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A manuscript containing a copy of Aristotle's Book of Physiognomy (originally written by Aristotle for Alexander the Great) (ff. 1-9) (cf. Jesus College MS 7, p. 48); material relating to astrology (ff. 10-26); and Traethiad Robin Moyses (ff. 26-28).
The two works contained in ff. 1-19 are copied from a manuscript written by John Jones, Gellilyfdy in 1604, which was copied by Jones from a manuscript written in 1476.

A summary of the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle.

A volume (98 pp.) containing astrological material, etc., including the following: 'Dechreu am y Llysie', 'Am Groun Neidar', horoscopes beginning 'Tesni'r Mâb a aner or 12 dydd o fowrth ir 12 dydd o Ebrill', 'Am ba achosion y Dechreued henwi'r arwyddion ...', 'Llyfr o waith Ellis Totlis I Alexander fawr I adnabod Corph Pob Dyn pan I gwelir ef ...', 'Am chwech Grâdd y sydd ir Haul yn y ffurfafen ag ir lleuad iw gerdded bob Mis yn y flwyddyn ...', 'y saith gelefyddyd [sic] wladaidd', 'Cerdd I siri sir feirionydd am y flwyddyn 1743' beginning 'Y meistar Morrus Jones or Ddôl' by an unnamed poet, with two 'englynion' 'I Aer Mr Jones or Ddôl, '(?) both by Thomas Edwd., followed by two verses headed 'Iechyd y siri', horoscopes in English, verses by Edward Morris 'or perthi llwidion', beginning 'Os wit yn fy ngofyn ath wllus ar ddallt ..., a verse in English and Welsh ('Iw gosod ar y Cloc y mae'r Rhain'), 'Llyma ddrych y llaw ne balmystyr o waith y 7 wyr Doethion', a copy of an inscription on a gravestone in Conway church and of 'englynion' by Robert Wynne, vicar of Gwyddelwern, on the gravestone of Huw Morys (d. 31 August 1709) at Llansilin, 'Rhod yn Dangos pwy a ddowed wir a phwy a ddowed gelwydd', and 'Dychymyg yw ddyfalu I Janne Lloyd' (A wnewch chwi A : Ddyfalu ...'), etc. The volume appears to have been written by Evan Thomas [?Cwmhwylfod, Sarnau, nr Bala], c. 1760-3 or possibly earlier.

A diary, January 1832 to 21 February 1847, of Robert Williams, perpetual curate of Rhydycroesau, near Oswestry from 1838 to 1879. Robert Williams served as curate of Llangernyw, Denbighshire from 1833 to 1836 and was appointed perpetual curate of Llangadwaladr in 1837. The diary, which is written in Welsh, contains references to events in his home district of Conway as well as to the areas where he served as a cleric. Beginning at the end of the volume there are poems by [John Jones] ('Tegid') (1828); a list of books entitled 'Llyvrau yn Ty Deon', 19 August 1832; accounts with booksellers, stationers, etc., 1832-9; extracts from Aristotle's Rhetoric; and lists of clothes ('Rhestr Dillad'), linen ('Lliain') and carpenter's tools ('Oferynau Saer').

Aristotle's 'Ethica Nicomachea' (1864 ed.), with a manuscript English translation and rough notes.

A volume entitled 'Cyfrol III. Nodion Cyffredinol', covering the period May 1925-April 1926. The entries relate to domestic and international politics, the writer's removal to Chester, the writer's donation of nearly one thousand books to Llanelly Public Library, the death of the Rev. J. Towyn Jones, M.P., and of Arthur Mee, Welsh place-names, Welsh grammar, the works of Xenophon and Aristotle, numerals used by Cumberland shepherds, etc. Also included in the volume are lists of dialect words from the Llanelly district and of Welsh land measurements.

Notes made by Henry Hey Knight in 1813 on reading some of the works of Demosthenes and Aristotle.

