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University of Wales Lampeter, formerly St. David’s College

Library Archive Catalogue GB 1953 UA/L

Sarah Roberts Special Collections Archivist V 1.0 October 2017

Contents

Administrative/Biographical History 1

Archival History 4

Immediate Source of Acquisition 4

Scope and Content 5

Conditions Governing Access and Use 5

Publication Note 7

Catalogue 13

Administration and Management UA/L/1 13

Registers UA/L/1/1 13

Agenda and Minutes UA/L/1/2 17

Reports UA/L/1/3 25

Policies UA/L/1/4 31

Finance UA/L/1/5 33

Staff UA/L/1/6 38

Stock Management UA/L/1/7 39

Inter Library Loans UA/L/1/8 42

Research and Outreach UA/L/2 43

User Guides UA/L/2/1 43

Publications UA/L/2/2 45

Bibliographical Information and Finding Aids UA/L/2/3 55

Bibliographical Enquiries UA/L/2/4 67

Events and Exhibitions UA/L/2/5 72

Special Collections-Based Teaching UA/L/2/6 97

Donations and Transfers UA/L/3 98

Donations to the Library UA/L/3/1 98

Transfers from the Library UA/L/3/2 107

Conservation UA/L/4 110

Kupferman UA/L/5 113

Office Materials UA/L/6 114

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ISAD(G) compliant description of the archive material relating to the Library of

Saint David’s College Lampeter (SDC), subsequently Saint David’s University

College Lampeter (SDUC), later the University of Wales Lampeter (UWL), and now

a constituent member of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD)

Library Records – Subfonds L

Identity Statement Area Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L

Title Library Records

Date(s) 1809-[ongoing](Creation)

Level of Description Subfonds

Extent and Medium 0.28 cubic metres

(28 boxes, 6 outsize volumes and 1 roll)

Context Area Name of Creator(s) Saint David’s College

Saint David’s University College

University of Wales Lampeter

University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Administrative/Biographical History

From the moment the idea of a college for the diocese of Saint David's was

conceived, the founder, Bishop Burgess, recognised that it would require a library

and in 1807 an appeal was made to the local community for, among other items,

books. The first donations arrived at the Bishop’s Palace in Abergwili in 1809, and

by the time Saint David's College opened its doors to its first students in 1827,

four thousand volumes had been collected and placed in its library.

Donations of books continued to arrive in Lampeter throughout the first half of the

nineteenth century and in 1834 the college received the first of many

consignments from the college’s most significant individual donor of books,

Thomas Phillips1. Following the bequest in 1837 of approximately ten thousand

volumes, comprising the personal collection of Bishop Burgess, the library was no

longer able to provide shelf-space for its holdings. In that same year, the

Cambridge University don the Revd Joseph Romilly visited the College and he

reported that the library held approximately sixteen thousand volumes and that

Burgess’ widow had recently given the sum of £500 to finance the doubling-in-

size of the library2. By the time the final consignment from Thomas Phillips had

been unpacked in 1852, the library held approximately thirty-five thousand

volumes, by far the largest library in Wales at that time.

1 Between 1834 and 1852, Thomas Phillips (1760-1851) donated a total of over 22,500 volumes to the college library, including six medieval manuscripts and around fifty incunabula 2 Romilly’s Visits to Wales 1827-1854

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The college’s first librarian, the Revd Rice Rees, had been appointed in 1827. Rees,

who was also the college’s Professor of Welsh, registered every volume in

accessions registers and compiled a catalogue of the volumes deposited in the

library up to the date of its publication in 18363. Unfortunately the diligent work

of Rice Rees was brought to a premature end with his unexpected death in 1839,

and work did not recommence on the library catalogue until the Revd Joseph

Matthews, Phillips Professor of Science, was appointed Librarian in 1862. Progress,

however, stalled following Matthews’ departure in 1872 and did not resume until

1881 when a group of undergraduates, under the supervision of the Revd Charles

Gresford Edmondes, Librarian and Professor of Latin and Logic, began to arrange

the books by subject and thereunder by author. This work was abandoned, yet

again, following Edmondes’ departure that same year.

Following Edmondes departure the post of Librarian was taken up by Thomas

Frederick Tout, Professor of English and later of History (1881-1889). Tout’s

important contribution to the library collections was, in collaboration with C. H.

Firth of Oxford University, the restoration and rebinding of the Tract Collection.

In 1898 the Revd Llewellyn John Montfort Bebb was appointed College Principal.

