Dangos 39 canlyniad

A volume largely of poetry in strict and free metres transcribed by John Morris during the period circa 1784-8. It contains 'Ychydig o Reolau Gramadegawl a gasglwyd gan y Parchedig Mr. [David] Ellis o Amlwch ... yr hwn sy'n wr deallus iawn ac yn perchen awen ragorol. Ac yn hoffi'n fawr yr Iaith Gymraeg ...' ('John Morris ai scrifennodd Rhagfyr, 12, 1786'); 'carolau' and 'cerddi' by Robt. Evans ('o Feifod'), Daniel Jones, Hugh Morris, John Hughes, Jonathan Hughes, Ellis Roberts, H[ugh] Jones ('o Langwm'), David Thomas, Arthur Jones, and Rhisiart Parry ('athraw ysgol gynt yn Sir Fôn'); 'cywyddau' and 'englynion' by Owen Evan alias Owen Gwynedd, John Edwards, Hugh Morris, Arthur Jones ('Clochydd Llangydw[alad]r'), Hugh Gryffydd, Jonathan Hughes, Da. Lloyd, [David Jones] ('Dewi fardd, o Drefriw'), John Edwards ('Clochydd Manafon'), Rhys Morgan ('pencraig Neath'), Wm. Raffe ('o Mochdref Sir Drefald[wy]n'), John Rhees (Llanrhaiadr), Daniel Jones, Tho. Edwards, Ed. Morris, Dafydd Benwyn, Lewis Glyn Cothi, William Cynwal and William Phillip, and anonymous poems; 'Cof-restr dewisedig yn dangos rhifedi'r blynyddoedd Aethant heibio, er pan fu amryw bethau hynod Hyd y flwyddyn 1788'; 'Parhad o Gronicl y Brenhinoedd a Thwysogion Cymru er yn amser Cydwaladr ...'; 'Rhestr o Enwau'r Marchogion, a Seneddwyr yr uchel Lys Barliament, Arglwyddi Lifftenants, Custos Retulorum [sic], Penswyddogion y Militia, a'r Siryfau Pob Sir drwy Gymru; a'r Swm yr ydys yn i dalu o Dreth Brenin, a elwir yn gyffredin y Dreth fawr yn ol pedwar Swllt y Bunt, gida rhifedi y Militia yr ydys yn i godi ymhob Sir'; 'Rhestr o Enwau'r ardderchog Ustisiaid ar Barnwyr Sy'n gwrando, a dibennu pob Matterion Cyfraith yn Lloegr a Chymru'; 'Rhestr o Enwau yr Esgobion, Deaniaid, Arch-Diaconiaid, Canghellwyr, a'r Blaenoriaid sydd yn trefni Swyddau Eglwysaidd yn Ardalaith Cymru gyda'r Swm a gyfrifir ar bob Esgobaeth yn Llyfrau'r Brenin'; 'Byr hanes maintioli Sirioedd [sic] Cymru, a rhifedi'r Plwyfydd; Ac enwau'r Seneddwyr ...'; 'Barnwyr neu brif Ustusiaid Cymru'; 'Henwau y Deuddeg Patrieirch ...'; 'Rhestr o Enwau'r Proffwydi ...'; 'Rhestr o Enwau Ein Iachawdwr Iesu Grist ...'; 'Henwau'r Deuddeg Apostolion'; 'Rhestr o Enwau ychydig o'r Seintiau, Merthyron, a Dynion Rhinweddol erill, yr ydys yn Cadw Coffadwriaeth o honynt ...'; 'Henwau'r Naw Miwsic' [?Miwsis]; 'Henwau'r Naw Gorchfygwyr'; 'Saith Ryfeddod y byd'; 'Y Saith Gysgadur'; 'Pumtheg arwydd (medd Dafydd Nanmor) a welir cyn y Jubil Sabbathaidd'; 'Y pum synwyr a roes Duw i Ddyn'; 'Henwau Siroedd Lloegr, a Rhifedi y Dinasoedd, Trefydd marchnadol, Plwyfydd, a Chwmpas, a hefyd y Cyferi [sic] sydd ymhob Sir'; 'Siroedd Cymru, a Rhifedi y Trefydd Marchnadol, Plwyfydd, y Cwmpas, a'r Cyferi sydd ymhob Sir'; a riddle ('Dychymmyg') in verse; 'Llythyrennau am Raddau Dysgeidiaeth, a byrhad geiriau yn ôl yr Iaith Lladin ...'; medical recipes; 'Hoff benill M. Luther'; 'Henwau y Pedwar archugain Marchog, oedd yn Llys y Bre[nin]'; 'Yr wyth fyd, neu Uchelderau, y mae'r Astronomyddion yn crybwyll am danynt'; and 'Ychydig o waith rhai or hên Brydyddion ...' (quotations from the poetry of Edm[wnd] Prys, Huw Arwystl, Ieuan Tew, Dr Ioan Gwent, Owen Gwynedd, Gruffudd Gru[g], Moris ap Ifan ap Einion, Lewis Môn, Sion Brwynog, Gruffudd Hiraethog, Rhys Nanmor and Ioan Prichard (1670)). Preceding the text is a progressive list ('Tabl') of the 'carolau', 'cerddi', and 'cywyddau' contained in the volume. That the entire volume is based on a variety of sources is shown by the last entry inserted by the scribe: 'Yr ychydig o hen bethau hyn, a godais I allan o hen Lyfrau pan oeddwn mewn oriau Segur, rhag I Colli hwynt ...'. Inside the lower cover are printed 'Englynion Croesawiad Sior IV. 'Trwy Gymru' by [Hugh Jones] ('H. Erfyl'). There are a few minor entries in the hand of Mary Richards.

