A miscellany of prose and verse, collected and copied, in part, by Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn), editor of Ceinion Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, from various printed and manuscript sources. It contains notes on customs and folk-lore, a pryddest entitled 'Golygdrem o ben Bryn Cae Mawr, Penmachno', by Owen Gethin Jones, englynion and cywyddau by many of the earlier bards together with some by Edward Morus and Owen Gruffydd; extracts from the 'Iolo Manuscripts', from Celtic Remains by Lewis Morris, and from the works of Thomas Pennant, triads, pedigrees of North Wales families, letters from Goronwy Owen to William and Richard Morris, etc.

Transcripts by Walter Davies of elegiac englynion by various authors on the death of David Owen (Dewi Wyn of Eifion), englynion eulogising Edward Mostyn Lloyd Mostyn, pedigrees and genealogical notes, replies to queries sent by Lady Charlotte Guest, letters, etc.

Transcripts of a letter from 'Mr Kinaston o Bant y Byrsley', a letter from Robert Vaughan (Hengwrt) to 'Mr Kinaston' a table of tolls payable by the inhabitants of the townships of Measbury, Sweeney, Llanforda, Treflech, Trefychlawdd, Weston, Cotton, and Soughton, and by 'forrinors' at Oswestry fairs [1608], Trioedd Taliesin, fragments of early British history and genealogy, and englynion by Huw Morus, Richard Abraham, Syr Lewis, etc.

A manuscript containing a cywydd, an awdl dychan and an englyn by Rhys Jones, Y Blaenau, Llanfachreth, near Dolgellau.

Press cuttings, including copies of 'Englynion ar farwolaeth ... John Jenkins ...' by Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion) and 'Galarnad Dafydd am ei fab Absalom' by Walter Davies.

A manuscript containing pedigrees, mainly of North Wales families; cywyddau, englynion and some English poetry; a rental, 1636, of lands in Flintshire and Denbighshire; prayers; legal memoranda; etc.

A manuscript containing a transcript of Henry Perry and William Salesbury: Eglvryn Phraethineb (London, 1595), with marginalia and short poems; cywyddau, englynion and other poetry; miscellaneous extracts; miscellanea mainly in the hand of John Lloyd (1733-1793), Caerwys (father of Angharad Llwyd); a pedigree of the Pennant family; numerous culinary and medical recipes; an essay by Angharad Llwyd (1780-1866) on Welsh genealogies.

'Englynion' by Walter Davies and others; adjudications by him on 'englynion coffa' upon the death of Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris) and David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion) and on other poetic compositions; and extracts by Walter Davies from William Buckland: Reliquiae Diluvianae ... (London, 1824).

Three volumes of transcripts and notes made by Walter Davies, including extracts relating to the history, language, topography, and archaeology of Wales, 'englynion' and other poems, extracts from the Bible, etc.

Collections of medical recipes and miscellaneous items, including copies of a prophecy by Merlinus de Albania concerning the six last kings of England, and the second prophecy of Mother Shipton; 'Rheolau ynghylch Llafuriaeth neu Hwsmonaeth'; 'gwers i stopio gwaed, 1634'; verses beginning 'Drwy fy ngwsyg i rwi yn dy weled'; a fragment of a 'cywydd brud' beginning 'Breuddwydion beir a ovdwyd'; 'englynion'; a sheet out of a pedigree manuscript containing also four lines of a 'cywydd' by Richard Kynwal, and a return of land tax for the township of Cynlas, 1766.

Three music books bought by Isaac Williams 'of Mr. Parry, Relieving Officer, Dolgellau, Sept. 1903' and bound together into a single volume. They contain hymn-tunes, anthems and psalm-tunes, mainly by John Williams, Dolgellau, with a few tunes by R[ichard] Mills ['Rhydderch Hael'], one by I. R. Ellis, Dolgellau, 1841, and traditional and anonymous tunes; a poem entitled 'Amgylchiadau Marwolaeth Crist', an 'englyn' ('Y Farchnad Ysprydol'), 'englynion' by 'Shion Rhydderch', three hymns ('Mae'r gwaed a redodd ar y Groes', 7 stanzas, and 'Wrth edrych ar y sail', 4 stanzas, 'Ni'm diystyrir gan fy Nuw', 1 stanza), and a recipe for a cough.

