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Manuscripts, [late 12 cent.]-[early 20 cent.], formerly part of the library of the Mostyn family of Mostyn Hall, Flintshire, comprising transcripts and extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Dares Phrygius, Nennius, Gildas, David Jenkins (Judge Jenkins), Sir John Wynn of Gwydir, Lydgate's 'Life of Our Lady', Leland's Itinerary, 'Chroniques de France', historical manuscripts such as Brut y Tywysiogion and Brut y Brenhinoedd, Welsh romances and the Mabinogion; collections of mainly Welsh poetry, among them the seventeenth-century volumes Llyfr Coch Nannau and Llyfr Gwyn Corsygedol, containing poems by Dafydd ap Gwilym, Guto'r Glyn, Tudur Aled, Siôn Cent and others; genealogies, pedigrees and histories; official papers relating to Caernarvonshire; catalogues of the Mostyn and Gloddaeth libraries, 1692-1842; etc.

Prologues and epilogues in Latin and English to Latin plays by Terence and Plautus and English plays by Otway ([The Cheats of] Scapin), Addison (Cato) and Shakespeare (Henry IV) (ff. 1-12 verso, 26 verso-27 verso, 32-33 verso, 47-47 verso). These prologues and epilogues appear to have been composed for performances of these plays by the pupils of Westminster school (where the scribe of this manuscript, Thomas Mostyn was a pupil, see A. H. Stenning and G. F. Russell Barker, The Record of Old Westminsters, London, 1928, p. 671), as a number of them are to be found in the volume Lusus Westmonasterienses, Westminster, 1734. One prologue (to the Eunuchus of Terence), bears the date 1709 (f. 5). The manuscript also contains Latin odes, apparently by Anthony Alsop (see ODNB, his poetical works, ed. Sir Francis Bernard, Antonii Alsopi Odarum libri duo (Londini, 1752) not at present available in NLW) (ff. 17-18, 43-46). Also included are English poems by Edward Littleton (see ODNB) - '[On] A Spider' and 'A Letter to Mr H. Archer at Eaton School from Cambridge 1717 by E. Littleton' (ff. 33 verso-34, 38 verso-41). These poems are printed in R. Dodsley (ed.), A Collection of Poems in six volumes ... (London, 1770) pp. 290-4, 295-9.
The remainder of the poems in this manuscript between f. 12 verso and f. 47 verso (the leaves are blank from f. 48 to f. 169) are almost exclusively in Latin, largely comprising short exercises on various themes, with some longer poems on subjects such as 'Atrium Peckwateriensel' (ff. 13 verso-15 verso) and 'In Inclytam Scholam Regiam Westmonasteriensem Authore Roberto South. AD. 1652.' (ff. 13-13 verso). There are also some shorter Latin pieces on contemporary subjects, such as a 'Copy of Verses upon Curl's being tost in a Blanket' (f. 42) and 'Mr Urry's Epitaph made by Himself' (ff. 46-46 verso), as well as two English poems: 'An Epitaph written upon Atterbury in Imitation of an Old one upon a Litigious Abbot of Rochester' (ff. 41 verso-42) and '... upon Bagshaw a Student's marrying Bicknall's Daughter, Who was Porter of Ch. Ch. back Gate, ... by J. Bramston' (f. 42 verso). An 'Index Thematum', arranged alphabetically, with incomplete list of prologues and epilogues, is on the back paste down (ff. 169 verso-178).

'A Catalogue of ye Books at Mostyn' (ff. 2-12). The text in two columns is confined to the recto side of each folio. The verso side is blank except for additions on f. 6 verso. Only the surnames of authors and short titles of works are given. The works are arranged according to shelf and division. It was compiled not before 1713 (includes seven volumes of the Spectator). Folios 12 verso-80 are blank, and are followed by an incomplete 'Catalogue of Bookes att Gloddaith 1692' (f. 80 verso, inverted text), listing only thirteen items. The verso sides of ff. 76-79 are ruled. This was the first use of the book. There is an index to the MS on f. 1 verso.

