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A volume of armorials, blazons and accompanying notes, 1890-1894, compiled by D. Griffith Davies, relating mainly to Welsh tribes and families.
These include arms of Gwynedd (f. 10), the Five Royal Tribes of Wales (ff. 11-15), the Fifteen Tribes of North Wales (ff. 16-31), the four Welsh Sees (ff. 32-35), chieftains of North Wales and Powys (ff. 35 verso-79) and of South Wales (ff. 80-95) and miscellaneous arms (ff. 88 verso-115, inverted text on versos). Many of the arms (ff. 61-114) are copied from 'Hengwrt MSS No. 395'. The armorials to f. 57 are mostly fully painted, thereafter mostly unpainted. The volume also includes notes taken from F. Edward Hulme, History of Symbolism in Christian Art (London, 1891) (ff. 1-8 verso) and archaeological notes and sketches relating to churches and other antiquities in Anglesey (ff. 117-131 verso).

Manuscripts of D. Griffith Davies, 1887-1894, comprising archaeological notes and heraldic notes and sketches.

Notebook containing archaeological notes, 1887-1894, by D. Griffith Davies relating to Caernarvonshire and Anglesey and to Ireland.
The notes are accompanied by sketches, photographs, plans and rubbings and record details of churches, cathedrals, abbeys, stones, wells, Roman antiquities and other sites and artefacts. Many entries have references to relevant articles in Archaeologia Cambrensis, some accompanied by transcripts. The Irish entries (pp. 95-124) relate mostly to Counties Clare, Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary and were compiled during a trip in August 1891. A few pages of notes relating to Flintshire (pp. 176, 178-9, 181) were compiled for the Cambrian Archaeological Association's 1890 annual meeting. Various items are pasted in, including 12 letters on antiquarian matters, 1887-[1894].