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Manuscripts formerly belonging to Thomas Powel.

Transcripts made between 1604 and 1608 by John Jones, Gellilyvdy, of Welsh chronicles and pseudo-historical texts, with short prefaces and indexes to the three sections of the manuscript also written by John Jones. The first section contains an incomplete version of 'Y Beibl Ynghymraeg', i.e., a Welsh translation of the 'Promptuarium Bibliae' attributed to Petrus Pictaviensis (see Thomas Jones: Y Bibyl Ynghymraeg . . . Cardiff, 1940), and 'Ystoria Daret'. The version of 'Y Bibyl Ynghymraeg' includes 'Ystoria Addaf ar Oes Gyntaf', beginning with the story of the creation and breaking off at the building of Babylon, and a short chronology from Adam to Noah and his descendants linking with 'Ystoria Daret'. The second part of the manuscript is a transcript of 'Brut y Brenhinedd', and the third is a text of 'Brut y Saeson' brought down to James I.

A transcript made in 1610 by John Jones, Gellilyvdy, of a treatise on astronomy from a manuscript in the hand of Richard ap Sion, Llangynhafal, Denbighshire. John Jones has given it the title of 'Llyfr Sion ap Wiliam ap Sion ap Wiliam ap Sion ap Dafydd ap Ithel Vychan o Astronomi neu wybryddiaeth'.

An incomplete transcript made by John Jones, Gellilyvdy, of a treatise on arithmetic. It is entitled 'Llyfr Sion ap William ap Sion o Gyfrifyddiaeth'.

Translations of two texts, the first entitled 'Dangosiad am y Coed a elwir Gwaiacwm yssydd yn iachav y vrech ffrengic, a hefyd sydd yn helpio y gowt yn y traed, y tostedd, y palas, y klwy gwahanol, dropsi, klwy tegla, a chlevydion eraill', translated from 'Of the wood called Guaiacum that healeth the French pockes, and also helpeth the Goute in the feete . . .' (London, 1635, with subsequent editions), in its turn a translation by Thomas Paynel of Ulrich von Hutten: De Guaiaci Medicina et morbo Gallico. The text is incomplete, wanting the end of chapter 8, the whole of chapter 9, the beginning of chapter 10, the end of chapter 24, and the whole of chapters 25 and 26. It is followed by a translation of Sir Anthony Fitzherbert: 'Boke of Hvsbandry' (London, 1534). This text is also imperfect, wanting the first seven chapters, the beginning of chapter 8, chapter 51, the latter half of chapter 141, chapters 142-4, the beginning of chapter 145, the greater part of chapter 151, and the beginning of chapter 152. The Welsh translator is not identified.

A transcript made in 1575 by Sir Thomas Williams ('physycwr', 'o Drefriw') of an ancient manuscript written on vellum and then in the possession of Maurice Wynn of Gwydir. It contained a Llevelys version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia y Brenhinedd' preceded by 'Historia Daret'. In the transcript 'Historia Daret' wants seven or eight pages of its beginning, and ends ' . . . dwy vil a phumcant o ganlyniawdd Antenor, mil a deucant Helenus ac Andromacha. Yd hynn ydd sycrivened historia Daret', with a list following of names of Greek and Trojan warriors slain by leaders on either side. 'Historia y Brenhinedd' begins (without the prologue): 'Aeneas yscwyddwyn wedi ymladd Tro a destryw y gaer . . .' and ends: 'Ac yuelly y tervyna istoria y brenhined cenedl vrython ynys Brydein ac ymladeu Tro a Groec'. The text is followed by a short Latin poem beginning: 'Bruti posteritas Albanis associata . . .' There is also a Welsh 'englyn' on a blank page between the two texts and at the beginning of the volume are two letters from W. W. E. Wynne (Peniarth) to a former owner of the manuscript, 1875.

Copies of 'cywyddau' by Guto'r Glyn, Hywel Cilan, Edward ap Raff ('prydydd dall oedd ef, 1587'), Rhys Cain (1598), Sion Brwynog, William Llŷn, Hywel Gethin 'o Gelynog', Rhys Pennardd, Hywel Rheinallt, and Gruffudd Llwyd ab Ieuan; a carol dated 1598; an 'englyn'; music miscellanea ('y pedeir caing ar ddec', 'y pedeir gostec', 'Klymav'); and prose 'areithiau', 'Dewis-bethau Davydh Meilienydh', 'Breudhwyt Gruff. ap Adha ap D'd', and 'Breudhwyt Llewelyn Goch ap Meuric Hen'. The latter portion of the manuscript is in the hand of Thomas Williams, 'physycwr'.

