File NLW MS 11012D. - Dodridge on Wales, &c.,

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NLW MS 11012D.

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Dodridge on Wales, &c.,

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  • [1630x1699]. (Creation)

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A copy of Sir John Dodridge: The History of the ancient and moderne Estate of The Principality of Wales, Dutchy of Cornewall, and Earldome of Chester ... (London, M.DC.XXX). The present transcript lacks the dedicatory letter to King James I, the earlier part of the 'Abstracts and Advertisements concerning the Contents ...', and the first page and a half of the text.

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English.

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The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XX, 288.

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See also NLW MSS 100B, which contains what is said to be the original manuscript, written 1604 and 1605, of the History, but which does not contain the preface which appeared in the printed work; 408D (previously Hengwrt 224), which contains a seventeenth century transcript of the work; 413D (previously Peniarth 20), which contains a seventeenth century copy of what appears to be a draft of the work, with some differences between draft and revised text, including a second dedicatory epistle to the Queen included in the manuscript; and 11570B, which contains a seventeenth century copy of the History (the number of folios at the end of the copy, comprising all but one page of 'The Earldome of Chester', are wanting). See also NLW MS 1522D, which contains a nineteenth century transcript of that portion of the History which relates to Wales.

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 11012D.

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vtls004601614

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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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December 2008.

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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 III (Aberystwyth, 1961);

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