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Vaticinatory texts in both verse and prose, and texts concerning astrology and medicine, written by a single scribe and dating from around 1456 (p. 83).

A manuscript in the hand of a single scribe, [c. 1621], comprising religious and secular poetry of Guto'r Glyn, Siôn Tudur, Edmwnd Prys and others; an interlude of the Passion; and the Statute of Gruffudd ap Cynan.
Also included is a poem composed by Hywel Bangor for an Eisteddfod in 1577.

The oldest Welsh text of the Laws of Hywel Dda by two hands dating from the mid-13th century.
There is also a contemporary elegy to Llywelyn ap Gruffydd in a later hand, and a series of provebs, also in a later hand.

An interlude in Welsh of Troilus and Cressida, based on Chaucer's text and in the hand of John Jones, Gellilyfdy. Pp. 1-135 were written before 14th February 1613 (p. 119) and the remainder of the manuscript was written in 1622 (pp. 160, 231).

Poetry of John [Siôn] Phylip and others in the hand of John [Siôn] Phylip and, supposedly, his sons.

Poetry of Hywel ap Syr Mathew, Lewis Môn, Tudur Aled and others in three different hands, [1550x1580].

Notebook entitled 'Extracts from ancient Records principally relating to Merionethshire, and some Pedigrees' in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne. Inscribed 'Peniarth MS No. 44' on p. i.

Notes, disputations and discourses on philosophy and logic; a list of questions discussed at Dublin University, 19 April 1599; a short discourse of objections and answers touching the philosophers' stone by Ja: Doueson; etc.

Miscellaneous astronomical treatises, psalms, prayers, and litanies - 'sortes apostolorum que numquam fallunt'; and the 'secretum secretorum' attributed to Aristotle.

Love poetry; geometrical propositions; notes on Italian grammar; and a text on 'refrayninge the tonge'.

Dosparth Byrr ar y rhan gyntaf i ramadeg cymraeg ... 1567 by Gruffydd Robert (first of two copies).

Letters, manuscript notes and press cuttings relating to the Welsh grammar by Gruffydd Robert, 1874-1879.

The consuetudinary of Sarum.

A collection of statutes, writs, and other legal instruments, including the Provisions of Merton, the Statutes of Westminster I and II, the Statute of Merchants, the Statute of the Exchequer, and the Statute of Winchester.

Pedigrees, mainly south Welsh or of Welsh historic figures, in the hand of Thomas Gruffydd, with a few short prose texts, also in his hand, including 'Enwau y milwyr' (p. 38), 'Marchogion y vort gron' [see National Library of Wales Journal, 14 (1965-6), 242-5] (p. 39) and 'Arfau y kwnkwerwyr a vyant ymorganwc' [the earliest known text, printed from here in M.P. Siddons, The Development of Welsh Heraldry, 4 vols. (Aberystwyth, 1991-2006), I, pp. 376-9] (p. 46).

A pedigree in roundlets, evidently copied from a roll, from Beli Mawr to Cynan ab Iago of Gwynedd, Tewdwr ab Einion of Deheubarth and Bleddyn ap Cynfyn of Powys (ff. 13-23 verso); an armorial in Welsh, of Pum Brenhinllwyth Cymru and other Welsh arms, painted, two to the page (ff. 24-80). All in the hand of Wiliam Llŷn. Above many of the arms in the armorial the name is written in pencil by a contemporary hand, not that of Wiliam Llŷn. On ff. 81 verso-86 verso are additions in the hand of Siôn Cain. Folios 1-12 verso and 87-102 are blank. The index on ff. 103-106 verso is in the hand of Robert Vaughan.

An armorial of Welsh arms, 329 coats, painted, nine to the page, some shields left blank, with text in good italic, written in 1585 (f. 9). There are additional notes by several hands of [17 cent., first ½], including Peter Ellis, each note signed (ff. 15 recto-verso, 18, 19) and Robert Vaughan (f. 29); on f. 12 verso is a note citing 'R.D. of Gwissanye' [Robert Davies II]. From f. 24 are arms, some of them painted, added by other hands of [17 cent.]. On ff. 39-42 verso is an index by the original hand covering his entries up to f. 21 (including those for the wanting ff. 1-5).