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Scrapbooks containing press cuttings etc., 1900-1982, relating largely to Welsh drama, theatrical activities and popular entertainment in Wales and amongst Welsh communities in English cities, including material on dramatists of Wales, 1932-1953; drama in Wales, 1922-1982; Welsh actors, 1932-1946; theatre cuttings, 1931-1953; fairs, folklore and folk-dancing in Wales, 1936-1938; children's theatre, 1959-1967; Welsh National Theatre, 1900-1978; and information on theatre in Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Greece, Russia, America, and other countries.

Works of the theologian Juan de Lugo, SJ: Tractatus de venerabili sacramento eucharistice, 1627 (ff. 1-194); index to the volume (ff. 195-9); De sacramento poenitentiae, 1628 (ff. 205-346); Assertationes theologica de fide, spe et charitate (ff. 346-8 verso); extracts from the Fathers, &c. (ff. 349-66 verso); De Angelis (ff. 367-78 verso). All very likely copied by a student at Rome. None of de Lugo's works were printed until 1631.

Specimens of initial capital letters taken from illuminated manuscripts and copies of initials and decoration from illuminated manuscripts in the British Museum and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Among the originals are a leaf from a Graduale, containing a portion of the Mass for the Nativity of St John Baptist (German, XV cent.); a leaf from the Decretum of Gratian (Low Counties, late XII cent.); one leaf and twenty-six initials from a manuscript of the Enarrationes in Psalmos of St Augustine (probably Bohemian, under strong Italian influence, late XIV cent.); a leaf from a Book of Hours (Italian, late XV cent.); and fragments from a choir-book, in Latin, with music (Italian, late XV cent.).

'Supplementum officiorum et missarum quae desunt in aliis libris choralibus. Auctore F. Petro Martire Regalia, cantore in hoc conuentu' - a supplementary antiphonary and office book compiled in an Italian Dominican monastery c. 1595-1622.

Llyfr cyfrifon ariannol, 1944-1945, Cymdeithas Gymraeg Napoli, a fu ym meddiant diweddar dad y rhoddwr pan oedd yn filwr yn yr Eidal yn ystod yr Ail Ryfel Byd.