Notes, in Latin, on the Institutes of Justinian (ff. 1-44 verso), followed by a brief list of busts, statues, etc. (two leaves cut out between ff. 77 and 78, traces of writing on stubs) (f. 77 verso), and a catalogue of medallions [i.e. Roman and Greek coins] and of cameos and intaglios (f. 86, very brief) (ff. 86-88 verso). The medallions are described in some detail, in English and Latin. As the MS has been written from both ends this catalogue starts on f. 88 verso.
Inside the back cover there are two loose sheets (contemporary), one of scribblings and the other a short bill in French.

The Vulgate text of St Luke's Gospel preceded by the usual prologue (F. Stegmuller, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, Madrid, 1950-61, no. 620) (ff. 1-121 verso). Lucas, syrus natione, et antyochenus, arte medicus ... (f. 2) quam fastidientibus prodesse. Quoniam quidem multi conati sunt ... et benedicentes deum. The prologue has interlinear glosses by the scribe of the text, some of them giving variant readings. The text has marginal and interlinear glosses by the scribes of the text. These are the Glossa Ordinaria with a good number of additional marginal glosses (comparison with the Glossa Ordinaria in PL 114) all, so far as has been ascertained, deriving from Ambrose and Bede. There are further glosses on the text and on the Gloss in several contemporary smaller glossing hands, probably including both the main scribes, interlined and in the outer margin. Text flanked by gloss, varying number of columns. 35-38 lines (hands A and B), 44 lines (hand C, except when he has to match A or B), the text on alternate lines. Written above the top line. Ruling in plummet includes three sets of three lines at top, middle and bottom of the written space drawn across the full width of the page.
Written in good textura by three hands: A, ff. 1-17, 37-41 , 43 recto-verso; B, f. 17 verso; C ff. 18-32 verso, 42 recto , 44-121 verso. C writes a textura prescissa except when matching A or B. The Gloss is written in a smaller textura by each of the scribes, additional glosses in small glossing hands. Omissions by A have been made good by C. Ink is black-dark brown. Syntax letters and marks appear a few times (e.g. ff. 1 recto-verso, 11 verso).

Lydgate's Life of our Lady, 'O thoughtful! herte plunged indistresse ...' (ff. 2-102 verso). The text includes 'The white lillie of the chosen vale' (f. 3 verso), 'That al maydens myzte ensample take' (f. 4), 'The beutee causith to be of more delyte' (f. 25 verso), and 'Amydeys this welle from fylthe of synne cold ...' (f. 26). The text is defective at two points due to the loss of leaves. It breaks off in ch. I (after f. 3) and resumes near the end of ch. 2; it breaks off again in ch. 19 and resumes in ch. 20. The tags follow the text in the hand of the scribe. It has not yet been possible to compare the text with the edition of J. A. Lauritis, R. A. Klinefelter and V. F. Gallagher.
Written in one hand, an Anglicana formata with Secretary influence, professional-looking. On f. 2 is a 10-line historiated initial O (birth of the Virgin, the picture somewhat rubbed) with a full page frame and border of foliage, flowers and sprays (gold, maroon, blue, white, green, orange), reproduced in the Christie's catalogue (see below). Blue initials for chapters, with red penwork, mostly 2-line, a few 3 or 4-line. Alternating red and blue paragraphs marks with contrasting penwork. Chapter numbers in red at the head of each page, with blue paragraph mark and red penwork. Sidenotes in red with blue paragraph marks.

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Gloddaeth Library, alphabetically arranged with numerous bibliographical notes, written in 1842 (watermark H. MILLS 1841) by Edward Parry of Chester (ff. 1-65). The catalogue is written on the rectos. Bibliographical notes have been added on the versos.
The manuscript also includes a Catalogue of the Gloddaeth Manuscripts at Mostyn 1842 (ff. 67-88), arranged as: Nos 1-36, English Manuscripts (ff. 68-75); Nos 37-56, Welsh Manuscripts (ff. 76-81); and Nos 57-87, Latin and French Manuscripts (ff. 82-88).