Bebb had been the Librarian at Brasenose and one of his first priorities at Lampeter

was to ensure the completion of the cataloguing of the fifty thousand or so

volumes which had been accepted since the death of Rice Rees. Rather than leave

the task to members of the college staff and students, Bebb employed a

professional librarian to complete the work and the production of the catalogue

finally began in earnest in October 1903, under the direction of Mr Alexander de

Zandt.

Bebb made appeals for donations of archival material connected to the history of

the college, in which he had a great interest, and for Welsh books, which were to

be deposited in a separate Welsh library which he established in 1903. The Welsh

Library became the repository for new acquisitions, alongside books which had

previously been intermingled with the general library holdings, which were either

written in Welsh and/or related to Wales and other Celtic countries.

A significant addition to the Welsh Library’s holdings was the purchase, in 1904,

of the extensive and celebrated library of the Revd D H Davies of Cenarth, a

graduate of Saint David’s College. At around this time the student body

established a Student’s Reading Room and the Student’s Library, funded directly

through student contributions.

By 1906 de Zandt had completed the library catalogue, an undertaking which had

required entries on more than 40,000 cards; the contents of the Welsh Library

had been listed by Mr William Davies, the bursary clerk; and the college’s

collection of manuscripts had been catalogued by Mr Falconer Madan, then sub-

librarian of the Bodleian.

3 A Catalogue of Books deposited in the Library of St. David’s College, published by Rice Rees’ brother, the printer, William Rees of Llandovery

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The fact that Principal Bebb had previously been a librarian surely accounts for

this short-lived but relatively golden era for the college’s libraries. Following

Bebb’s death in 1915, subsequent Principalships saw the libraries starved of funds,

both for book purchases and for qualified staff, and the majority of acquisitions

over the succeeding decades came not through active acquisition but through gifts

and bequests.

The first full-time professional librarian, Robin Rider, was appointed in 1961 and

the current main library building was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh in July

1966. The new library was designed to house the academic collections of the

general library stock, the Student Library and the Welsh Library, but the space it

afforded for eighty-five thousand volumes and seventy-five readers was soon

found to be inadequate; less than twenty years later, the building was significantly

remodelled and doubled in size and was re-opened by the Prince of Wales in 1984.

Throughout this period the older, rare books, manuscripts and incunables had

remained in the original library, which, following its refurbishment in 1971 was

subsequently referred to as the Old Library. The Old Library housed the

approximately twenty thousand volumes comprising the special collections until

2008 when a further extension to the Main Library building was officially opened

by the First Minister of Wales, the Right Hon Rhodri Morgan MP. The purpose-built

repository and research centre was funded by the Higher Education Funding

Council for Wales and a substantial legacy bequeathed by Evan Roderic Bowen

(1913-2001), lawyer, Liberal Cardiganshire Member of Parliament and President

of St David’s University College Lampeter from 1977 to 1992.

Designed to house both the special collections and the archival material which had

been assembled over the intervening years, the Roderic Bowen Library and

Archives (RBLA) provides a secure, environmentally controlled storage area for

the collections, a specialist reference library, and a publicly accessible reading and

teaching space.

The Old Library which, following Council approval was renamed the Founders

Library in June 1994, retains many of its original internal architectural features.

However, when the special collections were relocated to the RBLA, the Founders

Library was refurbished and repurposed; since its official reopening by HRH Prince

Charles on 1 July 2010 it has functioned as a lecture theatre and conference

venue.

For a more detailed history of the College Library refer to volume one, chapter

nine, of Price’s history of the college: Price, D. T. W. (1977). A History of Saint

David’s University College Lampeter, Volume One: to 1898. Cardiff: University of

Wales Press.

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Archival History

Although Principal Bebb had first appealed at the beginning of the twentieth

century for archive material to be deposited at the college, it was only with the

arrival of the Revd D. T. W. Price, in 1970, that the Archive Service of the (by

then) University of Wales, Lampeter (UWL), was established. Price was the

Archivist for the diocese of Saint David’s from 1982 to 1998 and lecturer in history

at UWL from 1970 until 1997. Price gathered and assembled archival materials

relating to the history of the college, along with the papers of former members of

staff and students, while undertaking research for his two-volume work, A History

of Saint David's University College, Lampeter (University of Wales Press, 1977 and

1990). Price was the university's first Honorary Archivist and during his time in

Lampeter the archive was kept in numbered, indexed boxes in the college’s

Department of History.

