Calligraphic exercises,

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 210 NLW MS 21906B.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004251539
      (alternative) (WlAbNL)0000251539
  • Dates of Creation
      1741-1778 /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
      English Welsh  English, Welsh.
  • Physical Description
      56 ff. (some leaves cut out) ; 195 x 145 mm. Limp boards with cover from English Botany, September 1801.
  • Location
      ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Copy-book of John David Griffith Howel of Abergwili, co. Carmarthen, 1741-1778, containing calligraphic exercises in the principal contemporary scripts, together with multiplication tables, rough calculations and a few jottings. Some of the exercises have been adapted from the books of English writing-masters: ff. 2 verso, 3 verso from John Davies of Hereford's The Writing Schoolemaster (London, 1636), f. 36 verso from Edward Cocker, The Clerk's Tutor for Writing (London, 1667), and f. 53 verso from ibid., The Pen's Transcendency (London, 1660).

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Marlborough Rare Books; London; Purchase; 1983

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 21906B.

Other Finding Aids

The contents of NLW MSS 21701-22852 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 8 (Aberystwyth, 1999).

Custodial History

'John David Griffith Howel His Hand and Pen 1747' (f. 2); 'John David of Abargwilly' (f. 55 verso); 'John Jones his Diverting Copy 1778' (f. 9 verso); 'John Howells His Copy 1778' (f. 22); with several other names of XVIII-XIX cent.

Additional Information

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