Catalogue of the books in the Mostyn Library, interleaved with a catalogue of the books in the Gloddaeth Library (ff. 2 verso-247). The Mostyn catalogue was written in a blank book sometime after 1727, with additions to 1733. The Gloddaeth catalogue, written not before 1733, with additions to 1745, was interleaved in the book by tipping in bifolia with paste and at the same time running thread inside the hinge of each bifolium and down the inside of the spine. The Mostyn catalogue is written on the rectos, leaving blank pages and space between entries for later additions; some later additions are also made on the versos. The Gloddaeth catalogue is closely written on rectos and versos. Both catalogues give titles with places and dates of publication. The Gloddaeth catalogue alone gives pressmarks. Both catalogues in the hand of Thomas Mostyn, 4th bart.
The arrangement is (1) by broad subjects, (2) according to size. The categories are as follows: Libri Theologici (ff. 3-21), Libri Juridici (ff. 25-41), Libri Medici (ff. 44-48), Poetae (ff. 49-50 verso, 63-65), Poetae Graeci (ff. 51, 56-57, 67-68), Poetae Latini (ff. 52-54, 58-61, 69-77), Poetae Italici (ff. 55, 62, 79 recto-verso), Poetae Britannici (ff. 55 verso, 61 verso), Poetae Gallici (ff. 62 verso, 80), Oratores et Epistolographi Graeci (ff. 82-84), Oratores et Epistolographi Latini (ff. 85-91), Oratores et Epistolographi Gallici (f. 92), Oratores et Epistolographi Italici (f. 93), Antiquarii (ff. 95-108), Historia Universalis, Chronologica et Geographica (ff. 110-115), Historia Judaica, Chaldaica, Babylonica (f. 116), Historia Graeca et Romana (ff. 117 verso-134), Historia Hispanica et Lusitanica (ff. 137-141), Historia Italica (ff. 142-146), Historia Gallica (ff. 147-157 verso), Historia Germanica et Regionum Septentrionalum (ff. 154, 159-160), Historia Belgica, Germanica, Danica, Suecica, Relvetica et Russica (ff. 155-157, 174-176), Historia Magnae Britanniae (ff. 161-173), Historia Asiatica, Africana et Americana (ff. 177-181), Historia Byzantina et Turcica (f. 182), Illustrium Virorum Vitae (ff. 185-187), Lexicographi et Grammatici (ff. 189-193), Bibliothecarli (ff. 194-196), Auctores Veteres Classicae Ordinis (ff. 198-207), Grammatici et Critici (ff. 208-213), Philologici et Miscellanei (ff. 217-235), Libri Manuscripti (5 items only) (f. 237), Itineraria (ff. 239-240 verso), Voyageurs (ff. 241-243), Appendix ad Historiam Gallicam (f. 244), Historia Naturalis (f. 245), Appendix ad Historiam Magnae Britanniae (f. 247).

