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Volume containing lectures on oratory by the Reverend Dr Caleb Ashworth (1722-1775) written in shorthand by David Davies of Sterling Park, Carmarthen (1785-1844). 1/2 leather. Donated by H. Turner Evans, Carmarthen, February 1968.

Volume containing extracts from Criccieth parish registers and memorial inscriptions; sheep ear-marks; copies of letters from John Thomas, Bangor and Beaumaris and Richard Morris, London; cywyddau by Lewis Daron. Original sources 18th-19th centuries. (Formerly Borth-y-gest MS 73.) Welsh, English. Calf. Purchased from the library of Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y-gest, 1959-1961.

Records of the Voelas and Cefnamwlch estates in Denbighshire and Caernarfonshire, mainly 19 cent.-20 cent.; including rentals, 1808-1949, uncommonly full estate correspondence, 1866-1948, building accounts, 1865-1870, estate ledgers, 1866-1912, title deeds, 1726-1956, valuations, 1855-1945; records of the Pooley estate, Warwickshire, and the Pooley Hall colliery, 1838-1909; and family and personal papers of the Wynne and Wynne-Finch families, including letters from Alice Mary Sybil Wynne Finch, 1914-1917, William Heneage Wynne Finch, 1919-1929, and John Charles Wynne Finch, 1924-1945.

A Latin-English vocabulary and veterinary recipes, etc.

A contemporary manuscript, vellum, of William Briton (or Breton)'s best-known work, Vocabularium Bibliae, which contains a treatise explanatory of obscure words in the Scriptures, with a prologue and some other parts in verse.

A dialogue in verse by Vladislaus Gruninskij between an Englishman and a foreigner on the occasion of the birth of Frederick William, son of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales (1707-1751), and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (1719-1772), 13 May 1750.

Records of the Vivian family, later barons Swansea, of Cornwall and Swansea, including records of the copper industry in Cornwall and Swansea (the Hafod works), 1720-1934; estate papers, 1853-1909; business and personal correspondence, 1807-1934, notably that of John Henry Vivian (1785-1855), and Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea (1821-1894). The archive is a major source for the 19th century history of Swansea.

An abridged version of the eleventh-century Latin 'Life' of St Catherine of Alexandria by Ainard of Rouen (ff. 1 verso-24); five Easter sermons attributed to St Augustine (ff. 25-43); incomplete text from Lamentations II, 6-11 (ff. 1, 43 verso). Written by three hands, hand II (ff. 25-43) more conservative, hand III (ff. 1, 43 verso) with neumes of St Gall type. Initials in red, with later marginal flourishes in red and blue; polychrome miniature of the crucifixion, 16 cent. (f. 24 verso). 'Quocunque tollatur Noreshein meum fatur', 15 or 16 cent., on ff. 1 verso-2; 'Nro 35', 'xxxv' on f. 1; 'Nro 35' (overwriting earlier '9187') and 'Hs.6.60.N.178' inside back cover. Cuttings from German and American catalogues pasted inside front cover.