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Confirmatio of Henry de Gower

Reference: NLW MS 24068F A Latin parchment document, dated 21 May 1328, that revealed the circumstances surrounding the election of Master Henry de Gower as Bishop of St David’s. [iframe…  

cylch_awg_55.pdf

MANIFFESTO MANIFESTO Adolygiad | Review of 2023-2024 55 YR ARCHIF WLEIDYDDOL GYMREIG THE WELSH POLITICAL ARCHIVE Sefydlwyd yr Archif Wleidyddol Gymreig yn 1983 i gydlynu’r gwaith o gasglu…  

The Book of Llandaff

Reference: NLW MS 17110E The Book of Llandaff, (Liber Landavensis), is one of Wales’s earliest ecclesiastical manuscripts. It is a manuscript of considerable bulk comprising 128 vellum pages.…  

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…  

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