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One of two albums of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century (see also NLW MS 11982D), containing press cuttings, printed matter, and some manuscript material compiled probably by a member of the family of Ffoulkes of Eriviatt, Henllan, Denbighshire.
The press cuttings include obituaries of Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley, canon of Hereford Cathedral, 1889, Edmund Salusbury Ffoulkes, vicar of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1894, and Canon Howell Evans, vicar of Rhyl, 1892; accounts of the Ober-ammergau Passion Play, 1870, 1880, 1890; and articles on The Welsh Land Commission, [1894], Welsh Disestablishment, 1893, 'Discovery of Celtic Antiquities in Derbyshire', 1901, and 'New Church Chancel at Buckley', 1901. Among the printed items are hymns to be sung at the funeral of Henry Wynne Ffoulkes, Odd Rode, 1904, a memoir of Charles Butler Clough, M.A., dean and chancellor of St. Asaph, 1860, order of service at the opening of a new organ at Whittington, [1884], the charge of cruelty to a horse against Miss Frances Power Cobbe and her coachman David Evans heard at Barmouth Petty Sessions, 1902, verses to Peirce Wynne Yorke in honour of his attaining his majority, 1847, and a Form of Intercession with Almighty God on behalf of Her Majesty's Naval and Military Forces now in South Africa (marked with the rubber stamp of St. Thomas’s Church, Rhyl), 1900. The manuscript material includes verses entitled 'Mary's Ghost. A pathetic Ballad', 'Miss Elizabeth Fortescue in Italy' by T. V., 1834, and 'To some Young Ladies going to spend the Spring & Summer at Putney Heath', and a copy of the memorial inscription of Emma, fourth daughter of Capt. Beauchamp Proctor, R.N., and Anne, his wife, who died at Paris in the sixth year of her age, 1827. The volume is indexed (pp. iii-xxvi).

A Latin manuscript written on parchment in the second half of the thirteenth century and containing (a) ff. 1 recto-10 verso, the prose narrative generally known as Daretis Phrygii de Excidio Troiae Historia, and (b) ff. 11 recto-64 recto, a text of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae in eleven books, followed, f. 64 recto-verso, by a brief list of names (place-names, river-names, etc., beginning with 'Armorica') and their derivations. According to the colophon on f. 64 verso the scribe was William of Wodecherche, former lay brother of Robertsbridge [Abbey, Sussex] ('hanc hystoriam brittonum scripsit frater Willelmus de Wodecherche laicus quondam conuersus pontis Roberti cuius anima requiescat in pace. Amen'); there is an almost identical colophon in MS Bodl. 132. The manuscript has the red crayon pagination associated with Archbishop Matthew Parker, the numbering in this case being 1-127, and in Parker's time, and perhaps from the beginning, it appears to have been bound with Phillipps MS 26641 (William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum) and Phillipps MS 26642 (Giraldus Cambrensis, Topographia Hibernica, etc., and Edmund Campion, 'Two bookes of the histories of Ireland, purchased at Sotheby's by 3rd Earl Iveagh, and now Farmleigh Library, Dublin, Benjamin Iveagh Library, IV E 6). The text of the Historia Regum Britanniae is of the 'Variant Version' published by Jacob Hammer in 1951 (see 'Publications about Described Materials note). It should be added that the text includes the reading 'Que multa exercens ueneficia . . . haberet' (f. 36 verso), cf. Hywel D. Emanuel, 'Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie: a second variant version', in Medium Aevum, XXXV, pp. 103-10). The manuscript begins, f. 1 recto, 'Epistula cornelii ad Crispum salustium in troianorum hystoria. que in Greco a darete hystonographo facta est. Cornelius Gaio Crispo salutem' . . 'Explicit epistula. Narratio Daretis Trolani Excidii'; f. 10 verso, 'Explicit Troie Excidium. Incipit hystoria brittonum tracta ab antiquis libris brittonvm', with Geoffrey of Monmouth's prologue added in the margins in a sixteenth century hand ('Historla Galfridi Monumetensis. Cum mecum multa . . . interno gratulatur affectu'); f. 11 recto, the Geoffrey of Monmouth text, beginning 'Britannia insularum optima. . .', with running title 'hystoria brittonum' and a note, probably by Matthew Parker, 'hic liber multum variat a communi galfrido quamuis in multis concordant'; f. 64 recto, 'Explicit hystoria brittonum correcta et abbreuiata', followed by another note probably by Parker, 'et cum vulgari galfrido: non concordat' (a note in the margin of f. 63 verso, 'in hoc libro augustinus non habetur', is also probably by him). The divisions into books are marked and there is a lacuna in Book XI between ff. 62 verso and 63 recto (apparently by the loss of the two middle bifolia of the quire) although the pagination is continuous. On f. 64 verso William of Malmesbury's dedicatory letter to the earl of Gloucester has been inserted in a sixteenth century hand (cf. f. 10 verso).