Bede's Ecclesiastical History: Gloriosissimo regi Ceouulfo Beda famulus Christi ... pie intercessionis inueniam (ff. 3-107). The manuscript was not seen by Plummer until after publication of his edition in Bedae Opera Historica, Oxford, 1896; his notes, dated 1897, are now tipped in on f. ii. Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Oxford 1896, did not know the whereabouts of the manuscript. The text belongs to Plummer's Durham group, op. cit., pp. civ-cix, and he believed it to be a transcript of Harleian MS 4124 'with which it agrees in several minute points' (see the notes referred to). Certainly the text agrees with all the features of that of Harleian 4124 noted by Plummer in his apparatus (pp. cix, 130, 145, 228, 236, 426, 430). The manuscript also contains the anonymous Vita Bedae (ff. 107-113): Inter catholicos sacre scripture expositores ... (f. 108) adiuuando prosequi dignetur. Humane salutis auctore Christo Iesu ... laudat et adorat dominum. The text was printed in John Smith, Historiae Ecclesiasticae Gentis Anglorum, Cambridge, 1722, pp. 515-22. For manuscripts of the text, see T. D. Hardy, Catalogue of Materials ..., London, 1862-71, no. 985. The Vita follows the Historia in most manuscripts of the Durham group. Also included is Bede's Historia Abbatum (ff. 113-119 verso): Religiosus Christi famulus Biscopus ... et protectionis impendant. This was printed by Plummer, op. cit., pp. 364-387. Like the Vita Bedae the Historia Abbatum is associated with the Durham group of the Historia Ecclesiastica. Readings of our text again agree with those peculiar to Harleian 4124 as recorded by Plummer.
The manuscript also contains part of Richard of Hexham's account of the history of Hexham Priory (ff. 119 verso-122): Millesimo centesimo terciodecimo dominice incarnationis ... Calixti pape, Eugenii et Adriani. Our text corresponds to chapters iv-xi of James Raine's edition (Surtees Soc., vol. 44, pp. 48-58). There are chapter divisions only for chapters vii, viii, x and xi. Readings mostly agree with the York MS (York Minster MS xvi. I.12) which also ends with chapter xi. Also included is St Bernard, Sermones de diversibus, sermo xiv (ff. 122-123 verso): Beata illa et sempiterna trinitas peter et filius ... et fide non ficta. See S. Bernardi Opera, Rome, 1957- , vol. vi, pp. 262-6, or PL, 183, 667-669. Identified by the fourteenth century lister of contents on f. 2 verso as 'Quedam verba notabilia de sermonibus beati Bernardi, viz, de trinitate ...'. Together with two extracts from St Bernard, Sermones de tempore, sermo iii in die Pasche (ff. 123 verso-124): In corde duplex est lepra, propria uoluntas et consilium proprium ... non mea, inquid, uoluntas, sed tua fiat. O domine, uoluntas de qua dixisti ut non fieret ... et nobis erat utile ut redimeremur. See S. Bernardi Opera, Rome, 1957- , vol. v, pp. 105-6, 108, or PL, 183, 289-290, 291. Identified by the lister of contents as 'alia verba notabilia de lepra voluntatis proprie'. Also included is an extract from a sermon, unidentified (f. 124): Tria sunt que sic roborant et confirmant cor meum ... Hic est funiculus triplex ... qui est benedictus in secula. Amen.

The text of that part of Leland's Itinerary which concerns Wales, beginning 'All the way yt I rode between Hales and Pershore ...' (see L. Toulmin Smith, The Itinerary in Wales of John Leland in or about the years 1536-1539, London, 1906, p. 40) (ff. 1-42). Part of the first paragraph of the text on f. 1 is also to be found on f. vii, which appears to be an abortive beginning to this copy of the Itinerary. The text of the Itinerary in our MS follows Toulmin Smith's edition fairly closely (op. cit. pp. 40-126), and the fact that the section on 'Castles in Montgomerikeshire', etc. (Toulmin Smith, pp. 53-57) which Toulmin Smith supplied from Stow's copy of Leland's original MS, but which is now missing from Leland's MS, is not included in our MS (see f. 6), suggests strongly that the writer of our MS was either copying Leland's MS in the Bodleian library (MS Gen. Top. e12) or a copy of it made after Stow's time. Two other items in our MS (ff. 47, 49) are said to have been copied from Leland's MSS, in the Bodleian. There are however minor differences between our text of the Itinerary and Leland's as printed.
The volume also includes a brief note on Worcestershire (f. vii); extracts from Latin text: 'Ex libro Roberti Prioris Salapesbiriae de vita S: + Wenefredae Virginis ad Guarinum Priorem Vigorniae' (marginal note 'E codice M-S: Jo: Leylandi in Bibliotheca Bodleiana Oxonii existente') (ff. 47-48 verso); Latin notes on the early history of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge: 'Ex Collectionibus Johannis Rowse de Antiquitate Oxonii et Academiae' (marginal note, as above f. 47) (ff 49-51 verso); and Latin notes on the (legendary) early history of the university of Cambridge: 'Ex veteri sed fabuloso Libro incerti Authoris de antiquitate Ca[n] tabrigiensi' (ff. 51 verso-52 verso).

