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Miscellaneous Welsh verse and some transcripts mostly by Owen Griffith ('Ywain Meirion'), with some by J. H. Davies.

A commonplace book of the period 1826-8 largely in the hand of Robert Roberts, Tyn y Gors, Hafod Elwy, Nant y glun [Nantglyn], Denbighshire. It includes prognostications of Erra Pater based on the incidence of New Year's Day; receipts and IOU's; hymns; pence multiplication tables; calligraphic exercises; 'penillion telyn' and other free-metre poetry; memoranda relating to Tyn y Gors tithes; a list of sermon texts; astrological diagrams and prognostications based on the phases of the moon and the incidence of thunder ('llywodraieth y lleaud ar gorph dyn ag anifail yn ol ei simudiad trwyr Deuddeng arwudd ynghyd ar nodau' and 'wrth anser [sic] y digwyddo Tranau'); 'englynion' addressed to Peter Roberts; land tax accounts; etc.

Two copies, the second incomplete, of a collection of 'Hen Benillion' compiled probably by John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd'). The first copy (not in the autograph of' Myrddin Fardd' except for some alterations and additions) appears to be part (pp. 494-573) of a larger work and is headed "Pen. XIV - Crynodeb o Hen Bennillion Gwerinol' (the word 'diardd[el]' has been added to the title at a later date). The second copy is in the autograph of 'Myrddin Fardd' and is earlier in date but the beginning and end are wanting and the section here (pp. 29-72) corresponds to pp. 523-566 in the other copy. Between these two copies is a printed article by E. Anwyl, Oxford on 'Penillion telyn y Cymry' [Y Geninen, 1891], pp. 251-4.

Awdlau and cywyddau to George Owen, transcribed partly by J. Gwenogvryn Evans from Llanstephan MS 38, with English summaries of them by J.H. Davies.

An arithmetic exercise book used by W. J. Parry at the Bethesda British School, 1857, with copies of English and Welsh poems.

'Cerddi', 'penillion telyn', 'englynion', etc., most of them transcribed by 'Talhaiarn'.

Four volumes containing transcripts of 'cywyddau' and other poems, some of them copied from a Lewis Morris manuscript which belonged in 1913 to J. C. Evans, headmaster of the Bala Grammar School; three undated letters written to Gwrtheyrn by J. H. Jones, editor of Y Brython; and miscellanea.

Miscllaneous poems, some of them by Edwin Jones.

'Cywyddau' and other poems by Gruffudd Llwyd ap Dafydd ab Einion, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Robin Ddu, Taliesin, William Pue, Dafydd Gorlech, Owain Twna, Gruffudd ap Llywelyn Fychan, Edwart ap Rhys, Gruffudd ap Dafydd Fychan, Syr Thomas Chwith, Ieuan Leiaf, Iolo Goch, Syr Dafydd Trefor, Llywelyn ab Owain, Gruffudd ab Ieuan, Hwlkyn ap Llywelyn, Ieuan ap Gruffudd Leiaf, Iorwerth Fynglwyd, Ieuan ap Rhydderch ab Ieuan Llwyd, Syr Huw Pennant, Dafydd Nanmor, Wiliam Cynwal, Lewis Glyn Cothi, Rhys Goch Eryri, Rhys Fardd, Myrddin Wyllt, Syr Ifan ('o Garno'), Sion Tudur, Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen, Gronw Ddu o Fôn, Llywelyn ap Maredudd ab Ednyfed, Maredudd ap Rhys, Sion Cent, Adda Fras, Sion Morus, Lewis ap Edward, and Thomas Prys; prose extracts, including an account of the laws of Dyfnwal Moelmud and others; the prophecies of Taliesin and Myrddin Wyllt; an armorial of Welsh families, transcribed by Thomas Roberts, 1644, from a work by Wiliam Cynwal, and an armorial of the nobility of England; 'Breuddwyd Gronw Ddu'; 'Ymddiddan Myrddin a Gwenddydd'; the names of the kings of Britain from Brutus to Cadwaladr; etc.

A collection of traditions, anecdotes, and poems made circa 1870, by John Castell Evans, entitled 'Yr Hen Amser gynt, ei Veirdd, ei Varddoniaeth, ei Bobl a'i Chwedlau, sev Casgliad o hen Draddodiadau, Darnau Barddonol a Bywgraffiadau &c. yn dal cysylltiad yn benav a Gogledd Cymru yn enwedig Sir Merionydd ... Casglwyd, yn benav, oddiar lavar gwlad gan John Castell Evans, Pine Cottage, Millbrook, gynt o Gastell-y-Waen, Llanuwchllyn, Merion.'

