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A miscellany of texts in prose and verse, mainly in English but a few in Latin. The volume was written by sixteen scribes (see Daniel Huws (1996), pp. 190-199, now superseding Auvo Kurvinen (1953)), with writing styles varying from bastard secretary (ff. 8 verso-11) to fere-textura; ink varying from light to very dark brown and dark sepia. A selection of ten texts from the manuscript was published in Early English Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, ed. by J. O. Halliwell (London, 1855).
Among the main texts are the Arthurian romance 'Sir Gawaine and the Carle of Carlyle' (ff. 12-26), a treatise on the limning of books (ff. 33-52 verso), a life of St Catherine of Alexandria (ff. 91-129) and a prose version of the Middle English poem 'The Siege of Jerusalem' (ff. 157 verso-184). Ancilliary materials, [mid-20 cent.], comprising typescript notes relating to the manuscript are filed separately (Brogyntyn MS II.1a).

Extracts, in Latin, from Liber Landavensis (the Book of Llandaff, NLW MS 17110E), transcribed by a hand of the mid sixteenth century. The transcripts consist mostly of charters, either in full or as brief extracts (ff. 2-6, 10-36 verso).

Autograph drafts of poems in Latin and Greek, 1571-1611, by Charles Bill, MA (c. 1551-post 1611) of Eton and King's College, Cambridge, later secretary to William Brooke, 10th baron Cobham, and finally schoolmaster at Bagshot, Surrey (see Charles Henry Cooper and Thompson Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses, 3 vols (Cambridge, 1858-1913) ii, 527-528).

A volume containing mainly notes in Latin on tragedy, and on Classical literature and philosophy, [1598x1600], in various hands, but mainly that of Emmanuell Giffard (MA 1603, d. 1633), of Christ's College, Cambridge, later MP for Rye and for Bury St Edmunds (see Alumni Cantabrigienses). Giffard received the book as a gift from John Stead (f. 78 verso), admitted to the same college as fellow-commoner 1598-9 (see Alumni Cantabrigienses).
The main subjects of study are the tragedies of Seneca (ff. 6-54 verso). A few medical notes are included (ff. 1-2).

Notes in Latin on natural philosophy, [17 cent., first ¼], by an unidentified scribe.
They include notes drawn from Johannes Magirus, Physiologiae Peripateticae libri sex (London, 1618, ESTC S911) (ff. 3 verso-42 verso).

A volume containing copies, [c. 1765], probably in the hand of Mrs Egerton of Sundorne, Shropshire (see f. i), of meditations and family prayers by Thomas Wilson (1663-1755), bishop of Sodor and Man.
The volume contains the following: Morning Prayer, 'The Lord hath brought us safe to the Beginning of this Day' (ff. 2-7); Evening Prayer, 'By the Favour of God, we are come to the Evening of this Day' (ff. 8-13 verso); A short and necessary Instruction for Sunday Morning, 'The Lord who hath blessed one Day in seven' (ff. 15-22 verso); A Prayer For Sunday Morning, 'O Lord, who hast consecrated that good Day to thy service' (ff. 23-26); A plain and useful Instruction For Sunday Evening, 'That God is great, and to be greatly feared' (ff. 27-35 verso); Short and Plain Directions for the worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper, 'When Notice is given, that the Lord's Supper is to be administer'd' (ff. 37-46 verso); A Prayer, 'O Lord and Heavenly Father, we are not worthy of the least of all the Mercies' (ff. 47-48 verso); Plain and short Instructions for such as have been Confirm'd, and such as have been at the Lords Supper, 'Having given up yourself to God and his Service' (ff. 51-59); A Prayer for Divine Grace, 'Blessed Spirit of Grace' (ff. 59-60 verso); Plain and short Directions for such as are Sick, or under any other Affliction, 'When you are visited with Sickness, or any other Affliction' (ff. 63-75 verso); A Prayer in Time of Affliction, 'Almighty God, the Author of Life and Death' (ff. 76-77 verso); A Prayer in the time of any Publick Calamity By another Hand In the year 1750, 'O God in the midst of Wrath remember Mercy!' (ff. 80-82 verso).

A volume containing a copy, [late 17 cent. x early 18 cent.], of a sermon preached on Ephesians iv.11-12 by Humphrey Humphreys, dean of Bangor (later bishop of Bangor and of Hereford), at the consecration of William Lloyd as bishop of St Asaph in 1680.

A notebook containing an analysis, in the form of questions and answers, of John Wilkins, Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion (London, 1675, Wing W2204), in the hand of Robert Godolphin Owen, son of William Owen of Brogyntyn (pp. 1-28). It was probably compiled by him whilst he was a student at Oriel College, Oxford (see Brogyntyn MS II.25): 'An Abridgement of Wilkin's [sic] Natural Religion' (First line, 'Q. What is treated in the first Book? ...'; last line, '… for tho' it may not be an immediate Revelation, yet we are sure it is warranted by God').