Following Price’s retirement in 1997, the post of Archivist was filled by Dr John

Morgan-Guy, formerly archives advisor to the Somerset Health Authority, member

of the Specialist Repositories Group of the Society of Archivists, and lecturer in

Theology and Religious Studies at UWL. During Morgan-Guy’s tenure the archive

was transferred to a dedicated storage area in what is now the Board Room in the

College’s Old Building.

Following the retirement of Robin Rider in 1994, Nigel Yates, Professor of

Ecclesiastical History and former County Archivist of Kent, took over the position

of Keeper of Archives and Manuscripts. In 2007 Yates completed the Catalogue of

the Official Records of the University of Wales, Formerly St. David’s College,

Lampeter.

Descriptions of the university’s archival collections were compiled in 2002/3 by

Rhian Phillips, Archives Hub project archivist, for the Archives Hub network.

Library material was listed under GB 1953 UWL/8 Information Services Papers.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The library archive material was initially accumulated through the work of the

Revd D. T. W. Price in the 1970s. Since the establishment of the Archive Service,

material has been deposited on an irregular and ad hoc basis, customarily by the

incumbent Librarian. Usual catalysts for deposition include the retirement of

members of library staff; the relocation of personnel or of services; and the

upheaval associated with significant refurbishment/building works. Acquisition is

ongoing.

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Content and Structure Area Scope and Content The Library Records subfonds contains the records of the Lampeter campus college

libraries. The oldest document, from 1809, predates the foundation of the college

itself. The group incorporates papers relating to the Founders' Library, the Welsh

Library, the Students’ Library, the Main University Library, and to the Roderic

Bowen Library and Archives. The collection includes documents relating to the

administration and the management of the service, alongside materials which

document the content and care of the collections, their histories and development,

and their application to academic research and outreach activities.

The types of document include agendas and minutes of meetings; official reports;

registers; ledgers; pamphlets and user guides; bibliographical information and

finding aids; display materials and associated exhibition catalogues; and

correspondence which includes details of bibliographical and archival enquiries

relating to the collections.

Appraisal, Destruction and Scheduling Information A number of discrete collections relating to named individuals were transferred to

more appropriate repositories in 2004 at the instigation of the Keeper of Archives

and Manuscripts, Professor Nigel Yates. Details of the materials transferred are

recorded in GB 1953 UA/L/3/2. All other records have been retained.

Accruals Further accruals are expected

System of Arrangement The original order has been retained. The papers are arranged into series and

subseries according to the function to which they relate, and chronologically

thereunder Conditions of Access and Use Area

Conditions Governing Access The collections are open for consultation by appointment through application to

the Special Collections Advisor. Restrictions on access to specific files or items are

noted in their catalogue description

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Conditions Governing Reproduction All material is copyright of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and may not

be reproduced, in any medium, without prior permission from the Roderic Bowen

Library and Archives

Language of Material The language of business is English; documents written in Welsh and/or bilingually

are noted in the catalogue entry. A small number of items are written in

English/Welsh/Chinese

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements Items of a fragile nature are excluded from reproduction

The collection includes VHS video cassettes, CDs, and DVDs

Finding Aids Yates, N. (2007). Catalogue of the Official Records of the University of Wales,

Formerly St. David’s College, Lampeter (UA), Compiled by Professor Nigel Yates,

Keeper of Archives and Manuscripts. Lampeter: University Print Unit

The catalogue is available on the UWTSD website at:

http://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/rbla/archives/

Paper handlists are available from the RBLA on request

Card Catalogue

Allied Materials Area

Existence and Location of Originals

The material is held in the Roderic Bowen Research Centre on the Lampeter

campus of UWTSD

Existence and Location of Copies

Digital reproductions of material relating to WWI are available under a Creative

Commons license on the Cymru 1914: The Welsh Experience of the First World

War website at: http://cymru1914.org/

Related Units of Description

Papers relating to library buildings are listed under Estates Department Records

(GB 1953 UA/BR). Related materials are held by NLW and Ceredigion Archives

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Publication Note

The following publications describe or cite the college library and/or its contents.

Reference copies of many of these works are available for consultation in the

Roderic Bowen Library and Archives reading room.