(I) Printed ephemera, 1975-1995, in Breton and French, comprising leaflets, posters and miscellaneous papers relating to various political campaigns and cultural activity in Brittany, including language rights, especially in education, the campaign for a Breton television channel, and the arrest in 1995 of Breton activists for sheltering Basque refugees. (Ii) Photocopies of proceedings at political meetings and printed ephemera, 1925-96, in Breton and French, relating to educational, religious, cultural and political activities in Brittany, including an appeal for support for the plight of Basque refugees, 1993-6. (Iii) Printed ephemera, 1994-6, in French and Breton, relating to current issues, including nuclear disarmament, Basque refugees, and the insufficient use of the Breton language on French television; together with newspaper cuttings concerning the twinning of Caerphilly and Fishguard with Breton towns. (Iv) Additional ephemera, 1988-96 and undated, in Breton and French, relating to cultural and political activities in Brittany. (V) Additional printed ephemera, 1993-7 and undated, in Breton and French, relating to cultural, political and religious activities in Brittany; together with a photocopy of an article, 1897, by F[rancois] Vallée (secretary of the committee for the preservation of the Breton language) on the Breton movement in Wales. (Vi) Additional printed ephemera, 1995-7 and undated, in Breton and French, relating to cultural, educational, political and religious activities in Brittany. (Vii) Additional printed ephemera, 1997 and undated, in Breton and French, relating to cultural, educational, political and religious activities in Brittany. (Viii) Additional printed ephemera, 1997 and undated, in Breton and French, relating to cultural, political and religious activities in Brittany; together with press cuttings relating to the result of the Devolution Referendum in Wales, September 1997. (Ix) Additional printed ephemera in Breton and French, 1981-98, relating to cultural, educational, political and religious activities in Brittany, including election addresses, March 1998. (X) Additional ephemera (June and July donations) in French and Breton, 1998 and undated, relating to cultural, educational and political activities in Brittany; in particular to the twenty-first film festival in Douarnenez, July 1998, featuring Welsh films. (Xi) Further printed ephemera, in Breton and French, comprising six posters, 1998 and undated, relating to political activities in Brittany, including three representing Union Démocratique Bretonne. (Xii) Further printed ephemera, 1995-8 and undated, in French and Breton, relating to cultural, political and educational activities in Brittany. (Xiii) Further printed ephemera, 1991-8, in French and Breton, relating to cultural, educational and political activities in Brittany. (Xiv) Further printed ephemera, 1983-99, in French and Breton, relating to cultural, educational and political activities in Brittany, including the words of the Breton national anthem 'Bro goz ma zadoù' by François Jaffrennou ('Taldir', 1879-1956), and the text of a song by 'Glenmor' (Milig ar Skanv, 1931-96) with a French translation. (Xv) Further printed ephemera, 1987-99, in French and Breton, relating to cultural, educational and political activities in Brittany, including an appeal for financial support to establish a Diwan school in Vannes in September 1999; and a timetable for a Breton radio station 'Arvorig FM', North Finistere. (Xvi) Further printed ephemera, mainly 1988-99, in French and Breton, relating to cultural, educational and political activities in Brittany, including the thirteenth National Festival of the Breton language at Spézet, May 1999, and the twenty-second film festival at Douarnenez, July 1999; together with a leaflet advertising activity holidays for children in a Breton summer camp organised by the An Oaled association in Treglonou. (Xvii) Further printed ephemera, mainly 1999, in French and Breton, relating to cultural, educational and political activities in Brittany, including papers relating to Ni Hon-Unan formed in 1998, notably photocopies of press cuttings, 1998-9, assembled by the movement, newsletters, February-April 1999, and a leaflet published for the European Elections, 13 June 1999; together with a programme of the Lorient Interceltic Festival, August 1999. (Xviii) Further printed ephemera, 1995-9, in French and Breton, relating to cultural, educational and political activities in Brittany, including Keltia Musique, a catalogue of Breton and Celtic music, 1999, and Adsa, no. 2, July-August 1999, a newspaper featuring cultural issues in Brittany; together with a booklet published in 1998 concerning protected plants in Les Monts d'Arree, Finistère. (Xix) Further printed ephemera in French and Breton, relating to cultural, educational and political activities in Brittany, including two printed poems 'Euskadiz' and Diwar meneziou ma bro' by Yann-Fanch Kemener, 1986; photocopies of articles published in Le Peuple Breton, 1972-3, concerning the imprisonment of Welsh language campaigners; press cuttings relating to the Rugby World Cup held in Wales in 1999; together with a disk containing a study by Christian Le Bras, April 1994-May 1996, produced with financial support from the Institut Culturel de Bretagne, entitled 'Languages celtiques at television: dynamique et developpements Bretagne: bout du tunnel ou morte lente.'. (Xx) Further printed ephemera, mainly 1999-2000, in French and Breton, relating to cultural, educational, environmental and political activities in Brittany, including a pamphlet, with a bibliography, published to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the writer Youenn Drezen (1899-1972); a pamphlet, Le Voyage du Sant Efflam, giving an account of the construction of the coracle and its voyages around the Celtic countries, 1997-8; together with copies of the cultural newspaper Adsa, nos. 3-6, September/October 1999-May/June 2000. (Xxi) Further printed ephemera, mainly 2000, in French and Breton, accumulated by the late Hervé Person (Tud Diwar Ar Maez), relating to cultural, educational, environmental and political activities in Brittany, including a paper 'Les perspectives de l'agriculture en Bretagne', from a special session held 25 Jan. 2000 by the Economic and Social Council of Brittany; a leaflet advertising the twenty-third film festival at Douarnenez, Aug. 2000; together with copies of the cultural newspaper Adsa, July, August and Oct./Nov. 2000; and a compact disc, 2000, in honour of Glenmor (Milig ar Skanv, 1931-1996), containing recordings of his poems, performed by various artists, which has been transferred to the Sound and Moving Image Collection (CD 1188).

