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Medieval Astronomy

Reference: NLW MS 735C The oldest scientific manuscript in the National Library is NLW MS 735C, which contains various Latin texts on astronomy. The volume, written in Caroline minuscule,…  

Gwallter Mechain's Reports for the Board of Agriculture

The Board of Agriculture's printed surveys of 1810 and 1815 cast significant light on the rural economy and society of Wales at the turn of the 19th century. Vol. I: Brecon, Caermarthen,…  

The case of Dr Thomas Bowles

This pamphlet, published by the Honourable Society of the Cymmrodorion in 1773, relates to the case of Dr Thomas Bowles (1695-1773). He was a non-Welsh speaker who was appointed rector of the…  

The Welsh Almanac Collection

One tends to think of rare books as finely-bound volumes produced for the wealthy, but the Library's collections of early printed material also include publications for the other end of the…  

Micrographia

Robert Hooke's Micrographia was published in 1665. [iframe…  

Monsterous Fish

A most strange and true report of a monsterous fish, who appeared in the forme of a woman, from her waste upwards by P.G. [iframe…  

Y Drych Cristianogawl

"Y Drych Cristianogawl" is an example of an early Welsh Catholic book and was the first book to have been printed on Welsh soil. [iframe…  

Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos

Reference: Shelfmark b80 B2(3) Here we have a 1580 copy of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Il Principe (The Prince), followed by two controversial Protestant works. The volume was published by the…  

Yny lhyvyr hwnn

In the middle of the fifteenth century Johannes Gutenberg (1397?-1468) invented a mechanical means of producing type rather than having to manually create every letter. This meant that it became…  

Alun Lewis Papers, Poetry (MS 1)

Alun Lewis was a well known Anglo-Welsh poet, regarded by many as Britain’s finest Second World War poet. The Alun Lewis Papers are a collection of manuscripts and papers presented to the National…  

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