See online library catalogue at: http://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/rbla/archives/ and GB

1953 UA/L/2/2

Attar, K. (ed.) (2015). Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK

and Republic of Ireland 3rd edition. London: Facet Publishing

Barton, I. M. (2004). The Bibliography of Classical Architecture: Vitruvius and

After. Trivium 35, pp199-220

Boorman, S. C. (1959). The College Library. Gateway, Saint David’s College

Student Magazine pp6-7. Lampeter: Saint David’s College

Borrow, G. (1865). Wild Wales: its People, Language and Scenery, (2nd edition).

London: John Murray

Brothers, T. (1997). Travellers to Greece and the Levant in the Seventeenth and

Eighteenth Centuries. Trivium 29 & 30, pp99-124

Brothers, T. (2006). Expeditions to Greece in the seventeenth and eighteenth

centuries. In: Brothers, T., Gill D. & Stones, B. Travellers to Greece, pp9-19.

Sherborne: Classical Association

Condry, W. (1997). From Herbals to Floras: The Illustrated Botanical Works in the

Founders’ Library. Trivium 29 & 30, pp1-12

Cooper, B. (2008). An Unrecorded Collection of Early Music Sources in Lampeter:

Description and Annotated Inventory. Royal Musical Association Research

Chronicle, 41, pp93-120

Culpin, D. J. (1996). Catalogue des ouvrages du fonds Francais 1601-1850

conservés dans la ‘Founders' Library’ de L'Universite du Pays de Galles, Lampeter.

Introduction, notices et index rédigés par D.J. Culpin avec la collaboration de

Philippe Parker, avec un répertoire des incunables et des éditions du seizième

siècle rédigé par Trevor Peach. Cardiff: University of Wales Press

Davies, W. (1904). List of Books in the Welsh Library. Lampeter: Welsh Church

Press

Davies, W. (1904). A Second List of Books in the Welsh Library. Lampeter: Welsh

Church Press

Dearden, J. A. (1973). Thomas Johnes and the Hafod Press, 1803–10. The Book

Collector, 22, pp315-336

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Doyle, A. I. (1998). English Carthusian books not yet linked with a charterhouse.

In: Barnard, T., Cróinín D. Ó & Simms, K. eds. A Miracle of Learning, pp122-136.

Aldershot: Ashgate

Harris, Llewelyn John (1976). Review of D. F. Foxon (1975) ‘English Verse 1701-

1750’. Library, 5th series, 31:2 pp158-164

Harris, Ll. J. (1977). The Library of St David’s University College, Lampeter:

Unfamiliar Libraries 21. The Book Collector, 26:2, pp195-227

Harris, Ll. J. (1977). The Tract Collection at St David’s University College,

Lampeter: a Bibliographical Catalogue of Literary Works, 1680-1749. MPhil

dissertation. Leeds: University of Leeds, School of English

Harris, Ll. J. & James, B. Ll. (1974). The Tract Collection of St David’s University

College, Lampeter. Trivium 9, pp100-109

Harris, Ll. J. & James, B. Ll. (1977). The Library of St David’s University College,

Lampeter. Unfamiliar Libraries XXI. The Book Collector 26, pp195-227

Hedlund, M. (1981). The Ordinal of the Vadstena nuns: the Latin text found in

Saint David's University College library, Lampeter, Wales (MS.5). Eranos: Acta

Philosophica Sueca 79, pp121-136

Hewerdine, C. (1981). A Study of the Hours of Charles Boddam, Lampeter, MS vii.

Lampeter: MA Dissertation

Hewerdine, C. (1983). Symbolic Decoration in a Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours.

Trivium 18 pp49-54

Howells, William H. (1982). The Library of Edward Richard, Ystradmeurig.

Ceredigion, Journal of the Cardigan Antiquarian Society 9, pp227-244

James, B. Ll. (1975). A Catalogue of the Tract Collection of St David’s University

College, Lampeter. London: Mansell

James, B. Ll. (1976). Maps and Atlases in the Old Library at St. David’s University

College, Lampeter. Society of University Cartographers Bulletin 10:1, pp15-24

Jones, J. G. (2003). ‘The Young Upstart’: Dr. E. Roderic Bowen (1913-2001).

Ceredigion: Journal of the Ceredigion Historical Society, 14:3, pp71-90

Ker, N. R. (1983). Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries III, Lampeter-Oxford.

Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Lea, E. R. M. (1986). A Guide to the Theological Libraries of Great Britain and

Ireland. London: Association of British Theological and Philosophical Libraries

(ABTAPL) Publishing

Lloyd Thomas, J. R. (1980). Moth or phoenix? St. David’s College and the

University of Wales and the University Grants Committee. Llandysul: Gomer Press

Marx, W. (1998). University of Wales, Lampeter - The Founders' Library.

