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

John Morgan-Guy

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781786839015
• eBook ISBN: 9781786839022
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Higher Education
• Index: History

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'.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: The Story of the College and its Library
• The Royal Charter of 1828
• Charles Robert Cockerell – Architect of St David’s College
• David Cox’s drawing of St David’s College
• Peter of Capua and Distinctiones theologicae
• The Lampeter Bible
• Boddam Hours
• Giovanni Boccaccio and Genealogia deorum gentilium
• Jacobus a Voragine and The Golden Legend (Legenda aurea)
• The Schöffer Missal of 1499
• The Hopyl ‘Sarum’ Missal of 1511
• Conrad Gessner and Historia animalium
• Abraham Ortelius and Theatrum orbis terrarum
• Walter Ralegh and The History of the World
• Gerhard Mercator and Atlas
• Nehemiah Grew and The Anatomy of Plants
• George Hickes the Non-Juror and Lampeter MS T512a
• Isaac Bickerstaff and Predictions for the Year 1708
• The ‘Missing’ Issue of Daniel Defoe’s Review
• Maria Sibylla Merian and Der Rupsen begin, voedzel, en wonderbaare verandering
• Satire and Humour in Bowdler T269
• William Chambers and Desseins des edifices, meubles, habits, machines, etustenciles des chinois
• A Log Book from HMS Elizabeth, 1759–61
• Thomas Pennant and The British Zoology
• The Charts, Plans and Views of Alexander Dalrymple
• Alexander Dalrymple and An historical collection of the several voyages and discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean
• Sydney Parkinson and A journal of a voyage to the South Seas
• Jean-Nicolas Jadelot and Cours complet d’anatomie
• Robert Adam and Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian
• Arnaud Berquin’s L’ami de l’adolescence
• John White and Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales
• William Blake and the illustration of Edward Young’s The Complaint, and the Consolation
• Robert John Thornton and A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnæus
• William Alexander and The Costume of China
• Hannah More and Coelebs in Search of a Wife
• John Smeaton and A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse
• Edward Pugh and Cambria depicta
• John Ross and A voyage of discovery
• John Frederick Lewis and Lewis’s Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra
• John C. Bourne and Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway
• John Richard Coke Smyth and Sketches in the Canadas
• Epilogue: Special Collections and Archives in the Future
• Bibliography
• Index