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A volume containing a copy, 1669, in the hand of Thomas Rowlands, clerk, of 'History of the Gwydir Family' by Sir John Wynn (1553-1627), Gwydir, Caernarvonshire (ff. 2-84 verso). It is the earliest known dated copy of a recension of the work represented by thirteen other copies (see below). It is probably the manuscript belonging in 1674 to Morris Parry, rector of Llaneilian-yn-Rhos, Denbighshire, from which the copy in NLW MS 3075D was made, and the manuscript described by Angharad Llwyd as 'a quarto volume of Syr John Wynn's History of Gwydyr, Ancient, and in good preservation' which in 1828 was in the possession of Richard Lloyd Williams of Hafodwryd, Penmachno, Caernarvonshire, then residing at Llwyn, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Denbighshire (see Transactions of the Cymmrodorion or Metropolitan Cambrian Institution, 2 (London, 1828), 44). Bound together are pedigrees and memoranda in several early-eighteenth century hands, including notes copied 'out of Penbedw MS' (NLW MS 3075D, p. 90), being transcripts of marginalia from 'Dr Humphreys's Copy' (Brogyntyn I.13, ff. 62 verso-3, 76) (ff. 85-6); a note on Meredith Wynn ap Evan ap Robert and his descendants (see also NLW MSS 27B, pp. 111-114, 16969B, pp. 128-132 and 21253D, ff. 27 verso-28 verso, where 'H. Bangor 1700' is given as the source) (ff. 89-91); pedigrees of the Wynn family of Gwydir and its collateral branches (ff. 86 verso-91, 95-98 verso); and 'Arfau pump brenhinllwyth Cymru' (f. 121 verso, inverted text).

Poetry of Prydydd y Moch, Bleddyn Fardd and other poets of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, mostly written c. 1605 (p. 305).
Pp. 292-97 are apparently in the hand of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt.

Poetry of Lewis Glyn Cothi, Guto'r Glyn, Siôn Cent, Tudur Aled, Iolo Goch, Hywel Cilan and others; and the Statute of Gruffudd ap Cynan, with William Salesbury's preface to the text.
Also included are two texts relating to Arthur. The first half of the manuscript appears to date from 1576 (p. 1).

Transcripts of Welsh cywyddau, incorporating 'Llyfr Mr Robert Wynne o'r Berth Ddu' (p. 19). The manuscript includes blocks of poetry ascribed to Dafydd ap Gwilym (pp. 387-405) and Guto'r Glyn (pp. 652-670), and associated with Wiliam Gruffudd of Penrhyn (pp. 493-589).

A manuscript containing Welsh poetry, the poets including Iolo Goch, Edmwnd Prys, Gutun Owain, Tudur Aled, Guto'r Glyn and Sion Phylip.
This forms one of the series of manuscripts of Welsh poetry copied under the superintendence of Dr John Davies, Mallwyd, and bears the reference B. 4°. Wherever the copyist failed to read the original he left blanks which Dr Davies filled in throughout the volume. Dr Davies also added an index, alphabetically arranged, to first lines of poetry (p. 567); added to this is an index to the authors of the poems, also alphabetically arranged, which bears the inscription 'Rhisiard Morys ai Sgrifennodd i Wm: Jones R.S.S. 1747' (pp. 577-588).

Poetry of Guto'r Glyn, Iorwerth Fynglwyd, Tudur Aled and others in several hands of the second half of the 16th century.

Two lists describing and evaluating articles of clothing and material for making up into clothes, etc., which, with sums of money, had been received by Ellin [?subsequently] wife of George gruff[ydd] ap d[avi]d ap m[ered]? edd, serving maid of Ieu[a]n ap Rees ap Dauid [of Wigfair, ob. ?circa 1610], as part of her wages whilst in the service of the said Ieuan. The first is in Welsh and is headed 'Taledigaethe i Ellin vawr oi chyflog gen Ieu[a]n ap Rees ap Dauid sydd yn Ca[n]lyn'. The second is an incomplete English version of the Welsh list and is described as 'A trwe and p[er]fe? ict note of such thinges as Ieu[a]n ap Rees ap Dauid, def[endan]t at the sute of George gruff[ydd] ap d[avi]d ap m[ered]?edd & Ellin his weif, paid to the said Ellin for her waiges at such tymes as she the said Ellin served the said def[endan]t as his servant mayed ? are following'.

