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A collection of Welsh poetry, with some prose, made, in his earlier hand, by Thomas ab William of Trefriw (cf. Penybont MS, which resembles the present manuscript in form and writing). The scribe has added some marginalia in his later hand. The prose items include prophecies, triads, and dates of historical events, etc., including Proffwydoliaeth Dewi Sant, Proffwydoliaeth yr Eryr Mawr, y pedair camp ar ugein, colofnau cerdd dafod, Trioedd Pawl Ebostawl, Trystan ac Esyllt; Dewisbethau Davydd Melenydd; Dewis bethau gwr, etc. There are poems by the following: Bedo Aerddren, Davydd Baentiwr, David ap Edmund, David ap Gwilim, D'd ap Hoel ap Ieuan Vaughan, David Nanmor, D'd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, David Pennant, David Hepynt, Daniel Llosgwrn Mew, Deio ap Ieuan Du, Enervin [sic] Gwowdrydd, Gruffyth ap Tudur ap Hoell, Gutto'r Glyn, Gwilyn ap Ieuan Hen, Gruffyth ap Ieuan ap Rhes Llwyd, Gronw Ddu o Von, Gruffydd ap Ieuan Llywelyn Vaughan, Gyttun Ywain, Howel Reinallt, Huw Cae Llwyd, Huw Arwystl, Huw ap Davidd, Hoel ap Iolyn, Iorwerth Vynglwyd, Ieuan ap Madoc, Iolo Goch, Ieuan ap Rydderch ap Ieuan Llwyd, Iorwerth Beli, Ieuan Llwyd Brydydd, Ieuan Dyfi, Ieuan Gethin ap Ieuan ap Lleision, Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal, Jenkyn ap Einion, Ieuan ap Gruffydd Leiaf, Lewis Daron, Lewis Morganwc, Lewis Alun, Lewis Glynn Cothi, Lewis Mon, Llywelyn Vaughan ap Llywelyn Voelrhon, Llywelyn Goch ap Meuric Hen, Llywelyn Moel y Pantri, Maerglaf ap Llowarch, Myrddin, Robert Leiaf, Robin Ddu, Rhes Goch or Eiry, Rhes Brychan, Rhes Goch Glyn Dyfrdwy, Robert ap Gr: Leia, Res Nanmor, Dr. Gruffydd Roberts, Sypyn Cyfeiliog, Syr Lewis ap John ap Ieuan, Syr Philipp Emlyn, Syr Davidd Trefor, Sion Kent, Taliesin, Tudor Penllyn, Tudur Alet, Thomas Derllys, William ap Gruffyth ap Deicws, William ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn.

Poetry of Gruffudd Grug, Iolo Goch, Tudur Aled, Guto'r Glyn, Dafydd Nanmor, Gruffudd Hiraethog, William Cynwal and others by two scribes of the second half of the 16th century.
Pp. 1-26 were written c. 1575.

Poems mainly of Huw Arwystl, some of which are autograph, together with other poems in several different hands.

A manuscript, late 15th to the 16th century, containing poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym, Iolo Goch, Hywel Cae Llwyd, Dafydd Epynt, Rhys Fardd, Hywel Swrdwal and others.
Pp. 21-112 were written probably before 1484. The manuscript is written in various hands (p. 21 alone containing three different hands): the poems of Dafydd Epynt are all in one hand (see Peniarth MS 60); those of Hywel Cae Llwyd and Hywel Swrdwal in another (see Peniarth MS 54, part ii); those of Rhys Fardd in another hand; etc. Pp. 1-20 contain a peculiarly cramped hand. The poetry on pp. 359-392, 396-419, 422-423, 432-448 is written in bardic script (see Gwenogvryn's observations on this in J. Gwenogvryn Evans, Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language, vol. I (London, 1898-1905), 418). P. 257 is rubbed and the readings uncertain in part. The two leaves following p. 284b have been cut out. At least one folio is torn off at p. 448 and the remainder of the poem is inverted.

