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‘Preliminary notes’ (in an unidentified hand) on the Corpus Missal (n.d., 4pp); draft of an article by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ entitled ‘A Fifteenth Century Irish Missal: B.M., Egerton 2677’ (n.d., 3pp) and notes on the Lesnes Missal (n.d., 5pp).

Copy typescript transcripts, mostly relating to documents (1640-1661), supplied by Fr John MacErlean SJ, in Jesuit archives, on Fr John Stritch SJ and Irish mission.

Rough handwritten family trees, two pages, compiled by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ.

Information on Fr Aubrey Gwynn’s great-grandfather’s cousin, John Gwynne (1754 – 1828/9), founder of a ‘charitable endowment Institution, Derry.’ Includes letters from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland to Fr Gwynn (30 June, 8 July 1975, 2 items. 1p. each) and note given to Fr Gwynn by Archbishop George Simms (July 1974, 1p.) (John Gwynne bequeathed a large sum of money to found a charitable endowment in Derry known as the Gwynne Institution, for the education of boys whose parents could not afford to give them a suitable education. The money was to be distributed equally among Protestants and Catholics. (from Burke’s Irish Family Records, 19[74], p. 53) )

Letter (from Peter, Haslemere, Surrey) and note concerning the biography of Rev. James Gwynne (Fr Gwynn’s maternal grandfather) (1829 -1869).

Letters and notes from Derek H. Turner (Assistant Keeper, Department of Manuscripts, The British Museum) to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning:

• the Corpus Christi Missal (Corpus Christi College, Oxford);
• the ‘Irish Gradual, Rawlinson (c.892)’;
• the Leofric Missal and the Drummond and Roslyn Missals.

Letters (some incomplete) to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Christopher Hohler (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, and Oslo) on a wide range of topics including:

• the Corpus (Christi) Missal; Drummond Missal, Winchester Troper and the Trim Breviary;
• Arrouasian books in England and abroad;
• Hadcock and Gwynn’s Medieval Religious Houses: Ireland;
• Victorine liturgical books;
• the Roslyn Missal;
• the ‘Pet[rine]’ and ‘Ephe[sine]’ liturgies;
• the Sarum Missal;
• Gilbert of Limerick’s ‘Prologue’ and the Synod of Cashel;
• Roman and ‘Gallican’ rites;
• his views on Sts. Patrick and Palladius;

Includes offprint of chapter by Dr Hohler entitled ‘Some Service Books of the Later Saxon Church’ from David Parsons (ed.) Tenth Century Studies (1975), pp.60 – 83 (24pp) with notes, pp.217 – 227 (11pp). Also includes notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Hohler correspondence (3pp & 3 envelopes).

Article entitled ‘A breviary from St Mary’s Abbey, Trim’, Rioght na Midhe, 290-298, by Fr Aubrey Gwynn.

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Liam Ó Buachalla, Cork, relating to the history of the diocese of Cork and Cloyne; - the Uí Toirdhealbhaigh ‘the subsept to which Brian Ború, the Ua hEnna’s and Ua hAailgenis belonged’;

• the O Sealbhaig family and numerous other points with regard to Fr Gwynn’s article ‘Bishop of Cork in the Twelfth Century’ in the Irish Ecclesiastical Record (July 1950);
  his work helping ‘to edit a voluminous…(manuscript)…History of Diocese of Cork left by the late Canon Cahalane’;
• the history of Cloyne from the ninth to the eleventh centuries;
• Nehemias, Bishop of Cloyne who died in 1149;
• the Arrouaisians in Cork (see also J10/153; 195; 227; 228).
  Encloses typescript notes by Ó Buachalla entitled ‘Diocese of Cloyne’ (n.d., 4pp).

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Mrs. E. Bunto[n], Barbados Public Library (2 items), enclosing extracts from the Minutes of the Council of Barbados with reference to the Irish in the West Indies (8pp).

Notes and letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning manuscripts in the British Museum relating to Archbishop Lanfranc and St Anselm. Includes note (6 April 1943) with ‘Notes taken at Aberystwyth – where B.M. MSS were stored in 1943.’