Welsh poetry mainly by, or in the hand of, Iolo Morganwg.

A volume containing Welsh poetry, mostly in strict metre (pp. 1-433), together with some prose items, including recipes for making inks and baits for catching trout (pp. xvii-xviii), a short Welsh vocabulary (pp. xix-xxii), descriptions of the coats of arms of Welsh families (pp. 444-454) and the names of the Fifteen Tribes of Gwynedd (pp. 454-456), written in a late-seventeenth century hand.
Many of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poems are addressed to members of the families of Owen of Clenennau and Brogyntyn and Wynn of Glyn and Ystumcegid: the manuscript was probably compiled for Elizabeth Wynn of Glyn and Ystumcegid or for her daughter Margaret Wynn shortly after the latter's marriage in 1683 to Sir Robert Owen of Clenennau and Brogyntyn (see pp. 23-25). An index to the poems is supplied by the scribe on pp. 434-443. Poetry in more than one hand has been added between c. 1691 and c. 1713 on pp. vii, 457-476, 484-485, 489-510, including elegies to Sir Robert Owen by Huw Morys (pp. 468-471) and to his sister-in-law Mrs Catherine Pennant by David Davies (p. 473), and a poem in free metre, dated 1713, probably by Dafydd Williams, Rhuthun (p. vii).

The original manuscript of 'Casgliad o Hen Faledi a Cherddi ... Beddgelert' which won the prize for Carneddog at the national eisteddfod held at Pwllheli, 1925. The collection consists of three hundred and four poems by various writers living in Wales, the United States of America, and Australia, most of whom were in some way or other connected with Beddgelert and neighbourhood. There is a list of the writers, who range in date from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

A commonplace book belonging to Rowland Eames, Penrhyndeudraeth, 1776-1781, and containing notes on arithmetic, accounts, recipes, 'cerddi' and 'carolau', hymns, precedents of legal documents, music, night-school memoranda, a highway account for Llanfrothen, 1790, etc.

An index, prepared by Walter Davies, of proper names, mainly Welsh personal and place-names; englynion and other poems; and miscellaneous notes.

Transcripts of letters from John Morgan (Matchin), Lewis Morris, and William Wynn, with notes by Walter Davies; a transcript of Account of MSS. in Wales, written by the learned and ingenious Lewis Morris, as it is supposed about the year 1745 (cf. Panton MS. 29, i.e., N.L.W. MS. 1998); transcripts, by Walter Davies, of Welsh poems allan o Lvyr Med Davis o Vron Wion ym Meirion-a sgrivwyd 1738; etc.

'Englynion' and other poems, some of them holograph, composed for the most part at informal meetings of bards in the house of John Jenkins, the writers including David Rowland ('Dewi o Brefi'), 'Cedewain', John Jenkins, Walter Davies, David Davies ('Dewi Fardd o Geri'), William Moses ('Gwilym Tew Glan Taf'), John Howell ('Ioan ab Hywel', alias 'Eos Glandyfroedd'), Robert Davies ('Bardd Nantglyn'), David Richards ('Dewi Silin'), Aneurin Owen, Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'), Elizabeth Jenkins ('Eos y Bele'), William Ellis Jones ('Gwilym Cawrdaf'), John Jones ('wyr Dafydd Jones o Drefriw'), Hugh Jones ('Huw Erfyl'), John Hughes (author of Horae Britannicae), William Edwards ('Gwilym Padarn'), Thomas Jones ('Thomas Gwynedd', alias 'Tydain'), Daniel Evans ('Daniel Ddu o Geredigion'), Robert Parry ('Robin Ddu Eryri'), Thomas Ellis ('Eos Tegeingl'), Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'), William Owen ('Gwilym Glan Hafren'), John Blackwell ('Alun'), Peter Jones ('Pedr Fardd'), John Jones ('Collwyn'), and David Harris ('Kerry').

