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'Cywyddau' and other poems by Gruffudd Llwyd ap Dafydd ab Einion, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Robin Ddu, Taliesin, William Pue, Dafydd Gorlech, Owain Twna, Gruffudd ap Llywelyn Fychan, Edwart ap Rhys, Gruffudd ap Dafydd Fychan, Syr Thomas Chwith, Ieuan Leiaf, Iolo Goch, Syr Dafydd Trefor, Llywelyn ab Owain, Gruffudd ab Ieuan, Hwlkyn ap Llywelyn, Ieuan ap Gruffudd Leiaf, Iorwerth Fynglwyd, Ieuan ap Rhydderch ab Ieuan Llwyd, Syr Huw Pennant, Dafydd Nanmor, Wiliam Cynwal, Lewis Glyn Cothi, Rhys Goch Eryri, Rhys Fardd, Myrddin Wyllt, Syr Ifan ('o Garno'), Sion Tudur, Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen, Gronw Ddu o Fôn, Llywelyn ap Maredudd ab Ednyfed, Maredudd ap Rhys, Sion Cent, Adda Fras, Sion Morus, Lewis ap Edward, and Thomas Prys; prose extracts, including an account of the laws of Dyfnwal Moelmud and others; the prophecies of Taliesin and Myrddin Wyllt; an armorial of Welsh families, transcribed by Thomas Roberts, 1644, from a work by Wiliam Cynwal, and an armorial of the nobility of England; 'Breuddwyd Gronw Ddu'; 'Ymddiddan Myrddin a Gwenddydd'; the names of the kings of Britain from Brutus to Cadwaladr; etc.

Awdlau and cywyddau to George Owen, transcribed partly by J. Gwenogvryn Evans from Llanstephan MS 38, with English summaries of them by J.H. Davies.

Great Exhibition Almanack .... 1851, used by Thomas Owens, mariner, of Bryngwallter, Penbryn, Cardiganshire, to record entries concerning his voyages; extracts from the log of the SS Great Britain on voyages from Melbourne to Liverpool (inverted text ff. 29 verso-31, 54 verso-6); transcripts of carols and other verse, including 'Hanes ail fordaith y Brig Albion i'r America' (ff. 2-16; see also NLW MSS 9383A, 21965A); and miscellaneous notes and accounts.

'Trysorfa Gyffredin', a miscellany containing extracts from John [or Siôn] Rhydderch: Grammadeg Cymraeg ... (Mwythig, 1728); copies of 'englynion' in the churchyards of Dolwyddelan, Llangower, Llanuwchllyn, Llanfor, Llandrillo, Glyn Caerog, Llantysilio and Rhewl (Dyffryn Clwyd); poems by John Page ('Ioan [Glan] Dyfrdwy') and Charles Saunderson ('Siarl Wyn o Benllyn'); lecture notes; etc.

A volume in the hand of J. H. Davies containing transcripts of Welsh poetry, mainly 'englynion', lists of the compositions of Welsh poets of the 14th-16th centuries (titles and first lines) and a few miscellaneous notes. Nearly all the contents are copied from Jesus College MSS lxxxviii, ci, cxxxviii, cxxxix (R.W.M., Vol. II, Part I, Jesus College MSS 18, 17, 16, 14); the main source of the poetry is Jesus College MSS lxxxviii. The first three pages contain extracts from Ashmolean 847. There is some material from printed sources, including a plan (p. 166) of the British encampments and the mines worked by the Ancient Britons between Rheidol and Dovey, probably copied from J. G. Williams: A short account of the British Encampments lying between the rivers Rheidol & Llyfnant ... (Aberystwyth, 1866).

A volume containing transcripts by Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) of early Welsh poetry.

A manuscript in the autograph of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) containing triads (pp. 1-32); poetry, the poets cited including Taliesin, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Siôn Cent and Gruffydd Dwnn (pp. 33-86, 95-102); a list of Welsh holy (saints') days (pp. 87-90); names of Welsh rivers and their sources (pp. 91-94); etc. The volume also contains an appendix in the hand of D[avid] Ellis, [1787x1788]. The section containing triads is apparently left unfinished as most of p. 32 and the whole of p. 33 are blank.

Miscellaneous papers in Welsh and English, 1822-[c.1950], mainly of Merthyr Tudful interest, accumulated by Elias Thomas, comprising poems and essays by his great-grandfather Rowland Thomas ('Idris Ddu'), his grandfather, William R. Thomas, and others, including an essay on the origin of the Cyfarthfa Ironworks by Rowland Thomas, with a translation of the same by Thomas Stephens (1821-75) of Merthyr; draft letters, articles and notes by Thomas Stephens; printed rules, 1846, of 'Cymdeithas Cadarn Graig y Cymry', Merthyr; and miscellaneous notes and press cuttings.