A copy of a printed book consisting of two parts, Expositio hymnorum secundum vsum Sarum, followed by Expositio sequentiarum (London, 1515, STC 16127), printed by Richard Pynson, whose full-page device appears at the end of the first part; see also colophons on f. lxiii verso of first part and f. l of second. Woodcut of a monk reading used twice before and once at end of first part, and once before second part.
Other copies are at Trinity College, Oxford, and Cambridge University Library (see William Carew Hazlitt, Bibliographical Collections and Notes, 3rd series (London, 1887), p. 77, and C. E. Sayle, Early English Printed Books in the University Library, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1900), p. 56, no. 263).

Two volumes containing notes, in the same unidentified hand, based on the text of Compendium Christianæ Doctrinæ seu Commentarii Catachetici, being the commentary by the German Lutheran theologian Zacharias Ursinus on the Heidelberg Catechism devised by himself and Caspar Olevian (cf. STC 13023). The notes, perhaps compiled by a Cambridge student, are probably based on a continental Latin edition (Neustadt [an der Hardt], 1598), but at times follow closely the Latin editions printed in Cambridge in 1585 (STC 24529) and 1587 (STC 24531).
Contents: '1589 Compendium christianæ doctrinæ seu commentarii catechetici, deliberatum ex ore zachariæ ursini anno domini 1598' (First line, 'Questio/Quid catechesis sit?'; last line, 'Amen significat ac certum ratinnorum sit quod petimus. finis de precationis') (MS II.35i, ff. 1-141); 'Compendium christianæ doctrinæ, seu commentarii catæchetici' (First line, 'Questio/Quid catechesis sit?'; last line, 'Propter c[onf]irmationem fidei per [c]enam dominicam. D[ ] primo. Joh. ?3 et 35 Secundo rom. 4. 25') (MS II.35ii, ff. 1-79 verso and inside back cover).

A volume containing a manuscript copy of 'Δαιμονιωδησ: or The Ungratefull Dæmon Dispossessed. Being, A Second Reply to ye Rage & Ravings of J. Partridge: design'd for ye recovery of his Senses againe, w[hi]ch have bin lately Shipwrack'd in ye Rough Seas of Ingratitude, Immorality, Scandall, &c', being an unpublished sequel by the astrologer John Gadbury to his previously published attack upon his former pupil, the astrologer and almanac-maker John Partridge, entitled A Reply to that Treasonous and Blasphemous Almanack for 1687 (London, 1687, Wing R1065A). Textual emendations by the scribe throughout the work suggest it to be a holograph copy, probably written in about 1690 (see the reference on f. 9 to Partridge's Almanack of 1690).
The rivalry between Gadbury and Partridge was political as well as personal; the former had Roman Catholic sympathies and supported James II, whereas the latter was Protestant and fled to Holland after the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion, not returning to England until 1689. Gadbury's Almanack of 1689, in which he predicted the triumph of James II over William of Orange, is dedicated to Sir Robert Owen of Brogyntyn and a copy in presentation binding is now at Glyn Hall (Inventory (1985), p. 123).

A parchment roll, written in England, [13 cent., second ½], containing the pedigree-chronicle of biblical history attributed to Peter of Poitiers [Petrus Pictaviensis]. Text is written in textura; ink, dark brown. The scribe uses red and blue for display script; two-line initials in blue.
On the Compendium Historiæ (or Promptuarium Bibliæ), see H. Vollmer, Deutsche Bibelauszüge des Mittelalters zum Stammbaum Christi mit ihren lateinischen Vorbildern und Vorlagen (Potsdam, 1931) and Thomas Jones, Y Bibyl Ynghymraec (Cardiff, 1940), pp. xiii-xxxiv, with a listing of 33 manuscripts. On the English derivatives see Albinia de la Mare, Catalogue of the Collection of Medieval Manuscripts Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, by James P. R. Lyell (Oxford, 1971), pp. 80-85, 461. See also Hans-Eberhard Hilpert, 'Geistliche Bildung und Laienbildung: Zur Überlieferung der Schulschrift "Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi", Compendium veteris testamenti des Petrus von Poitiers (+1205) in England', Journal of Medieval History, 11 (1985), 315-331 (p. 329). The texts preceding and following the Compendium in the present manuscript are also associated with it in BL, Royal 14.B.ix.

