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Poetry of Gruffudd Grug, Iolo Goch, Tudur Aled, Guto'r Glyn, Dafydd Nanmor, Gruffudd Hiraethog, William Cynwal and others by two scribes of the second half of the 16th century.
Pp. 1-26 were written c. 1575.

Poems mainly of Huw Arwystl, some of which are autograph, together with other poems in several different hands.

A manuscript, late 15th to the 16th century, containing poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym, Iolo Goch, Hywel Cae Llwyd, Dafydd Epynt, Rhys Fardd, Hywel Swrdwal and others.
Pp. 21-112 were written probably before 1484. The manuscript is written in various hands (p. 21 alone containing three different hands): the poems of Dafydd Epynt are all in one hand (see Peniarth MS 60); those of Hywel Cae Llwyd and Hywel Swrdwal in another (see Peniarth MS 54, part ii); those of Rhys Fardd in another hand; etc. Pp. 1-20 contain a peculiarly cramped hand. The poetry on pp. 359-392, 396-419, 422-423, 432-448 is written in bardic script (see Gwenogvryn's observations on this in J. Gwenogvryn Evans, Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language, vol. I (London, 1898-1905), 418). P. 257 is rubbed and the readings uncertain in part. The two leaves following p. 284b have been cut out. At least one folio is torn off at p. 448 and the remainder of the poem is inverted.

A manuscript, late 15th to the 16th century, seemingly belonging to Peniarth MS 54i, and containing poetry of Hywel Cae Llwyd and others, and pedigrees.
The cywyddau of Hywel Cae Llwyd and Hywel and Ieuan Swrdwal are written in the same hand as that which cited the works of Hywel Cae Llwyd and Hywel Swrdwal in Peniarth MS 54i.

A copy of the translation by Chaucer of the 'De Consolatione Philosophie of Boethius'; two letters from F. J. Furnivall; and a printed copy of Chaucer's 'Boethius'.

Two bifolia containing part of Bede's De natura rerum (cap. 27-48), written in Wales in the twelfth century.

Part one of the two manuscripts of Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, comprising the Four Branches of the Mabinogion; Peredur; Macsen Wledig; Lludd a Llefelus; fragments of Owain a Luned; Geraint ac Enid; and an incomplete version of Kulhwch ac Olwen; and a poem by Llywelyn Moel.

'La passion de nostre seigneur Jhesucrist translatee de latin en francois'; and a religious poem. Illuminated.
Also included is an envelope of notes by J. A. Herbert.

A transcript of Admirandum & inestimabile opus Steganographiae A Joanne Tritemio Abbate Spanheymensi Anno Christi CDD conscriptum nunc demum d tenebris & pulueribus, in quibus sepultum hactenus iacuit, erutum diligentia et studio Jacobi Casteluitrei. Londini CDDXCI.

A prose miscellany comprising the Gospel of the Pseudo-Mathew, Transitus Mariae, the Life of St Catherine, the Finding of the Cross and other texts in the hand of Gutun Owain.

A collection of Welsh poetry, compiled by one scribe during the mid-thirteenth century, containing verse composed at various times during the period between the eighth and thirteenth centuries.
The volume includes triads (p. 27), religious and vaticinatory poetry, eulogies, elegies and numerous poems relating to the Myrddin Legend.

A compendium, [late 15th cent. x early 16th cent.], of works on astrology, medicine, sayings, Brut y Saeson, a short chronicle, Lives of Saints David and Gwenffrewi, Bonedd y Saint and other texts. The manuscript was previously ascribed to Gutun Owain (see Daniel Huws, Medieval Welsh Manuscripts (Aberystwyth, 2000), p. 190).

A manuscript in several late 18th century hands comprising summaries and transcripts of texts from the Book of Llan Dâf and from Jesus College MSS 2 (Llyfr Ancr Llanddewibrefi), 3, 7 and 17. The manuscript also includes a copy of a note book by Robert Vaughan; transcripts of the British Genealogy relating to Wales; topographical notes on Glamorgan and the Gower; and poetry concerning Anrawd and The Wars of Brecknock.

A manuscript of the first half of the 14th century in the hand of a single scribe comprising a Welsh version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Brittonum (p. 6); the Pedigrees of the Saints (p. 286) and of the Men of the North (p. 291); and triads (p. 293).

A manuscript in the hands of several 16th century scribes comprising poetry by Dafydd Epynt, Ieuan Llwyd and others, and a Welsh calendar.

A 16th century manuscript in several hands comprising fragments of Welsh grammars; a treatise on milling; drawings of tools; the rules of Welsh metre; poetry; and a poetical dramatic dialogue.

A manuscript in the hand of Sir Thomas Williams comprising a treatise on Welsh metres; and copies of the Welsh Grammars of William Cynwal and Gr[iffith] Roberts.