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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
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Barddoniaeth,

A composite volume of the second quarter of the eighteenth century containing English poetry (eclogues, epigrams and epitaphs); Latin poetry (extracts from Cato, Virgil and Ovid, epitaphs and epigrams); and Welsh poetry largely in free metres. The Welsh poems are generally anonymous but some of them, as well as one of the English epitaphs, are assigned to John Morys (Maurice) (1736-47), and there are single compositions by Humph[rey] Owen, B[ardd] C[wsg] (1732), J[ohn] R[hydderch], E[van] W[illiam] and Owen Griff[ydd] (1733). An addition to the volume contains a poem in Welsh by 'Gilielmus Didymus' (1755). . Inscribed in the hand of Mary Richards, Darowen on the inside upper cover: 'Pwy a ddwyn hwn Bydd ei ran gyda Lladron yn Dragwyddol'.

Latin grammar, rhetoric, etc.

A late seventeenth century imperfect manuscript containing 'Observationes in Latinum gramaticam'; 'De Rhetorica'; abridgments of Ovid's Metamorphoses and '[H]istory of ye first [monarchies] ... Books of Justin' by John Gu[?nter], 1671/2; proverbs ('Adagionum conven ...') 'Observatiunculae in Lucii Flori Historiam collectae'; etc.