Dangos 720 canlyniad

A collection of astrological notes and tables (pp. 40-145), written c. 1711 (p. 41) in an unidentified hand, and also containing a calendar of static and moveable (pp. 2-32, 33-39) fairs. Astrological tables on vellum have been used as pastedowns at the beginning and at the end of the volume (pp. 1 & 180), and a similar table on paper, lacking its volvelle, is on p. 121. Personal memoranda relating to the family of Thomas Davies of Crogeniddon, Denbs., c. 1713-1752, have been added on pp. 53-54, 79, 146-179.

A collection of popular tunes, in the hand of Maurice Edwards, dated 1776 (p. 31) and 1778 (p. iii). The tunes, most of which bear Welsh titles, were possibly noted for use on the harp.

Manuscript, 1795, of William Williams of Llandygái (1738-1817), containing his novel in prose and verse entitled 'Hanes Ifan o'r Cyffredin Glâs'; for text see Dafydd Glyn Jones in Llên Cymru, 20 (1997), 75-107. For copy, possibly in the hand of Edmund Hughes Williams, the son of William Williams, see Bangor MS 868.

A collection of Welsh hymns, englynion and carolau, transcribed, 1803-1826, by John Williams ('Ioan Rhagfyr'; 1740-1821).

A collection of strict and free-metre Welsh poems in the hand of William Evans ('William Bifan y Gadlys', 1730-93), Llanwnda; see further ‘Cymru’ xxviii (1902), 138-140.

A collection of cywyddau transcribed, c. 1731 (f. 130v), by Richard Owen(s) of Isallt, Holyhead.

A collection of cywyddau, written in 1760-1764, mainly by John Powel (d. 1767), gwehydd, of Rhydyreirin and Llansannan, co. Denbigh.

A collection of halsingod, carolau and other free-metre Welsh poems, together with some tunes, written in the hands of Simon Lewis, 1745-1748, ?Penrhyn-coch, co. Cardigan (p. 119), Lewis Richard(s), 1774 (pp. 132, 150, 153) and Lewis Richard Lewis, 1788-1793 (pp. 129, 167). The volume also bears the signature of John Thomas, Broncastellan, Penrhyn-coch, 1767-1788, on pp. 129, 165.

A collection of cywyddau and englynion written in two hands, the first, ff. 1-43, of the second half of the eighteenth century, and the second, ff. 43-56v, of the beginning of the nineteenth century.

A volume of Welsh poems, in both strict and free metres, written in 1731-1735 mostly by Hugh Hughes (1693-1776) of Llwydiarth Esgob, Anglesey.

A fragmentary unbound notebook, end of the eighteenth or the beginning of the nineteenth centuries, containing a Welsh carol of twelve verses (lacks first two verses) by Jonathan Hughes (1721-1805).

Notebook, end of the eighteenth or the beginning of the nineteenth centuries, containing two free-metre Welsh poems, one attributed to Morris Roberts.

A collection of Welsh poetry, transcribed at the end of the sixteenth century by ?Jaspar Gryffyth (d. 1614); see further I. Williams (ed.), ‘Gwyneddon 3’ (Cardiff, 1931), pp. v-xii, and T. Parry (ed.), ‘Gwaith Dafydd ap Gwilym’ (Caerdydd, 1952), pp. cxxi-cxxiv.

A collection of cywyddau, transcribed in 1801 by the Rev. Peter Bailey Williams (1763-1836), Llanrug.

Diary of William Bulkeley (1691-1760), of Brynddu, p. Llanfechell, Anglesey, 30 March 1734 - 8 June 1743 (pp. B1-557). The manuscript also contains Latin memoranda (pp. A1-54), notes in English relating to proceedings at the Anglesey Quarter Sessions, 1718-1728 (pp. A55-112), and an account of the offerings received by the parson of Llanfechell, 1735-1736 (pp. B561-563). A note on p. B557 refers to another diary, 'a parchment covered folio begining June 9th 1743', the present whereabouts of which is unknown. Bulkeley's diary for 1747-1760 is now Henblas A 19.

Incomplete manuscript, 1590-1637, from Porthamal, Anglesey, containing cywyddau, englynion, and free-metre Welsh poems, together with the prose 'rhag ddoydia[d] at y darlleywr' (pp. 43-44) and 'y pedair camp ar hugain' (pp. 264-265); see D.W. Wiliam, ‘Y Canu Mawl i Deulu Porthamal’ (Bodedern, 1993), p. 8.

An unbound collection of cywyddau, englynion, and canu rhydd, written in two hands of the first half of the eighteenth century.

An unbound cywydd, possibly autograph, by 'Dafydd Manniwel', entitled 'marwnad am Mr Robert Evans o Lan-Idlos ymadawodd a'r bŷd hwn Ddydd-Llûn y 19 o Fîs Mai ymlwyddyn yr Arglwydd 1707'.

An unbound series of englynion, in a hand of the early eighteenth century, lacking title and ascription. D.W. Wiliam, in his ‘Y Canu Mawl i Deulu Penrhos ac i Deuluoedd eraill y Fro’ (Bodedern, 2001), pp. 9-11, describes it as an eulogy, 1703, to Siôn and Marged Owen of Penrhos, by John Prichard Prys (fl. c. 1704-1721).