A manuscript, late 15th to the 16th century, seemingly belonging to Peniarth MS 54i, and containing poetry of Hywel Cae Llwyd and others, and pedigrees.
The cywyddau of Hywel Cae Llwyd and Hywel and Ieuan Swrdwal are written in the same hand as that which cited the works of Hywel Cae Llwyd and Hywel Swrdwal in Peniarth MS 54i.

A collection made by John Price of Mellteyrn (cf. NLW MS 560B, Llanstephan MSS 122-5, Cwrt Mawr MS 25, and others in the same autograph in the National Library of Wales). There are about 100 poems of Dafydd ap Gwilim. The following poets are also represented: Dafydd ap Edmwnt, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, Dafydd Owen, Gruffydd Hiraethog, Gruffydd ap Ifan ap Llywelyn Fychan, Howel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan, Huw Arwystle, Ieuan ap Rhydderch, Ieuan ap Llewelyn Vychan, Iolo Goch, Lewis Mon, Lewis Menai, LLywelyn ap Guttyn, Rhobin Ddu fab Sienkin ap Bledrydd, Richard Phylip, Rys ap Dafydd ap Llwyd ap Llewelyn Lygliw, Rhys Goch o Lyn Dyfrdwy, Sion Phylip, Sion Tudur, Sion Mowddwy, Syr Ifan Lloyd, Thomas Prys o Blasiolyn, Tudur Aled, and William Vaughan. There is a copy of Araith Iolo Goch at the end of the manuscript.

Thirty-six volumes of the diaries of John Cowper Powys, being an unbroken series dating from 1930 to 1961. Powys began keeping a diary in June 1929 on his departure from New York on a visit to England (see NLW MS 22807A).
The first two volumes have been edited for publication (see The Diary of John Cowper Powys 1930, ed. by Frederick Davies (London, 1987) and The Diary of John Cowper Powys 1931 (London, 1990)) and the period June 1934 to June 1935 has been published in The Dorset Year, ed. by Morine Krissdóttir and Roger Peers (Kilmersdon: The Powys Press, 1998). A selection of the first eleven years has been published in Petrushka and the Dancer: The diaries of John Cowper Powys 1929-1939, ed. by Morine Krissdóttir (Manchester, New York and Paris, 1995).

A two-page schematic sketch map of Llareggub, [1944x1951], drawn in brown ink by Dylan Thomas during the process of composition of his play for voices, Under Milk Wood.
The general topography of the town largely corresponds to the finished play; the map shows features such as Llareggub Hill and Donkey Down, with the homes of various characters and other buildings being identified along Coronation Street, Cockle Street and Donkey Street. On the reverse is an earlier abortive attempt, identifying only Ogmore-Pritchard, Willy Nilly and the Town Hall. The obverse of the map is reproduced in Douglas Cleverdon, The Growth of Milk Wood (London, 1969), pp. 12-13; Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood: The definitive edition, ed. by Walford Davies and Ralph Maud (London, 1995), p. 64; and Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood: A play for voices, ed. by Walford Davies (London, 2000), p. 64.

A Cornish dictionary in the hand of Edward Lhuyd containing Cornish-English vocabulary and phrases, with some translations into Latin.
This is evidently the work referred to by Edward Lhuyd on p. 253 of the Archæologica Britannica: 'Looking over these Sheets of the Cornish Grammar; I find 1st. that I must recal the promise made of a Cornish-English Vocabulary. I have one by me, written about six years since, and have lately improv'd it with what Additions I could; But there being no room for it in this Volume ... it must be deferred to the next.'

A copy of the translation by Chaucer of the 'De Consolatione Philosophie of Boethius'; two letters from F. J. Furnivall; and a printed copy of Chaucer's 'Boethius'.

Journal of a tour in North Wales during the summer of 1772 by Miss Jinny Jenks of Enfield (who died aged 41 in 1778). This is one of the earliest examples of this type of literature.