Thirty-two holograph letters largely to Peter Williams and/or his wife [Elizabeth] Williams, Brenig View, Tregaron, from D. Davies, Ton, Ystrad, etc., 1901-1913 (biographies of the writer's grandfather, 'Sasiwn' [C.M. Association meetings] at Llangeitho), L. Rhystyd Davies, Brynamman, 1924 ( the health of the recipient [Peter Williams], personal), Evan Evans, Laura Place, Aberystwyth, 1926 (the death of Peter Williams), James D. Evans, Y Tabernacl, Aberystwyth, 1934 (thanks for a parcel), J. Ceredig Evans, Welsh Mission, Shillong, Assam, etc., 1907-1929 (the schooling of the writer's son at New Quay, news from the mission field, the death of Peter Williams, etc.), Morgan [James], Maesycwmmer, [19]37 (personal, reference to Thomas Jones's Rhymney Memories), Joseph Jenkins, Llandovery, [19]26 ( the death of Peter Williams), D. and E. Jones, Patagonia, 1911 (personal), David Jones, Glanyrafonisaf [Tregaron], 1926 (the death of Peter Williams), Evan Jones, Pont l'Abbé, Finistère, 1906-1910 (the success of the writer's mission, subscriptions towards a new meeting-house at Lescouil), W. Jenkyn Jones, Quimper, 1923 (personal), John G[wynfil] Jones, Columbus, Ohio, to his brother and sister, 1889 (personal), M. H. Jones, Penllwyn, 1926 (the death of Peter Williams), Stephen Jones, Bridgend, 1926 (the death of Peter Williams), 'Winnie' [Winifred Jones, Neuaddlas, Tregaron], S. S. City of Venice, at Colombo, 1928 (personal, the writer's voyage to the mission field at Lushai in India), Abraham Morris, Llantarnam, 1926 (the death of Peter Williams), [Sarah Jane Rees] ('Cranogwen'), Llangranog, [19]09 (meetings of ['Undeb Dirwestol Merched y De']), John Rowland, Cardiff, 1926 (the death of Peter Williams), Annie Williams, Milwaukee, Wis., 1891 (personal, thanks for pictures, news of the writer's family), Peter D. Williams, Blaendyffry[n], Sparta, Monroe Co., Wis., 1889-1892 (personal, news of family and friends, accounts of religious services, the writer's farm), [Henry Jones Williams] ('Plenydd'), Chwilog, [19]23 (personal, the writer's health, etc.) (on the dorse of a circular advertising leaflets compiled by the writer on behalf of the temperance movement), and Robert [Williams], The Vicarage, Llandilo, 1914-1926 (the writer's appointment to the archdeaconry of Carmarthen, the death of Peter Williams).

