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A composite volume, the first portion of which (pp. 1-78, old foliation 1-38), written in the early eighteenth century, contains selections from Flores poetarum, triads, englynion, the divisions of Wales (pp. 29-33), cywyddau, poems in free metre, and an incomplete table of the contents of the latter portion of the volume (pp. 57-59). The second part of the volume (pp. 79-406, old foliation 1-245 with gaps) has been neatly written in two or more hands, one of the seventeenth century and the others of the early eighteenth century. It contains Welsh poems in strict and free metres from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, many of them either of Anglesey interest or written by Anglesey poets, particularly Lewis Môn, Sion Brwynog and John Griffith of Llanddyfnan.
Among miscellaneous items are copies of the Articles of Agreement between the Parliamentary Commissioners and the inhabitants of Anglesey, 1648 (pp. 295-296); Sir Edward Trevor's riddle (p. 312); and a short bardic grammar (pp. 358-362).

A small group of autograph Welsh poems, mostly relating to the Wynne family, consisting of: (i) anonymous verses entitled 'Penillion cufaddas i'r amser yma ...', beginning 'Pob haden lawen lonudd su ai miwsig hud meusudd ...' (f. 1); (ii) 'Cywydd Marw-nad er coffadwriaeth am Farwolaeth Gwraig foneddigaeth sef Mrs Wyn o Fodewryd yr hon a hunodd yn yr Arglwydd y 31 o fis Awst 1723', by Robert ap Richard (ff. 2-3); (iii) 'Cowydd priodas Mr Chansaler Wyn a chroeso ir wlad', by William Morgan Lloyd, [1714] (ff. 4-5); (iv) 'Cywydd Marwnad y gwir Barchedig Dad yn Nuw Humphreu Humphres Arglwydd Esgob Henffordd', by Owen Gruffydd, [1712] (ff. 6-7); (v) a translation into Welsh of 'Of Noble Race was Shenkin' and Latin verse mainly in the autograph of Chancellor Wynne (ff. 8-9); (vi) a poem 'I'r haeddol Barchedig Mdm Margaret Humphreys', by David Manuel (f. 10); and (vii) 'Cerdd i Annerch, ynghyd a mawl ddyledus i Mr Edward Owens, o Benrhos, ar dôn a elwir Marwnad yr Helwyr', by Richard Parry (f. 11).
Also included are miscellaneous accounts, 1693-1729 (ff. 12-14, 17-18, 20), and two letters from Wm Lloyd, Kefn, to Mrs Wynne, 14 February 1712/3 (ff. 15-16), and to Dr Wynne, 28 April 1730 (ff. 19-20).