Dangos 31 canlyniad

A copy, in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg, of 'Cyfrinach Beirdd Ynys Prydain ', correspondending to the text published in 1829. The first 150 folios (NLW MS 21320B), corresponding to pp. 1-171 in the printed copy, are more carefully written than the remainder (NLW MS 21321B), which have now been numbered in pencil (1-85) and arranged to follow as in the printed copy.

'The Vision', an account of the way in which Garmon appeared to Cambrensis.

A notebook in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg containing grammatical notes. Inside the pocket of the front cover is written 'Grammatical Collections. Welsh.' It also contains a list of 'Beirdd Eisteddfod y Bewpyr, cyn belled (medd ef) ag y gallodd Mr Sion Bradford eu cael allan o gaffadwriaethau Watkin Powel o Ben y Fai', &c.

Two memorandum-books or notebooks which belonged to Iolo Morganwg. The earlier of the two, marked 'Memoranda Hints. &c. 1805', contains triads, proverbs, 'englynion' and other verses, music, particulars of the contents of 'Ancient Historical Documents relating to Wales and the Welsh Nation', a work in two volumes 'To be published by E. Wms in 1807', various Welsh words with their meanings, a list of printed collections of Welsh poetry, including hymns, notes on versification, and a list of 'Traits in the Southwalian from the Troubadorian Poetry', etc. The other which has fewer entries contains, among other things, a note headed 'Ofergoelion am y Tylwyth Teg ym Morganwg', a list of Copper Smoke Subscribers and Judges, a few recipes, and a series of 'Pennillion Diarhebgoel' by Iolo Morganwg.

Papers, mainly in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg, relating to the case of the Rev. Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi), who was imprisoned in 1801 for sedition (16 items). Some of these papers have been described by Prof. G. J. Williams in Llên Cymru, 3 (1954-6), 120-122.

An account-book, [c. 1783], in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg, [?possibly to do with the lime-burning business mentioned among his loose papers].

(a) A notebook (8 pp., in Welsh) containing 'Trioedd y Lladron', twelve in number, 'o Lyfr Thomas Philip o Dreos', in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg, followed by 'Credo Wladwriaethol' written in another hand; (b) The Bardic Institutes in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg (in English): (i) '[The] Bardic Institution according to [the] Laws of Gruffydd ab Cynan'. A note at the end states that this is an abstract of the Institutes as given by Dr John David Rhys in his Welsh Grammar, 1593; (ii) 'The Bardic Institutes as Traditionally retained down to the Present Day, by the Glemorganshire Bards who assert, and believe that they are unalteredly the same with those of the Ancient British Bards and Druids'.

A notebook containing a few Welsh words with their meanings, and some verses, nearly all in pencil ('tribanau' in praise of Glamorganshire, Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire, and Breconshire, etc.).

A notebook marked (?by Taliesin Williams) 'Llwyd Hir'. On the cover EW has written 'Geiriau Cymreig cymmysgedig' and 'Examine this for the History of the Bards. Many things of Great Importance'. There are also four loose sheets which are similar in form and content, and which may have belonged to this manuscript. See note inside front cover concerning ink and pencil crossings.

A notebook in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg containing: (a) Instructions (touching health and husbandry) for the twelve months of the year. 'Y Mae'r ail ddalen yn Mis Rhagfyr ar goll. Iolo Morganwg'; (b) A Calendar of Saints' Days (see also Iolo Manuscripts, Second edition, 1888, p. 152). On the first page before a, is the following note: 'Allan o hen Galander mewn ysgriflyfr a ysgrifenwyd ynghylch 1500, ym meddiant Mr Thomas Davies o Ddolgelleu'; (c) More instructions, but for Jan.-March only. 'O Hen galander a wnaethpwyd yn y flwyddyn 1442 y tynnwyd y gyfarwyddyn yma. (ebe Llyfr John Wiliam o'r Twtsiwn)'. Inside the front cover are 'englynion' by Edwd Richards [sic], Ystrad Meuryg.

'The Triades of the Island of Britain'..: an English translation made by Iolo Morganwg in 1807 of the series of 126 'Trioedd Ynys Prydain' printed in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, Vol. II (1801), p. 57 (in the 1870 edition this series occurs at p. 400).

A notebook designated 'Y Melin Brith', containing Unitarian Doxologies by Iolo Morganwg, some Unitarian hymns, and Byron's Hebrew or Jewish hymns, etc. The pages are numbered 1-32 and there is an outline of the contents on the cover. There is also another copy of the Byron hymns, with music and some notes on 'Jewish Sacrifices, and Ritual', etc.

'Salmau yr Eglwys yn yr Anialwch (Cyfrol II)...'. In the note, dated 7 August 1826, in NLW MS 21339A Iolo Morganwg refers to this volume thus: 'Gweler ym mhrifddarpar yr ail gyfrol 74' [i.e. Salmau]. The collection is similar to, but not identical with, the first pages of the second volume published by Taliesin Williams in 1834: there are some hymns in the MS which are not in the printed volume, and vice versa. There is also a draft of the beginning of a preface (to be found elsewhere).

The manuscript of Salmau yr Eglwys yn yr Anialwch, Cyfrol I (Merthyr Tydfil, 1812). The printed volume contains 204 hymns: the last in the manuscript collection is numbered CC. The preface appears to correspond to the printed copy except that the last paragraph but one is wanting here: there is also another draft of a preface dated 'Trefflemin, neu fal ai gelwid gynt Llanfihangel y Twyn, gerllaw'r Bont faen ym Morganwg Alban Hefin 1811' (found elsewhere among the papers). The index which appears to be a draft is to the printed volume and not to the manuscript.

'Proposals for printing by subscription a new and improved edition, with aditions [sic], of Poems Lyric and Pastoral By Edward Williams,' followed by seventeen poems, including a few shorter items (epitaphs).

Eight songs or poems mainly of a political nature, several of which are marked 'Copied 1803' (Probably copied into No. 47 [i.e. NLW MS 21335B).

Fragments of collections of English poems by Iolo Morganwg, comprising early versions of Poems Lyric and Pastoral and other poems not included in the printed volumes. Above some of them Iolo Morganwg has written such comments as 'In New Collection much altered' or 'Copied for press', and in one instance 'Copied 1803, for addenda'.

'Proposals for printing by Subscription. Poems, Lyric and Pastoral. By Edward Williams, a self-tutored Journey-man Mason, of the County of Glamorgan, in Wales ...', followed by a few of the poems printed in Poems Lyric and Pastoral (1794), Vol. I.

'Poems on several occasions, By Edward Williams, A Journeyman Mason'. There are 39 items in the list of contents at the beginning, and many of the poems are to be found in Poems Lyric and Pastoral (1794), but with considerable differences. The cover consists of two leaves from John Walters' Dictionary, Citatory - Clean.

An imperfect collection of English poems by Iolo Morganwg, with an index to the contents. The entire collection contained 55 or more pages, and those preserved here are numbered 7-22, ?27-28, 33-40, and 43-48. The contents include early versions of some of the poems printed in Poems Lyric and Pastoral (1794).