Description of Lampeter holdings for the Fabian-Handbuch 2003:

http://fabian.sub.uni-goettingen.de/fabian?Lampeter

Marx, W., Miles, P. and Williams, G. (eds.) (1989). The Word and the Visual

Imagination: A Decade in the Lampeter MA in Literature and the Visual Arts.

Lampeter: English Department, Saint David’s University College

Miles, P. (1997). The Test of Lampeter’s Rare Issue of Defoe’s ‘Review’. Trivium

29 & 30, pp143-154

Morgan-Guy, J. (2004). Close Action off the Coromandel Coast: A Founders’

Library Manuscript and the British Fight for India. Trivium 35, pp97-120

Morgan-Guy, J. (2010). ‘A cultivated and well-stored mind’: Thomas Phillips

MRCS, Benefactor of St David’s College, Lampeter. Cronicl Powys 81, pp22-24

Morris, M. G. R. (Ed.) (1998). Romilly's visits to Wales, 1827-1854: extracts from

the diaries of the Rev Joseph Romilly, edited, introduced and annotated by M.G.R.

Morris. Llandysul: Gomer

Ogden, J. (1997). Bishop Burgess and John Milton. Trivium 29 & 30, pp79-98

O'Loughlin, T. (2004). Two Sixteenth-Century Biblical Maps in the Founders'

Library. Trivium 35, pp121-168

Peach, T. (1992). Éditions françaises du XVIe siècle conservées dans le fonds

ancien de la Bibliothèque de Saint David's University College, Lampeter (Pays de

Galles): catalogue alphabétique. Lampeter: Saint David’s University College

Library, Lampeter

Peach, T. (1997). Some Rare Sixteenth-Century French Editions in The Founders’’

Library. Trivium 29 & 30, pp45-54

Pearson, D. (2004). Books, Owners and History: Books beyond the Texts. Trivium

35, pp7-28

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Price, D. T. W. (1977). A History of Saint David’s University College Lampeter,

Volume One: to 1898. Cardiff: University of Wales Press

Price, D. T. W. (1997). Thomas Phillips of Brunswick Square. Trivium 29 & 30,

pp169-176

Rees, R. (1836). A Catalogue of Books Deposited in the Library of Saint David's

College, from the Opening of the Institution to January 1, 1836. Llandovery:

Printed and published by William Rees

Rider, R. C. (1964). The Library of Saint David's College, Lampeter. The Library

Association Record 66:6, pp255-258

Rider, R. C. (1966). The Library of Saint David's College (I). Trivium 1, pp36-43

Rider, R. C. (1966). Some Interesting and Valuable Material in the College Library.

Gateway, Saint David’s College Student Magazine pp20-23. Lampeter: Saint

David’s College

Rider, R. C. (1967). The Library of Saint David's College (II). Trivium 2, p152

Roberts, B. F. (1996). ‘A gentle and amiable prince’: Louis-Lucien Bonaparte and

Welsh studies. Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1995),

New Series 2, pp79-99

Robbins, K. & Morgan-Guy, J. (eds.) (2002). A Bold Imagining, University of Wales

Lampeter: Glimpses of an Unfolding Vision, 1827-2002. Lampeter: University of

Wales Lampeter

Schmied, Josef. 1994. The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts. In:

Kytö, M., Rissanen, M. & Wright, S. (eds.) Corpora across the Centuries, pp81-89.

Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi

Scholderer, V. (1968). A rare Lübeck Missal. British Museum Quarterly 32, pp1-2

Selwyn, D. G. (1997). A Survival form the Library of Thomas Cranmer: Hugh of

St Cher’s ‘Postills’ on the Gospels. Trivium 29 & 30, pp55-64

Selwyn, P. M. (1997). An Armorial Binding of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley.