Notebook of T. I. Ellis, [?1920s], containing notes on Euripides's Bacchae and Medea and Aristotle's De Arte Poetica.

'Logic and Organum' - notes written by R. D. Blackmore at Oxford, with drawings of various species of pansies, examination papers in classics, and definitions in Aristotle's 'Rhetoric and Ethics'.

A composite volume comprising several incomplete manuscripts and fragments written in a number of mid-sixteenth century hands, and containing mainly pseudo-Aristotelian and religious prose texts and strict-metre poetry in Welsh, several of the poems addressed to members of the Lloyd family of Hafod-wen (Marrington), Chirbury, Shropshire. The Lloyd family were owners of portions, if not the whole, of the volume during the mid and second half of the sixteenth century, as contemporary notes and marginalia testify.
The volume comprises (a) ff. 1-43 verso, 133-191 in the hand of Harri ap Llywelyn ap John ap Gruffudd ap Siencyn of Welshpool ('Hari ffab llwelin a biav y llifer h[wn]' (f. 190), 'Hari fab llwelin ap Iohn ap grvfvdd ap cangkin or Trallwng a byav y llyffyr hwn ac ai ysgrifenodd ...' (f. 191)); (b) ff. 44-51 verso, consisting of fragments in several unidentified hands; (c) ff. 52-71 verso, 102-103 verso, 104 verso, 111-115 verso in an unidentified hand; (d) ff. 72-75, 76-78 verso, 100-102, 109-110, 118-132 verso, possibly in the hand of Cadwaladr ap Rhys Trefnant (the same hand occurs in Peniarth MS 79, pp. 41-44, 101-103, and Peniarth MS 82, pp. 285-287); (e) ff. 75, 89-99 verso in the hand of Llywelyn ap Rhys ab Ieuan ('lln ap Rys ap Ieuan ai ysgrifenodd pan oedd oed Krist yn M ccccc liii' (f. 94), 'lln ap Rys ap Ieuan ai ysgrifenodd pan oedd oed krist /1500/40/15' (f. 95)); (f) ff. 81-84, 85-88 verso, 96 verso, 105-107 in the hand of Huw Arwystl; (g) ff. 107-108 verso in an unidentified hand; and (h) ff. 116 verso-117 verso, an holograph cywydd by Owain Gwynedd. Englynion and verses have been added on several pages, mostly in unidentified hands of the mid sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries, but including some in the hands of Oliver Lloyd (f. 59), Huw Arwystl (f. 96 verso), Owain ap Syr Ieuan (probably) (f. 96 verso) and Wiliam Dyfi (f. 104).

(i) An autograph draft of Sir Thomas Hanmer's 'Garden Book' (ff. 7-87 verso), which appears to be an earlier draft than either Bettisfield 1667 or the 'MS volume of 1659' from which the 'Garden Book' was first printed with an introduction by E. S. Rohde in 1933. Its condensed style contrasts with the more detailed and formal text of the printed edition. It ends with an index of plants mentioned in the text (ff. 83-87 verso). (ii) A text of Edward Norgate's treatise 'An Exact and Compendious Discourse concerning the Art of Miniature or Limming ...' (ff. 89-116 verso), in the hand of Sir Thomas Hanmer, dated 15 February 1663/4. This text shows much variation from that of the only printed edition, based on Bodleian Tanner MS 326 [ed. Martin Hardie, 'Miniatura; or, the art of limning' (Oxford, 1919)]. Hanmer's abbreviated text ends at the foot of p. 70 of Hardie's edition. Hardie lists eight other manuscripts. (iii) Notes in Latin on Aristotle's 'Rhetorica' (ff. 2-6, and inverted text ff. 140 verso-141 verso); 'Notae Grammaticales' (inverted text ff. 137-138 verso); fragments of English prose, one beginning 'Freindsheep has this in it ...' (inverted text, inside back cover and f. 140); all in later hands of seventeenth century.