English-Welsh dictionary,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 10261B.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004554155
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1771, 1786, [19 cent.] /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English, Welsh.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A copy of William Evans: A New English-Welsh Dictionary ... Carmarthen, 1771, with additions and substitutions which suggest its use as a basis for another dictionary.

Note

Title based on contents.

Formerly Cynddelw MS 46.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 10261B.

Other Finding Aids

Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), p. 206.

Custodial History

'D. Hughes, 1786' on title-page.

Related Material

See also NLW MS 12623B, which contains an interleaved copy of William Evans's New English-Welsh Dictionary (Carmarthen, 1771), with copious manuscripts additions, probably in the hand of the Reverend Charles Newling, headmaster of Shrewsbury School, 1754-1770; and NLW MS 21403E, which contains a proposal 'to Publish, by Subscriptions, A Second Edition of the Late Reverend William Evans's English-Welsh Dictionary, Improved and enlarged by the Addition of near 1000 Words, By, the Reverend Mr Richards, Formerly of Coychurch, Glamorganshire', Carmarthen, dated 8 September 1810.

Additional Information

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