A copy of A Direction for the English Traveller ... with maps of the counties of England and a map of Wales engraved by Jacob van Langeren, 1643. On the backs of the maps are written brief descriptions, believed to be in the hand of Thomas Hearne (bap. 1678-d. 1735), of the respective counties.
'Short observations on some of the Deistical Writers that have appear'd in England in the last and present Century. January ye 28th 1767', 'Likewise observations on many other important Subjects', etc., begun in 1767 by Howel[l] Powell.
Transcripts of poems by Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg') [1747-1826] and by his son Taliesin Williams ('Taliesin ab Iolo') [1787-1847], including 'Cowbridge Topers', 'Juvenile Topers or Farmers' Sons Triumphant', 'To Cowbridge', etc.
Three works by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), viz. (a) L'Amorosa Fiammetta (imperfect, wanting one leaf at the beginning), (b) Corbaccio, and (c) Ameto. They are written on paper, in double columns, in the hand of Ambrugio Speççaferro and were completed, according to colophons, on 6 September, 15 September and 17 October 1457 respectively. There are pen-work initials in red and blue; some initials, perhaps illuminated, have been removed.
Poems, mainly political and topical, composed between 1809 and 1814, and transcribed in 1819, by 'Owen ap Hoel', i.e. John Penwarne, and including 'Odes to Colonel Wardle and Mrs. Clarke. To which is added Wardle, Burdet, and Cobbett; A Patriotic Eclogue', which was published in London in 1809; some poems which appeared in The Satirist and The Morning Post.
Printed copies of three articles in Y Genedl Gymreig on 'Y Line Fach', i.e. the Ffestiniog Railway, written by Griffith Williams, Minffordd, Penrhyndeudraeth.
Miscellanea, including a list of 'Subscriptions received towards the new Vicarage at Trefeglwys', 1889, and notes of sermons preached at 'Sassion Llangeitho', August 1877.
'Diarhebion Cymraeg, wedi eu casglu o wahanol ffynonellau, ac nad ydynt yn nghasgliad J[ohn] G[wenogvryn] Evans, Rhydychain, buddugol yn Eisteddfod Liverpool, 1884'.
Extracts from The Naval Chronicle, Vol. IV, including 'Biographical Memoirs of Sir Erasmus Gower, Knight' (1742-1814), with manscript corrections and additions.