'Llyfr Ystrad Alun', containing (a) items in prose, (b) a very large number of 'cywyddau', 'awdlau', 'englynion', and 'carolau' or 'cerddi', and (c) some poems in English. --
(a) The prose items are 'Araith Wgan', 'Addysg rhifyddiaeth, yr hon ddengys rhifedi or ddaiar hyd y lleuad, or lleuad hyd yr haul, or haul hyd y Nefoedd, or nefoedd hyd vffern a lled a thewdwr y ddaear i bob ffordd', 'Dyna fal i mae y saith blaened yn Raenio yn gyntaf Satarnus, Jupiter, Mars, Sol, Venus, Mercurius a Luna...', and 'Breuddwyd Gronwy ddu'. -- (b) Among the poets represented are Sion Phylip, Raff ap Robert, Morgan ap Hughe Lewis, Edmwnd Prys, Wiliam Cynwal, Wiliam Phylip, Thomas Llywelyn, Dafydd Llwyd, Sion Cent, Sion Tudur, Hwmffre Dafydd ab Ieuan, Gruffudd Gryg, Thomas Prys, Dafydd Vaughan (alias Dafydd ab Ieuan), Huw Llwyd Cynfal, Huw Morus, Sion Ifan Clywedog, Maredudd ap Rhys, Hywel Swrdwal, Sion Brwynog, Dafydd Nanmor, Iolo Goch, Owain Gwynedd, Ieuan Brydydd Hir, Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Llewelyn Fychan, Huw Arwystli, Gruffudd ab yr Ynad Coch, Ieuan ap Rhydderch ab Ieuan Llwyd, Robin Clidro, Harri Hywel, Taliesin, Dafydd ab Edmwnd, Guto'r Glyn, Rhys Goch Eryri, Gruffudd ap Dafydd Fychan, Tudur Aled, Bedo Brwynllys, Wiliam Llyn, Rhys Cain, Gutun Owain, Dafydd Gorlech, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Llywelyn ab Owain, Robin Ddu, Hywel Rheinallt, Ieuan Dyfi, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Gwerful vch Hywel Fychan, Rhys ap Harri, Mathew Owain, Dafydd Humphreys, J. Jones, Gruffydd James, Syr Hughe Heiward, Hopcyn Thomas ('O Llanelli'), Thomas Rowland, Wil Watkin Ju., Han Edward Morus, Wiliam Siencyn, Ifan ap Sion, Lewis Dwnn, Robin Dyfi, Ifan ap Cadwaladr, Sion Morgan, Lewis Gwynne, Tomos ab Han Sion, Sion Scrifen, Wiliam Dafydd, Rees Prees, Owen Edward, Oliver Rogers, Dafydd Manuel, Richard Abram, Rowland Vaughan, James Dwnn, Robert Lloyd, etc. -- (c) The English items include 'A Christmas Carol' by D. H., 'Agony of or Saviors birth' by J. Jones, 'A Confession of a sinner', 'The prayer of a sinner at the hour of death', 'An effectuall prayer for grace, mercy and forgiveness of sins', 'The dying teares of a penitent sinner', 'Queene Elizabeths delight', 'The Horny booke' by John Scriven, 'A lover departure' by D. ff. Two poems by Dafydd Vaughan, 'Gwir gariad' and ['Camgymeriad'], have stanzas in English and Welsh alternately, the Welsh following the English. -- As so many of the poems in the manuscript are by Dafydd Vaughan he may possibly have been the scribe. The volume has annotations by Walter Davies ('Gwallter Mechain') who has designated it 'Llyfr Ystrad Alun' and who transcribed some poems from it - see NLW MS 1658.

Pedigrees of Welsh families, with additions in the hands of John Davies, Rhiwlas, Llansilin, and Walter Davies; memoranda relating to members of the family of Foulkes, Penygraig, Llansilin; englynion and other poems by Elin Foulkes, Richard Foulkes, Huw Morus, Elis Cadwaladr, Sion Morus, Mathew Owen, Morys Dafydd, Sion Cadwaladr Owen, Richard Parry (Athraw ysgol yn Roe Newbrough yn Sir Fon), Huw Llwyd Cynfal, Ellis Roberts (Elis y Cowper), Hari Howel, and Robert Humphreys (Robin Rhagad); and Pymtheg Llwyth Gwynedd.

A commonplace book kept by Owen containing hymns, 'englynion' and other poems, specimens of different types of handwriting, and miscellaneous transcripts and notes.

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'.

'Carolau', 'cerddi', 'cywyddau', and a few 'englynion', most of them transcribed by John Beans. Among the poets represented are Huw Morus, Edward Morus, Ellis Cadwaladr, Edward Samuel, Robert Hwmffres, Dafydd Morus, Gruffudd Edward, Mathew Owen, Robert Sion Owen, Ellis Rowland, Edward Rowland, William Roberts, Jonathan Hughes, William Thomas, Richard Abraham, Cadwaladr Roberts, Ned Lloyd ('o'r Bala'), Thomas William, Evan Thomas, Ellis Roberts, Arthur Jones ('o Langadwaladr'), John Jones, John Parry, Dafydd Puw Rowland, John Hughes, Ellis Roberts ('Elis y Cowper'), Morus Roberts, John Evans, Ellis ab Ellis, Thomas Jones, Derwas Griffiths, Rowland Hughes, Sion Hwmffre, Hugh Jones (Llangwm), John Cadwaladr ('o'r Bala gunt and ynawr athraw ysgol yn Llangwm'), - Lewis ('curad Cerrig y Drudion'), Lewis Morris ('Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn), Sion Tudur, Wiliam Phylip, John Davies ('Sion Dafydd Las'), Maredudd ap Rhys, etc.

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

'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.

Journal of Rev. Henry Richard concerning a tour in North Wales, October [1847] (watermark 1842).
The volume comprises a diary kept during a week of sightseeing and preaching, travelling from Bala, Merioneth, to Llandudno, Caernarvonshire (ff. 4-9 verso), and including a copy of an englyn by an unknown author (possibly Richard himself) (f. 8), together with notes for sermons on Biblical texts which were probably delivered during the tour (ff. 10-26 verso, inverted text).

Notebook of Joseph Jenkins, [1869]-1887, containing his poems including 'The Swagman's Complaint', 'Our Age is only a Race for Life', Victoria, 1871; englyn 'Y ddanod' (toothache); two verses which he composed on the request of his daughter Elinor to commemorate his two sons Jenkin and Lewis who died in their twenties; verses to congratulate Caradog and his choir on their success in 1873; a poem in memory of his friend Ioan Mynyw [John Lewis], 1873; a number of poems written by him as a patient in Maryborough Hospital, 1874, and on leaving; and four lines, 1887, written after the death of his daughter Margaret in 1883.