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A volume containing an incomplete holograph copy, [mid-19 cent.], of An Abbridgement of the History of Britain From the Time of Constantine the Great to the Invasion by the Saxons Collected Out of the Works of William Cathrall, by Richard R. Jones (Dic Aberdaron, 1780-1843); together with a transcript by him of a passage in Latin and Hebrew from Johannis Buxtorfii Institutio epistolaris hebraica (Basel, 1610) made, 7 January 1837, for Hugh Jones, draper (f. 23).

A copy of [W. Stanley Roscoe,] Memoir of Richard Robert Jones of Aberdaron (London, 1822), with a letter from Joseph Mayer to William Upcott, 27 August 1843, and a holograph autobiography, transcripts in Greek and Hebrew, and a sketch of a harp by Richard Robert Jones (Dic Aberdaron).

[William Stanley Roscoe:] Memoir of Richard Roberts Jones of Aberdaron ... (London, 1822), with manuscript additions and insertions by 'Dic Aberdaron' himself. Bound into the volume are a number of printed items, notably Y ffordd i fod yn iach a dedwydd, being no. 445 in the series published by the Religious Tract Society.

Research papers, [1988x1998]-2016, relating to the publication of the reference book Post-war to Post-modern: a Dictionary of Artists in Wales published in 2015 in English and the Welsh edition Ȏl-ryfel i Ȏl-fodernaidd: Bywgraffiadau Artistiaid Cymru. The papers include minutes of the editorial group, biographical profiles of visual and applied artists, details of exhibitions held and images of their work.

A manuscript volume in Arabic and Persian which, according to an accompanying note, was picked up after the Battle of Inkerman in 1854. It opens in Arabic ('This is the book of the Jewels of Isālām') and then follow the invocation of the name of Allah and the laudatory reference to Mohammed. The text follows in Persian and consists of a dictionary of Islamic names, personal and geographical. The end is again in Arabic, and the colophon is dated 1213 of the Hejra, i.e. 1835.

Dictionary of the English Language by Joseph Ritson. (Formerly Howell Ll. Davies MS 10.) English. Parchment. Purchased from the library of Howell Lloyd Davies, Ruabon, 1949.

Manuscript draft, 1914, with typescript draft introduction, of an apparently unpublished Historical Grammar and Dictionary of the Silurian Dialect of the Welsh Language, by the Rev. Dr Lemuel Hopkin-James (Hopcyn, 1874-1937), cleric and antiquary.

'Diferyn Difyrrwch neu ganiadau plygeiniol er coffadwriaeth am ymddangosiad Duw yn y cnawd', being a collection made by G. C. Griffith of 'englynion', 'carolau', and other poems by Robert Hughes (Neuadd y blawd), William Griffith ('Gwilym ab Gryffydd', 1794), John Thomas (Pentrefoelas, 1800), David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifionydd'), G. C. Gryffydd (1816), and Richard Jones (Trefdraeth).

Llawysgrif Difyr Gampau a Gorchestion yr enwog Twm Shon Catti ... (Llanidloes, 1872), sef cyfieithiad gan John Evans ('Eilonydd') o lyfr Saesneg T. J. Llewelyn Pritchard [The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shon Catti ... (1828)]. Prynwyd oddi wrth Mr S. G. Lloyd Evans, Caerdydd, Rhagfyr 1977.

Proof sheets of 'The Great Hymns of Wales', with an introduction on Welsh religious poetry from the earliest times to the fifteenth century, by Digain Williams [fl. 1888-1895], San Francisco, 1933. A letter signed by the author, 1 October 1934, is attached to the proof.

Letters, 1953-1956, to Dinah White from John Cowper Powys, his brother Littleton Charles Powys, and others; together with printed items, 1954-1987, relating to Father Littleton Alfred Powys and the Powys family.

Records, 1455-1919, of the Lee family of Dinas Powis, Glamorgan, and their predecessors, including rentals of the manor of Dinas Powis and of the Dinas Powis estate, 1610, 1671-1906, surveys of the same, 1566-1610; title deeds, legal papers and correspondence, 1514-1919 (mainly post-1640) relating to properties in Glamorgan, Monmouthshire and Breconshire; records relating to the Friars estate, Glamorgan, of William Hurst, including a survey and rentals, 1777-1786. The archive also includes deeds relating to the estates of the Lords Brooke in Devon, Somerset and Wiltshire.

Dinas yr Haul gan R. Bryn Williams ('Valencia' yn ei gyfrol Teithiau Tramor) (teipysgrif). (Gynt R. Bryn Williams MS 83.) Gweler hefyd NLW MSS 18175-18246.

Manuscripts, [late 12 cent.]-[19 cent.], including the oldest known Welsh version of the Brut or Chronicle of Geoffrey of Monmouth.