Poetry, mainly 'cywyddau' with a few 'awdlau' and 'englynion', by Sion Tudur, Thomas Prys 'o Blas Iolyn', Gruffudd Hiraethog, Morice ab Ieuan ab Eigian, Iolo Goch, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Gwerful Mechain, Ieuan Llwyd 'or Towynn', Guto'r Glyn, Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen, Gruffudd Gryg, Rhys Pennardd, Richard Gruffydd ap Huw, Dengyn Kyfeiliog, Dafydd ab Edmwnd, Gruffydd Kenrick Coch, Edmwnd Prys, Owain Waed Da, Hywel Cilan, Iorwerth Fynglwyd, Hywel ap Llywelyn ap Moel y Pantri, Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan, Maredudd ap Rhys, Gruffudd ap Gronw Gethin, Tudur Aled, Gutun Owain, Deio ab Ieuan Du, Gruffudd Llwyd ap Dafydd ab Einion, Richard Gruffydd ap Huw, Robert Leiaf, Ieuan Dyfi, Wiliam Llyn, Sion Cent, Lewis Jones, John Price ('of N.M., 1635'), Huw Arwystli, Dafydd Nanmor, Rhys Nanmor, Rhys Goch Eryri, Syr Dafydd Owain, Raff ap Robert, Sion Phylip, Richard ap Hywel ap Dafydd ab Einion, and Lewis Mon. Among miscellaneous items in the manuscript is a copy of a letter by John Parry in which he mentions his cousin Thomas Lloyd of Nantglyn.

Extracts copied in 1744-5 by John David or Davies (Pentre Vidog) mainly from a miscellany transcribed by Sir Thomas Williams in 1594-6 (now British Museum Additional MS. 31055). One of the sources used by Sir Thomas Williams was the lost 'White Book of Hergest'. John David's copy includes 'Efengil Nicodemus', 'yr achosion yr ymprydier ddydd Gwener . . .', 'Breuddwyd Maxen Wledig', extracts from Y Bibyl Ynghymraeg, poetry by Taliesin, a deaf and dumb alphabet, 'englynion', a brief chronicle, 542-1463, taken by Sir. Thomas Williams 'ex libro Joanis Prise militis', 'am y pader, or Ll. G. H.', and the text of Y Bibyl Ynghymraeg. The following items in John David's manuscript were taken from other sources: the story of 'Adar Llwch Gwin' taken from a book of Thomas Evan 'o hendre forfydd'; 'englynion a wnaeth Edwart Morys ei Thomas Lloyd Penmaen am fynd yn Gwaccer', with Thomas Lloyd's reply; a note of land tax paid in all Welsh counties except Cardiganshire and Flintshire; 'englynion diharebion'; 'Carol yr hen wr o'r Coed' by William Pirs Dafydd; and 'carol . . . i ofyn Ebill'.

An Historical Account of the British or Welsh versions and editions of the Bible . . . (London, 1768), and Historical and Critical Remarks on the British Tongue and its connection with other Languages . . . (London, 1769), both by Thomas Llewelyn, LL.D., with manuscript notes by M. Lort and Sir Henry Ellis. At the end of the volume are two copies of Proposals for Reprinting the Holy Bible and Common Prayer Book in the British or Welsh Tongue, in Octavo (1714), a press cutting of 'Account of the Welch Language, and of the Establishment of Christianity in Wales', transcripts of the Caerwys eisteddfod commission and notice, 1568, and a note on Welsh minstrels.

One of two interleaved volumes of a copy of Robert Williams: 'Enwogion Cymru, A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen . . .' (Llandovery, 1852), with manuscript notes by Thomas Powel.

One of two interleaved volumes of a copy of Robert Williams: 'Enwogion Cymru, A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen . . .' (Llandovery, 1852), with manuscript notes by Thomas Powel.

A draft translation and a fair copy (incomplete) of the text and translation of Mesca Ulad edited and written by William M. Hennessy.

The text of Broccan's 'Laoidh na leacht' with an English translation, dinnsenchas, and other extracts from the Book of Leinster, and pedigrees, etc., from the Book of Lecan, copied by W. M. Hennessy.

Transcripts of the 'gessa' or heroic tales of Cuchulaind from the Book of Leinster, the Book of Lecan, and the 'Leabhar h-Uidhri', with translations, partly in the autograph of W. M. Hennessy.

One of two volumes of transcripts made in 1872 by W. M. Hennessy for John Francis Shearman of 'Naem seanchas naem indri Fail' and other genealogies of Irish saints from the 'Leabhar Breac', with a draft of a letter by J. F. Shearman to the editor of Revue Celtique, 1878.

One of two volumes of transcripts made in 1872 by W. M. Hennessy for John Francis Shearman of 'Naem seanchas naem indri Fail' and other genealogies of Irish saints from the 'Leabhar Breac', with a draft of a letter by J. F. Shearman to the editor of Revue Celtique, 1878.

A commonplace book kept by W. M. Hennessy containing a dictionary of Irish proper names and words and a short glossary of obsolete Irish words. Among loose papers in the volume is a letter from Whitley Stokes, 1882.