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A collection of pedigrees and heraldic devices (mostly coloured) in the autographs of William Llŷn, Rhys Cain and others.

A copy of Bede's Ecclesiastical History. On the last page is a copy of the Treaty of Lambeth, 1217, between Henry III and the Dauphin.

A handbook of English law, with an index of subjects.

Transcripts of 'The State Dunces. Inscribed to Mr. Pope' and 'Manners: a Satire' by Paul Whitehead.

A fragment of the Welsh prose Brut y Brenhinedd written by a single scribe and dating from 1477.

The earliest fragments of two branches of the Mabinogion, namely Branwen and Manawydan; and two fragments of Geraint ap Erbin.
The manuscript is in four parts, each one containing a different text.

An 18th century collection of French songs.

A version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain by a single scribe dating from the early 13th century.
There are marginal notes in Latin and Welsh.

Lists of Welsh - Latin words selected under specific topics, including 'God', 'Heaven', 'Earth', 'man and his members', and 'the house and furniture' in the hand of John Jones, Gellilyfdy, 1632.

Lists of Welsh words selected under various topics, including 'trees and their fruits', 'vegetables', 'birds', 'fish', etc. in the hand of John Jones, Gellilyfdy, 1633.

Lists of Welsh words selected under specific topics, including 'work tools', 'animals, their members, their diseases', etc. in the hand of John Jones, Gellilyfdy, 1633.

A manuscript in the hand of several scribes, the first of which may be Siôn Tudur, comprising genealogies; poetry of Ieuan Briwton, Owen Briwton, Guto'r Glyn, Iolo Goch, Siôn Tudur and others; Statud Gruffudd ap Kynan; lists of the sheriffs of Flintshire and Denbighshire; and medical recipes.

Bardic grammar, beginning ‘Llyma ddosbarth Edern dafod aur’ (pp. 5-131). On its texts, very close to those of Wiliam Cynwal in Cardiff MS 1.16, see Gramadegau’r Penceirddiaid, eds G.J. Williams and E.J. Jones (Caerdydd, 1934), p. liii and pp. 183-4. All in the formal secretary hand of David Powel with display in fere-textura; a few notes (e.g. pp. 52, 92, 107) are in his characteristic italic.

A manuscript partly in the hand of Simwnt Fychan comprising vocabularies; grammatical texts; texts on the rules of cynghanedd; poetry of Hywel Cae Llwyd (possibly in his hand) and others; and pedigrees.

A collection of the work of Guto’r Glyn, followed on pp. 234-321 by other cywyddau of [15 cent.], all in the hand of Robert Vaughan, writing [mid-17cent., not before 1654]. The beginning of the manuscript was already wanting when it was paginated in [18 cent.]; its end is also wanting. Vaughan added a few variant readings (e.g. pp. 9-11). One watermark appears to be Heawood 3627 [not before 1654].

The office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, translated from Latin by Dafydd Ddu Hiraddug; and part of a calendar.
The text agrees with, and supplies the lacunae in, the text of Peniarth MS 191.

A mid-15th century manuscript comprising the Office of the Blessed Virgin; prayers; Y Groglith; Ystoria y Grog o Hynt Elen i Gaersalem; and a Calendar.
Pp. 5-10, 61-2 are in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne, Esq. of Peniarth.

A mid-16th century manuscript comprising pedigrees and notes concerning pedigrees; notes on grammar; lists of words; and poetry.
The notes relating to pedigrees may be in the hand of Gruffudd Hiraethog.

A collection of mostly religious prose in Welsh compiled by four or fives scribes between the second half of the thirteenth century and the first half of the fourteenth century. Texts in the first part include the Miracles of the Virgin Mary (p. 1); the Miracles of St Edmund (p. 33); and Sibli's Dream (p. 45). Texts in the second part of the manuscript include the histories of Judas and Adam; the childhood of Christ; the Life of St Margaret; and secular prose, namely Proffwydoliaeth Myrddin and Ystoria Beredur.

A manuscript in the hand of a single scribe dating from the second half of the 13th century and comprising Historia Hen Gruffud fab Cynan (p. 1); a treatise on earth, water, air and fire (p. 17); a treatise on the planets (p. 20); and a series of Welsh proverbs in verse (p. 27).
Memoranda in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne have been pasted onto the inside of the front cover. Ff. iii-iv contain a letter from J. Williams ab Ithel, 25 January 1862