Apparently the chronicle of the reign of Charles V found in Les Grandes Chroniques de France (Grandes Chroniques de Saint-Denis) but unable to compare with any of the printed texts (ff. 1-59). The prologue on f. 1 ('Au non du pere ... les autres plus indignes') corresponds word for word with that to the chronicle of the reign of Charles VII (see below, f. 177) except for the substitution of V for VII. The text of f. 1 is written by a later hand to make good the loss of probably two leaves of the original manuscript, see below. Possibly the placing of Jean Chartier's prologue at this point is due to a misunderstanding by this later hand. From f. 2 on, chapters are numbered and headed by brief summaries. The text of f. 2 begins in chapter 3.
Also included is apparently Jean Juvenal's chronicle of the reign of Charles VI with the continuation attributed to Gilles le Bouvier (ff. 63-172). Unable to compare with a printed text. Cf. B. L. Royal MS 20. E. v. Chapters numbered and headed by brief summaries, as in the table. Together with another two fragments: the first of whcih we are unable to compare with a printed text of Jean Chartier's chronicle. Cf. BL Royal MS 20. C. ix. Chapters numbered and headed by brief summaries, as in the table (ff. 177-339); the second of which we are unable to compare with the chronicle of the reign of Louis XI which was added to some of the early printed editions of Les Grandes Chroniques de France (ff. 340-444 verso).

A volume of cywyddau, awdlau and a few englynion, including sections devoted to the works of Guto'r Glyn, Tudur Aled and Sion Cent. The contents of this MS are listed in Mostyn 112, pp. 631-654; there the MS is described as 'llyfyr kowydde sydd a chayad gantho o barsmant gwyn'. The works of Guto'r Glyn and Tudur Aled appear in roughly the same order as in (Bangor) Gwyneddon MS 4, which suggests that those sections were drawn from a similar source. The works of Guto'r Glyn, ff. 78 verso-109, 122-141, 195 recto-verso, and 199-201, have apparently been transcribed by the compiler of Mostyn 1 [NLW MS 3021F], pp. 559-606 and the works of Tudur Aled, ff. 153 verso-156 verso, 44-45 verso, 156 verso-177, 147-151, and 151 verso-153 verso, have been transcribed in the same way to Mostyn 1, pp. 799-826.
The MS is in five main hands: ff. 6-38 verso, 41-69, and ?221-223 verso, a hand also found in Mostyn MS 161 [NLW MS 3057D], pp. 670-674, 677-683, and possibly that of the poet Richard Cynwal (ob. 1634) [this hand is not dissimilar to that of Wmffre Dafis]; ff. 38 verso-40 verso and 226-231 verso, also found in Mostyn 161, pp. 529-654; ff. 69 verso-78, 90-114, 203 verso-204 verso, ?220 verso-221 verso, 231 verso-238, and 239 verso-243 verso; ff. 1-5, 78 verso-90, 114-203, and 245 verso-253 verso; it is the same hand as Mostyn 161, pp. 987-994 and Mostyn 112, part II, [NLW MS 3031B], pp. 632-654. This hand adds many marginal notes; and ff. 205-220, 224-225, 238 verso-239, 243 verso-245 verso, and 253 verso-257, with f. 258 probably in the autograph of the poet Sion Dafydd Las [John Davies, dec. 1694].

A manuscript of Welsh pedigrees, compiled by the sixteenth-century poet and transcriber, Wiliam Cynwal (dec. 1587) of Ysbyty Ifan. The hand of Wiliam Cynwal runs throughout the MS, there are however a few minor additions to the text by later hands scattered throughout the work. Each genealogy is preceded by a heading locating or naming the family seat; a bolder script is then employed at the beginning of the genealogy proper and sometimes subsequently when a sub-section is introduced. There is rubrication on ff. 5, 117 verso and 292 verso. The aim and scope of the MS is set out by the scribe in an introductory note on f. i, where it is said that the intention is to record the pedigrees of the gentry of Gwynedd, Powys and parts of the counties of Cheshire and Shropshire. He also states his intention of preparing a similar MS to include the pedigrees of the families of the seven counties of Deheubarth. Before the end of the present MS, however, the transcriber has diverted a significant portion of his MS to record details of South Wales families. This MS, like several of Cynwal's other genealogical MSS, concentrates on tracing the maternal ancestors of the families in question. Genealogical and heraldic MSS in his hand include: Bangor 5943, BM Harleian 1961 and Peniarth 128 and 183.
The MS opens with the following preface: 'Y llyfr hwnn a ddechrevais i Wiliam Kynwal pryd[ydd] hel i Iachav ai yscrivennv p[an] oedd oed Krist 1565 ac ynddo yr wyf yn Roi Iachav boneddicion gwynedd a ffowys a phart o sir gaer lleon ac o sir y mwythic a llyfr arall yr wyf yni wnevthvr o Iachav boneddicion saith sir dehevbarth y llyfr hwnn a yscrifenais o amafaelion (sic). lyfrav yn gowiraf ac ygellais drwy boen travael ac anhvnedd ac er hynny medd y ddihareb ni chair dim heb i vai velly o bydd neb ar vol Inav awypo yn sikr [fod] bai ar y llyfr hwnn adolw[yn] I ymendio ac yn gyntaf [ ]Kair y dabl [ ] ch [ym]ovynner [ ]' (f. i).

