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Miscellanea, including Awdl Marwnad Charlotte Tywysoges Cymru and another poem by Peter Jones (Pedr Fardd), a poem by William Augustus Miles eulogising Walter Davies, Cerdd Newydd i Annerch Walter Davies by John Jones (Jac Glanygors), a list of poems sent for competition at the Carmarthen eisteddfod, 1823, and various transcripts by Walter Davies and John Jenkins.

A miscellany containing press cuttings, poems, including some by Gwrtheyrn, etc.

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

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.

'Cywyddau' by Huw Morus, Edmwnd Prys, Sion Tudur, Edward Morus, and Wiliam Cynwal; englynion, short stanzas, and extracts from 'cywyddau'.

A miscellaneous collection of records mainly relating to Wales compiled towards the middle of the seventeenth century. -- The manuscript begins on page 53 with extracts from 'Llyfr Coch Asaph', with the additions from the hand of William Bullocke, as in Peniarth MS 231 - a manuscript written by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, and most probably the immediate source of the Nefydd version; the 'summa' of 'Llyfr Coch Asaph' compiled in 1602, which is also contained in Peniarth MS 231, as well as the list of contents of another St. Asaph record - the 'liber pergamenus' which is now deposited with the Church in Wales records at the National Library; a transcript of a record of proceedings on a writ of quare impedit brought by the Prince of Wales against Howel Gymen and a hundred and seventeen others, touching the advowson of a prebend in the collegiate church of Holyhead ('prebenda de Castro Keby') supplied by 'Mr. Ellice the Councellor'; a collection of historical records relating to Wales taken directly from the hand of Robert Vaughan in Peniarth MS 236; a transcript of the 'Historia Britonum' of Nennius, copied out of a book given to John Selden by William Camden, compared with a version in 'Oxford Library' under the name of 'Gilda Minor', and ending with an extract from a Cottonian manuscript (pp. 245-88); a copy of the statutes of Chester Cathedral, temp. Henry VIII (pp. 289-310); 'Ymrafaelion henwau Ynys Brydain', etc. - seventeen chapters of pseudo-history and description of the Isle of Britain (cf. slightly different versions in Peniarth MSS 163 and 215), with a supplement containing accounts of place-names not included in the main text, a reference to the earthquake of 1574/5, the wonders of Scotland and Ireland, the conversion of the various British nations to Christianity, and 'y naw helwriaeth', 'mesurau cerdd dant', and 'trioedd mab y krinwas' (pp. 312-49). -- At the end of the volume are a number of documents relating to Cheshire and Flintshire - a note of entail of Flintshire lordships, Flintshire rents of assize, the customs of Dee mills and other records taken from a book of Edward Whitby, recorder of Chester, and a transcript of Robert Vaughan's copy of the fealty roll of the Prince of Wales, 29 Edward I .

'Cywyddau', 'englynion' and 'cerddi' by Rhys Cain, Edwart Urien, Dafydd Manuel, Sion Tudur, Richard Davies, Lewis Glyn Cothi, Sion ap Hywel ap Llywelyn Fychan, Sion Mowddwy, Richard Phylip, Mathew Brwmffild, Rhys Goch Eryri, Thomas Brywnllys, William Pugh, Kleient, Rhys ab Ednyfed, Robert Dyfi, Deio ab Ieuan Du, Dafydd Nanmor, Robin Clidro, Thomas Prys, Wiliam ap Sion ap Dafydd, Ieuan Dew Brydydd, Mastr Harri, Gwerful Mechain, Griffith Owen, Rowland Vaughan, John Owen, John Thomas, Richard Owen, and Guto'r Glyn.

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.

Letters, 1859-1896, from poets, musicians, historians, and politicians, including Richard Bennett, Richard Davies (Mynyddog), O.M. Edwards, Tom Ellis, 'Ceiriog', John Jones ('Idris Vychan'), Robert Jones (Rotherhithe), J. T. F. Lloyd, John Owen ('Owain Alaw'), William Roos, John Thomas ('Pencerdd Gwalia'); and adjudication by Richard Davies ('Mynyddog'); and poems by Evan Ellis ('Afaon'), Evan Jones ('Ieuan Ionawr'), 'Ceiriog', Wmffre Dafydd ab Ifan, D. T. Williams ('Tydfylyn'), etc.

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.'

Original hymns and poems and some translations.

Hymns and secular poems, including some 'englynion'.

Two copies, the second incomplete, of a collection of 'Hen Benillion' compiled probably by John Jones ('Myrddin Fardd'). The first copy (not in the autograph of' Myrddin Fardd' except for some alterations and additions) appears to be part (pp. 494-573) of a larger work and is headed "Pen. XIV - Crynodeb o Hen Bennillion Gwerinol' (the word 'diardd[el]' has been added to the title at a later date). The second copy is in the autograph of 'Myrddin Fardd' and is earlier in date but the beginning and end are wanting and the section here (pp. 29-72) corresponds to pp. 523-566 in the other copy. Between these two copies is a printed article by E. Anwyl, Oxford on 'Penillion telyn y Cymry' [Y Geninen, 1891], pp. 251-4.

Transcripts of some of the poems published by 'Cymdeithas Llên Cymru'.

Exercise book, [c. 1903]-[c. 1904], of Gwen John containing notes on art history and related subjects together with transcripts of verse and prose in English, Welsh and Romani.

A volume written by Thomas Richards, Darowen during the period 1819-31, containing hymns, metrical psalms, 'carolau plygain', etc. by Thomas Jones (Creaton) (at Longnor, 1781), Thomas William (1798), ?Thomas Richards (Darowen) (1819) ('A Gyfiaethwyd o waith Mr. [Ralph] Erskin[e]), John Powel (Llansannan) (1767), Owen Robert(s) (1795), David William [Llandeilo-fach], E[dward] Jones [Maes-y-plwm] (1797), Rowland Hugh (Grienyn), David Richards ('[Dewi] Silin'), David Thomas ['Dafydd Ddu Eryri'], William Jones (Rhos Llanerchrigog), Jonathan Hughes, Walter Davies ['Gwallter Mechain], Evan Evans ['Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'] (1822) and D'd Harries (Darowen) (1831), and anonymous poems.

Extracts, in the hand of Walter Davies, from Cyfrinach Beirdd Ynys Prydain, possibly made from the original draft written by Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg); and notes by Walter Davies entitled 'Sylwadau ar ba Gyhydeddau a Mesurau y canent y prif-feirdd', and based on a study of the earlier Welsh poetry printed in the first volume of The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales.

A transcript, 1819, made by Peter Bayley Williams of Cyfrinach Beirdd Ynys Prydain ... edited by Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg').

A commonplace book containing poetry in English and Welsh composed and transcribed by David Davies; copies of correspondence, testimonials, etc., 1862-1875.

A commonplace book of Cellan, Cardiganshire provenance, containing sermon notes, household and weaving accounts, 1819-24, hymns, 'englynion', medical recipes, Welsh proverbs, etc. The volume was begun in 1791 by Thomas Griffiths, Tynycoed, Cellan.