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A manuscript of Welsh pedigrees, compiled by the sixteenth-century poet and transcriber, Wiliam Cynwal (dec. 1587) of Ysbyty Ifan. The hand of Wiliam Cynwal runs throughout the MS, there are however a few minor additions to the text by later hands scattered throughout the work. Each genealogy is preceded by a heading locating or naming the family seat; a bolder script is then employed at the beginning of the genealogy proper and sometimes subsequently when a sub-section is introduced. There is rubrication on ff. 5, 117 verso and 292 verso. The aim and scope of the MS is set out by the scribe in an introductory note on f. i, where it is said that the intention is to record the pedigrees of the gentry of Gwynedd, Powys and parts of the counties of Cheshire and Shropshire. He also states his intention of preparing a similar MS to include the pedigrees of the families of the seven counties of Deheubarth. Before the end of the present MS, however, the transcriber has diverted a significant portion of his MS to record details of South Wales families. This MS, like several of Cynwal's other genealogical MSS, concentrates on tracing the maternal ancestors of the families in question. Genealogical and heraldic MSS in his hand include: Bangor 5943, BM Harleian 1961 and Peniarth 128 and 183.
The MS opens with the following preface: 'Y llyfr hwnn a ddechrevais i Wiliam Kynwal pryd[ydd] hel i Iachav ai yscrivennv p[an] oedd oed Krist 1565 ac ynddo yr wyf yn Roi Iachav boneddicion gwynedd a ffowys a phart o sir gaer lleon ac o sir y mwythic a llyfr arall yr wyf yni wnevthvr o Iachav boneddicion saith sir dehevbarth y llyfr hwnn a yscrifenais o amafaelion (sic). lyfrav yn gowiraf ac ygellais drwy boen travael ac anhvnedd ac er hynny medd y ddihareb ni chair dim heb i vai velly o bydd neb ar vol Inav awypo yn sikr [fod] bai ar y llyfr hwnn adolw[yn] I ymendio ac yn gyntaf [ ]Kair y dabl [ ] ch [ym]ovynner [ ]' (f. i).

Coats of arms and pedigrees, [c. 1572], in Welsh and English, apparently in the hand of Sir Thomas Wiliems.
A note on p. 177 states 'This books seemeth to have beene compyled in the yeere of o[u]r Lorde. 1572' (p. 177).

A manuscript containing holograph cywyddau by Wiliam Cynwal written between 1572 (f. 6) and his death in 1588. The poems are accompanied by illustrations of their subjects' coats of arms.

A composite manuscript in several hands comprising poetry; proverbs; proverbial triads; etc.; part of the text seems to be in the hand of Richard Mostyn and to have been written in 1574. The whole might be Mostyn's common-place book, in which others occasionally wrote during his life and afterwards.

A collection of awdlau and cywyddau, including a substantial section of poems ascribed to Guto'r Glyn (pp. 151-300) and Dafydd ap Gwilym (pp. 355-379). The manuscript also includes a copy of Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe (pp. 87-100). Gwenogryn Evans states that pp. 1-22, 335-406 and 410-33 are written in an archaic style in the early part of the seventeenth century, while pp. 23-85, 101-33 and 151-303 belong to the last quarter of the sixteenth century. Other parts of the manuscript are later additions, except the vellum leaf (pp. 305-6).

The Romances of Peredur (pp. 1-58) and Bown of Hampton (pp. 59-174), together with the Mabinogi (pp. 175-265), transcribed at the end of the sixteenth century. The text is a direct copy of Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch (Peniarth MSS 4-5).

A composite manuscript containing a miscellany of Welsh triads, proverbs and religious poetry written in the late sixteenth century.

Texts of Dares Phrygius, Brut y Brenhinedd, Brut y Tywyssogion, Life of St Sylvester, The Death of Guido of Vienne, etc. Written by 'David ap Jenkin amhredydd o Vachynnlleth' for Huw Lewis of Hafodwen in 1586-1587.

A book of South Wales pedigrees, [c. 1592], written in two distinct hands.
The manuscript also contains the tract known as 'Bonedd Saint Cymru' (f. 48 verso).

A volume containing Welsh poetry by various poets, etc.

A collection of Welsh medical texts, including tracts on blood-letting and uroscopy, medicinal recipes, and a lists of herbs in English, Welsh and Latin, all written in a seventeenth-century hand.

A collection of Welsh pedigrees, written early in the seventeenth century.

Three Welsh Grammars; The Dream of Maxen Wledig; Elucidarium; Commotes and Cantreds of Wales; Astronomi; etc., mainly in the hand of Thomas Williams before he began to sign himself 'Thomas ap Wiliam physicwr'. Pages 112-114 and 129-130 are in the autograph of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, 16th May 1656, and Darogan Beli (p. 216) appears to be written by D. Jones (?o Lanvair Dyffryn Clwyd).

Coats of arms, coloured, of the founders of Welsh and Border Counties families, comprising 'The Aancient descent of diuers noble and worthie howsen and gentlemen of great worshipp springring from them' and 'The names of such other gentlemen as came into wales and ther, or in the marches therof have lande and possessions where they inhabite, by certen descent of inheritance Ther first Auncestors being eyther Englishmen, Danes, Normans or Irishe men, and at this present growen to be great howses of worshipp in walles'.

Pedigrees of some English families; 'The Pedigree of ye Griffiths of Llys y Penrhun in ... Llandygay ...'; and miscellaneous historical material relating mainly to Cheshire.

A volume containing transcripts of 176 poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym, apparently written in three different hands.

Cywyddau and awdlau written in a seventeenth-century hand, comprising mainly poems by Thomas Prys (derived from NLW MS 3031B) (pp.19-141), Dafydd ap Gwilym (derived from NLW 3066E) (pp.195-295), Wiliam Cynwal (some derived from NLW 3030B) (pp.307-498), Guto'r Glyn (pp. 559-606), Siôn Tudur (pp. 685-751) and Tudur Aled (pp. 799-826).

A collection of Welsh tracts on astrology, palmistry and the wheel of fortune, written in a seventeenth-century hand.

'Cywydeu ac Odleu' chiefly by Capt. Thomas Price of Plas Iolyn, Denbighshire; together with indices and proverbs. Pages 9-465, 515-519, 552-562 appear to have been written by the same hand, possibly the author, prior to 31 March 1631, when the Indices (pp. 573-654) were compiled.