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A slate inscribed with two knots on one side, one perhaps unfinished, and a third knot on the reverse.

A slate inscribed on one side with deeply incised lines forming part of a grid pattern. This slate and the fragment now SF 35 were formerly two parts of a single larger slate. A very similar grid pattern is also found on SF 31.

A slate inscribed on one side with a few angular lines.

1. William ap Gruff' ap Ieuan ap Ho'l, .... ap Gruff ap Ieuan ap Ho'l; and Anne vz William ap Teg', free tenants of the Prince, of t. Trefdraeth Distenied, commote of Malltraeth;
2. Owayn ap Meuruc, of the same.
   Grant of their land in the said t. Trefdraeth.

1. Bened ap Mad' and Gwenllian, his wife, free tenants of St. Kadwaladr in Eglwysail, commote of Malltraeth;
2. John ap Owayn ap Meuruc, free tenant of the township of Boddeon.
   Grant of lands in Egloysail.

1. Llywelyn ap Konna alias ap Gweirvill verch Llywelyn ap Ithel ap Llywelyn, free tenant of St. Hilary in the township of Llanelien;
2. Rys ap Llywelyn ap Gruff, free tenant of the lord the prince in the township of Llanghgynvarwy, commote of Llywan.
   Release of the lands and tenements once of Ieuan ap Phylipp ap Dd., from whom they passed to the said Gweirvill. Witnesses: Ken' ap Dd.; Dd. ap Ieuan ap Matte and Dd. ap Ken' ap Dd.

Thirty-five inscribed slates from Strata Florida Abbey, Cardiganshire, dated to the fifteenth century. Many of the slates are broken fragments with the inscriptions consequently often being incomplete; all are irregular in shape. The inscriptions comprise both text, the majority being in Welsh with examples of Latin and English, and pictures, comprising zoomorphic and anthropomorphic forms, geometric shapes and patterns, as well as other indefinite markings. The majority of the slates are inscribed on one face only, with eleven bearing inscriptions on both sides (SF 1, 3, 5-7, 15, 19, 22, 24, 28-29).
The five slates SF 13-14, 23, 25-26 are all broken fragments of one original slab (along with other still missing sections); with the exception of SF 13 the fragments can be joined up into one larger piece. SF 13-14 and 26 contain parts of a single epitaph, incised in large outline letters, which together appear to read: 'Hic ia[cet] ...es ap ... [a]p ll[ywelyn] [mona]chus'. SF 33 and 35 are also two fragments of a single slate.

A slate inscribed on one side with overlapping Latin inscriptions, of which the phrases '…deo cui nomera erat' and '…gr[atia]m nocis apta[m] dimittere' are legible, together with the name 'rys ap gr'. In addition there are a number of parallel lines inscribed into the slate, with the two longest joined at one end in a curved 'm' shape, and part of a circular pattern. On the reverse are some geometrical patterns.
There is a reddish colour to the written side of the slate (dye or chalk, likely applied at NLW for previous exhibitions).

A slate inscribed on one side with the name 'David Grythor' and a geometric pattern.

A slate inscribed on one side with two zoomorphic sketches, one of which appears to be a dog, together with at least four similar geometric designs, possibly horoscopes. On the reverse face is one other example of the same geometric design.

A slate inscribed on one side with a picture of the lower half of a long-haired, bearded human face.

A slate inscribed on one side with a few letters, including p, h and s. There is a reddish colour to this side of the slate (dye or chalk, likely applied at NLW for previous exhibitions).

A slate inscribed on one side with a man's lower body and legs, slightly overlapping a stag with antlers, together with some geometric lines and a few letters or part of a word.
The slate is one of five broken fragments of one original slab, along with SF 13-14, 23, 26; the man's head and torso are to be found on SF 23.

A slate inscribed on one side with a drawing of a bishop's mitre; the inscription is unusually deeply incised.

A slate inscribed on one side with geometric lines in the shape of a grid, together with some rough and illegible letters, and on the reverse with a few rough marks.

A slate inscribed on one side with deeply incised lines forming part of a grid pattern. This slate and the fragment now SF 33 were formerly two parts of a single larger slate. A very similar grid pattern is also found on SF 31.

A late fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript of Les Stratagèmes, the French version of the Latin Stratagemata of Julius Sextus Frontinus, translated, [1439x1460], for Charles VII, king of France, by Jean de Rovroy (fl. 1388-1460), dean of the faculty of theology at the University of Paris, who has added extracts, in French, from the Epitoma Rei Militaris of Vegetius (see R. Bossuat, 'Jean de Rovroy, traducteur des Stratagèmes de Frontin', Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 22 (1960), 273-86, 469-89). Written by one scribe, 'H. G.', in France (f. 70 verso). Decorated initials with burnished gold for all books and chapters; other initials and paragraph marks in alternate red and blue. Four polychrome miniatures, one representing the translator presenting his book to Charles VII, probably the work of Robinet Testard (fl. 1484-1523), miniaturist to count Charles d'Angoulême (1459 or 1460-1496), later to his wife, Louise de Savoie (1476-1531); retouched in XIX cent.

A slate inscribed on one side with the words 'Davyd Gwynn monachus', written in outline letters, with '... amen' beneath.

A slate inscribed on one side with the Latin epitaph 'hic iacet ffrater D[avi]d Gwyn', together with several lines and other markings, including a few possible letter shapes.