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'Cerdd Rhobin ab Huw a elwir ym mhlith y Beirdd Rhobin Ddu o Fôn, wedi ei 'sgrifennu ai Law ei hun wrth erchiad William Fychan Esq: Penllywydd yr Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas o Gymmrodorion 1772', being an autograph poem by Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu o Fôn) written at the instigation of William Vaughan of Corsygedol and Nannau, 1772.

A collection of awdlau and cywyddau, including a substantial section of poems ascribed to Guto'r Glyn (pp. 151-300) and Dafydd ap Gwilym (pp. 355-379). The manuscript also includes a copy of Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe (pp. 87-100). Gwenogryn Evans states that pp. 1-22, 335-406 and 410-33 are written in an archaic style in the early part of the seventeenth century, while pp. 23-85, 101-33 and 151-303 belong to the last quarter of the sixteenth century. Other parts of the manuscript are later additions, except the vellum leaf (pp. 305-6).

A manuscript in three parts. The first part, possibly in the autograph of Thomas Jones (alias Twm Siôn Cati), comprises heraldry, with coloured illustrations of the coats of arms of the Britons and of the princes of North and South Wales, together with a number of their pedigrees (pp. 1-136). The second part comprises the pedigrees of the mothers of some of the principal families in Wales, together with a description of their coats of arms (pp. 137-178). The third part comprises poetry, a large portion of which is in the autograph of John Jones, Gellilyfdy (pp. 179-202).

Bede's Ecclesiastical History: Gloriosissimo regi Ceouulfo Beda famulus Christi ... pie intercessionis inueniam (ff. 3-107). The manuscript was not seen by Plummer until after publication of his edition in Bedae Opera Historica, Oxford, 1896; his notes, dated 1897, are now tipped in on f. ii. Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Oxford 1896, did not know the whereabouts of the manuscript. The text belongs to Plummer's Durham group, op. cit., pp. civ-cix, and he believed it to be a transcript of Harleian MS 4124 'with which it agrees in several minute points' (see the notes referred to). Certainly the text agrees with all the features of that of Harleian 4124 noted by Plummer in his apparatus (pp. cix, 130, 145, 228, 236, 426, 430). The manuscript also contains the anonymous Vita Bedae (ff. 107-113): Inter catholicos sacre scripture expositores ... (f. 108) adiuuando prosequi dignetur. Humane salutis auctore Christo Iesu ... laudat et adorat dominum. The text was printed in John Smith, Historiae Ecclesiasticae Gentis Anglorum, Cambridge, 1722, pp. 515-22. For manuscripts of the text, see T. D. Hardy, Catalogue of Materials ..., London, 1862-71, no. 985. The Vita follows the Historia in most manuscripts of the Durham group. Also included is Bede's Historia Abbatum (ff. 113-119 verso): Religiosus Christi famulus Biscopus ... et protectionis impendant. This was printed by Plummer, op. cit., pp. 364-387. Like the Vita Bedae the Historia Abbatum is associated with the Durham group of the Historia Ecclesiastica. Readings of our text again agree with those peculiar to Harleian 4124 as recorded by Plummer.
The manuscript also contains part of Richard of Hexham's account of the history of Hexham Priory (ff. 119 verso-122): Millesimo centesimo terciodecimo dominice incarnationis ... Calixti pape, Eugenii et Adriani. Our text corresponds to chapters iv-xi of James Raine's edition (Surtees Soc., vol. 44, pp. 48-58). There are chapter divisions only for chapters vii, viii, x and xi. Readings mostly agree with the York MS (York Minster MS xvi. I.12) which also ends with chapter xi. Also included is St Bernard, Sermones de diversibus, sermo xiv (ff. 122-123 verso): Beata illa et sempiterna trinitas peter et filius ... et fide non ficta. See S. Bernardi Opera, Rome, 1957- , vol. vi, pp. 262-6, or PL, 183, 667-669. Identified by the fourteenth century lister of contents on f. 2 verso as 'Quedam verba notabilia de sermonibus beati Bernardi, viz, de trinitate ...'. Together with two extracts from St Bernard, Sermones de tempore, sermo iii in die Pasche (ff. 123 verso-124): In corde duplex est lepra, propria uoluntas et consilium proprium ... non mea, inquid, uoluntas, sed tua fiat. O domine, uoluntas de qua dixisti ut non fieret ... et nobis erat utile ut redimeremur. See S. Bernardi Opera, Rome, 1957- , vol. v, pp. 105-6, 108, or PL, 183, 289-290, 291. Identified by the lister of contents as 'alia verba notabilia de lepra voluntatis proprie'. Also included is an extract from a sermon, unidentified (f. 124): Tria sunt que sic roborant et confirmant cor meum ... Hic est funiculus triplex ... qui est benedictus in secula. Amen.