Material from manuscript and printed sources compiled largely by William Fowler Carter, Maidsmere, near Bromsgrove, towards a study of the early genealogy of the family of Kenrick of Nantclwyd, Cerniogau, etc., and of the associated family of Wynn. Accompanying the material are letters largely to W. F. Carter from G. J. Murray Atkins, Diocesan Registry, Lichfield, 1935, J. C. Ballantyne, University of Glasgow, 1913 (autograph), J. Harvey Bloom, Upper Tooting, [1922]-3, W. Ll. Davies, National Library of Wales, 1935 (autograph), Crayford Edwards, barrister, Burbage, near Hinckley, 1918, C. T. Flower, Public Record Office, 1935 (autograph), A. Ranken Ford, Gray’s Inn, London, 1917 (autograph), Thomas Allen Glenn, Meliden, etc., 1911-22 (one autograph), Frederick Wm. Hackwood, Balham, 1917 (to Sir Geo. Kenrick), Strachan Holme, Bridgewater [Collieries & Ellesmere Estates] Office, Walkden, Manchester, 1915 (autograph), Cyril C. C. Kenrick, Westgate-on-Sea [1922], [Sir] Geo. H. Kenrick, Edgbaston, 1908- 35 (with copy replies), Bernard Kettle, Guildhall Library, London, 1915, J. B. Marsland, Wyberton Rectory, Boston, 1923, H. H. Meakin, Longnor Vicarage, Shrewsbury, 1918 (to [ ] Blackett), D. C. Lloyd Owen, Four Oaks, 1915 and undated, Alfred Neobard Palmer, Wrexham, 1911, William Rees, University College . . ., Cardiff, 1935, Mary Sampson Smith, Llangollen Fechan, 1911, A. H. Stanton, Hambleden Rectory, Henley on Thames [1922], W. B. Stewart, Birkenhead, 1912 (to Sir George Kenrick), Ethel Stokes, London, 1935, Annie Wynn, Llanfihangel, near Borth, 1911, and Edward W. Wynne, Aberystwyth, 1917. There are also typescript copies of letters to the Kenrick family from R. Obbard, Redhill, 1901, Greene Kendrick, Waterbury, Conn., U.S.A., 1901-02, and Henry Rigg, Bayswater, London, 1901 and undated.

A manuscript copy, [1820s]-[1830s] (watermark 1814), of tours of North Wales undertaken in the Autumn of 1817 (pp. 1-30) and October 1819 (pp. 31-90) by Captain Henry Hanmer and his wife Sarah, including descriptions of visits to Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, the Ladies of Llangollen (pp. 10-11, 14-19, 45).
The itinerary includes Llangollen, Wrexham, Beddgelert, Caernarfon, Bangor, Llanberis, Holyhead, Conway and St Asaph, and includes descriptions of Dolbadarn Castle (pp. 55-58), the Penrhyn slate quarries (pp. 65-66) and Parys and Mona copper mines (pp. 69-73). A number of related poems and tales are interspersed throughout the text (pp. 4-101), including verses by Anne Grant (p. 19), Anna Seward (pp. 22-29), Sir Walter Scott (pp. 31-33), W. Sotheby (pp. 37-45), W. R. Spencer (pp. 48-53), Dr [William] Dodd (pp. 61-62), and Amelia Alderson Opie (pp. 88-89). They are followed by further transcripts in the same hand (pp. 107-120), including verses by Thomas Noel (pp. 112-118) and Sir Walter Scott (pp. 119-120), and, in a different hand (pp. 121-139), verses by Byron (pp. 121, 125), R. B. Sheridan (p. 121) and Robert Southey (p. 123). The volume contains numerous cuttings from engravings, either pasted or tipped in (pp. 1-103 passim); several of these are by Henry Gastineau and are taken from Wales Illustrated: In a Series of Views... (London, 1830), as is the printed description of Llangollen on pp. 101-102. Inserted at the end (pp. 187-198) is a pamphlet by S. G. Perceval, The Ladies of Llangollen: New and interesting facts ([?1909]), transcribing extracts from the present manuscript. A press cutting, [1829], concerning the Ladies of Llangollen is pasted inside the front cover. Pressed flowers are pasted in on pp. 57, 64-65, and the remains of a leaf has been placed in an archival envelope.

