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An imperfect volume of hymn-tunes, psalm-tunes, etc., some of which are attributed to John Davies, John Roberts (Wrexham), S. Standly, John Evans, John Jeffreys, Win. Pugh, Thos. Evans (Swansea), Robert Mills, Hugh Evans, etc. At the beginning is an incomplete list of titles.

The tune book of Benjamin Price, containing hymn-tunes, anthems and glees by Thomas Williams ('Hafrenydd'), Llanidloes, R[ichard] Mills ['Rhydderch Hael'], Morris Davies, D. Thomas and others.

The tune book of John Thomas containing hymn-tunes and anthems popular in the mid-19th century. Some of the titles are ornamented.

Tune book, mid nineteenth century, containing hymn-tunes and anthems.

Tune book, first half of the nineteenth century, containing hymn-tunes and anthems together with notes on the rudiments of music.

Cerddoriaeth sol-ffa a hen nodiant yn bennaf gan, neu a drefnwyd gan, ac yn llaw, y Parchedig W. E. Penllyn Jones, gan gynnwys unawdau, deuawdau, cytganau, emyn-donau ac emynau = Music, both sol-ffa and old notation, chiefly by, or arranged by, and in the hand of, the Reverend W. E. Penllyn Jones, and which includes solos, duets, choruses, hymn-tunes and hymns.
Ceir emyn-donau hefyd gan R[owland] H[uw] Pritchard (f. 43), James Leach (f. 82), Chester G. Allen (f. 104) ac eraill; emyn gan y Parchedig D[avid] Tecwyn Evans (f. 48); a chopi o gytgan, ynghyd â nodyn byr, yn llaw 'L. D. J.' sef Lewis Davies Jones ('Llew Tegid') (f. 60) = Also included are hymn tunes by R[owland] H[uw] Pritchard (f. 43), James Leach (f. 82), Chester G. Allen (f. 104) and others; a hymn by the Reverend D[avid] Tecwyn Evans (f. 48); and a copy of a chorus, together with a brief note, in the hand of 'L. D. J.' (Lewis Davies Jones ('Llew Tegid')) (f. 60).

A manuscript of John Roberts ('Ieuan Gwyllt') used originally as a register of the pupils who enrolled in his school at Nanteos Arms [Capel Seion, near Aberystwyth] from its foundation on 12 June to 1 July 1839. The volume was subsequently used, [c. 1839-1840], to record hymn-tunes, hymns, metrical psalms, etc., by 'Ieuan Gwyllt', and notes of sermons by John Hughes, Pontrobert, [Thomas] Richards, Fishguard, David Howels, Thos. Evans, O. Williams, and H. Hughes, Llanrwst.

A tune book of Thomas Jenkins, Llanychaearn, co. Cardigan, 1821?, containing hymn-tunes and psalm-tunes by John [David] Edwards ('Aelod o Goleg Iesu Rhydychen') [aft. of Rhosymedre], Thomas Jenkins, Dd. J[enki]n Morgan [of Llechryd], and John Broderip ('organist of Wells and Sipton Mallet'), and numerous unattributed compositions; hymns; 'The Scale of Musick Called the Gamut'; etc.

A volume entitled 'The Nightingale Anthems, Choruses and Tune Book', containing compositions by G. F. Handel (including one sung to words by Hugh Jones ('Erfyl')); W. A. Mozart; J. Ambrose Lloyd; John Ellis, Llanrwst (arrangements by William Owen, Prysgol, and 'O[wain] Alaw'); Giacomo Carissimi; Owen Davies ('Eos Llechryd'); John Owen ('Owain Alaw'), including compositions to words by John Jones, ('Talhaiarn'), Edward Roberts ('Iorwerth Glan Aled'), John Jones ('Ioan Tegid'), and Hugh Jones ('Erfyl'), and a winning composition at the Tremadoc Eisteddfod, 1851; E[dward] Stephen ('Tanymarian'); Franz Joseph Haydn; John Mills ('Ieuan Glan Alarch'); John Roberts ('Ieuan Gwyllt'); Brinley Richards (to words by 'Talhaiarn'); and others. On the fly-leaf is a printed leaflet of hymns, etc. to be sung at the re-opening of Clynnog Church, 2 June, 1856, and a manuscript round for three voices by Dr. Philip Hayes. The volume is indexed.

