Ioan Pedr MSS,

Papers, [1849x1877], of John Peter ('Ioan Pedr'), including poetry; notes on Welsh grammar; transcripts, translations and indexes; essays; miscellaneous notes; etc.

John Peter ('Ioan Pedr'; 1833-1877), Independent minister and teacher and Welsh scholar, was born in Bala. In 1849 he established a literary society known as 'Cymdeithas Lenyddol Penllyn'. He was a keen student of languages and also contributed to several Welsh periodicals, becoming one of the editors of Y Cymmrodor.

Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 2601-2636.

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John Peter ('Ioan Pedr'; 1833-1877), Independent minister and teacher and Welsh scholar, was born in Bala. In 1849 he established a literary society known as 'Cymdeithas Lenyddol Penllyn'. He was a keen student of languages and also contributed to several Welsh periodicals, becoming one of the editors of Y Cymmrodor.

Formerly known as Ioan Pedr 1-36.

Title based on contents.

The descriptions are also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume I (Aberystwyth, 1943).

October 2005 and September 2009.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS, and revised by Bethan Ifans. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume I (Aberystwyth, 1943);

See also Bangor University, Ioan Pedr MSS.

For a biographical and bibliographical account of Ioan Pedr, with references to the Ioan Pedr Manuscripts described here, see an article by R. T. Jenkins in The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, IV, 137-68.

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