The University of Wales Trinity Saint David was originally founded in 1822 as St David’s College, Lampeter. It is now the oldest higher education collegiate institution in Wales, and in its two hundred years of history has been the recipient of many fascinating and rare manuscripts, early printed books, beautifully illustrated volumes, and rare publications from broadsheets to journals. These were largely received through the generous donations of many benefactors, including the institution’s founder Bishop Thomas Burgess of St Davids, with the collection housed today in the Roderic Bowen Library on the Lampeter campus. This fully illustrated volume contains a selection from the many thousands of works spanning more than seven hundred years, with short essays by scholars whose knowledge and appreciation of the works are unrivalled, revealing the riches of what was once known as ‘the greatest little library in Wales’.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
1 Introduction: The Story of the College and its Library
2 The Royal Charter of 1828
3 Charles Robert Cockerell – Architect of St David’s College
4 David Cox’s drawing of St David’s College
5 Peter of Capua and Distinctiones theologicae
6 The Lampeter Bible
7 The Boddam Hours
8 Giovanni Boccaccio and Genealogia deorum gentilium
9 Jacobus a Voragine and The Golden Legend (Legenda auria)
10 The Schoffer Missal of 1499
11 The Hopyl ‘Sarum’ Missal of 1511
12 Conrad Gessner and Historia animalium
13 Abraham Ortelius and Theatrum orbis terrarum
14 Walter Ralegh and The History of the World
15 Gerhard Mercator and Atlas
16 Nehemiah Grew and The Anatomy of Plants
17 George Hickes the Non-Juror and Lampeter MS T512a
18 ‘Isaac Bickerstaff’ and Predictions for the Year 1708
19 The ‘Missing’ Issue of Daniel Defoe’s Review
20 Maria Sibylla Merian and Der Rupsen begin, voedzel, en wonderbaare verandering
21 Satire and Humour in Bowdler T269
22 William Chambers and Desseins des edifices, meubles, habits, machines, et ustenciles des chinois
23 A Log Book from HMS Elizabeth 1759–61
24 Thomas Pennant and The British Zoology
25 The Charts, Plans and Views of Alexander Dalrymple
26 Dutch Voyages into the Pacific
27 Sydney Parkinson and A journal of a voyage to the South Seas
28 Jean-Nicolas Jadelot and Cours complet d’anatomie
29 Robert Adam and Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian
30 Arnaud Berquin’s L’ami de l’adolescence
31 John White and Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales
32 William Blake and the illustration of Edward Young’s The Complaint, and the Consolation
33 Robert John Thornton and A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnæus
34 William Alexander and The Costume of China
35 Hannah More and Cœlebs in Search of a Wife
36 John Smeaton and A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse
37 Edward Pugh and Cambria depicta
38 John Ross and A voyage of discovery
39 John Frederick Lewis and Lewis’s Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra
40 John C. Bourne and Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway
41 John Richard Coke Smyth and Sketches in the Canadas
42 Epilogue: Special Collections and Archives in the Future
Bibliography
Index
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