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A manuscript collection of prose and verse in the hand of an amanuensis of Dr John Davies, Mallwyd. The volume comprises 'Ystori Peredur fab Efrawg', with five missing folios at the beginning supplied by John Jones ('Tegid'); 'Achau'r Kwrwf'; Caerwys Eisteddfod roll, May 26, 9 Elizabeth [1567]; triads; recipes; 'Tlysau Ynys Brydain'; 'Araith Wgan'; an extensive selection of 'cywyddau' and 'awdlau', mainly 'cywyddau merched', by Bedo Aeddren, Bedo Brwynllys, Dafydd ab Edmwnd, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Dafydd Nanmor, Gruffudd Gryg, Gruffudd Hiraethog, Guto'r Glyn, Gutun Owain, Iolo Goch, Lewis Glyn Cothi, Rhisiart Phylip, Sion Cent, Sion Phylip, Simwnt Fychan, Tudur Aled and others; a collection of eulogies offered to Dr John Davies, Mallwyd, some of the poems having the date of composition recorded and including poems by Huw Machno, Sion Cain, Rhisiart, Gruffudd, Siôn and William Phylip and others; and miscellanea in various hands, including 'englynion marwnad Sion Dafis Athro parchedig mewn devinyddiaeth [Dr John Davies, Mallwyd]' by 'Rowland Vaughan esgwier o Gaergai' (1644), 'penillion gwr ifanc i'w gariad' (1688), 'moliant Sion Foulkes, Llanymowthwy', by Huw Morus (1674), 'moliant . . . maer Dinas Mowthwy' by Richard Lloyd, a fragment of 'Achau y Cwrw a'i hanes', an account of mizes paid (1646-1647), notes on Latin grammar, recipes, pedigrees, and a fragment of an interlude ('Argolws and Symoniax').

The second part of an interlude based on the 1745 rebellion; 'englynion'; genealogy of Thomas Lloyd Anwyl; a 'cywydd' by Simwnt Fychan ('Cerais enyyd cwrs anawdd'); 'ymdiddan rhwng Sion y Sennwr a Meirig hir ymaros am farddoniaeth'; miscellaneous notes by Ellis Pierce; letters by D[avid] R[obert] Jones, Liverpool, 1888, and W[illiam] J[ohn] Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'), 1889; poems on 'Y Corwgl' written for competition at Dolwyddelan 'eisteddfod', 1892; an elegy on the death of Mary Griffith, Tanybwlch Hotel, Capel Curig by R. J. Jones, Caernarfon, 1881; 'Cerdd teulu wedi colli rhifedi'r wythnos'; 'cywydd i ofyn bâd i John Gruffydd, Esq., o Gefnamwlch' by Morys Dwyf[e]ch [Morus ap Dafydd ab Ifan ab Einion]; drafts and fragments of poems by Griffith Jones ('Gytyn Ardudwy'); and an account of the family of Gethin of Fedw Deg.