An incomplete text of Brut y Brenhinedd (one of the Welsh translations of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae). The first quarter of the text is missing as well as a large portion at the end of the MS. After a few fragments of ff. 1-5, the present text begins: 'Ac gwedi hynny vn map a aned iddaw a sef oedd henw hwnnw lles vap koel ac gwedi marw i dad a chymryt o honaw yntav koron y deyrnas holl weithredoedd da i dad a chwnychodd ef ev gwnevthvr megis y doedid y mae ef oedd koel ... dechre llosgi [ny gorffowysswys eny los]ges y kastell A gwrtheyrn ynddaw' (ff. 6-119 verso) [i.e. it corresponds to Llanstephan MS 1, ff. 43 verso-66 verso, Henry Lewis (ed ), Brut Dingestow, pp. 61-118, section IV. l9-VIII. 2, or Brynley Francis Roberts, 'Astudiaeth Destunol o'r tri chyfieithiad Cymraeg cynharaf o Historia Regum Britanniae Sieffre o Fynwy', PhD, Wales (1969), pp. 78-123, (the Peniarth 44 version)]. The text belongs to the Llanstephan 1 version of Brut y Brenhinedd, cf. the introduction to Brynley F. Roberts, Brut y Brenhinedd, Llanstephan MS 1 Version ([Dublin], 1971).
The manuscript also contains a stray leaf from an early-seventeenth century MS containing verses from a Welsh free-metre love-song / religious poem (f. 120), and an incomplete horoscope, XVI/XVII c. (f. 32 verso). Folios 1-5, 31, and 63-119, are fragmentary to varying degrees. The text is written on every other opening of the MS, the intervening pages having been left blank, apart from the additions in later hands found on folios 32 verso and 44.

A volume of medicinal recipes and pedigrees written, 1619-[c. 1634], by Richard Salusbury, probably the descendant of Dean Ffowlk Salusbury of St Asaph whose pedigree occurs on ff. 29 verso, 30 verso-31. Except for notes on the inside of the front cover, ff. 58, 59, 119, 126 verso, 128, and the pedigree on ff. 59 verso-60, the hand is that of Richard Salusbury throughout.

A volume of awdlau, cywyddau, englynion, dyrïau, etc., written in 1725 by a certain John Jones at Mostyn: 'Myfi John Jones A sgrifenodd y Llyfr hwn. ym Mostyn, yn y Flwyddyn. 1725' (f. 119), and again 'John Jones ai sgrifenodd' (f. 4).
The first part of the MS, up to f. 94 verso, appears to have been copied from a MS called 'llyfr Cadwalader y gô' (f. 94 verso), and the poetry in this section of the MS corresponds to the greater part of the contents of Llanstephan MS 49 B which appears to represent the same source. There is nothing to suggest, however that Llanstephan 49 B is one and the same as 'llyfr Cadwalader y gô'. Leaves and end-papers bear a Pro Patria watermark. On ff. 119 verso-120 is a list of titles and page numbers.

