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dydd hefyd y traethodau a fedyddiodd yn 'Na all fod un ffydd onid y wir ffydd' a 'Coelio'r Saint'. Parthed y gyfrol bresennol mae'n debyg y dylid dweud fod lie i anghytuno'n ysbeidiol a'r nodiadau eglurhaol-tra gwerthfawr, at ei gilydd-a geir yn y gwaith: er enghraifft, cymysgwyd, yn fy marn i, S. Vincent de Paul a S. Vincent Ferrer ar tt. xxxi, 138, a pharodd hynny anhawster dianghenraid ynglyn a'r dyddio. Ond ni all brychau cymharol fychain ac anaml fel y rhain guddio ar y ffaith fod testun rhyddiaith Gymraeg pwysicaf y Gwrth-ddiwygiad ar gael bellach i'w astudio mewn ffurf hwylus a dibynadwy. [Dr Geraint Bowen edits, for the first time, the full version of Y Drych Kristnogawl (The Christian Mirror) from Cardiff City Library MS 3.240; the first part only appeared in print, produced on a secret press, early in 1587. Dr Bowen shows that the book is one of five (a safer figure might be four) original prose works written by Fr Robert Gwyn of Penyberth in Caernarfonshire, a leading Welsh missionary priest. It is a work aimed at persuading those members of the Welsh gentry who were Catholic by inclination to practise their faith openly, whatever the cost might be. It is, of its kind, a minor masterpiece.] R. GERAINT GRUFFYDD Aberystwyth GUIDE to THE DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS AND RECORDS: THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES. National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1994. Pp. 227. £ 15.00. Since its foundation in 1909, the National Library of Wales has been the home of an ever-growing body of manuscript collections and archives, located in the Department of Manuscripts and Records. Although the Annual Report of the Library has detailed the annual accessions of archival collections to the Department, this Guide is the first of its kind which provides a comprehensive survey of the holdings of the Department. We are first of all introduced to the main manuscript collections and archives and then we have, under Appendix I, a complete list of the catalogues, schedules and lists of archives and collections provided in the catalogue room of the Department at the close of March 1994. Much shorter Appendices follow, Appendix II detailing 'Special and Subject Lists' as 'Agricultural manuscripts (1935), 'Business Archives' (1935) and 'Music Mss' (1934), and Appendix III listing 'Medieval Manuscripts'. Of course, as the Introduction to the