Two bifolia containing part of Bede's De natura rerum (cap. 27-48), written in Wales in the twelfth century.

Greek papyri from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, presented by the Egypt Exploration Society in 1922, being numbers 1521, 1572 and 1591 - dated respectively A.D. 113, A.D. 299, and 4th century - in Vol. XII of B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt: Oxyrhynchus Papyri (1916).

Part one of the two manuscripts of Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, comprising the Four Branches of the Mabinogion; Peredur; Macsen Wledig; Lludd a Llefelus; fragments of Owain a Luned; Geraint ac Enid; and an incomplete version of Kulhwch ac Olwen; and a poem by Llywelyn Moel.

'La passion de nostre seigneur Jhesucrist translatee de latin en francois'; and a religious poem. Illuminated.
Also included is an envelope of notes by J. A. Herbert.

A transcript of Admirandum & inestimabile opus Steganographiae A Joanne Tritemio Abbate Spanheymensi Anno Christi CDD conscriptum nunc demum d tenebris & pulueribus, in quibus sepultum hactenus iacuit, erutum diligentia et studio Jacobi Casteluitrei. Londini CDDXCI.

A manuscript containing poetry by Siâms Dwnn, Huw Arwystli, Gruffydd Phylip, Dafydd Nanmor, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Guto'r Glyn and others Pp. 1-498 are in the hand of Siâms Dwnn (see p. 457); pp. 499-521 are in the hand of 'Tho: P.' [Thomas Prys]; and pp. 521, ll. 10-542 are in a hand resembling that of Siôn Cain. At p. 238 some lines are given in fragments only, the scribe's original being imperfect. Prophecies, including those attributed to Merlin and Taliesin, are listed on pp. 507-520. At p. 521 is a copy of a letter from Thomas Prys to his 'cosin Lewis Evans'.

A manuscript containing for the most part the lives of saints.
Pp. 1-389 were written by Roger Morys of Coed y Talwrn, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd (see p. 93) towards the close of the sixteenth century, while pp. 390-403 were written by Thomas Evans (Thomas ab Ifan), Hendreforfydd (see pp. 93, 389, 390-403 (pp. 390-403 dated 5 March 1628)). P. 404 contains an index in the hand of Moses Williams.

A manuscript containing poetry mainly of the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries, the poets cited including Siôn Brwynog, Lewis Menai, Gruffudd Hiraethog, Wiliam Cynwal and Siôn and Rhisiart Phylip, but also including earlier poets such as Iolo Goch, Dafydd Nanmor and Guto'r Glyn. An index, with the poets' names arranged alphabetically, has been added at pp. 793-806 by Richard Morris in 1746.
Several of the poems have lines wanting at beginning and/or end or within the body of the works, have imperfect lines, or are left unfinished (e.g. those works beginning at pp. 68, 139, 206, 308, 361, 372, 414, 426, 429, 437, 439, 441, 444, 447, 451, 455, 571, 621, 746, 749).

A manuscript containing poetry of Lewis Glyn Cothi, Ieuan Brechfa and other poets, written in several hands of the early and mid sixteenth century.
Hands A (pp. 1-40, 351-2), B (pp. 41-102, 151-8, 297-332), and Bb (pp. 271-96, 333-50, 353-64) belong to the first quarter of the sixteenth century, while Hand C (pp. 103-50, 159-247, 250-59, 262-70) belongs, apparently, to the second quarter. Other folios contain other somewhat later hands. Hand B uses 'ρ' for 'dd' throughout, while hand Bb uses 'dd' mostly (cf Peniarth MS 70). Pp. 351-2 are in a different hand and misplaced in the manuscript. The ends of some lines of text are wanting, though some of them have been completed by a later hand. Neither the beginning nor the end of the cywydd on p. 158 is legible and its lines were evidently never all complete.

A prose miscellany comprising the Gospel of the Pseudo-Mathew, Transitus Mariae, the Life of St Catherine, the Finding of the Cross and other texts in the hand of Gutun Owain.