History of the Gwydir Family, headed (f. i, different hand from text) 'A true Coppy of a manuscript written by Sr. jon. Wynne of Gwydir Knt. & Barrt. ut Creditur & patet. 1607' (ff. 1-27). This text varies slightly from that of the latest printed edition (The History of the Gwydir Family, ed. by J. Ballinger (Cardiff, 1927)) but corresponds to the texts in NLW MS 27B, NLW MS 16969B and NLW, Wynnstay MS 120, and like them it contains a few occasional notes, some of them by Humphrey Humphreys, bishop of Bangor (in Wynnstay MS 120 some of these notes have been added to the text in a hand apparently that of bishop Humphreys, see pp. 40, 81). This text of the History therefore appears to derive either directly or indirectly from bishop Humphreys' copy, or copies, one of which was in all probability Wynnstay MS 120. The manuscript also includes further notes concerning 'Meredyth Wynn ap Evan ap Robert', his later life and his progeny (the information concerning the latter is alleged to have been found in 'Sr Thomas ap William's book of pedigrees) (ff. 27 verso-28 verso). These notes are subscribed 'H Bangor 1700' (not an autograph) and correspond to the notes in NLW MS 27B, pp. 111-114, in NLW MS 16969B (at the end of the History of the Gwydir Family) and in NLW, Wynnstay MS 121, pp. 1-3.
Also included in the manuscript are notes on natives of Caernarvonshire 'such as by there own Industry have Advanced their fortunes and became Eminent, ---' (ff. 32-40). These are the notes published under the title of Memoirs in the 1927 edn. of the History of the Gwydir Family (pp. 61-75) with one major difference: the copy in our MS contains a preface (ff. 32-32 verso) which does not occur in the printed edition (or in its source, NLW MS 27B, pp. 5-27). This preface begins: 'Now haveing taken View and Survey of the Soile and Situation of the County of Carnarvon, It would be considered and remembred what Witts and Worthy Members to the Common Wealth from time to time this poor County brought forth, ---' (f. 32), suggesting that these notes were once part of, or intended to be part of, a larger work on Caernarvonshire. The circumstantial information in this preface appears to support the suggestion that Sir John Wynn of Gwydir was the author of these notes (Ballinger, op.cit., p. xiv). Also included are 'Notes to be observed before you let your Survey Pass your hands' (ff. 43-50 verso). These notes also occur in NLW MS 27B, pp.115-137, and were printed under the somewhat misleading title of An Ancient Survey, of Pen Maen Mawr, --- by J. O. Haliwell in 1659 and reprinted by W. Bezant Lowe in 1906.

A volume of household and medical recipes written at various times from the mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth centuries. There are two mid-seventeenth century hands (A and B) with additions in many late seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century hands. Hand A runs from ff. 1-9, and hand B from ff. 9-12, 20-23 verso, 26-40, 73-74 verso, 77, 83 recto-verso, 87 verso-113 with additions on the paste-down on the inside of the front cover and ff. 1 verso, 6 verso, 8 recto-verso.
Papers found loose in the manuscript have been brought together at the end (ff. 118-125). These include a receipt (dated Mar. 26, 1753) to Mrs A. Hay for payment for a neglige cap, signed D. W. Healey (f. 123), and an undated letter from T. Knight addressed to Mrs Nancy Lloyd at Nanney (ff. 124-125).

An early-thirteenth century collection of distinctiones from the Mostyn library. The distinctiones are theological and scriptural and, to a small extent, merely grammatical. They are set out in the characteristically medieval schematic pattern. Quotations in the distinctiones are mostly from Scripture; there are also however some from the Fathers, from the Liturgy and, among the pagan writers, Boethius, Virgil, Ovid and Lucan. The compilation appears in part at least to be an original one. It is the work of one hand, an English one, well written and prettily decorated in red and green.

Commentary by an unidentified author on the Prima Pars, the Secunda Secundae and Tertia Pars of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, written in two fine hands of the early-seventeenth century.
Most of the manuscript is written in a secretary hand, whilst two portions are written in a mixed hand (ff. 213-225 verso, 412-424 verso). The commentary may be an example of the manuscript text books supplied to university students during the early-seventeenth century, and perhaps related to other similar works published on the continent during the same century (not seen).