Llyfr nodiadau yn cynnwys traethawd ar gerddoriaeth a gweithiau diwinyddol, a cherddi rhydd. Roedd y gyfrol yn eiddo i Matthew Thomas yn 1837.

Llyfr nodiadau yn cynnwys carolau, cerddi rhydd a 'Gramadeg Cerddoriaeth'; ynghyd â thraethawd diwinyddol. Roedd y gyfrol yn eiddo i Joseph Thomas yn 1845.

A photostat facsimile of MS 183 in the library of Christ Church, Oxford. The original manuscript is a volume written, for the most part, at Lleweni, Denbighshire, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and containing, among other things, autograph poems by a number of bards to members of the Salusbury family of Lleweni, these poems having been entered in the volume by the bards themselves on their periodical 'clera' visits.
Among the poems are 'cywyddau' and 'awdlau', some of them written to 'Sion Salusburi Escwiair wŷr ac aer Sr. Shion Salusburi Marchog vrddol o Leweni a Siamberlen Gwynedd' and dated 1593, 1607, and 1608, by Simwnt Fychan, Sion Mawddwy, Sion Tudur, Huw Machno, Wiliam Cynwal, Sion Phylip, Robert Ifan, Gruffudd Hafren, Edward Urien, Gruffudd Phylip, Sion Cain, Sion Evans, R[oger] Kyffin, Tomos Penllyn, Robert Llyn, Rhisiart Phylip, Huw Pennant, Rhys Cain, Rees ap John, and William Mathe. Among the prose contents are the following: '... note of weights taken out of the Method of Phisicke'; 'Certaine [medicinal] receites for my Honorable good friende Sr John Salusbury Knight', followed by miscellaneous culinary, household, and medicinal recipes; copies of letters from Sir Henry Sidney, Lord President of Wales, and his wife to their son, (Sir) Philip Sidney, of 'A Letter of the Lord Keapers to the Earle of Essex, Earle Marshall of Englande', of 'The Earle Marshall his answere to the Lorde Keaper', of a letter of Sir Walter Raleigh, and of a letter of King Charles I (from Ludlow Castle, September 4, 1625); and a copy of the general pardon granted by James I, July 24, 1603.

Dwy gyfrol yn cynnwys cerddi, Cymraeg a Saesneg, o eiddo John Williams ('Ioan Mai', 1823-1887) a gasglwyd ynghyd wedi ei farwolaeth; copi o lythyr, 1881, oddi wrth y llysgennad a bardd Americanaidd James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), at John Williams; a thorion o'r wasg yn cofnodi ei farwolaeth.

Microfilm copy of BL Add MS 14996 comprising Welsh biblical and religious poems, seventeenth-mid eighteenth century

An account by Robert John Griffith, Y Fron, Nant Peris, co. Caernarfon, of his voyage to Melbourne, 26 September - 3 November 1913, together with a few accounts, 1911 (ff. 1 verso-2, 69 verso) and transcripts of poetry.

Two awdlau by the Reverend Jonathan Machreth Rees ('Machreth', 1855-1911), London, entered for the chair competition at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Caernarfon, 1894, and Colwyn Bay, 1910.

A collection of traditions, anecdotes, and poems made circa 1870, by John Castell Evans, entitled 'Yr Hen Amser gynt, ei Veirdd, ei Varddoniaeth, ei Bobl a'i Chwedlau, sev Casgliad o hen Draddodiadau, Darnau Barddonol a Bywgraffiadau &c. yn dal cysylltiad yn benav a Gogledd Cymru yn enwedig Sir Merionydd ... Casglwyd, yn benav, oddiar lavar gwlad gan John Castell Evans, Pine Cottage, Millbrook, gynt o Gastell-y-Waen, Llanuwchllyn, Merion.'

Notes on Welsh place names by Meredith J. Hughes, arranged alphabetically, with extracts from Welsh poetry.

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

'The Poetical work of Will Tifu commonly called Wm. Morris the son of the late Llewelin ddu o Fôn (alias) Lewis Morris Esq'. Most of the matter is of North Cardiganshire interest.

'Cerddi', 'penillion telyn', 'englynion', etc., most of them transcribed by 'Talhaiarn'.