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A commonplace book containing a catechism on the scriptures; notes entitled 'The Grounds of Divinity', and 'englynion' - 'Englynion a wnaeth Mr. [Edward] Wyn i'r Prydyddion yn yr Eisteddfod Ddydd Llun Sulgwyn, 1738'; 'englynion' by Elis Cadwaladr, Harry Parry, Gwilim ab lorwerth, David Evans, Sian Evans, Edward Jones, Bodfary, Rowland Shion o'r Pandy, 'John Jones Llanfair am a wn i', John Edwards, Robert Lewis, David Jones, Trefriw; a valentine; and obituary notices of John Edwards, Salop, 1747, and Thomas Edwards, 1751.

A transcript by W. J. Roberts from a manuscript which he found among the papers of David Jones of Trevriw ('Dafydd Sion Dafydd') and which he sold to E. G. B. Phillimore (i.e. NLW MS 255A); and transcripts of 'englynion o wneuthuriad Ellis ab Ellis o blwyf Trillo yn Sir Feirionydd' and of a portion of the Interlude of 'Deifus a Lazarus'.

A list [in the hand of J. T. Evans] of publications printed by David Jones and his successors at Trefriw and Llanrwst and offered for sale by O. Evans-Jones & Co., printers, stationers, &c., Llanrwst. The volume is thumb-indexed and the publications are entered in alphabetical order of first lines. Among a few insets and items bound into the volume are two lists of publications ('Rhestr o Lyfrau' and 'Rhestr o Ganiadau') printed and sold by O. Evans-Jones & Co.

Four holograph letters from Edw[ar]d Jones ('Iorwerth Ceitho'), Peckham Rye, London, to [Evan Jones, Portmadoc], 1908 (information concerning David Jones, 'Dewi Fardd', John Jones, 'Pyll [Glan Conwy'], and others towards the writer's Rhestr gyda nodiadau byrion o Enwogion Cymreig yn ystod 1700-1900, references to Dr. Hartwell Jones and to the London National Eisteddfod of 1909); together with a biographical note on John Jones ('Pyll') by [Evan Jones].

An incomplete volume (ff. 1-85, 176-243) consisting largely of cywyddau and englynion by Sion Kent, Sion Tudvr, Grvffydd Grvg, Meredith ap Rees, Will'm ap Sion ap D'd, Gruff' Hiraethog, Will'm Llynn, Huw Arwistl, D'd ap Edmwnd, D'd ap Gwilim, Rob't Leiaf, Rys Goch or Yri, Mastr Hari, Ifan Tew Brydydd, Gytto Glyn, Sion Philipp, Roger Kyffyn, Ievan Fychan, Sr. Davydd Trevor, Tudur Penllyn, Rowland Fychan, Tomas Prys, Evan Tudvr Owen, Ievan Brydydd Hir, William Elias, Tudur Aled, Gruff' ap Ievan, Rys Pennarth, Bedo Aerdrem, Bedo Brwynllys, Iolo Goch, Ellis Rowland, Howel ap D'd ap Ievan ap Rys, D'd Namor, D'd Ddv o Hiraddvc, Lewys Glyn Kothi, Howel ap Ievan ap Rys, Owen Gruffydd, Michael Prichard, Edmwnd Price, Hughe ap Ed'd Lloyd, Rice Kain, Richard Hughes, [Richard Davies] 'Escob Dewi', Ed'd Maelor, Ievan ap Tudvr Penllyn, Harrie Howell, Sion Kain, and Robin Ddv. Towards the end of the volume there are short texts such as englynion in Latin, 'llyma gas bethav Owain Kyveiliog', 'xxiiij gwell', 'Geirie gwir Taliesin', triads, proverbs, the nine grades of kinship, medical recipes, 'Llyma henwau y pedair Caingc ar ddeg Cydwgan a Cyhelyn', and 'Henwau'r pedwar Gosdeg Cerdd dannau'. The greater part of the manuscript was written in the seventeenth century; but there are additions and marginal notes to the nineteenth century. There is an index ('Tabl y llyfr') to ff. 1--76, in a seventeenth century hand. Between ff. 4 and 6 are inserted two leaves (pp. 129-30, 135-6) of David Jones (Trefriw) (ed.): Cydymaith Diddan (Caer Lleon [1766]).