A Book of Hours of the use of Paris, in Latin and French, second half of the fifteenth century, apparently of Breton provenance, containing a Calendar in French (ff. 1-12 verso); Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (ff. 13-70), incorporating the Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Ghost from the end of Lauds onwards; 'Obsecro te' (ff. 70 verso-5 verso); 'O intemerata' (ff. 75 verso-8 verso); part of the Gospel of St John (ff. 78 verso-80); suffrages of SS Sebastian, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul the Apostle, Christopher, Nicholas, Julian, Mary Magdalen, Catherine and Margaret (ff. 80 verso-8); penitential Psalms (ff. 89-103 verso); Litany (ff. 104-10 verso); and Office of the Dead (ff. 111-52 verso). Illuminated initials, mainly one-line and two-line in text, mostly four-line in illuminated borders of coloured foliage and flowers, dominant colours red, blue, pink and gold. Eight polychrome miniatures in arched compartments above four-, three- and two-line illuminated initials with four or five lines of text, all within full borders of same style as before; subjects are the Annunciation (f. 13), Crucifixion (f. 38), Pentecost with Virgin Mary (f. 39 verso), Martyrdom of St Sebastian (f. 80 verso), St Christopher carrying Christ child (f. 83 verso), St Margaret and dragon (f. 87 verso), King David at prayer (f. 89) and funeral scene (f. 111). The Calendar includes St Yvo of Brittany and St Mellon of Llaneirwg, Monmouthshire, and Plomelin, Brittany, and the Litany the Breton Saints Yvo, Maglor of Dol and Armel. Added on f. 154 by a late fifteenth-century hand is a hymn to the Virgin, in French, by Guillaume Alexis (fl. 1451-86) (see Piaget, A. & Picot, É. (eds): Poétiques de Guillaume Alexis (Paris, 1908), pp. 199-200); the same poem is attested in at least two other late fifteenth-century manuscripts of Breton provenance (London, BL Add. 18838 and Paris, BN lat. 1369; Långfors, Arthur: Les Incipit des poèmes français antérieurs au XVIe siècle (Leipzig, 1971), p. 149). Traces of another, unidentified poem in French, in a different but perhaps contemporary hand, are visible on f. 154 verso.

Miscellaneous holograph letters and documents which include five letters, 1671/2-1672/3, from G[eorge] Scudamore, Monmouth Forge, to Sir Robert Clayton and to John Morris at Augustine Friers, etc. (relating to the Rotherwas estate, collection of rents in the lordships of Dinder and Much Dewchurch, etc.); eleven letters, 1673-1673/4, from Abr[aham] Seward, Hereford, to John Morris and to William Belke at Sir Robert Clayton's house in London (repairs to the fulling mills and its effect on the cloth trade in Hereford, the leasing of Rotherwas estate, etc.); one letter, 26 January, 1678/9, to Lady [Ann] Jones [of Fonmon Castle]; two letters, 18 October, [16]88, to [George Jeffreys, 1st baron Jeffreys of Wem]; two dockets, November, 1688, of grants to Richard Bulkeley, 3rd viscount Bulkeley, of the offices of chancellor and chamberlain of the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth, and of constable of the castle of Beaumaris and captain of Beaumaris; a covenant, 1 September, 1691, in respect of the tithes of Yestradvellty and hamlet of Glyntawy; etc.
Amongst other references are those to the Alltycadno and Gwilodymaes estates in Carmarthenshire; and Kidwelly Tin Works.

(a) Eleven holograph letters, 1665-1668, from John Hinton from Pembroke, etc., to John Morris (Morice) in Corn hille and Augustin Fryers, relating mainly to an action resulting from the arrest of iron shipped on board the 'Katherine of Waxford' by John Chaplyn (Shapland), together with affidavits, 3 January, 1667/8, of Thomas Dulan, factor of the iron, and David St. John, master of the vessel, taken before Jno. Hinton, mayor of the town and liberties of Pembroke, and a contemporary copy of a letter [26 December, 1667] from John Morris to John Hinton. (b) Nine holograph letters, 1678/9-1679, of Hugh Mathews, from Cardiff and Aberthaw, the first written to Samuel Sumerford, Lincolnes Inne, and the remainder to Sir Thomas Bludworth, M.P., at Camden House near Goldsmith's Hall, relating to the administration of the estate of Sir John Jones of Fonmon Castle (d. 15 October, 1678). The letters refer to difficulties between Dame Ann Jones (daughter of Sir Thomas Bludworth) and her brother-in-law Oliver Jones in connection with manorial rights, an allegedly irregular manorial court held at Lancadle, an inventory of the estate, the payment of bills, the letting of properties and collection of rents, and the loading and manning of Dame Ann Jones's vessel 'Ann' from Aberthaw to London. Also included are transcripts of a letter, 16 November, [16]78, from [Dame Ann Jones] from Fonmon to Hugh Mathews, commissioning the latter to be steward of her estate, and of her instrument of appointment, of even date, of Edwd. Williams of Wringestone, Glamorgan, yeoman, as bailiff to take care and dispose of her stock of cattle and sheep.

