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Ashley MS B2416
- Record Id:
- 040-001979207
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001978147
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001448.0x00010c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ashley MS B2416
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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'On Pool Cerys' and 'Surely the wildest whirlpool neath the sky': two translations from the Welsh by George Borrow of the poem by Gruffydd Hiraethog; [before 1857?]. For the dating of the MSS. see the description of A2409. The translations are printed in The Works of George Borrow, viii, 1923, p. 281. [Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 62]. As follows:―
1. 'Surely the wildest whirlpool neath the sky'. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of white wove paper. No watermark. Beneath the poem is the autograph note 'From a Welsh Englyn on a vortex in the Menai'. There is no title. f. 77.
2. 'On Pool Cerys'. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white wove paper. Watermark part of figure of Britannia. Entitled 'On Pool Cerys / From the Welsh' in Borrow's hand. f. 78.
includes:
- f. 77 George Borrow, writer: Gruffydd Hiraethog: Poem, beg. 'Surely the wildest whirlpool neath the sky', transl. from the Welsh of an englyn by Gruffydd Hiraethog by George Borrow: [before 1857?]: Autogr. fair copy.
- f. 78 George Borrow, writer: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem, 'On Pool Cerys', translated from the Welsh of Gruffydd Hiraethog by George Borrow: [bef. 1857?]: Autogr. fair copy.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Ashley Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001978147
040-001979207 - Is part of:
- Ashley MS A17-5768 : Ashley Manuscripts
Ashley MS B2416 : 'On Pool Cerys' and 'Surely the wildest whirlpool neath the sky': two translations from the Welsh by George… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001978147[0571]/040-001979207
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Ashley MS A17-5768
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1856
- End Date:
- 1858
- Date Range:
- [before 1857?]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former Internal References:
- Vol. B IV, ff. 77, 78.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Borrow, George, writer
Hiraethog, Gruffydd