Microfilm copy of BL Add MS 14996 comprising Welsh biblical and religious poems, seventeenth-mid eighteenth century

Dwy gyfrol yn cynnwys cerddi, Cymraeg a Saesneg, o eiddo John Williams ('Ioan Mai', 1823-1887) a gasglwyd ynghyd wedi ei farwolaeth; copi o lythyr, 1881, oddi wrth y llysgennad a bardd Americanaidd James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), at John Williams; a thorion o'r wasg yn cofnodi ei farwolaeth.

Llyfr nodiadau yn cynnwys hanes John Owen (1616-1683), y diwinydd Piwritanaidd, copi o'r 'Llythyr at Benllywydd y Cymmrodorion', wedi ei gyfieithu o Saesneg Dr Swift gan Lewis Morris, a barddoniaeth Gymraeg gan Lewis Morris a Goronwy Owen.

Deunydd perthynol i'r cyhoeddiad Gramadegau'r Penceirddiaid a olygwyd gan G. J. Williams ac E. J. Jones (Caerdydd, 1934), gan gynnwys nifer o adysgrifau a chyfeiriadau at ramadegau mewn llawysgrifau, ynghyd â phapurau'n ymwneud â gramadegau Gutun Owain, Gwilym Tew, Einion Offeiriad a Dafydd Ddu Athro o Hiraddug. Mae rhai o'r papurau yn llaw E. J. Jones.

Prose and poetry copied in 1674-1679 by Edward Roberts, vicar of Capel Garmon, 1671-1685, whose translation, Llaw Llyfr yw ddarllen ir Cleifion, appeared in 1754. The contents include a transcript of Carwr y Cymru yn annog ei genedl anwyl ... i chwilio yr Scrythyrau ... (London, 1631) and other religious treatises, prayers, etc., a catechism, 'Achau'r Cwrw', and poems by the transcriber and others, including Rowland Vaughan and Wiliam Phylip. The hymn beginning 'O Arglwydd arnat i mae mhwys' was printed in Examen Quotidanium Ymholiad Beunyddiol (London, 1658).

Transcripts, by David Ellis (1739-1795), of poems in free metre by Edward Morus, Wiliam Phylip, Mathew Owen, Huw Morus, Thomas Llwyd ('ieuaf o Benmaen'), Lewis Owen ('o Dyddyn y Garreg'), David Ellis, Sion Dafydd Lâs, Elinor Humphrey, Sion Ellis ('y Telyniwr'), Morus ap Robert, David Jones, John Richard ('o Grybyr'), Jonathan Hughes, Richard Parry, Rhys Jones, Arthur Jones, Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), and Edward Richard.

Letters, 1859-1896, from poets, musicians, historians, and politicians, including Richard Bennett, Richard Davies (Mynyddog), O.M. Edwards, Tom Ellis, 'Ceiriog', John Jones ('Idris Vychan'), Robert Jones (Rotherhithe), J. T. F. Lloyd, John Owen ('Owain Alaw'), William Roos, John Thomas ('Pencerdd Gwalia'); and adjudication by Richard Davies ('Mynyddog'); and poems by Evan Ellis ('Afaon'), Evan Jones ('Ieuan Ionawr'), 'Ceiriog', Wmffre Dafydd ab Ifan, D. T. Williams ('Tydfylyn'), etc.

'Yr Awen Afrywiog - sef Casgliad o hen Ganiadau Moesol - Digrifol a Serch - o waith yr hen Brydyddion. Gan [Isaac] Craigfryn [Hughes]', 1907.

A collection, made by Ebenezer Williams ('Gwernyfed', Merthyr Tydfil, died 1913), of penillion, 'tribannau', and ballads, mainly of Glamorgan and Brecknockshire interest, with three letters from 'Gwernyfed' to Edmund J. Jones.

A nineteenth century manuscript containing cywyddau and other poems by Robin Ddu, Iolo Goch, Hywel ap Dafydd ab Ieuan ap Rhys and others, together with the twenty-four measures of cerdd telyn and cerdd crwth.