Calligraphic exercises,

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).

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Marlborough Rare Books; London; Purchase; 1983

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 21906B.

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).

'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.

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