page_title: National Library of Wales
section_title: Penrice and Margam Estate Records
hierarchical_section_title: National Library of Wales / Library collections / Archives / Penrice and Margam Estate Records
caption_attribution_description: Dyddiad / Date&#160;: 1148x1183 Disgrifiad/Description&#160;: NLW Penrice and Margam Deeds 1 Seal: Man vested for mass and wearing an archaic mitre standing full face blessing with right hand, left hand holding a crosier Rhif ffeil delwedd / Image file no.&#160;: sea00822 Rhagor o wybodaeth am brosiect Seliau yng Nghymru'r Oesoedd Canol More information about the Seals in Medieval Wales project
context_page_description: The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales and is one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies. It is the biggest library in Wales, holding over 6.5 million books and periodicals, and the largest collections of archives, portraits, maps and photographic images in Wales. The Library is also home to the national collection of Welsh manuscripts, the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales, and the most comprehensive collection of paintings and topographical prints in Wales. As the primary research library and archive in Wales and one of the largest research libraries in the United Kingdom, the National Library is a member of Research Libraries UK and the Consortium of European Research Libraries.
  At the very core of the National Library of Wales is the mission to collect and preserve materials related to Wales and Welsh life and those which can be utilised by the people of Wales for study and research. Welsh is the Library's main medium of communication but it does, however, aim to deliver all public services in Welsh and English.
context_section_description: This extensive collection of estate and family records that was preserved at Penrice Castle in the possession of Miss Talbot of Margam contains manuscript material from the twelfth to nineteenth centuries. This includes the Margam Abbey archive which is one of the fullest surviving British monastic archives with charters from the period of the initial foundation of the Abbey at Pendar, its relocation to Margam, and the dissolution of the monastery.
  Along with the manuscripts are numerous seal impressions which are themselves of historic importance. A collection of more than 30,000 seal impressions dating from the twelfth century onwards is preserved in the National Library of Wales, with examples including the seals of Welsh princes, ecclesiastic and papal seals, and in a variety of designs.
caption: NLW Penrice and Margam Deeds 1
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