The second volume of Elis Gruffydd's chronicle of British history, the present part covering the period from the Norman Conquest to 1552. The manuscript is itself now bound as two volumes, of which this is the second.

An incomplete transcript by Lewis Morris ('Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn') of 'Cywydd Hiraeth' by Goronwy Owen.

Autograph sonnets and other poems composed during T. E. Nicholas's incarceration in Swansea and Brixton prisons, 11 July-22 Oct. 1940; there is also a short, typewritten preface to the collection by the author.

A collection of historical extracts, including: a text modelled on H. Lloyd's 'Historie of Cambria'; Welsh laws; 'Incipiunt gesta Britonum a Gilda sapienti composita'; 'the descendants of Harbart fyts Roy base son to Henry I'; a letter from John Da. to his cousin Nicholas ap Meredith at Prestene; 'Convivium Philosophicum' in Latin, with English translation; and a dedicatory letter to James I of a work on the Early History of Britain in six books by John Lewis of Llynwene.

A manuscript in the hand of Thomas Wiliems comprising the laws of Hywel Dda; extracts from the White Book of Hergest (Peniarth MSS 4 & 5); charters, including those relating to the inhabitants and free tenants of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Merionethshire and Bardsey; the Lives of Saints; and poetry.

'Cywyddau' by Lewys Glyn Cothi in his own hand.
There is also a poem by Hywel Cilan (p. 191).

Transcripts of the works of a number of poets, which include a compilation made by Dafydd Cayo in 1503.

A collection of pedigrees and armorial bearings (coloured) in several 16th century hands.
The scribes include William Llŷn, Simwnt Fychan and Robert Vaughan.

The second edition (or reissue), [1740], of Francis Willughby's De Historia Piscium Libri Quatuor (Oxford, 1686) [ESTC N51867, where it is dated c. 1743]. The work is made up of the De Historia Piscium Libri Quatuor (ff. 2-177), together with 'Appendix ad historiam naturalem piscium' (London, 1740) (ff. 178-205) and a sequence of some 187 engraved plates from the first edition (on the rectos of ff. 206-392). The plates have been extensively annotated (with English and Welsh names, and eyewitness accounts), and sometimes further illustrated (on ff. 215, 224, 244, 248, 281 verso, 283, 295, 341 verso, 347), by Welsh polymath Lewis Morris.
Morris' marginal notes glossing the printed text appear on ff. 4 recto-verso, 85, 88 verso-90, 92, 97-104 verso, 115 verso-116, 118, 137, 146, 165 recto-verso, 175 verso-176, 178, 188 verso-189, 191, 192, 194 verso-195 verso, 197, 198 verso-199, 200, 202-204; his Welsh translations of fish names on ff. 16 verso-18; and extensive notes on fish on ff. 206-391 passim. These last set of notes reflect Morris' retrospective interest in fish seen on the coast of Anglesey (ff. 189, 213, 215, 227, 240, 242, 250, 251 verso, 280 verso, 281 verso, 283, 284, 285, 286, 341 verso, 347) and elsewhere (ff. 224, 248, 295 verso) before his departure to Cardiganshire in 1742. Further accounts of fish seen in Cardigan Bay are on ff. 241, 243 verso, 295 (dated 1747) and 311 (dated 1745). It is possible that these notes form the basis of Lewis Morris' projected, but unpublished, Natural History of Anglesey (see Dafydd Wyn Wiliam, Lewis Morris: Deugain Mlynedd Cyntaf ei Oes 1700/1-42 ([Bodedern], 1997), p. 150). See also Maredudd ap Huw, 'Pysgod Lewis Morris', Tlysau'r Hen Oesoedd, 37 (Ebrill 2015), 3-10.

'Yr Ystorm', a song arranged for tenor and bass by Dr Joseph Parry with words by Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn).

An orchestral suite of three tone statuettes - Regret, Mirth, and Courage - by Joseph Parry.

Black bound W H Smith desk diary.

Entries contained in black bound W H Smith desk diary, and several continue in a separate A4 refill pad. Endpieces are noted in a further writing pad which also contains entries for 1991.