wales (pwnc) | (subject) • Welsh poetry. (pwnc) | (subject) • English poetry. (pwnc) | (subject) • French poetry. (pwnc) | (subject) • Arthur's Stone (Gower, Wales) (pwnc) | (subject) • Wales -- Antiquities, Celtic. (pwnc) | (subject)

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 4 NLW MS 23988B. An Omnium Gatherum, • Ebbw Vale (Wales) (pwnc) | (subject)

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 5