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Book SynopsisThe 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’.
Table of ContentsContents 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
