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A copy of a thesis 'Aspects of the Syntax and Semantics of Selected Prepositions in Modern Welsh: An Integrationalist Study', presented by Daniel Rowe Davis for the degree of DPhil (Oxford, 1994), and submitted for the Legonna Celtic Research Prize, 1998.

The original manuscript of the last portion (ebofni-ennyd) sent to the printer, Walter Spurrell, Carmarthen, of Daniel Silvan Evans's (1818-1903) Welsh-English dictionary. No proof of this portion was submitted to the author.

Sermons notes and hymns, written c. 1819-1820 in the autograph of Daniel Williams, Baptist minister of Soar, Welshpool.

Papers, 1962-1983, of Dannie Abse, comprising autograph and typescript drafts of poems, plays (including a dramatisation of his poem 'Funland', later titled 'Pythagoras'), essays, and television and radio scripts.

1988-1995 purchases:
Literary, editorial and personal correspondence, draft and unpublished poetry, short stories and other works, and miscellaneous papers, 1955-1995; unpublished short stories and articles, articles and essays, reviews, lectures, plays, broadcasts, ghost-writing, miscellaneous prose, and editorials.

October 2000 purchase:
Papers, mainly of a literary nature, of the poet, writer and physician Dannie Abse, comprising material relating to the composition and publication of poetry anthologies and of prose works, including autobiography, novels and anthologies, and to plays and play anthologies; draft and published articles and reviews by Abse, with related correspondence; material relating to Abse's many poetry/prose readings, talks, lectures and workshops; a significant amount of correspondence, largely comprising letters to Abse from Anglo-Welsh, English and American writers; material relating to Abse's television appearances and his contributions to radio programmes and to sound and video recordings; notebook; and miscellaneous items, both relating to Dannie Abse and those of a more general nature.
Together with a small number of papers of or relating to Abse's wife, the writer and art historian Joan Abse.
See Annual Report 1987-88, p. 61, 1992-93, p. 59, 1994-95, p. 59.

January 2005 purchase:
Papers of or relating to poet, writer, playwright and physician Dannie Abse, comprising draft and proof poetry and prose (including plays) and material relating to published poetry and prose works by Dannie Abse; material relating to readings, talks, lectures and workshops presented/co-presented by Dannie Abse; material relating to Dannie Abse's participation in radio and television programmes and in sound and video recordings; material relating to exhibitions showcasing Dannie Abse and his work; printed posters featuring poetry by Dannie Abse or which advertise events featuring Abse; material relating to Joseph Cohen's work The Poetry of Dannie Abse: critical essays and reminiscences (Robson Books, 1983); notebooks of Dannie Abse, containing draft poetry and prose dating from the 1940s onwards; and miscellaneous items, some with direct reference to Dannie Abse and others of more general interest.
Together with a few papers of Joan Abse, wife of Dannie Abse, comprising material relating to Letters from Wales (Seren Books, 2000), edited by Joan Abse, and correspondence to/from Joan Abse. Much of Dannie Abse's correspondence is also addressed to Joan Abse.

December 2022 purchase:
Papers, mostly relating to the literary career of poet, writer and physician Dannie Abse, comprising poetry, prose, plays, articles and reviews, diaries and notebooks, correspondence, accounts and press cuttings. Together with papers of or relating to Abse's wife, the writer and art historian Joan Abse.

Manuscripts, papers and some printed material, 1716-1913, from the library of the Rev. Canon William Prys James Darbyshire-Robert comprising eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century material which includes interludes and poetry by Thomas Williams, Llandygai; a printed Welsh translation, 1716, by Edward Samuel of Hugo Grotius's De veritate religionis christianae (1669); records kept by Owen Thomas, Henllan and a nineteenth century transcript of one of his notebooks; eighteenth and nineteenth century sermons; a volume of autograph poetry by Catherine Jane Prichard ('Buddug'); two volumes, 1913, of fishing tales entitled 'Right Off The Reel!' by Colonel Massey Spencer; together with transcripts of an almanac and herbal, and of poetry, etc.

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).

A manuscript containing transcripts made in 1757 by Evan Thomas (d. 1781), Cwmhwylfod, near Bala, of portions of the historia of Dares Phrygius and of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae; englynion; etc.

Darganfod Bedd Goronwy Owen gan David Lloyd (Maine) - copi yn llaw Isaac Lloyd ('Glan Rhyddallt'). Rhwymiad hanner moroco glas. Rhoddwyd gan Isaac Lloyd ('Glan Rhyddallt'), Llanrug.

Darlith ar 'Erasmus' (1466-1536) gan y Parchedig Herbert Morgan ar gyfer y B.B.C. Rhwng byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan yr Athro R. I. Aaron, Medi 1973.

Darlith ar y Parchedig Tom Nefyn Williams gan John Meredyth Williams. Rhwng byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan Mrs Eiluned Williams, Aberystwyth, Ebrill 1974.

Darlith: Arabedd-Cymraeg gan Evan Williams. (Gynt Evan Williams MS 5.) Mewn byrddau. Prynwyd oddi wrth Mrs M. M. Adams, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Medi 1941.

Darlith: 'Cenhadon Cymreig' gan G. Penar Griffiths. (Gynt Penar Griffiths MS 8.) Rhwymiad o ledr main. Rhoddwyd gan feibion a merched y diweddar Barchedig G. Penar Griffiths, trwy law Miss M. A. Penar Griffiths, Abertawe, Gorffennaf 1942.

Darlith: 'Daniel Owen' gan G. Penar Griffiths. (Gynt Penar Griffiths MS 36.) Papur. Rhoddwyd gan feibion a merched y diweddar Barchedig G. Penar Griffiths, trwy law Miss M. A. Penar Griffiths, Abertawe, Gorffennaf 1942.

Darlith: 'David Livingstone' gan G. Penar Griffiths. (Gynt Penar Griffiths MS 34.) Mewn byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan feibion a merched y diweddar Barchedig G. Penar Griffiths, trwy law Miss M. A. Penar Griffiths, Abertawe, Gorffennaf 1942.

Darlith: 'Deg o'r Diarhebion Cymreig' gan Jane Davies ('Llinos Taf") (1849-1916).. Lledr. Rhoddwyd gan Emrys L. Davies, St Petersburg, Florida, Rhagfyr 1970.

Darlith: 'Emynwyr Cymru' gan G. Penar Griffiths. (Gynt Penar Griffiths MS 11.) Rhwymiad o ledr main. Rhoddwyd gan feibion a merched y diweddar Barchedig G. Penar Griffiths, trwy law Miss M. A. Penar Griffiths, Abertawe, Gorffennaf 1942.

Darlith: 'Fy nghenedl wrth y Gamfa' gan G. Penar Griffiths. (Gynt Penar Griffiths MS 38.) Hanner lledr. Rhoddwyd gan feibion a merched y diweddar Barchedig G. Penar Griffiths, trwy law Miss M. A. Penar Griffiths, Abertawe, Gorffennaf 1942.