Notes and letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from various academics including Dr Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven, Prof Jim Lydon (Professor of History, T.C.D.) and Dr Ludwig Bieler, relating to the [Irish Manuscripts Commission]. Includes: carbon copy of a ‘Report on Manuscripts of Irish Interest in Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg’ by Dr Ludwig Bieler (August 1957, 11pp).

Notes compiled by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the life and works of his elder brother Edward Lucius Gwynn who died in St Vincent’s Hospital. Sydney on 7 September 1919 aged 28. Buried in the Catholic Cemetery Waverley.

Notes made by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the different islands of the West Indies (7pp) and by A. Olivar OSB ‘Spiritual and Liturgical life on Montserrat’ (7pp).

Notes on, and from the Fenian Papers in the State Paper Office by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ and Breandan Mac Giolla.

Notes relating to Cistercians and Cistercian foundations.

Part of a draft typescript ‘Dowdall Deeds: Indentures of Apprentices etc.’ (p.23 – 30) (typescript on Archbishop Richard FitzRalph and his sermons). 8pp (Part of an article ‘The Sermon-diary of Richard FitzRalph, Archbishop of Armagh’ by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, published in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, (xliv, section C, p.1 – 57); Annotated bound copy of Studies articles by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on Richard FitzRalph, Archbishop of Armagh.

Typescript by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ of notes on Archbishop Lanfranc (mostly extracts from various sources):
– ‘Lanfranc and the Primacy of Canterbury’ (Latin and English) (1p.);
– ‘Lanfranc and the See of Dublin’ (Latin) (1p.);
– ‘Professiones Episcoporum Hibernie’ (Latin) (2pp);
– ‘Lanfranc to Gothric King of Dublin’ (Latin) (2pp);
– ‘Lanfranc to Turlough O Brien King of Ireland’ (Latin) (2pp);
– ‘Pope Gregory VII to the Irish People’ (Latin) (1p.) and
– ‘Lanfranc and Columbanus at Canterbury’ (pp.18 – 22).

(In 1941 Fr Gwynn wrote ‘Lanfranc and the Irish Church’ for the 'Irish Ecclesiastical Record' (lvii, pp.481 – 500; lviii, pp. 1 – 15) and ‘Pope Gregory VII and the Irish Church’ also for the 'Irish Ecclesiastical Record' (lviii, pp.97 – 100) ).

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ with the following headings:

• ‘The Irish Dioceses after the Synod of Kells: The Province of Armagh’ (pp.1 – 47) (47pp, 1p. editing notes & 8pp footnotes);
• ‘The Province of Tuam’ (pp.48 – 61) (14pp & 1p. editing notes);
• ‘The Province of Cashel’ (pp.62 – 138) (77pp & 6pp footnotes) and
• ‘The Province of Dublin’ (pp.139 – 195) (57pp & 8pp footnotes).

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Cistercians and the Annals:

• ‘Cistercian Entries in Annals of Boyle’ (1p);
• ‘Cistercian Entries in Annals of Loch Cé’ (1p);
• ‘Breakdown of discipline in Irish Cistercian abbeys c.1215 – 30’ (2pp);
• ‘The Career of Stephen of Lexinton’ (1p);
• ‘Cistercian abbeys in Ireland’ lists of dates of foundations (1p);
• ‘The Irish Cistercian abbeys after Visitation of 1228’ (1p);
• ‘The Abbey of Boyle before and after the Visitation of 1228’ (1p);
• ‘Visitation by Abbot Stephen of Lexinton, abbot of Stanley’ (1p).

Typescript notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on various Annals:
– ‘Annals of Loch Cé (Annals of Kilronan)’ (1p.);
– ‘Annals of Connacht’ (1p.);
– ‘Annals of Boyle (Annals of Loch Cé after c.1228’;
– ‘The Annals of Connacht and the abbey of Cong’, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Vo. XXVII, 1-9 (1956).

Typescript notes with references to various Calendars (e.g. Calendar of Patent Letters, Calendar of Documents: Ireland) on:

• the Archdiocese of Tuam (1150 - 1260) (7pp);
• the diocese of Elphin (1174 - 1306) (11pp);
• the diocese of Clonfert (1171 - 1306) (12pp);
• the diocese of Killala (1151 - 1309) (6pp) and
• Achonry (1220 – 1312) (5pp).