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Oculus Sacerdotis (a manual on canon law and theology) by William de Pagula in the hand of William Manchaster, chaplain.

Copiau o Offerynau Statudol Cymru ardystiedig. Ceir copiau papur OSC ar gyfer 2018-19 a chopiau digidol o 2026 ymlaen. = Certified copies of Welsh Statutory Instruments. WSIs from the period 2018-2019 are in paper format and from 2026 onward are in digital format.

Office day book of Daniel Price, solicitor, of Talley. See NLW MS 18923E for January-February 1833. English. Donated by Thomas E. Owen, Aberystwyth, April 1960.

A list of the sheriffs, 1541-1854, undersheriffs, 1541-1826, 1842-1845, and county clerks, 1541-1784, of Glamorgan, with notices of holding Great Sessions at Cowbridge, 1682-1769, and of the elections of Knights of the Shire, 1737-1820, and an anecdote about Lewis Thomas ab William, sheriff for 1612.

Typescript 'Lists of the Officers of the Regiments connected with Wales' for the period 1715-1807, compiled from the English and Irish Commission Registers, etc., and edited by W. R. Williams, Tal-y-bont, Brecknockshire, 1937. The volume comprises the following regiments:- 23rd, Royal Welch Fusiliers; 24th, South Wales Borderers; 41st Invalids, Welsh Regiment; 75th, Prince of Wales; 85th, Royal Volunteers; and 94th, Royal Welsh Volunteers.

The four gospels of the passion as sung in Holy Week followed by the Exultet and other chants for the blessing of candles at the Easter Vigil. Written in a large textura, music on staves throughout. A large illuminated initial at the beginning of each gospel and other smaller illuminated initials.

The office of the dead, substantially as in F. Procter & C. Wordsworth, Breviarum ad usum insignis ecclesiae Sarum (Cambridge, 1879-1886), II, 271-82 (ff. 1-50, one leaf wanting before f. 1 and one after f. 46); antiphons, responses and versicles are all noted for music; written in textura, rubrics and staves in red, plain red initials, perhaps mid 15 cent. Added prayers in cursive hands on f. 50v. Quire 8 (ff. 51-8) is from an earlier manuscript, perhaps first half 15 cent., written in textura with blue initials and red penwork; it begins and ends abruptly, containing part of the litany followed by psalm 118. Quire 9 (ff. 59-63), in a cursive hand, on paper, second half 15 cent., concludes psalm 118 and has collects and a post-communion from masses for the dead (including that for a bishop) and part of the commendation of souls.

Off-prints of articles which appeared in Japanese periodicals, relating to south Wales coal exports and shipping, canals and railways in mid nineteenth century Wales, and the development of Cardiff shipping, 1870-1910.

The O'Grady Manuscripts belonged to Standish Hayes O'Grady (1832-1915), and for the most part contain transcripts or notes by O'Grady made from Irish manuscripts in London, Dublin, and elsewhere.

An essay on 'Romantic Incidents and Remarkable Characters of Old Aberystwyth' by Evan Lewis, edited for publication by W. R. Hall.

A typescript volume of autobiographical material and reminiscences by Charles Quant, who was for many years Chief Correspondent for Welsh Affairs with the Daily Post.

A bound volume containing holograph notes and pencil and pen-and-ink sketches [by the Reverend Elias Owen, vicar of Efenechdyd, 1881-1892, and of Llanyblodwel, 1892-1899, being material subsequently incorporated in his published work Old Stone Crosses of the Vale of Clwyd and Neighbouring Parishes, together with some Account of the Ancient Manners and Customs and Legendary Lore connected with the Parishes (London [1886])].

A manuscript containing notes on the Old Testament.

Photographs of the fragments of a computus and of a calendar which are comprised in Cambridge University Library MS 4543 and which were described by E. C. Quiggin in Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie, VII, 406-10.

A volume containing a lecture 'Wellington and the Peninsula', 1858, delivered by 'Mr Oldfield' [?Thomas Oldfield] at Quebec to the soldiers of Her Majesty's 39th Regiment; together with the cash book, 1879-89, of John Edward Oldfield, Oriel College, Oxford, and Ffarm, Betws-yn-Rhos, co Denbigh (see also NLW Oldfield Deeds & Papers).

Cyfrol yn cynnwys darlith 'Wellington and the Peninsula', 1858, a draddodwyd gan 'Mr Oldfield' [?Thomas Oldfield] yn Quebec i filwyr Catrawd 39 ei Mawrhydi; ynghyd â llyfr cownt, 1879-89, John Edward Oldfield, Coleg Oriel, Rhydychen, a Ffarm, Betws-yn-Rhos, sir Ddinbych (gweler hefyd NLW Oldfield Deeds & Papers).

Two scrapbooks relating to the novelist Oliver Onions (1873-1961), husband of the novelist Berta Ruck (1878-1978), the first mainly containing press cuttings of reviews of his works of fiction, 1900-12, including The Compleat Bachelor (London, 1900), The Odd-Job Man (London, 1903) and Little Devil Doubt (London, 1909); and the second compiled by Berta Ruck containing press cuttings, 1946-65, mostly relating to his novels Poor Man's Tapestry (London, 1946), Arras of Youth (London, 1949), A penny for the harp (London, 1951) (see NLW MS 20805C for a corrected typescript), and A shilling to spend (London, 1965); together with obituary notices; and letters from family members, writers and publishers including Dorothy Charques, undated, Rupert Croft-Cooke, 1949, Olwen Caradoc Evans, 1956, John Gawsworth, 1947, Pat Lawlor, 1955, Moray Maclaren, 1957, Martin Secker, 1965, and Raleigh Trevelyan, 1965.

Miscellaneous material, 1920s-90s, accumulated by the donor, including press cuttings, reviews and photographs.