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A volume of collections of poems by Lewys Dwnn probably made up after his death. Lewys Dwnn customarily made retrospective copies of his own poems and usually gave their dates; he is explicit in his subscription on p. 402, dated 1607. The apparent constituent parts are six. Many leaves are damaged at their edges.
(i) pp. 1-72. Poems by Lewys Dwnn, mostly cywyddau, for the most part dated 1600-7, one as early as 1590, all probably written about 1607, together with copies of a few other cywyddau of [15 cent.], all in the hand of Lewys Dwnn.
(ii) pp. 73-432. Poems by Lewys Dwnn dated 1599-1603, a few dated 1577-83, all probably copied c. 1603, with a few cywyddau by others, of [14-16 cent.], and on pp. 231-40 ‘Ymddiddan Tristan ac Esyllt’ [printed in Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, 5 (1929-31), 115-29]. Written by Lewys Dwnn (pp. 80-6, 91-9, etc.) with the help of perhaps five amanuenses: A, probably the young James Dwnn (pp. 73-80); B, the main helper (pp. 87-91, 100-6, 115-26, etc.); C (pp. 136-40, 187-94); D (pp. 195-7). Many poems copied by the amanuenses are signed by Lewys Dwnn himself.
(iii) pp. 433-46. Poems by Lewys Dwnn dated 1614-16, all autograph, his hand tremulous.
(iv) pp. 447-506. Poems by Lewys Dwnn dated 1601-4, with two earlier, 1590 and 1592, all probably written c. 1604, autograph except for pp. 491-5 (by Dwnn’s amanuensis, apparently James Dwnn).
(v) pp. 507-616. Poems by Lewys Dwnn dated 1568-84, in his early hand, all probably written c. 1584, headings in red.
(vi) pp. 617-90. Poems by Lewys Dwnn dated 1604-5, all autograph except for pp. 649-58, which are written by a good collaborating secretary hand; one poem dated 1607 (pp. 689-90).

The manuscript is in two parts. The first contains an English poem entitled 'Faction Display'd', temp. Queen Anne; an account of the Vaughan family of Corsygedol mainly transcribed by Angharad Llwyd, with an original rental of the Corsygedol estate, 1637; a transcript by W. W. E. Wynne of Powell of Ednope's 'Pentarchia' from a manuscript at Brogyntyn, with a letter by the Rev. Robert Williams, Rhydycroesau. The second part comprises a booklet of extracts from a manuscript at Porkington (now Brogyntyn MS 14) in the hand of Lewis Anwyl relating to the families of Anwyl of Park and Owen of Porkington and Clenennau. Peniarth MS 440ii was published by W. W. E. Wynne in Montgomeryshire Collections Vol. IX (1876), pp. 357-64.

Transcripts of letters written by Mrs Elizabeth Baker, 1779-1797; extracts from newspapers relating to political events, 1795-1797; and lists of presents received by Mrs Baker, 1798-1799.

A transcript of a sermon 'preached in the anniversarie ecequies of the L[ady] V[enetia] Digbye, the 2d of Maye 1634'.

A treatise on the use of the globes, in the same hand as the treatise in Peniarth MS 421C.

A fully-indexed collection of culinary and medicinal recipes made by Madam Sidney Wynne of Melai, 1715.
A number of dried ferns and leaves which had been placed in the book are now in sixteen separate envelopes.

A collection of culinary recipes.

A catalogue of the books and manuscripts at Hengwrt, being a fair copy of Richard Llwyd's catalogue.

A transcript of Peniarth MS 534, made in 1842.

Miscellaneous notes by Richard Lloyd ('Bard of Snowdon') on history, genealogy, bibliography, etc.; together with a letter, dated 10 July 1871, from E. G. Salisbury, Chester to W. W. E. Wynne (f. 161).

Another copy of W. W. E. Wynne's 'Catalogue of the Hengwrt MSS at Peniarth' (see Peniarth MS 554), with the revised Peniarth manuscript numbers written in the margins and some additional entries by J. Gwenogvryn Evans, 1861-1902.

A printed map of the railway network in England and Wales, [c. 1864].

A printer's copy in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne of part of his 'Catalogue of the Hengwrt MSS. at Peniarth', which was published in Archaeologia Cambrensis 3rd series, vol. XV (1869), pp. 209-25, 352-78; 4th series, vol. I, pp. 73-100 (see Peniarth MSS 554-555); together with a letter, dated 21 July 1869, from W. W. E. Wynne to the editor of the Archaeologia Cambrensis (f. 73), and three letters, dated 7 May - 15 August 1869, from Robert Williams, Rhydycroesau, Oswestry to W. W. E. Wynne concerning the proof-reading of the text (ff. 74-6).

A volume containing an alphabetical index of personal and place names in Peniarth MS 456 (Ancient Peniarth MS 58), vol. 2 (not in NLW).
'Index to Peniarth MS 58. vols 2 ... WWEW. Peniarth Nov'r 1st 1871' on f. 1 verso.

A collection of pedigrees made by Edward Davies of Rhiwlas, Llansilin (signatures, some in legal script, are on, e.g., pp. 267, 286, 289, 290). The pedigrees, set out in narrative form, are mainly of local interest. Edward Davies is the primary hand, a variable one, of pp. 23-6, 35-6, 45-50, 55-62 and 71-298. On pp. 133-4, 283-5 and 291-2 he copied cywyddau, an englyn and a cerdd rydd, of [16-17 cent.], and in his later hand added two Llywarch Hen englynion on p. 233. He was writing in 1640-1 (pp. 267, 288) and appears by 1641 to have written much of the manuscript ('rhyfedi dolene y llyfer yma ydiw un a deigain ... 1641', p. 292). Characteristic of his later additions, including ones dated 1646 (pp. 200, 201), 1663 (p. 126) and 1670 (p. 47), is ink of an orange shade. On p. 267 he cites as a source ‘Llyfr Lewys Gwynn vicar Llanrhaidr y Mochnant’ [Lewis Gwynn(e), vicar 1616–25, cf. BL Add. 9867]. Another hand, also in 1641, added ‘Iach Llwydied Llwynymaen’ on pp. 51–4. The title ‘Llyvyr Edward ap Davydd’ [see RMWL] was probably taken from the cover of ‘old limp vellum’, no longer preserved. On pp. 310–11 a neat hand of [17 cent., second ½] added the pedigree of Richard earl of Carbery. Another, writing in 1685 (see pp. 11, 16), made substantial additions to the manuscript, notably of Kynaston pedigrees, with new foliation, and on pp. 1–4 an index of names of abodes. This hand wrote, e.g., pp. 7–23, 299–309 and 313–16, besides making other additions. Further additions were made throughout by John Davies of Rhiwlas (son of Edward) (pp. 4–6, 29–34, 37–44, etc., one on p. 41 dated 1698).

A version of the Laws of Hywel Dda by a single scribe dating from the first half of the 14th century.
The manuscript has an ornamental bordering enclosing the writing on the first page, which is unusual in Welsh manuscripts.