An incomplete miscellany, in the form of three unbound volumes, of free- and strict-metre poetry (including illustrative extracts), compiled by David Thomas ('Dafydd Ddu Eryri') under the title of 'Golwg a'r Parnassus, a Helicon, Sef, Casgliad neulltuol, neu Bigion Dewisol Allan o Waith Prif feirdd neu Brydyddion yr oesoedd, sef y Rhannau hyny o'u Gwaith na ymddangosodd yn argraphedig Hyd yn hyn ond mewn hen Sgrifeniadau, yn Englynion A chywyddau. yn Ddwy Rann; un yn Ddigrifol ar llall yn ddifrifol. O Gascliad, Dewi, ab Thomas, Waunfawr. A Sgrifenwyd yn y flwyddyn 1781'. The preface ('Rhagymadrodd at y Darllenydd') indicates both the period and partly the source of the volume: 'Y Darnau canlynol o Brydyddiaeth a Sgrifennwyd Gennyf yn fy Ieuenctyd, Pan ddechreuais Gyntaf Gael blas, ar farddoniaeth Reolaidd Ac yn ol fy nhŷb i, y Pryd hwnnw, maent yn Brif orchestwaith, Pigion, neu oreuon, Gwaith yr hen Feirdd ... Yr a adsgrifennais wrth ymdeithi[o] yn ddamweiniol, heibio'r lleoedd yr oeddynt iw gweled fel y Gwelwch yn Enwau'r Eglwysydd'. The poets represented include Rhichard Phylip; Maredudd ap Rhys; David Thomas ('Dafydd Ddu Eryri'); Hugh Hughes ('Y Bardd Coch o Fôn') (1766); Huw Morys; Siôn Cent; William Phylip; Elis Roberts; Dafydd ap Gwilym; Siôn Phylip; Bedo Brwynllys; Tudur Aled; Gruffudd Hiraethog; Siôn Brwynog; Siôn Tudur; Edward Morys; Owen Gruffydd; and Siôn Mawddwy. The titles include 'Englynion i Sir feirionydd'; 'Englynion Iw gosod ar fedd Huw Jones o Langwm ...'; and 'Englyn i Hugh Lloyd Cynfel'. Additions in other hands include some music scores of carol tunes and calligraphic exercises.

A typescript copy of a Baptist church register entitled 'Llyfr Cofnodol Perthynol I Eglwys Gristianogol Dan yr Enw Y Bedyddwyr Neulltyol Yn Cyfarfod yn ngyd ar brydiau i Dori Bara yn yr Amriwiol Leoedd Canlynol Sef Argoed a Phenycoed yn Sir Abertifi Abarduar Bwlch y rhiw Bethel a Salem Yn Sir Gaerfyrddin &c'. The original register covers the period 1751-1857, while Evan Lewis's transcript [see note under 561 below] was used independently and unofficially till 1875 and varies considerably from the original after 1841. The first part of the original register, from 1751 to 1765, is in the hand of the Reverend Timothy Thomas ('Y wisg Wen Ddisglair') of Aberduar, but the greater part of the volume was written by his brother the Reverend Zacharias Thomas and by the latter's son David Thomas of Llwynywermwd, Llan-y-crwys. Most of the entries recorded by David Thomas, from 1789 to 1839, relate only to the churches of Bethel (Caeo), Salem (Caeo), and Bwlch-y-rhiw.

A volume of transcripts of poetry, mainly 'cywyddau' and 'englynion', by Iowerth Fynglwyd, William Llŷn, Huw Cae Llwyd, Gwilym ap Sefnyn, Dafydd Nanmor, Thomas Prys, Syr Dafydd Trefor, Aneurin Gwawdrudd ('Anearan Gwowdrudd'), Rhys Pennardd, Iolo Goch, Gutun Ceiriog, Siôn Mawddwy, Dio ap Ifan Du, Rhys Goch Glyndyfrdwy, Dafydd ap Edmwnd, Dafydd Ddu o Hiraddug, Philip John Philip, Siôn Philip, Owain Gwynedd, Ieuan Brydydd Hir, Siôn Cent, David Jones, Rhys Wynn, Siôn Tudur, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Meredydd ap Rees, Llywelyn ap Gutun, Syr Owain ap Gwilym, Griffith Philip, Rowland Vaughan, Richard Philip, Edmwnd Prys, Robin Ragett, Tudur Aled, John Prichard Prys, Robert Klidro, Ellis Rowland 'o Harlech', Hugh Llwyd 'o Gynfal', Huw Morris, Lewis Morris, Mr. David Roberts, Rice Lloyd, Moris ap Robert, Bala, and Thomas Jones, Orsedd Las. The greater part of the volume was written in the early eighteenth century. Among slightly later hands at the end of the volume is that of William Jones of Orsedd Las. At the end of the volume is a letter from a Welsh emigrant, written from Delaware, 21 September, 1828.

