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Hymn- and psalm-tunes, anthems, etc., some of them with Welsh words.

Music manuscript, 'Sacred Gleanings' by J. J. Dodd, Tunbridge, [c.1840], containing hymns and songs e.g. 'Here Shall Soft Charity'; some with lyrics included and written under the scores.

Sacred Criticism by C. N. Davies, transcribed, with notes, by Evan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd'). English. Calf. Donated from the library of the Reverend D. Eurof Walters, M.A., B.D., per Mrs Walters, May 1952.

Papers, pedigrees, and research notes relating to the history of Welsh ponies and cobs, along with numerous horse and pony sale catalogues ranging from the 1970s to the 1990s. Also included is a large volume containing detailed pedigrees (ii); July 2019.
A copy of the second volume of the Welsh Pony and Cob Stud Book; July 2024.

The Epistles of St Paul, with marginal and interlineal glosses and notes, and genealogical tables.

A typewritten copy of 'Casgliad o Gyfarwyddiadau i wneuthur Hen Fwydydd Nodweddiadol Gymreig' compiled by Mati Thomas ('Mati'r Ddôl'), Blaenwinllan, Nanternis, Cardiganshire, and awarded the prize at the National Eisteddfod at Treorchy, 1928.

A supplementary volume to 'The Story of the War as seen at Ruthin' by R. J. Edwards (see MS. 4837), containing an account of Ruthin during 1924-5.

Some one hundred and seventy-five original poems by Ruth Bidgood, 1966-2011, mostly typescript, some are emended and a few are in manuscript (ff. 208, 212, 214, 216-217, 219).
The majority of the poems have appeared in various periodicals, as recorded by the author on the individual folios. A few only have subsequently been published in collections, including 'Cwm Pennant' (ff. 132-133) and 'Encounters with Angels' (ff. 195-201) in Symbols of Plenty (Norwich, 2006), 'Complaints' (ff. 66-71, 187-189) and 'Bringing Home the Bride' (ff. 169-170) in Hearing Voices (Blaenau Ffestiniog, 2008), and a revised version of 'Reading a Landscape' (ff. 177-181) in Time Being (Bridgend, 2009). 'The Zombie-makers' (f. 38) and 'Brianne 1970' (f. 42) were first published in Matthew Jarvis, Ruth Bidgood (Cardiff, 2012), pp. 133-134. There are multiple copies or drafts of some poems, including 'Complaints' (ff. 66-71, 187-189), 'Summerers' (ff. 129, 152), 'Apparition' (ff. 171, 208), 'Reading a Landscape' (ff. 177-181), 'Windblow' (ff. 182, 218-219), 'Elan in Autumn' (ff. 193, 213-217) and 'Looms' (ff. 194, 210). A list of contents (for ff. 1-194) in the hand of the author is ff. i-ii; the order has subsequently been revised by her. Since the author usually disposed of typescripts once the poems had been collected, this volume includes rare examples of her work.

Welsh, English. Between boards. Donated by Miss Eluned Davies, Lampeter, January 1970.

Rules of the Compagnia di S. Stefano Protomartire al Fornello, approved by the bishop of Fiesole in 1707, with certificates of visitations, 1713-1761.

Rule-book of an excise-officer. It may have belonged to a certain David Lewis, who served at Halifax and Nuneaton. (Formerly Bob Owen MS.) English. Suede. Purchased from Bob Owen, Croesor, June 1959.

The English version of the Rule of the Third Order of St Francis 'for the Brethren and Susters of the order of Penitentis' (ff. 2-15v). The Latin version was first composed in 1221. The text is printed from this MS by W. W. Seton, Two Fifteenth-century Franciscan Rules, Early English Text Society, OS, 148 (1914). An identical text was printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1510 (STC 19596), see W. Marx, The Index of Middle English Prose. Handlist XIV (Cambridge, 1999), p. 18. Written in good bastard secretary script. Added, contemporarily, in similar script, on ff. 15v-17: 'Beatus Franciscus. De tercio eciam ordine. Beatus Franciscus produxit multos flores ', an account of notable members of the Third Order, including those canonized and beatified, also printed by Seton, pp. 55-7. This text derives from the twenty-seventh sermon of Bernardine de Bustis, Rosarium sermonum predicabilium; the sermon cannot date from before c. 1475. On ff. 18-19, indication of the prayers to be said at matins and compline (corresponding to the instructions in chapter 11 of the Rule), with facing full-page miniatures; those for the five intervening hours are missing, no doubt cut out for the sake of their miniatures. Three full-page miniatures survive, of mediocre quality, in arched frames with borders of foliage and flowers: on f. 1v, St Francis receiving the stigmata; f. 17v, the arrest of Jesus in the garden; and f. 18v, Christ before Pilate. There are illuminated initials, that for the added text on f. 15v with good marginal floriation. Folios 9v and 15v are reproduced by Seton.

A bookplate from a book presented by the National Library of Wales to the Education Department (Celtic Section) at Ruhleben Camp, Germany, 1915, for the use of Welsh civilian prisoners interned there.

A small collection of programmes and tickets for Wales rugby matches against England, Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand, 1924-1955.

A typescript pedigree of the Rubincam family of Green Meadows, Maryland, USA, compiled, 1954, by Milton Rubincam in the form of an 'ahnentafel' or table of ancestors (ff. 1-28).
The table records sixteen generations of the Rubincam family, from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, and is accompanied by notes (ff. 28-33) and an index (ff. 34-38). A few ancestors are of Welsh origin (see f. 7).

Minute book, April 1893-October 1913, of the Aberystwyth sub-branch of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Besides minutes of meetings, 1892-1913, the volume includes routine diary entries and reports on incidents of animal cruelty, 1895-1901 (ff. 20-95 passim), press cuttings, 1893-1900 (ff. 12 verso, 14, 17, 41, 44, 46 verso-47, 68 verso, 86, 90), letters, 1893, and copy letters, 1893-1901 (ff. 2 recto-verso, 21 recto-verso, 42, 62 verso-65, 76 verso-77, 81, 88 verso, 95 verso-96), and printed circulars, 1893-1894 (ff. 9 verso, 15 verso).

A copy of the donor's autobiography describing his experiences as a prisoner of war in camps in Singapore, Thailand and Japan, 1942-1945.