Treasures: The Special Collections of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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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’.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-07-15
Mått:189 x 246 x 24 mm
Vikt:1 028 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:University of Wales Press
ISBN:9781786839015

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This book is designed to appeal not only to an academic audience, but also to a wide general readership.

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ContentsAcknowledgementsList of Contributors1Introduction: The Story of the College and its Library 2The Royal Charter of 18283Charles Robert Cockerell – Architect of St David’s College4David Cox’s drawing of St David’s College5Peter of Capua and Distinctiones theologicae 6The Lampeter Bible7The Boddam Hours8Giovanni Boccaccio and Genealogia deorum gentilium 9Jacobus a Voragine and The Golden Legend (Legenda auria)10The Schoffer Missal of 149911The Hopyl ‘Sarum’ Missal of 151112Conrad Gessner and Historia animalium13Abraham Ortelius and Theatrum orbis terrarum 14Walter Ralegh and The History of the World15Gerhard Mercator and Atlas 16Nehemiah Grew and The Anatomy of Plants 17George Hickes the Non-Juror and Lampeter MS T512a 18‘Isaac Bickerstaff’ and Predictions for the Year 170819The ‘Missing’ Issue of Daniel Defoe’s Review20Maria Sibylla Merian and Der Rupsen begin, voedzel, en wonderbaare verandering21Satire and Humour in Bowdler T26922William Chambers and Desseins des edifices, meubles, habits, machines, et ustenciles des chinois 23A Log Book from HMS Elizabeth 1759–61 24Thomas Pennant and The British Zoology25The Charts, Plans and Views of Alexander Dalrymple26Dutch Voyages into the Pacific27Sydney Parkinson and A journal of a voyage to the South Seas 28Jean-Nicolas Jadelot and Cours complet d’anatomie 29Robert Adam and Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian 30Arnaud Berquin’s L’ami de l’adolescence31John White and Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales 32William Blake and the illustration of Edward Young’s The Complaint, and the Consolation 33Robert John Thornton and A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnæus34William Alexander and The Costume of China 35Hannah More and Cœlebs in Search of a Wife36John Smeaton and A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse 37Edward Pugh and Cambria depicta 38John Ross and A voyage of discovery 39John Frederick Lewis and Lewis’s Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra 40John C. Bourne and Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway 41John Richard Coke Smyth and Sketches in the Canadas42Epilogue: Special Collections and Archives in the FutureBibliographyIndex