Trivium 29 & 30, pp65-78

Siemund, R. (2001). The Lampeter Corpus Project. Web resource, last updated

March 2001. Available (homepage) at: https://www.tu-

chemnitz.de/phil/english/sections/linguist/real/independent/lampeter/lamphome

.htm

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Siemund, R. & Claridge, C. (eds.) (1998). The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern

English Tracts. Chemnitz University of Technology. Available at:

http://clu.uni.no/icame/ij21/lampcorp.pdf

Smith, J. D. (1997). The Bowdler Collection as a Resource for the Study of the

Nonjurors. Trivium 29 & 30, pp155-168

Smith, J. D. (2004). The ‘Pamphlet War’ of the Nonjurors, 1717-1725: A Case

Study in Early Eighteenth-Century Religious Polemic. Trivium 35, pp63-86

Stoker, D. (2004). Mr Baldwin’s Sermon and the Norwich Printers. Transactions of

Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 8:1, pp33-43

Stones, Alison (2013). Gothic manuscripts 1260-1320. London: Harvey Miller

Publishers

University of Wales Lampeter, Library [1987]. Bibliotheca: the Library of Bishop

Burgess at St. David's University College, Lampeter. Contributions by D.T.W. Price

and G. Walters. Lampeter: Library, University of Wales, Lampeter

University of Wales Lampeter, Library (1994). The Founders’ Library, University

of Wales, Lampeter, compiled by C.W. Marx and D.G. Selwyn on behalf of the

Principal's Advisory Group on the Founder's Library. Lampeter: Library, University

of Wales, Lampeter

University of Wales Lampeter (1997). Trivium 29 & 30, The Founders’ Library,

University of Wales Lampeter, Biographical and Contextual Studies: Essays in

Memory of Robin Rider. Lampeter: Trivium Publications

University of Wales Lampeter (2004). Trivium 35, Readers, Printers, Churchmen,

and Travellers: Essays in Honour of David Selwyn. Lampeter: Trivium Publications

Walters, G. (1987). Bibliographica: Serial notes on the Book Arts and History of

Printing represented by notable volumes in the Old (Antiquarian) Library at St.

David's University College, Lampeter. I Printed Catalogues. Trivium 22, pp69-81

Walters, G. (1988). Bibliographica: Serial notes on the Book Arts and History of

Printing represented by notable volumes in the Old (Antiquarian) Library at St.

David's University College, Lampeter. II Early Illustrated Editions of Terence.

Trivium 23, pp107-114

Walters, G. (1988). The Old Library, Saint David's University College, Lampeter.

Occasional Publications (SDUC Department of English) no. 3. Lampeter:

Department of English, St. David's College

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Walters, G. (1994). The Founder’s Library University of Wales Lampeter.

Lampeter: Library, University of Wales Lampeter

Walters, G. (1994). The Library of Thomas Burgess (1756-1837). The Book

Collector 43:3

Walters, G. (1997). Italian Incunables at Lampeter: Mirror of Classical Antiquity

and Renaissance Scholarship. Trivium 29 & 30, pp1-30

Walters, G. (1999). Books from the ‘Nabob’: The Benefactions of Thomas Phillips

at Lampeter and Llandovery. Transactions of the Honourable Society of

Cymmrodorion, New Series 5, pp36-61

Walters, G. and Palmer, H. (1989). Bibliographica: Serial notes on the Book Arts

and History of Printing represented by notable volumes in the Old (Antiquarian)

Library at St. David's University College, Lampeter. III Aquatint and Lithography

in England 1800-1850. Trivium 24, pp133-143

Williams, G. (1997). Two 1705 Serials and the Dunton Controversy. Trivium 29 &

30, pp125-141

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the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. London: Library Association

Description Control Area

Archivist’s Note

Papers arranged and described by Sarah Roberts, Special Collections Archivist

Rules or Conventions

The description follows the criteria of ISAD(G), 2nd edition, 2000

Date(s) of Description

Description completed October 2017

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Series 1 – Administration and Management

Identity area

Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/1

Title Administration and Management

Date(s) 1827-[ongoing]

Level of description Series

Extent and medium 8 boxes and 6 outsize volumes

Context area

Name of creator Saint David’s College Library

Lampeter University Library

University of Wales Lampeter Library

The Old Library

The Welsh Library

Roderic Bowen Library and Archives

Content and structure area

Scope and content Documentation of the administration and

management of the library service including

acquisitions; details of meetings; policies;

reports; financial papers and staff-related

papers

Subseries 1 – Registers

Identity area

Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/1/1

Title Registers

Date(s) 1827-1994

Level of Description Subseries

Extent and Medium 1 box and 6 outsize volumes

Context area



The Old Library

The Welsh Library



Scope and content Records of acquisitions to, and users of,

the library

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Subseries A – Accessions Registers

