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Music book of Daniel Evans containing hymns and hymn-tunes, and miscellaneous notes.

A holograph ode to welcome Robert Howel Vaughan and his family to Nannau by John Williams ('Ioan Rhagfyr'); with a hymn-tune entitled 'Lydia'.

A collection of hymn-tunes and anthems, including items by Thomas Evans, John Williams, Robert Williams, Evan Davies, Merthyr Tydfil, James Mills, Richard Ellis, John Ellis and John Jeffreys.

A portfolio of manuscript music containing popular Welsh folk songs and hymns arranged for the pianoforte, and copies of a Christmas anthem ('Ac yr oedd yn y wlad honno') by John Williams, Dolgellau.

Three music books bought by Isaac Williams 'of Mr. Parry, Relieving Officer, Dolgellau, Sept. 1903' and bound together into a single volume. They contain hymn-tunes, anthems and psalm-tunes, mainly by John Williams, Dolgellau, with a few tunes by R[ichard] Mills ['Rhydderch Hael'], one by I. R. Ellis, Dolgellau, 1841, and traditional and anonymous tunes; a poem entitled 'Amgylchiadau Marwolaeth Crist', an 'englyn' ('Y Farchnad Ysprydol'), 'englynion' by 'Shion Rhydderch', three hymns ('Mae'r gwaed a redodd ar y Groes', 7 stanzas, and 'Wrth edrych ar y sail', 4 stanzas, 'Ni'm diystyrir gan fy Nuw', 1 stanza), and a recipe for a cough.

The tune book of Edward Williams, Trehedyn, Pendoylon, 1841, containing Welsh hymns and a part song ('Ynni y gog').

Poetry and hymns by 'Rhuddenfab'.

Three volumes of Welsh hymns.

Original hymns and poems and some translations.

Hymns and secular poems, including some 'englynion'.

The tune book of Thomas Roberts, Runcorn, containing Welsh hymn-tunes and anthems.

Miscellanea, including memoranda, accounts, copies of letters, poems and hymns, sermon notes, etc.

Addresses by Meredith J. Hughes on 'Myth and legend in the literature of Wales', 1914, and 'Democratic Theory and Institutions', 1919; a hymn 'Ymwel a mi o Arglwydd da', and a poem entitled 'Afon Alun', 1924.

Notebook containing arithmetical problems (ff. 1-35), sketches of local views (ff. 71v, 74v, 75v, 104v), hymns in English and Welsh (ff. 112v-24, inverted text) and hymn-tunes (ff. 125v-50v, inverted text), together with an index to the tunes (ff. 151-62v, inverted text).

Holograph manuscript of the hymn-tune 'Bryn Calfaria' by William Owen, 1850; four manuscript tune-books and loose manuscript music mostly in the hand of William Owen, including many of his own compositions, (watermark 1825)-[c. 1854]; together with some printed music relating to the composer and photographs relating to the memorial to him erected at Cae Athro in 1913.

Hymns written by J. Gwyndud Jones.

A volume of sermon notes, in different hands, belonging on 28 April, 1825, to David Arthur of Pantycelyn, later co-pastor of Builth Baptist Church. Pages 1-74 are described in a colophon as 'cyfieithiad pigion o Gyfansoddiad Saesnig' (translations of selections from English compositions) by Josiah Evans (d. 1792), pastor of Pantycelyn Baptist Church. At the beginning and the end and in occasional blank spaces in the volume are written Welsh hymns, and there is at the end also a list of the sermons comprised in pages in pages 1-88. On page 109 is recorded the marriage of Rees Arthur [son of David Arthur] and Ann Arthur, his wife, 5 December, 1851.

Teipysgrif traethawd gan awdur anhysbys, 1945, yn dwyn y teitl 'Emynwyr ac Emynyddiaeth yr Hen Ymneilltuwyr Cymreig (Annibynwyr, Bedyddwyr, Undodiaid) hyd at 1811', wedi ei ysgrifennu o dan y ffug-enw 'Piwritan' ar gyfer cystadleuaeth Gwobr Goffa Ieuan o Leyn yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru Rhosllannerchrugog, 1945. = Typescript essay by an unnamed author, 1945, on the hymns and hymn writers of the Congregationalist, Baptist and Unitarian denominations in Wales to 1811, written under the pen-name 'Piwritan' for the 1945 National Eisteddfod in Rhosllannerchrugog.
Rhestrir y cynnwys ar ff. iv-v. Mae llythyr cyflwyno, [1956], oddi wrth y gwerthwr wedi ei bastio tu mewn i'r clawr blaen. = The contents are listed on ff. iv-v. A covering letter, [1956], from the seller is pasted in on the inside front cover.

The tune book of John Roberts, Llanegryn, 1826, and later of Bontdolgadfan, containing anthems, hymn-tunes and psalm-tunes by John Roberts, Pantyniwl, John Williams, Abermawddach, H[ugh] Jones, Maesglasau, W. Williams, Llanegryn, John Edwards, Llangadog, the Reverend Richard Phillips, Bala, John Roberts, Llanbrynmair and others; and a hymn for use in Sunday Schools ('Yn ysgol bur fy Nuw').

A volume of hymn-tunes, chants and anthems compiled by Owen Williams, [Caerdegog Uchaf, Cemais, Anglesey,] 1839, containing examples of the work of Richard Mills ['Rhydderch Hael'], David Harri[e]s, David John James, Penrhyndeudraeth, John Williams, Dolgellau, William Evans, Llanfwrog, and J. Roberts, Henllan.