Official letters and other papers mainly relating to Caernarvonshire, 1660-1661, comprising communications received from the Privy Council by Richard, 2nd earl of Carbery, Lord Lieutenant of Wales and Lord President of the Council in the Marches of Wales, and transmitted by him to the deputy lieutenants, etc., of Caernarvonshire, with reports of the meetings of the latter, letters sent by them to the high constables, and communications sent by them to each other. Among the correspondents are Sir Richard Wynne of Gwydir and Henry Maurice. Many of the documents relate to the militia in Caernarvonshire and include records of men subject to be called to the militia, lists of horses, arms, and ammunition available in the county, etc.

Official documents and other papers, 1675-1727, many of them addressed to the deputy lieutenants, etc. of Caernarvonshire and relating to the militia, musters, the confiscating of weapons in the possession of Papists, etc. Among the correspondents are Henry, 3rd marquis of Worcester and first duke of Beaufort, Lord President of the Council in the Marches of Wales, Col. Thomas Mostyn of Gloddaeth, John Wynne of Whitehall, mustermaster for Caernarvonshire, and Richard, 3rd baron Bulkeley of Baron Hill. The documents include a statement by Thomas Glynne relating to a 'conventicle' at the house of Ellis Owen, Llangybi, at which James Owen preached; a memoranandum by Thomas Mostyn relating to the refusal of William Wynne, sheriff of Flintshire, to read the proclamation of King George II at Holywell; and some papers of general North Wales interest.

A volume of household and medical recipes written at various times from the mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth centuries. There are two mid-seventeenth century hands (A and B) with additions in many late seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century hands. Hand A runs from ff. 1-9, and hand B from ff. 9-12, 20-23 verso, 26-40, 73-74 verso, 77, 83 recto-verso, 87 verso-113 with additions on the paste-down on the inside of the front cover and ff. 1 verso, 6 verso, 8 recto-verso.
Papers found loose in the manuscript have been brought together at the end (ff. 118-125). These include a receipt (dated Mar. 26, 1753) to Mrs A. Hay for payment for a neglige cap, signed D. W. Healey (f. 123), and an undated letter from T. Knight addressed to Mrs Nancy Lloyd at Nanney (ff. 124-125).

Transcripts made in 1647 by John Richardson, Llewenie Grene, Denbighshire, of 'A Declaration of Mr: David Jenkins now prisoner in the To[wer] one of his Maiesties judges in wales, for Tryalls, Murth[ers] & all other Capitall crimes that they ought only to be by Jurie[s] not otherwise vnless it be by acte of Parliamente', [17] March 1647; 'Judge Jenkins' Treatise or Discourse made & [ ] To the honourable Societies of Gray's Inne & of the rest of the Innes of Cort ...', [2]8 April 1647; 'An Apologie for the Army, Touchinge the eight quaeres upon the later declaration ... By David Jenkins Prisoner in the Tower of London', 1647; and 'A discourse touchinge the inconveniences of a long continued Parliament'.

Legal precedents and transcripts of official letters and orders, largely of Denbighshire and Flintshire interest; a calendar; proportions of mise payable by the different townships of Isdulas, Denbighshire; etc.