'Llyfr Cowyddeu i Mr. William Wynn o Langoed yn sir fon'. 'Y Llyfr hwnn a scrifennodd William Davies Curat or plwy yn y flwyddyn o oedran yr Arglwydd: 1642'. It contains 'cywyddau', 'awdlau', and 'englynion' by Sion Cent, Iolo Goch, Syr Owain ap Gwilym, Syr Dafydd Trefor, Sion Phylip, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Ieuan ap Gruffudd Leiaf, Dafydd Nanmor, Llywelyn ap Hywel ab Ieuan ap Gronw, Edmwnd Prys, Huw Cowrnwy, Dafydd ap Dafydd Llwyd, Maredudd ap Rhys, Gruffudd Llwyd ap Dafydd ab Einion, Sianckyn ab Eingan, Llywelyn ab yr Ynad Coch, Sion Tudur, Morys ap Hywel ap Tudur, Sion ap Hywel ap Llywelyn Fychan, Huw Roberts, Morgan ap Huw Lewis, Sion Brwynog, Morys Llwyd, Hyw Arwystli, Lewis Morganwg, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Lewis Daron, Rhys Nanmor, Hywel ap Dafydd ab Ieuan ap Rhys, William Egwad, Hywel Swrdwal, Tudur Aled, Lewis Glyn Cothi, Lewis Môn, Rhys Goch Glyndyfrdwy, Guto'r Glyn, Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Llywelyli Fychan, Wiliam Myddelton, Bedo Brwynllys, Wiliam Llyn, Lewis Menai, Simwnt Fychan, Llywelyn ap Gwilym ap Rhys, Richard Cynwal, Rhys Cain, Gruffudd ap Tudur ap Hywel, Sion Ceri, Robert ap Dafydd Llwyd, Syr Roland Williams, Gruffudd Hiraethog, Wiliam Cynwal, Morys Dwyfech, Rhys Goch Eryri, Roger Cyffin, Gwilym ap Sefnyn, Ieuan Dew Brydydd, Thomas Prys, Gruffudd Llwyd, Dick Hughes, and the transcriber.

Poems on various subjects, many of them submitted to various competitive meetings at Talybont, near Aberystwyth, and elsewhere, and some of them written by Edward Evans; a letter and a postcard, 1918-1919, from John Thomas ('Eifionydd') to Edward Evans.

A notebook kept, [c. 1852]-1868, by a farmer in the Dolgellau district, containing memoranda and accounts relating to farming, details of the acreage and valuation of various farms in the neighbourhood, culinary recipes, poetry by Morris Davies (Meurig Ebrill), Evan Jones, maltster, Dolgellau, and Sincin Morgan, etc.

A collection of cywyddau and other Welsh poems, [16 cent.].

A volume of cywyddau and awdlau and other Welsh poems, addressed mainly to members of the Vaughan families of Hergest and Tretower.

'Carolau', 'cerddi', 'cywyddau', and a few 'englynion', most of them transcribed by John Beans. Among the poets represented are Huw Morus, Edward Morus, Ellis Cadwaladr, Edward Samuel, Robert Hwmffres, Dafydd Morus, Gruffudd Edward, Mathew Owen, Robert Sion Owen, Ellis Rowland, Edward Rowland, William Roberts, Jonathan Hughes, William Thomas, Richard Abraham, Cadwaladr Roberts, Ned Lloyd ('o'r Bala'), Thomas William, Evan Thomas, Ellis Roberts, Arthur Jones ('o Langadwaladr'), John Jones, John Parry, Dafydd Puw Rowland, John Hughes, Ellis Roberts ('Elis y Cowper'), Morus Roberts, John Evans, Ellis ab Ellis, Thomas Jones, Derwas Griffiths, Rowland Hughes, Sion Hwmffre, Hugh Jones (Llangwm), John Cadwaladr ('o'r Bala gunt and ynawr athraw ysgol yn Llangwm'), - Lewis ('curad Cerrig y Drudion'), Lewis Morris ('Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn), Sion Tudur, Wiliam Phylip, John Davies ('Sion Dafydd Las'), Maredudd ap Rhys, etc.

Miscellaneous poetry.

A volume containing a 19th century transcript of Welsh poetry by one of Sir Thomas Phillipps's secretaries, together with a transcribed pedigree (p. 108) of Elizabeth I.

A commonplace book of Lewis Morris containing note and extracts relating mainly to natural history, mineralogy, physics, and applied mechanics, together with recipies and poems.