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A composite volume, the first portion of which (pp. 1-78, old foliation 1-38), written in the early eighteenth century, contains selections from Flores poetarum, triads, englynion, the divisions of Wales (pp. 29-33), cywyddau, poems in free metre, and an incomplete table of the contents of the latter portion of the volume (pp. 57-59). The second part of the volume (pp. 79-406, old foliation 1-245 with gaps) has been neatly written in two or more hands, one of the seventeenth century and the others of the early eighteenth century. It contains Welsh poems in strict and free metres from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, many of them either of Anglesey interest or written by Anglesey poets, particularly Lewis Môn, Sion Brwynog and John Griffith of Llanddyfnan.
Among miscellaneous items are copies of the Articles of Agreement between the Parliamentary Commissioners and the inhabitants of Anglesey, 1648 (pp. 295-296); Sir Edward Trevor's riddle (p. 312); and a short bardic grammar (pp. 358-362).

Llawysgrif, [17 gan., canol], yn ôl pob tebyg yn llaw William Maurice, Llansilin, yn cynnwys barddoniaeth gaeth Gymraeg, cywyddau gan mwyaf, o waith o leiaf chwech ar hugain o feirdd. = A manuscript, [mid-17 cent.], probably in the hand of William Maurice, Llansilin, containing Welsh strict-metre poetry, mostly cywyddau, by at least twenty-six poets.
Priodolir y cerddi i'r beirdd canlynol: Tho[mas] Prys (ff. 1, 8-9), Y Meister Sion Tudur (f. 1 recto-verso), Sr. Gruffydd Owen (ff. 1 verso-2 verso, 5 verso-6 verso, 10 recto-verso, 24 verso-25), y Bedo Brwynllys (ff. 2 verso-3), Bedo Aryrddrem (ff. 3, 21 verso, 26), Huw Arwystli (ff. 3 recto-verso, 26-27), Rys Cain (f. 4 recto-verso), Morys Dwyfech (ff. 5 recto-verso, 25-26), Sion Phylip (ff. 6 verso-7), Sr Dafydd Owain (ff. 7 verso-8), W[illia]m llŷn (ff. 9 recto-verso, 12 verso-13), Sr Phylip Emlyn (ff. 10 verso-11), Ifan Dyfi (ff. 11-12), Dafydd ap Gwilim (ff. 12 recto-verso, 16, 17 verso-18, 20-21, 27 recto-verso, 28-29 verso, 30 verso), Sion Cain (ff. 13 verso-14), y Meistr Hughe Machno (ff. 14-15), Einion ab Gwalchmai (f. 15 verso), Sion Mowddwy (f. 16 verso), Tudur Aled (f. 17 recto-verso), Dafydd ap Edmwnt (ff. 18 verso-19), Dafydd Nanmor (f. 19 recto-verso), Gwillim tew brydydd (ff. 19 verso-20), Lewis Môn (f. 21), William Cynwal (ff. 21 verso-23, 24), 'Mr Roberts or tu hwnt ir môr' [Dr Gruffydd Robert, Milan] (ff. 23 verso-24) a Simwnt Vychan (ff. 27 verso-28, 30). Mae ambell i gerdd yn ddienw (ff. 4 verso-5, 7 recto-verso, 16, 18 recto-verso, 22 recto-verso). Mae yna nodiadau o ramadeg barddol, yn trafod yr englyn unodl union a'r englyn unodl cyrch, ar f. 30. Ceir nodiadau yma ac acw, mewn llaw o'r ddeunawfed ganrif, yn awgrymu dyddiadau blodeuo'r beirdd (e.e. f. 3: '1500 medd Thomas Richards'); daw y rhain o restr yn Thomas Richards, Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Thesaurus... (Bryste, 1753). = The poems are attributed to the following: Tho[mas] Prys (ff. 1, 8-9), Y Meister Sion Tudur (f. 1 recto-verso), Sr. Gruffydd Owen (ff. 1 verso-2 verso, 5 verso-6 verso, 10 recto-verso, 24 verso-25), y Bedo Brwynllys (ff. 2 verso-3), Bedo Aryrddrem (ff. 3, 21 verso, 26), Huw Arwystli (ff. 3 recto-verso, 26-27), Rys Cain (f. 4 recto-verso), Morys Dwyfech (ff. 5 recto-verso, 25-26), Sion Phylip (ff. 6 verso-7), Sr Dafydd Owain (ff. 7 verso-8), W[illia]m llŷn (ff. 9 recto-verso, 12 verso-13), Sr Phylip Emlyn (ff. 10 verso-11), Ifan Dyfi (ff. 11-12), Dafydd ap Gwilim (ff. 12 recto-verso, 16, 17 verso-18, 20-21, 27 recto-verso, 28-29 verso, 30 verso), Sion Cain (ff. 13 verso-14), y Meistr Hughe Machno (ff. 14-15), Einion ab Gwalchmai (f. 15 verso), Sion Mowddwy (f. 16 verso), Tudur Aled (f. 17 recto-verso), Dafydd ap Edmwnt (ff. 18 verso-19), Dafydd Nanmor (f. 19 recto-verso), Gwillim tew brydydd (ff. 19 verso-20), Lewis Môn (f. 21), William Cynwal (ff. 21 verso-23, 24), 'Mr Roberts or tu hwnt ir môr' [Dr Gruffydd Robert, Milan] (ff. 23 verso-24) and Simwnt Vychan (ff. 27 verso-28, 30). A few further poems are anonymous (ff. 4 verso-5, 7 recto-verso, 16, 18 recto-verso, 22 recto-verso). There are notes from a bardic grammar, discussing the 'englyn unodl union' and the 'englyn unodl cyrch', on f. 30. Notes added here and there, in an eighteenth-century hand, give suggested floruit dates for the poets (e.g. f. 3: '1500 medd Thomas Richards'); these are taken from a list in Thomas Richards, Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Thesaurus... (Bristol, 1753).