Parchment roll bearing the order of the funeral procession of Queen Anne of Denmark, wife of King James I, 'from Denmarke Howse in the Stronde to Westminster Abbay the 27 Daie of May 1619'. Interspersed with the names and titles of individuals are nine polychrome illustrations of emblazoned banners, each held by a cuffed hand, and representing the arms of the queen as carried during the funeral procession.

A treatise, [late 17 cent.], entitled 'Quel est le different touchant le Baptisme es Eglises reformées', being a discussion in French on baptism in the Catholic and reformed churches.

A volume containing scriptural and theological notes, written in an early-seventeenth century italic hand.

Two photostat copies (one positive and one negative) of Brogyntyn MS I.7, made in New York in 1926 while the manuscript was on loan to Acton Griscom, then preparing his edition of The Historia Regum Britanniӕ of Geoffrey of Monmouth (London, 1929) (each copy 92 ff., unfoliated); together with an off-print of Acton Griscom, 'The Date of Composition of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia: New Manuscript Evidence', Speculum, I (1926), 129-156, signed by the author and sent to Lord Harlech (ff. 93-111); and twelve letters, 1925-1927, mainly from Acton Griscom, New York, to Lord Harlech, August 1925-July 1927, with one letter from J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., New York, to Harlech, 10 December 1925, and one from Harlech to Griscom, 5 August 1927, concerning arrangements for Brogyntyn MS I.7 to be deposited temporarily in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, for Griscom's use (ff. 112-32).

A volume containing a holograph copy, finished 16 January 1649/50, of an incomplete translation into Welsh by Rowland Vaughan (c. 1590-1667), Caer Gai, Llanuwchllyn, Merionethshire, of Eikon Basilike, a work attributed to King Charles I and first published a few hours after the king's execution on 30 January 1648/9.
Preceding the translation is a dedicatory epistle to Col. Sir John Owen of Clenennau, Caernarvonshire, under whom Vaughan served during the Civil War (f. 1 recto-verso), three verses on the death of Charles I and four regarding the translation (f. 2). The surviving part of the translation begins towards the end of chapter 23 (the original pagination indicates the loss of 140 pages at the beginning) and continues to the end of the work (ff. 3 23 verso); it is followed by a table of contents (ff. 23 verso-24). Vaughan translated the text at Cilgellan, Merionethshire, since his own home, Caer Gai, had been destroyed by the Parliamentarian troops. The text of the dedicatory epistle is printed in Megan Ellis, 'Pethau nas Cyhoeddwyd, 2. Cyflwyniad Rowland Vaughan, Caergai, i'w gyfieithiad o Eikon Basilike', National Library of Wales Journal, 1 (1939-40), 141-144 (pp. 143-144). See also Eikon Basilike, or the King's Book, ed. by Edward Almack (London, 1904). A negative photostat copy of the manuscript was made, [?mid-20 cent.], prior to its repairing and binding at NLW and prior to its being foliated; this copy is now Brogyntyn MS II.56a.

A volume, compiled 1806-1829, by [Mrs] F[rances] Morres Gore, the mother of William [Ormsby-]Gore, containing poetry and light verse by various contemporary authors.
The poetry includes 'Psyche or The Legend of Love' by Mary Tighe (ff. 17-127) and several poems by William [Ormsby-]Gore (pp. 12-14, 156-162, 184, 188). An index to most of the items is provided on p. 248. Items found loose within the volume have been tipped in (pp. 179-190 passim, 216).

A notebook containing a brief account of the early naval career of Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour, written by his daughter, Emily Charlotte Seymour, afterwards the second Lady Harlech.
The account was written by Seymour on board HMS Collingwood during a passage from Rio de Janeiro to England in June 1848, while returning with her father from his service as commander-in-chief in the Pacific, 1844-1848.

A volume containing poetry mostly in strict metre, together with some prose items and a significant body of prophetic prose or vaticinatory verse, transcribed between 1649 (see pp. 285-288) and 1660 by Wiliam Bodwrda; the volume would appear to have been 'No. 17' in his own collection of manuscripts (see f. iv and p. 342).
The cited works are mainly those of fifteenth-century poets, including eulogies by Lewys Glyn Cothi and prophetic poetry by Dafydd Gorlech, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd o Fathafarn and Robin Ddu. Several pieces of prophecy are either anonymous or attributed to ambiguous and obscure authors such as Taliesin, y Bardd Cwsg and y Bergam. Eulogies composed in praise of the Bodwrda family are found on pages 181-193 and 285-288. Wiliam Bodwrda himself has paginated the manuscript from 1-341, but some of these numbers have been cropped in binding. The paper, according to the transcriber's practice, has been folded before use giving three vertical creases on every page, the left-hand crease being used as a guide for the alignment of the text. The transcriber uses a catchword on the bottom right-hand corner of most verso pages.