The text of that part of Leland's Itinerary which concerns Wales, beginning 'All the way yt I rode between Hales and Pershore ...' (see L. Toulmin Smith, The Itinerary in Wales of John Leland in or about the years 1536-1539, London, 1906, p. 40) (ff. 1-42). Part of the first paragraph of the text on f. 1 is also to be found on f. vii, which appears to be an abortive beginning to this copy of the Itinerary. The text of the Itinerary in our MS follows Toulmin Smith's edition fairly closely (op. cit. pp. 40-126), and the fact that the section on 'Castles in Montgomerikeshire', etc. (Toulmin Smith, pp. 53-57) which Toulmin Smith supplied from Stow's copy of Leland's original MS, but which is now missing from Leland's MS, is not included in our MS (see f. 6), suggests strongly that the writer of our MS was either copying Leland's MS in the Bodleian library (MS Gen. Top. e12) or a copy of it made after Stow's time. Two other items in our MS (ff. 47, 49) are said to have been copied from Leland's MSS, in the Bodleian. There are however minor differences between our text of the Itinerary and Leland's as printed.
The volume also includes a brief note on Worcestershire (f. vii); extracts from Latin text: 'Ex libro Roberti Prioris Salapesbiriae de vita S: + Wenefredae Virginis ad Guarinum Priorem Vigorniae' (marginal note 'E codice M-S: Jo: Leylandi in Bibliotheca Bodleiana Oxonii existente') (ff. 47-48 verso); Latin notes on the early history of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge: 'Ex Collectionibus Johannis Rowse de Antiquitate Oxonii et Academiae' (marginal note, as above f. 47) (ff 49-51 verso); and Latin notes on the (legendary) early history of the university of Cambridge: 'Ex veteri sed fabuloso Libro incerti Authoris de antiquitate Ca[n] tabrigiensi' (ff. 51 verso-52 verso).

A letter, in English, from Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt to James Ussher, archbishop of Armagh, concerning the dating of various historical events (pp. 1-44); and cywyddau and awdlau of Tudur Penllyn, Ieuan Tudur Penllyn and Dafydd Nanmor in the hand of Robert Vaughan (pp. 45-171).

A report submitted on 7 March 1729/30 to Francis Hare, bishop of St Asaph by J. Wynne, Garthmeilio [?rector of Corwen], on his visitation of Llanycil church and parish in 1729/30.

A manuscript of Welsh pedigrees, compiled by the sixteenth-century poet and transcriber, Wiliam Cynwal (dec. 1587) of Ysbyty Ifan. The hand of Wiliam Cynwal runs throughout the MS, there are however a few minor additions to the text by later hands scattered throughout the work. Each genealogy is preceded by a heading locating or naming the family seat; a bolder script is then employed at the beginning of the genealogy proper and sometimes subsequently when a sub-section is introduced. There is rubrication on ff. 5, 117 verso and 292 verso. The aim and scope of the MS is set out by the scribe in an introductory note on f. i, where it is said that the intention is to record the pedigrees of the gentry of Gwynedd, Powys and parts of the counties of Cheshire and Shropshire. He also states his intention of preparing a similar MS to include the pedigrees of the families of the seven counties of Deheubarth. Before the end of the present MS, however, the transcriber has diverted a significant portion of his MS to record details of South Wales families. This MS, like several of Cynwal's other genealogical MSS, concentrates on tracing the maternal ancestors of the families in question. Genealogical and heraldic MSS in his hand include: Bangor 5943, BM Harleian 1961 and Peniarth 128 and 183.
The MS opens with the following preface: 'Y llyfr hwnn a ddechrevais i Wiliam Kynwal pryd[ydd] hel i Iachav ai yscrivennv p[an] oedd oed Krist 1565 ac ynddo yr wyf yn Roi Iachav boneddicion gwynedd a ffowys a phart o sir gaer lleon ac o sir y mwythic a llyfr arall yr wyf yni wnevthvr o Iachav boneddicion saith sir dehevbarth y llyfr hwnn a yscrifenais o amafaelion (sic). lyfrav yn gowiraf ac ygellais drwy boen travael ac anhvnedd ac er hynny medd y ddihareb ni chair dim heb i vai velly o bydd neb ar vol Inav awypo yn sikr [fod] bai ar y llyfr hwnn adolw[yn] I ymendio ac yn gyntaf [ ]Kair y dabl [ ] ch [ym]ovynner [ ]' (f. i).

