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A copy of a "MS. of Wm. Bodvel, Esq., written on paper in a beautiful secretary Hand" (p. 3). For a printed text, see Record of Carnarvon.

A volume containing a translation of chapters 11, 12, 13 and 16 of Giraldus Cambrensis's Topography of Ireland and of chapters 10 and 12 of his Description of Wales.

A volume containing an essay, 19 cent., on the connection of Welsh and Oriental languages by Ferrar Fenton of Mappleton, Ashbourne, Derbyshire.

A book of popular folk songs, dances and marches, unharmonised, and dated 1 April 1857. On the fly leaf is the inscription 'Llewelyn Alaw's book'.

A collection of folk songs, dances and popular tunes from the repertoire of T. D. Llewelyn, Harpist, Aberdare. The former NLW MS 328D has been added to this volume (pp. 320-353).
Includes an index by Nicholas Bennett.

A volume, in very poor condition, containing poetry apparently written by Foulk Wynn of Nantglyn, [c. 1684].

A volume containing a collection, late 17 cent., of arms of Welshmen and of Englishmen connected with Wales by Francis Bassano. Also included are copies of monumental inscriptions in the parish church of Sawley, Derbyshire (p. 73) and in Clifton Church (p. 79).

The first of four volumes, it contains pedigrees and notes, probably drawn up by Francis Townsend, Windsor Herald, relating to the bishops of Canterbury, St Asaph, Bath, Bangor, Bristol, York and Lichfield. The material is of very little value, most of the information being obtained from ordinary printed sources.

A Welsh-English dictionary, 18 cent., based on that of Thomas Richards issued in 1753, but much abridged and has some additions from other sources. At the end of the volume there is a short grammar of the Welsh language.

A volume containing two separate works, the first part (ff. 1-59) being additions to the second edition of the Bible Dictionary (Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol) written by Thomas Charles of Bala and in his hand. The second part of the volume, written from the back of the book to the front (ff. 79b-64a), is an account of the early Puritan divines in Wales, much of which is also in Thomas Charles's hand. The account is of considerable historical importance and is apparently the main source of the statements made by Thomas Charles in his biographies of William Wroth and Walter Cradock in the Trysorfa Ysprydol. The original author of the account does not appear but it appears that he was personally acquainted with Cradock's daugher Eunice, which would mean that he probably wrote early in the 18th century. He gives a lengthy account of the Rev. William Wroth (f. 79b), Robert Powel, vicar of Cadoxton, Neath (f. 75b), Walter Cradock (f. 73a) and the Rev. Rees Prichard, vicar of Llandovery (f. 65b).

A fragment corresponding to chapters III, IV & V in the First Book of Malory's Morte Darthur. This version differs in many important particulars from those tabulated in Dr Sommer's Morte Darthur, Vol. III. Peniarth MS 215, pp. 317-348, appears to be a direct, but inaccurate, copy from this original. This text is printed in Y Cymmrodor, Vol. XXIV, pp. 250-258.

An illuminated book of hours from the diocese of Utrecht, Holland.

An illuminated book of hours, possibly from the diocese of Utrecht, Holland.

A copy of Rhys Jones, Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru ... (1773), with manuscript notes by Edward Charles. Bound with the volume is a manuscript collection of verse in Welsh and English in several hands of the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, the greater part appearing to have been written by Thomas Humphreys in London. The poems include Cerdd Rowland o'r Pandy i'w gariad, Cywydd marwnad Rhisiart Morys ..., Englynion i'r Eos ... (Caerwys Eisteddfod), and cerddi, cywyddau and englynion by Robert Williams, Thomas Humphreys, Sion ap Rhisiart, Sion Owen o Egryn, Richard Williams, Ed[ward] Puw, Llywelyn Ddu, Mathew Owen, Pedr Gwilym, Iorwerth ap Ioan, Robert Evans, Robyn Ddu, Hugh Llwyd Cynfel, R. O. Ragad, Sion Gwilym, Rhys Jones o'r Blaenau, Rissiart Jones Trefdraeth ym Mon, Simwnt Fychan, Dafydd Ellis, y Parchedig Sion Morgan, Jonnathan Huws, Iorwerth Gwilym o Forganwg, Elis Cadwa[ladr] and Evan Evans.

A grammar of the Welsh language written in English, late 16 cent.

A volume, 17 cent., containing grievances voiced by the inhabitants of Anglesey. A small edition of twenty-five copies of this tract was printed by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillips and it was subsequently reprinted in the Archaeologia Cambrensis for 1881, a few copies being afterwards struck off for private circulation.

Letters, notes and poems (autograph and copies) and a sermon on I Cor., xi, 28 by Goronwy Owen; and 'Trioedd Taliesin' in the autograph of Lewis Morris.

A book containing agricultural wages and accounts, beginning December 1669 and ending September 1683, and probably belonging to the Gwysaney estate; the material is in a very dilapidated condition.

An incomplete volume, [17 cent.], which includes the latter part of a pedigree of King James I (f. 15) and rules, etc., relating to military drill and warfare.

A volume containing a compilation, in Welsh, from Geoffrey's Historia Regum Britannicae, Powell's History of Cambria and other sources. A few carols have been written on loose pages at the end.