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'Canto y Gynulleidfa, sef Anthemau a Thonau cyfaddas i'w canu yn yr addoliad cyhoeddus, gan David Bynner ('Dewi Cadfan'), Llangadfan, Chwefror 8fed 1859'. The anthems are 'Praise the Lord, O my soul', 'The Congregational Anthem', and 'Moliant Seion'. Several of the hymn-tunes have titles of Montgomeryshire association, e.g. Beulah, St Cadfan, Cannoffice and Myfod.

Tune book, second half of the nineteenth century, containing hymn-tunes and traditional Welsh and English tunes.

A copy of a hitherto unidentified printed tune-book (ff. 3-14), lacking title-page, ?second half of the nineteenth century, bound with a manuscript tune-book (ff. 15-84), also second half of the nineteenth century, containing hymn-tunes.

Tune book of Mair Richards (1787-1877), Darowen and Llangynyw, containing hymn-tunes, anthems, carol-tunes, psalm-tunes and popular tunes, with some accompanying words in Welsh and French.

Two nineteenth-century tune books now joined together as one volume, with further quires and single leaves added to the first part, which contains mainly popular and traditional Welsh and English tunes together with a few hymn-tunes, and is dated 1827 in the hand of Mair Richards, Darowen (on front cover). The second part, containing mainly popular and traditional tunes, together with a few hymns in Welsh, may have been first compiled by Thomas Davies, shoemaker, Esgaironen Fach, Llanarth, Cardiganshire, 1847-1857 (notes on covers and ff. 2, 20 verso), who added a list of customer accounts on ff. 16 verso-18.

Tune book, watermarks 1821-1822 (ff. 2, 3, 36, 47 etc.) and written mainly during the 1840s (ff. 3, 79), containing anthems, psalm-tunes and hymn-tunes, many of English origin. The collection includes 'Hymn Nadolig gan y diweddar Parche[di]g Mr Williams Llangynyw' (ff. 76 verso-7 recto).

Tune book, first compiled in the late eighteenth century, containing anthems, hymn-tunes and psalm-tunes, with some accompanying words in Welsh; ff. 1-20 appear to have been written in the 1840s.

A collection of songs, anthems and hymn-tunes, including compositions and arrangements by David Lewis, D. Wylor Owen, J. Edward Williams, Sirhowy, Jos. Jones, Ty-Newydd, William William Pritchard, Tregarth, W. Reynolds, Brymbo, R. M. Hughes and William Hughes ('Alaw Manod').

A collection of anthems, hymn-tunes, airs and part-songs, composed, arranged or harmonised by David Lewis, 1865-1904.

A collection of airs, anthems, duets, part-songs, choruses and hymn-tunes, composed, arranged or harmonised by David Lewis, 1854-1907.

A collection of hymn-tunes selected by David Lewis from J[ohn] and R[ichard] Mills: Y Cerddor Eglwysig, 1846, Cydymaith y Cerddor, and T. B. Mason's Collection; 'Clod a Mawl i'r Hollalluog Dduw' by David Lewis; and a duet, 'Gwyllt Walia', by William Ellis, schoolmaster, which was awarded the first prize at the competitive meeting of the Aberystwyth Literary Society, 1857.

A composite volume containing sermons, extracts or 'hints' from sermons (taken partly from a sermon by Mr [Daniel] Rowland), a hymn and a holograph elegy [by the Reverend Edward Matthews, Ewenny] written on the dorse of an invoice to him, 1888, for the purchase of a printed book.

A volume in the hand of R[owland] Watkins, Eglwyswrw containing tables of particulars of sermons preached at Ebenezer [Baptist meeting-house, Eglwyswrw] and at 'Other' and 'Different Places' during the period 1805-11. The latter for the most part consist of neighbouring meeting-houses and private houses, the [Calvinistic Methodist] meeting-house at Eglwyswrw (including the opening service, 27 October 1808) and Baptist Association, quarterly, and monthly meetings in West Wales. The volume also contains abstracts of sermons by Lewis Evan(s), minister of Ebenezer Church, and others and, beginning from the end, are details of 'Light Infantry Exercise' and hymns.