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Meddygon Myddfai: Collation of B.M. Addl 14912 by Sir H. I. Bell. English, Welsh. In boards. Sourced from Sir H. Idris Bell, April 1950.

Medical recipes and prescriptions bound with four pamphlets, namely Herbal, neu Lysieu-Lyfr ... Wedi eu casglu allan o waith N. Culpeper, ... Gan D. T. Jones (Caernarfon, 1816-1817), in three parts, and Drych i Ddwfr Cleifion ... (Caerfyrddin, 1765).

A manuscript entitled A Kalender of All ye Names of Mayors, Bayliffs, and Sheriffs of the County Burrough of Carmarthen from ye year of our Lord god 1400, the calendar being continued up to the year 1719.

A copy of a thesis 'Secular and Clerical Images of Kingship in early Christian Ireland and early Buddhist India' presented by Dr Maxim Fomin for the degree of Ph.D. (Cork, 2003), and submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 2003, together with an article by Maxim Fomin entitled The Early Medieval Irish and Indic Polities and the Concept of Righteous Ruler printed in Cosmos 15 (163-197), 1999.

A Latin prize poem entitled Thamesis written in 1768 by Matthew Lewis when he was at Christ Church, Oxford, together with a letter written by him from the War Office in 1798, when he was deputy secretary-at-war, to George, fourth viscount and first marquis Townshend (1724-1807), with reference to the appointment of Lieutenant William Stalland as Pay Master. Matthew Lewis was the father of Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), author of Ambrosio, or the Monk.

A holograph letter from Mat[thew] Henry [Presbyterian minister and author], from Chester, to [ ], 1694 (the illness and death of recipient's son, who appears to have been resident in the writer's home, and his burial in the chancel of St. Bridget's church [Chester], a visit paid by the writer's father [Philip Henry, Presbyterian minister and diarist], 'an aged min[ister] in the Country some miles off', to the writer's home, during the deceased's illness, and a sermon preached by him prior to the funeral) (mutilated); and a holograph letter from T[homas] Pennant [naturalist and author], from Bychton [co. Flint], to the Rev[eren]d Mr. [William] Borlase [rector of] Ludgvan, Cornwal, 1763 (points of ornithological interest, the preservation of birds, a request for information about seals).

Mathew of Llandaff, St. Kew and the Leeward's lands. English. (Formerly E. M. Bishop MS 10.) Marbled paper. Donated by Alwyn Andrew, Liverpool, 1945. [n.d.].

Mathematical notes and problems copied by John Owens, Rhippinllwyd, parish of Llandygwydd, co. Cardigan, 1836, including a plan of the solar system (f. 156) and calligraphic decoration.

Notebook, 1842-1853, of Thomas Williams, Felin-fach, Pumsaint, afterwards of Talley, co. Carmarthen, surveyor, and schoolmaster at Cwmdwr (Llanwrda), and Gwynfe, containing memoranda relating to rates, etc. in the parish of Talley; mathematical exercises; accounts, with names of pupils, relating to schools at ?Salem (Llandeilo) and Llan-crwys (inverted text ff. 72, 75 verso-6); and miscellaneous notes.

Materials for 'The History of the Baptist Churches in Wales' by Joshua Thomas. See also NLW MS 21160C. English. 1/4 leather. Purchased from Bristol Baptist College, February 1996.

Materials for an English dictionary. (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 2.) English. Vellum. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

Materials for a History of English Lexicography by Howell Lloyd Davies. (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 18.) English. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

Materials for a Fauna and Flora of Swansea by L. W. Dillwyn, with MS notes by E. Vachell. Latin, English. (Formerly Printed Books C14791.).

Material, mostly printed, assembled by the late Reverend W Lliedi Williams, relating to Dr Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960), the Japanese evangelist, and including two photographs of Dr Kagawa and a copy of a circular letter from his widow containing an account of his death and funeral.

Material, including acts, agreements, etc, relating to the Taff Vale Railway Co. English. Between boards. Purchased from Peter Eaton (Booksellers) Ltd, April 1967.

Material towards an ecclesiastical history of Cardiganshire compiled by H. Tobit Evans. English. Boards. Purchased from Mrs G. Tobit Huws, July 1968.

A collection of newspaper cuttings relating to the history of the poet Will Hopkyn and the maid from Cefn Ydfa, accumulated by the donor's grandfather, together with cuttings and letters relating to the Neath area, and a poster regarding the life and career of Dr Wm Price, Llantrisant.

'A copy of The Terrier of Trefeglwys Parish' made in 1776; notes on Trefeglwys charities; extracts from Trefeglwys wills, including that of Richard Wilson of Bwlchyllyn (1713-1782), 17[8]2; etc.

Material relating to the Vaughan family by J. J. Howard. (Formerly Llanmaes MS 125.) English. 3/4 vellum. Purchased from E. P. W. Nicholl, Llanmaes House, Glamorganshire, 1939-1940.