Identity area

Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/1/1/A

Title Accessions Registers

Date(s) 1827-1982


Extent and Medium 1 box and 6 outsize volumes

Context area




Scope and content Registers of books donated to and

purchased by the library

Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/1/1/A/1

Title Donations to the Library of St David’s College

Date(s) 1827-1846

Level of Description Item

Scope and Content Ledger recording donations of books: the earliest entries

were compiled by Professor Rice Rees, College Librarian

from 1827 to 1839. The majority of the donations are

from Thomas Phillips but other notable benefactors

include: the Venerable Thomas Beynon, Archdeacon of

Cardigan; the Society of Edmund Hall (Oxon); the

University of Cambridge; individual members of academic

staff at Oxford and Cambridge Universities; the Revd

Edward Davies, Bishopston; Lord Cawdor; The Society for

the Promotion of Christian Knowledge; His Majesty’s

Commissioners on the Public Records of the Kingdom; and

members of SDC staff

Extent and Medium 1 outsize volume

Previous Reference GB 1953 UA/LR/1

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/1/A/2

Title Library Accessions Register

Date(s) 1846-1867


Scope and Content Ledger listing donations to the library of St David’s

College. The donations are predominantly from Thomas

Phillips but from 1852 onwards books are acquired

through the Library Fund



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Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/1/A/3

Title Library Catalogue S.D.C.

Date(s) [1862]-1872


Scope and Content Preparatory work on a library catalogue, in guard book

form, arranged by the Revd Joseph Matthews, College

Librarian 1862-1872



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/1/A/4

Title MSS Catalogue Ruled

Date(s) 1872-1883


Scope and Content Ledger sub-titled List of Books Added to Library Since Jan

‘72. Printed for Gold and Northhouse at the London

Association Library No. 19, the ledger is a “Skeleton

Catalogue for Systematically Arranging a Library”.

Bookplate of Thomas Phillips dated 1840. Dates of

acquisitions are generally omitted but the book was in use

until 1883

Extent and Medium 1 volume


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/1/A/5

Title Librarian’s Suggestion Book

Date(s) 1886-1896


Scope and Content Accessions register for books received between January

1886 and January 1896. Significant donors include the

Trustees of the British Museum; Macmillan & Co. London;

the Revd George Blisset, Winforton; and Mrs Harford of

Blaise Castle, Bristol, who presented publications of the

Parker Society

Extent and Medium 1 volume with loose pages inserted


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/1/A/6

Title Accessions Register 18

Date(s) 1978-1979


Scope and Content Register of books accessioned between December 1978

and October 1979. Accession numbers 91201 to 96444


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Date(s) 1980-1981


Scope and Content Register of books accessioned between August 1980 and

June 1981. Accession numbers 101810 to 107006


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/1/A/8


Date(s) 1981-1982


Scope and Content Register of books accessioned between June 1981 and

June 1982. Accession numbers 107007 to 112259


Subseries B – User Registers

Identity area

Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/1/1/B

Title User Registers

Date(s) 1910-1994


Extent and Medium 3 volumes and 1 folder

Context area



The Old Library

The Welsh Library


Scope and content Registers of users of, and visitors to, the library

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/1/B/1

Title St. Davids’ (sic.) College Library Visitors Book

Date(s) 1910-1944


Scope and Content Diary of visitors to the College Library between June 1910

and August 1944. Includes their place of domicile and a

column for ‘remarks’


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/1/B/2

Title Welsh Library Record of Borrowings

Date(s) 1962-1967


Scope and Content List of books and borrowers of items held in the Welsh

Library between May 1962 and August 1967


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Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/1/1/B/3

Title Old Library Loans

Date(s) 1993-1994


Scope and Content List of books and names of borrowers of items held in the

Old Library and consulted between November 1993 and

March 1994


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/1/B/4

Title Founder Library Reader Card Applications

Date(s) 2003-2006

Level of Description File

Scope and Content Application forms for Founder’s Library Reader Cards

Extent and Medium 1 folder

Note on Access RESTRICTED ACCESS

Subseries 2 – Agenda and Minutes

Identity area


Title Agenda and Minutes



Extent and Medium 5 boxes

Context area




UWTSD Learning and Resources Centre



Scope and content Agenda, minutes and associated documentation

for the Library Committee, Special Collections

Committee, St David’s Cathedral Committee,

Departmental Allocations Committee, Lampeter

Museum Committee and the WWI Centenary

Commemorations Committee

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Subseries A – Library Committee