A volume of poetry, which includes translations from the Danish and German (lines by Luther and Schiller) and an address to Napoleon Bonaparte; hymns, including one by J. S. Monsell, 1835. Beginning at the end is a miscellany of sermons, notes on religion, and transcripts of, and extracts from, letters, including an exhortation by Dr. [Hugh] Blair, 1797; a letter from John Hough, bishop of Worcester, 1731; a letter from Eliza Compton to her husband William, Lord Compton, afterwards 1st earl of Northampton, c. 1610-1611; a letter from Dr. [Thomas] Chalmers; extracts from a letter from Dr. [Thomas] Chalmers relating to the payment by the State of Roman Catholic priests in Ireland, 1835; etc.

A volume of dance and other music by Joseph Labitzky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Sigismund Neukomm, Theodor Döhler, Guiseppe Verdi, Felix Mendelssohn, Josef Lanner, Henri Rosellen, Louis Antoine Julien, etc., and a hymn to words by [Charles] Wesley.

A volume containing hymns, among them one to words by Isaac Watts, and another to words by Reginald Heber; numerous arrangements for the harp including music by Daniel Franҫois Esprit arranged by Robert Nicolas Charles Boscha, arrangements by Jan Ladislav Dussek, and an arrangement of music by Giacomo Meyerbeer; an Irish air by P. J. Meyer; a rondo by J. N. Hummel; music by Meyerbeer arranged by Abraham Louis Niedermeyer; numerous variations by Henri Herz; music by Charles Horn to words by Haynes Bayly; music by Schubert to words by Goethe; music by F. H. F. Berkeley to words by Thomas Hood; music and songs by Carl Maria von Weber, Neil Gow, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, J. P. Knight, J. B. Cramer and others; etc.

A volume containing 'Rousseau's Dream' by J. B. Cramer; Swiss airs and a Swiss dance; a quadrille; waltzes by Carl Maria von Weber, Balduci [sic, for Boildieu?], Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johan Nepomuka Hummel, etc.; a German drinking song; Gaelic, Tyrolese (one by Joseph Kuffner), Irish, French, Danish and German airs; marches; a pastorale by Franҫois Adrien Boildieu; a harp air; gallopades; a polonaise; Hungarian melody; preludes for the harp by P. M. Meyer ('Not to be copied'); hymn-tunes (to words by Thomas Kelly, William Cowper, John Newton, Joseph Addison, Reginald Heber, etc.); Scotch airs (to words by Miss --- Drinkwater); chants by Sir J. Stepenson; a psalm-tune; a Portuguese song ('modinha'); etc.

'Canto y Gynulleidfa, sef Anthemau a Thonau cyfaddas i'w canu yn yr addoliad cyhoeddus, gan David Bynner ('Dewi Cadfan'), Llangadfan, Chwefror 8fed 1859'. The anthems are 'Praise the Lord, O my soul', 'The Congregational Anthem', and 'Moliant Seion'. Several of the hymn-tunes have titles of Montgomeryshire association, e.g. Beulah, St Cadfan, Cannoffice and Myfod.

Anthems, hymn-tunes, glorias, etc., some with and others without words.

Hymn tunes, anthems, etc., some of them composed by John Edwards ('Meiriadog'), and some with words.

A collection of songs, anthems and hymn-tunes, including compositions and arrangements by David Lewis, D. Wylor Owen, J. Edward Williams, Sirhowy, Jos. Jones, Ty-Newydd, William William Pritchard, Tregarth, W. Reynolds, Brymbo, R. M. Hughes and William Hughes ('Alaw Manod').

A collection of anthems, hymn-tunes, airs and part-songs, composed, arranged or harmonised by David Lewis, 1865-1904.

A collection of airs, anthems, duets, part-songs, choruses and hymn-tunes, composed, arranged or harmonised by David Lewis, 1854-1907.

A collection of hymn-tunes selected by David Lewis from J[ohn] and R[ichard] Mills: Y Cerddor Eglwysig, 1846, Cydymaith y Cerddor, and T. B. Mason's Collection; 'Clod a Mawl i'r Hollalluog Dduw' by David Lewis; and a duet, 'Gwyllt Walia', by William Ellis, schoolmaster, which was awarded the first prize at the competitive meeting of the Aberystwyth Literary Society, 1857.