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Extracts, in Latin, from Liber Landavensis (the Book of Llandaff, NLW MS 17110E), transcribed by a hand of the mid sixteenth century. The transcripts consist mostly of charters, either in full or as brief extracts (ff. 2-6, 10-36 verso).

A volume containing a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniæ in the vulgate text, written in small textura probably, despite some appearances, by one hand (Acton Griscom saw three or four; see Griscom (1929), p. 35) of the late thirteenth century. It was written in England or perhaps in Wales; the late use of green in the penwork and the dark shade of the blue, almost blue-green, are reminiscent of contemporary Welsh manuscripts.
Two poems in French have been added on ff. 86 verso-88. Punctuation is by point and punctus elevatus. Ink, brown. A six-line initial on f. 1 of parti-coloured red and blue, elsewhere, alternate red and blue two-line initials for chapters. All initials are accompanied by elaborate penwork, fern and foliage motifs in red and green, varying from half to full column height. The penwork is much cropped at all edges. Chapter headings (whose hand suggests that the scribe may also have been the rubricator) are in red, line-fillers in red and initials within the text touched in red. In the margin of f. 39, partly cropped, is a competent drawing of Merlin in red, apparently by the rubricator. In the margins of ff. 10 and 42 are ink profiles of faces, apparently by the scribe. Some words on f. 1 have been retraced in blacker ink.

A lawyer's cause book containing memoranda, in Latin and English, relating to pleas heard, 1626-1636, in various courts, most notably Chancery, Star Chamber and the Exchequer, mainly originating in Monmouthshire, Herefordshire, London, Glamorgan and Breconshire, with a few from Shropshire, Bristol, Gloucester and Carmarthen, most of the parties' names being Welsh.

Notes in Latin on natural philosophy, [17 cent., first ¼], by an unidentified scribe.
They include notes drawn from Johannes Magirus, Physiologiae Peripateticae libri sex (London, 1618, ESTC S911) (ff. 3 verso-42 verso).

A composite volume in two sections, the first, [15 cent., first ¼ (after 1401)] (ff. 1-18), containing the Anglo-Norman treatise on Seneschaucy (ff. 4-7), Walter of Henley's treatise on husbandry in Anglo-Norman (ff. 7-10), and various legal texts (ff. 1-4, 10-18 verso); the second, [14 cent, first ½], a defective copy of an unidentified Latin text on vaticination (ff. 19-24). The two sections were probably not bound together until after 1837.
Section i is written by a single hand, in anglicana, in uniform script in pale ink, apart from f. 18 verso, which was evidently filled later by the same hand. Section ii is written in anglicana by a single hand of the first half of the fourteenth century, in brown ink. There is no rubrication. The scribe exaggerates ascenders in top lines and decorates them with profile heads. There are six stabmarks in the inner margin.

A Latin treatise on universal philosophy, [c. 1590], attributed to R. D. Arrowsmith (f. 1), whose identity has not been further established: 'Tractatus In vniuersam Philosophiam prolectore R. D. Arosmitheo Incipiunt Prolegomina in eadem die mensis Januar[ii] 29' ('1590' added by another hand). First line, 'Philosophiæ: nomine præstantissima rerum omnium cognomine ...'; last line, '... mensurari tempore eas tamen operationes anime separatæ mensurari pronunc temporis discreti' (ff. 1-357 verso).
Marginal glosses have been added by the scribe and another hand of similar date, including the following: 'men are false and so are you/neuer nature fram[']d a creature/to enjoy and then proue true', [17 cent., first ½] (f. 137).