A volume of English verse and translations from Horace, Martial and other Latin poets. The English verse includes poems 'Vpon ye death of a magpye that talkd very well, & was killd no body knew how, 1653'; 'To Mr. Frampton from my Lord of Stamfords at Broadgate in Leicestershire 1655, who was then Chaplaine to ye Earle of Elgin'; 'To Mr. Frampton my Lord of Elgin's Chaplaine 1654'; 'Vpon Mrs Rhods lending me an iuory Table, booke wh I returning not at the time was to expiate wth a paper of verses, 1654'; 'Vpon my Lady Bruce's being brought to Bed of my Lord Bruce now Earle of Ailsbury 1655'; 'Upon Waller's Panegyrick to ye Protector, 1656'; 'Too Mr Cheek by my Lord Bruce's appointment to begg a hound bitch for him of my L: Manchester, 1656'; 'To Mr. Cheeke upon his breaking his Legg very daungerously, 1657'; 'To Mr. Frampton chaplaine to my Lo: Elgin vpon our journey from Roehampton to Amptill, 1657'; 'An Epilogue vpon Sr Tho: Clarges Aeractions being translated out of French, 1664, by him'; 'Vpon Sam Parker Bp of Oxford'; 'Vpon my horse falling vpon the stones and breaking his skull'; 'In mortem Reginae Wmi Regis vxoris'; 'Vpon the young Duke of Gloster's death'; 'Vpon the birth of Mr. Tho: Bruce, now Earle of Alesbury'; Latin epitaphs:- 'Epitaphs vpon Dr Chamberlain's son & daughter buried in Chelsey church'; 'Epitaph on Dr Chamberlain's daughter buried in Chelsey Church'; 'Vpon the death of my Lord Chief Justice Ireby' with a translation; 'An inscription vpon ye King of France's statue'; and two prose items:- 'About the Controversy betwixt the Gentlemen and the Vestry in Clerkenwell', and an account of a journey from London to Graueling, 1658.

Incomplete autograph manuscript, 1916-1928, by Josef Charles Holbrooke of his three-act opera Bronwen (op. 75), being the third and final part of his operatic trilogy The Cauldron of Annwn; Act I is lacking. The libretto, based on the narratives of The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, was written by Holbrooke's patron, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, eighth baron Howard de Walden.
Mostly composed at Harlech, the work was completed in parts, the Overture (MS 23863F) (published as a piano arrangement in 1917), here dated July 1916 (p. 17); Act II (MS 23864F) dated 5 August 1918 (p. 183); and Act III (MS 23865F), dated 12 October [19]24 (p. 295); the latter is probably the completion date of the full score (confirmed by the note at the end of the published version of 1929), as opposed to the vocal score of the opera, which was apparently completed at Harlech on 5 February 1920 (see note at end of the published vocal score (1922), and cf. George Lowe, Josef Holbrooke and His Work (London, 1920), p. 273). However, a note added at the end of the Prelude to Act III (MS 23865F, p. 190) suggests that a final revision was made in 1928. The vocal score was first published, with English and German words, as Bronwen: A Music Drama (No. 3) (London, 1922), and the full score in 1929 (see British Library Catalogue of Printed Music); the opera was first performed by the Carl Rosa Opera Company in Huddersfield on 1 February 1929.

