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Amrywiol farddoniaeth a llenyddiaeth

A miscellany of prose and verse in the hand of John Davies (or David), Pentre Vidoc (i.e. Pentre Foelas). It includes 'Efengyl Nicodemus'; a chronicle of historical events from A.D. 542 to 1463, 'Ex libro Joannis prise Militis Ag allan o lyfr Tho. William pysugwr'; a fragment of a work on geography and astronomy; 'Yr achosion y dyle pob dyn ymochel rhag Meddwdod'; 'trioedd'; 'Dymma Historia am y sawl o Droea ai Distrowiad. A yscrifenwyd Gyntaf yn Roeg gan Daret frigius Ac a Goppiodd Fouk Owen o Nantglyn allan o hen lyfr oedd wedi ei yscrifennu ar Felam er ys 300 o Flynyddoedd yn y Flwyddyn 1669. Ac a Gopiodd Sion Dafydd, o Bentre Vidoc (neu Bentre'r Voylas) yn y flwyddyn 1754', being a version of the 'brut' of 'Dares Phrygius' followed by the 'prologue' to 'Brut y Brenhinoedd' and a version of the first part of 'Brut y Brenhinoedd' down to the death of Brutus; and miscellaneous poems.

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Notes by Dr Wynne and a scribe, including extracts from Lord Clarendon's History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (ff. 1-35 verso); notes on Arithmetic (ff. 38-42); copies of the preface to Dr Bathurst's Will (ff. 43 verso-44); Dr Bathurst's Latin Oration in the House of Convocation, Oxford, 1676 (ff. 46-54 verso); a Latin speech at Westminster School, 1708 (ff. 55 verso-58); the preamble to the patent of Robert Harley, created Earl of Oxford (ff. 58 verso-59); notes on Geography, with references to books, extracts from Greek, Latin and English geographies, including extracts from Edward Lhuyd's letter to the Bishop of Carlisle about the signification of the names of places in the British (ff. 62-87 verso).