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A volume containing an incomplete holograph copy, [mid-19 cent.], of An Abbridgement of the History of Britain From the Time of Constantine the Great to the Invasion by the Saxons Collected Out of the Works of William Cathrall, by Richard R. Jones (Dic Aberdaron, 1780-1843); together with a transcript by him of a passage in Latin and Hebrew from Johannis Buxtorfii Institutio epistolaris hebraica (Basel, 1610) made, 7 January 1837, for Hugh Jones, draper (f. 23).

A volume [watermark 1813] in the hand of Richard Robert Jones ('Dic Aberdaron') containing 'Peithadur neu Lythyreg Hebrëig', an Hebrew Grammar in Welsh (ff. 41 verso-50 verso, 54 verso-132 verso, text in reverse, written mainly on the versos); a short Hebrew-Welsh vocabulary (f. 9 recto-verso); and miscellaneous extracts from the scriptures in English, many written in shorthand (ff. 1-14).

A composite manuscript by, and in the autograph of, Richard Robert Jones (Dic Aberdaron) containing: (1) a composite memoir of Dic Aberdaron; (2) a metaphrasis of Psalm 58 to be sung with harp accompaniment in Welsh with an English translation; (3) a transcript of the Hebrew text of the Song of Songs of Shelomah, together with an interlinear translation into English and a transcript of the preface of Rashi; (4) two copies of the arrangement of the 'cithara' in Greek according to the ancients, together with an illustration; (5) transcripts and translations into English of odes by Anacreon 'To a silver cup' (Teubner text, No. IV), 'To the same' (Ibid V), 'To a maiden' (ibid XXII), 'To a portrait painter'(Ibid XVI), 'To his own loves' and 'To a disc' (ibid LVII) and of an ode by Sappho 'To a loved woman'; (6) the names of the days of the week in English, Greek and Hebrew; (7) a transcript of 'The Sabbath day', published by the Religious Tract Society (No. 2), together with a Welsh translation made on 24 August 1840; (8) transcripts and interlinear translations into English of miscellaneous passages from Homer; (9) transcripts and interlinear translations of odes by Anacreon 'To a Harp' (Teubner text No. XXIII) and 'To Love' (ibid XXXIII). Inserted is a letter, dated 13 February [19]11, from J. Kyrle Fletcher, 82 High Street, Newport, to A. Addams-Williams [at Llangibby Castle] relating to this volume. Paper; ff. 42 unnumbered, 1-18, and 18 unnumbered; 213 x 127; half green morocco with blind and gilt tooling.