A volume, 1794-[1827] (watermark 1794), in the hand of Capt. Frederick Jones of Brecon, Breconshire, and Pencerrig, Radnorshire, younger brother of the artist Thomas Jones, Pencerrig, comprising a short narrative account, [1794], of his military career in India while serving as an officer in the army of the East India Company, 1777-1788 (ff. 37-40 verso), and brief diary entries for October 1788-February 1827, described as 'Memorandums extracted from Pocket book ledgers &c of my own' (ff. 41-168, rectos only). The diary entries record his life after his return to Britain from India and refer mainly to family matters, excursions, journeys, and visits to and from friends, with occasional comments on local, national, and European events.
The diary is bound together with copies of Jones's two published volumes, A Brief Account of the Tullaugaum Expedition from Bombay… (Brecknock: W. and G. North, 1794; Libri Walliae 4972, ESTC T113094), published anonymously and based on diaries which he subsequently destroyed (ff. 1-15); together with Copies of Letters, merely intended for, and by the Desire of Intimate Friends (Brecknock: W. and G. North, 1795; not in ESTC), also published anonymously, being three letters from him, two sent from Canton, China, in 1787 and 1788, and the third from Paris, September 1789 (ff. 16-32, the stub of f. 16 apparently being the remains of the title page). The diary includes references to the French landing at Fishguard in 1797 (f. 59), family monuments erected in Nantmel Church and Caebach Chapel, 1810 (ff. 84, 86), and the introduction of gas lighting in Brecon, 1822-1823 (ff. 143, 145). The stubs of ff. 34-36 contain fragments of text. For extracts of the diary see 'The diary of Captain Frederick Jones', ed. by R. C. B. Oliver, Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, 53 (1983), 28-56; 54 (1984), 41-57; 56 (1986), 52-71; 60 (1990), 41-65; and 61 (1991), 54-70.

A book of Hours, of unidentified Use, in Latin with a few rubrics in Catalan, [first half of the fifteenth century], from Catalunya or the Pyrenees, containing Calendar (ff. 1-11 verso), Gradual Psalms (ff. 12-27), the Hours of the Virgin, the Mass of the Virgin (ff. 80-6 verso), the Office of the Dead (ff. 87-140), the Penitential Psalms (ff. 141-56), and Litany (ff. 156-66 verso).
The Calendar includes many saints whose cult was particularly important in Spain and Catalunya, including Agatha, Eulalia (of Barcelona, Feb. 12, and [?of Merida], Dec. 10), Baudelius, Quiteria, Justa and Rufina of Seville, Abdon and Senen of Cordoba, Laurence, Felix of Gerona, Theccla, patron of Tarragona, Callistus, patron of Seville, Cecilia, Barbara; similarly the Litany includes Just and Pastor of Alcala de Henares, Cyricus, Theccla and Eulalia; others, such as Radegunde of Poitiers, Tropimus of Arles and Rufus of Avignon mentioned are associated with south and western France. Prayers to St Eulalia are also included in Lauds (f. 51 verso) and Vespers (f. 74 verso). Rubrics by hand I in Catalan on ff. 85 verso-86 verso crossed out, but mostly legible, confirm provenance in the paísos catalans.

A manuscript volume in English and Welsh, 1854-1858, compiled by Griffith Griffiths, shopkeeper, Pen-y-graig, Llangwnnadl, Caernarvonshire, mainly containing medicinal recipes (NLW MS 23711iA).
A medico-botanical map of the world, [c. 1868], and two pamphlets, [1930s], relating to his grandson, the medical herbalist Griffith Griffiths, Bangor, and the family's cure for 'wild warts' ('y ddafad wyllt') are filed separately (NLW MS 23711iiC).

Two personal copies of the journal Dock leaves which belonged to the artist Arthur Giardelli (1911–2009). Dock leaves, vol. I, no. 2 (Easter 1950), includes his article : ‘The Glyn Vivian art gallery’, and a letter, dated June 1950, from Raymond Garlick. Dock leaves, vol. II, no. 5 (May 1951), contains two letters, dated October 1951, from Friedrich R. Könekamp, author of the article ‘Artists and specialists’, published in this edition.

Papers of Owen Morris Williams, shoemaker and musician, Morfa Nefyn (1870-1958), including anthems, letters, etc.

Letter, dated 27 September 1971, from Mrs Gwladys E. Lewis to the Reverend D. Jacob Davies inserted within a signed copy of her work, Alun Lewis, my son (Aberystwyth, [?1971]); together with an undated photograph of the Alun Lewis memorial plaque at Aberdare Library, and a note, in Welsh, by the donors providing background information about the letter. = Llythyr, dyddiedig 27 Medi 1971, oddi wrth Mrs Gwladys E. Lewis at y Parchedig D. Jacob Davies, wedi ei osod o fewn copi a lofnodwyd ganddi o'i gwaith, Alun Lewis, my son (Aberystwyth, [?1971]); ynghyd â ffotograff heb ei ddyddio o gofeb Alun Lewis yn Llyfrgell Aberdâr, a nodyn gan y rhoddwyr yn esbonio cefndir y llythyr.