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A collection of hymns by, and in the autograph of, Iolo Morganwg, in ten parts. Part I is dated 1800. The 'Salmau' are numbered consecutively from I-MXCI [i.e. 1-1091], and those with a stroke through them have been copied either into No. 60, 'Y Brasnadd Bach' (NLW MS 21348A) or into Nos 64-65 (NLW MSS 21352-3A). A number such as '70. 2' refers to No. 65. A note dated Aug. 7, 1826, found inside Part IV (NLW MS 21339A), gives the total number of 'Salmau' composed by Iolo Morganwg, with the number in each volume.
The 'Salmau' are arranged as follows: Nos 1-60 (21336A), 61-141 (21337A), 142-227 (21338A), 228-304 (21339A), 305-390 (21340A), 391-486 (21341A), 487-644 (21342A), 645-811 (21343A), 812-948 (21344A), and 949-1091 (21345A).

Hymns composed or copied by Iolo Morganwg to the end of his life. The main volume, 'Casledydd Byrr Bach', contains 19 hymns.

A notebook described on the cover as 'Englynion. Iolo Morganwg. Llyfr I, 1810'.

Three notebooks containing the names of subscribers to Poems Lyric and Pastoral (1794).

Two memorandum-books, sewn together, containing entries by Iolo Morganwg, [c. 1780]-[c. 1789]. The contents include pedigrees, a draft petition concerning the living of Cheriton, vacant by the death of Mr Williams, on behalf of an unnamed person with a wife and five children who recommends himself 'only as a poor prisoner that has been long detained in the comfortless walls of a Jail by a merciless creditor', accounts, a 'Cynghor Brithodl' attributed to Llywelyn ab Hywel beginning 'Clyw fy nghyngor a gwna doraeth', lines beginning, 'Porthwr moch clywch bawb ei ochain' attributed to Charls ? Daf .... Maredydd, two stanzas beginning 'Clywch bawb ar alarnad a chaniad achwynion' (all crossed out), agricultural queries, some Gwent and Glamorganshire words with their meanings, and a copy of the inscription contained in MS 128/5 [NLW MS 21418E].

'Morae incommodae, Or The Danger of Delay, A Poem, in blank Verse. By John Walters Junr. One of the Gentlemen Pensioners of Cowbridge Grammar-School. Anno Domini MDCCLXXIV'.

An adjudication on the papers of two of the poets who competed at the Gwyneddigion Eisteddfod held at Corwen in May 1789. The papers are designated as No. 2 and No. 3, and the preference is given to the author of No. 2, who appears to have been Twm o'r Nant (see Cwrtmawr MS 35, p. 74 f.).

'A Dissertation on Druidical knowledge and Learning' by J. Williams [i.e. Dr J. Williams, Sydenham?], Oct. 19, 1793.

Various notes, drafts and other autobiographical material by Iolo Morganwg.

Papers relating to Iolo Morganwg's imprisonment in Cardiff Gaol for debt (98/1-25) and to the parish of Rumney and Manor of Rompney, Monmouthshire, where he briefly farmed land given him by his father-in-law (99/1-54).

English poetry by, or in the hand of, Iolo Morganwg.

A collection of broadsides and prospectuses, often annotated or used as writing-paper by Iolo Morganwg.

Letters (surname Williams) addressed mostly to Taliesin Williams (Taliesin ab Iolo).
The correspondents include Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morganwg), 1825-1834 (Nos 877-885), and William Williams, Aberpergwm, 1835-1843 (Nos 888-1000).

A commonplace book compiled by the historian William Davies, Cringell. The contents are mainly topographical notes and extracts relating to Wales, and the works from which extracts have been made include Camden's Britannia, ed. by Gibson (1772), The Modern Universal British Traveller (?London, 1779), and Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, A Tour Through Monmouthshire and Wales, 2nd edn (Salisbury, 1781).
On the first page is a quotation from John Dyer's poem 'Grongar Hill', superscribed 'Motto for an Hist. - & Descriptive Account of S. Wales'. The volume also contains a brief account of the Eisteddfod held at Bala in September 1789 by the Gwyneddigion and the beginning of an English translation of Ellis Wynne, Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc. There are also one or two recipes in an earlier hand.

Bundles of music manuscripts mostly in the hand of Iolo Morganwg, including a file of traditional music, previously 'IAW 145' (E1/1); manuscripts of a few further traditional tunes (E1/2); bundles of miscellaneous music manuscripts, including salmau, traditional music, English tunes, etc. (E1/3-5); and loose leaves originally belonging to a single tune book (E1/6).
The contents of E1/1 have been published in Alawon Gwerin Iolo Morganwg, ed. by Leila Salisbury (Aberystwyth, 2012), together with six further tunes (Nos. 4, 5, 17, 28, 40, 50) designated 'IAW 145 (uncat.)', all now to be found in E1/2.

Twenty-eight notebooks and bundles, 1796-1815, consisting of travel journals and agricultural notes relating mainly to Iolo Morganwg's work for the Board of Agriculture in Glamorgan and Carmarthenshire in 1796 and his contribution to Gwallter Mechain's General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of South Wales (London, 1815).
Also included are fragments of tours in parts of England (E5/13); a journal of his tour to North Wales in 1799, collecting materials for the Myvyrian Archaiology (E5/18, formerly 'IAW 144'); bundles of loose agricultural notes (E5/26-27); and geological notes relating to Glamorgan (E5/28).