A volume of awdlau, cywyddau, englynion, dyrïau, etc., written in 1725 by a certain John Jones at Mostyn: 'Myfi John Jones A sgrifenodd y Llyfr hwn. ym Mostyn, yn y Flwyddyn. 1725' (f. 119), and again 'John Jones ai sgrifenodd' (f. 4).
The first part of the MS, up to f. 94 verso, appears to have been copied from a MS called 'llyfr Cadwalader y gô' (f. 94 verso), and the poetry in this section of the MS corresponds to the greater part of the contents of Llanstephan MS 49 B which appears to represent the same source. There is nothing to suggest, however that Llanstephan 49 B is one and the same as 'llyfr Cadwalader y gô'. Leaves and end-papers bear a Pro Patria watermark. On ff. 119 verso-120 is a list of titles and page numbers.

A collection of awdlau and cywyddau written during the second quarter of the seventeenth century by William Phylip. The contents are almost entirely poetical, but the volume also includes transcripts of a treatise on poetical composition by William Middleton (pp. 274-302) and on Welsh metres by John Phillipp [Siôn Phylip] (pp. 303-313). The title page, table of contents and an index of poets are in the hand of Lewis Morris (pp. 1, 3-11, 13-14, 40).

A manuscript containing holograph cywyddau by Wiliam Cynwal written between 1572 (f. 6) and his death in 1588. The poems are accompanied by illustrations of their subjects' coats of arms.

A manuscript entitled 'Llyfr Sion ap Wiliam ap Sion o Englynion' (p. 1), being a collection of englynion compiled between 1605 (p. 78) and 1618 (p. 872) by John Jones, Gellilyfdy, Flintshire.

A volume of cywyddau, awdlau and a few englynion, including sections devoted to the works of Guto'r Glyn, Tudur Aled and Sion Cent. The contents of this MS are listed in Mostyn 112, pp. 631-654; there the MS is described as 'llyfyr kowydde sydd a chayad gantho o barsmant gwyn'. The works of Guto'r Glyn and Tudur Aled appear in roughly the same order as in (Bangor) Gwyneddon MS 4, which suggests that those sections were drawn from a similar source. The works of Guto'r Glyn, ff. 78 verso-109, 122-141, 195 recto-verso, and 199-201, have apparently been transcribed by the compiler of Mostyn 1 [NLW MS 3021F], pp. 559-606 and the works of Tudur Aled, ff. 153 verso-156 verso, 44-45 verso, 156 verso-177, 147-151, and 151 verso-153 verso, have been transcribed in the same way to Mostyn 1, pp. 799-826.
The MS is in five main hands: ff. 6-38 verso, 41-69, and ?221-223 verso, a hand also found in Mostyn MS 161 [NLW MS 3057D], pp. 670-674, 677-683, and possibly that of the poet Richard Cynwal (ob. 1634) [this hand is not dissimilar to that of Wmffre Dafis]; ff. 38 verso-40 verso and 226-231 verso, also found in Mostyn 161, pp. 529-654; ff. 69 verso-78, 90-114, 203 verso-204 verso, ?220 verso-221 verso, 231 verso-238, and 239 verso-243 verso; ff. 1-5, 78 verso-90, 114-203, and 245 verso-253 verso; it is the same hand as Mostyn 161, pp. 987-994 and Mostyn 112, part II, [NLW MS 3031B], pp. 632-654. This hand adds many marginal notes; and ff. 205-220, 224-225, 238 verso-239, 243 verso-245 verso, and 253 verso-257, with f. 258 probably in the autograph of the poet Sion Dafydd Las [John Davies, dec. 1694].