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Llywarch Hên; Cynddelw; vocabularies

A manuscript in the hand of Ieuan Fardd containing translations of the songs of Llywarch Hên, with accompanying notes (pp. 5-19); notes on Welsh and Shropshire place-names, some taken from the work of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt (pp. 19-36); 'Extracts apparently from the English Chronicle' (pp. 37-44); parallel quotations from Llywarch Hen and Shakespeare (pp. 45-46); a translation of Cynddelw's 'Song of Eva daughter of Madawc the son of Maredudd' (pp. 55-56); an index to the Red Book of Hergest (pp. 57-74); a Welsh-English vocabulary, dating from 1542 (pp. 75-128); and a list of Welsh words compared with allied forms in Latin, Gothic, etc. (pp. 129-133).

Majorum Catalogus

A transcript, in an unidentified hand, of a manuscript in the hand of John ap Gruff[ydd] Eyton (see p. 72), containing a genealogical history from Adam to Cadwaladr in the form of illustrative tables with brief comments (pp. 1-30); and a genealogical Saxon history, similarly arranged and continued down to 1460 (pp. 31-72).

John ap Gruffydd Eyton