Identity area


Title Library Meetings




Context area





Scope and content Agenda and minutes of the main Library

Committee, Library staff committees and

associated sub-committees with relevant

correspondence

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/2/A/1

Title Minutes of the Library Committee of St David’s College,

Lampeter

Date(s) 1965-1969


Scope and Content Agenda and minutes of the Library Committee and

associated correspondence


Previous Reference GB 1953 UA/C/15

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/2/A/2

Title Minutes of the Library Committee of St David’s College,

Lampeter

Date(s) 1965-1980


Scope and Content Agenda, minutes and associated correspondence of the

Library Committee from June 1965 to March 1980

Extent and Medium 1 volume with pasted-in and loose pages

Previous Reference GB 1953 UA UA/MISC/23

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/2/A/3

Title Minutes of the Library Committee

Date(s) 1970-1971



Library Committee


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Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/2/A/4


Date(s) 1978-1983



Library Committee



Title Committee - Library

Date(s) 1979-1984


Scope and Content Library Committee correspondence July 1979 to

December 1984


Previous Reference GB 1953 UA/L/66



Date(s) 1986-1998



Library Committee



Title Library Committee Working Party on Automated Services

Date(s) 1982-1995



Library Committee Working Party on Automated Services



Title Library Staff Meetings (UWL)

Date(s) January - May 2009


Scope and Content Minutes of staff meetings including details of creation of

the new university/merger



Title Lampeter Campus Library/RBLA Senior Staff Meetings

Date(s) 5 December 2013 – 6 February 2014


Scope and Content Agenda and minutes of library meetings during period with

no campus librarian


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Title Library and Learning Resources Senior Staff Meetings

(UWTSD)

Date(s) January - March 2015


Scope and Content Agenda for senior staff meetings including details of

creation of the new university/merger

Extent and Medium 1 folder, 3 pages


Title Library Staff Meetings (Lampeter Campus)

Date(s) October 24 2014-[ongoing]


Scope and Content Minutes of staff meetings. Day-to-day running of the

Lampeter campus main library


Subseries B – Special Collections Committee

Identity area


Title Special Collections Committee Meetings



Extent and Medium 1 box

Context area


Saint David’s University College Library

The Old Library

The Founders Library


UWTSD Learning and Resources Centre

Advisory Board for Special Collections

Founders Library and Archives User Group

Library Committee on the Old Library

New Research Centre Project Group

Old Library Lampeter Development Society



Scope and content Agenda, minutes and accompanying

correspondence relating to the library

committee responsible for the Special

Collections, the title of which group has

varied considerably over time

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Date(s) 1980-1989


Scope and Content Agenda, minutes, reports, memoranda and accompanying

correspondence relating to the library committees

responsible for the Archives and Special Collections.

References to conservation, security, staffing, cataloguing




Date(s) 1990-1999



correspondence relating to the library sub-committees


References to conservation matters, security, staffing and

cataloguing. Includes minutes relating to the Kupfermann

Incident (RESTRICTED ACCESS – see also GB 1953 UA/L/5)




Date(s) 2000-2014



correspondence relating to the library sub-committees


References to conservation matters, security, staffing and

cataloguing. Includes minutes of the sub-committee set up

to oversee the establishment of the RBLA


Subseries C – Saint David’s Cathedral Library Advisory Committee

Identity area

Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/1/2/C

Title Saint David’s Cathedral Library Advisory

Committee Meetings



Extent and Medium 2 folders

Context area


St David’s Cathedral Library

SDUC Joint Library Committee

St David’s Cathedral Library Advisory

Committee


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Scope and content Minutes and accompanying correspondence

of the committee set up initially to

investigate the potential ‘adoption’ of St

David’s Cathedral Library by Saint David’s

University College. Now an advisory board

for the Cathedral Library

Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/1/2/C/1

Title SDUC Joint Library Committee

Date(s) 1987-1994


Scope and Content Minutes of meetings convened in response to a request

from St David’s Cathedral Library for SDUC to become their

Trustee. Includes a conservation report on the Cathedral

Library written by Nicholas Pickwood



Title St David’s Cathedral Library Advisory Committee



Scope and Content Minutes of annual meetings and correspondence relating to

the St David’s Cathedral Library Advisory Committee


Subseries D – Saint David’s College Departmental Allocations Sub-

Committee

Identity area

Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/1/2/D

Title Saint David’s College Departmental Allocations

Sub-Committee Meetings

Date(s) 1970-2003



Context area

Name of creator University of Wales Lampeter Library

Department Allocations Sub-Committee

Group on Library Book Fund


Scope and content Minutes and correspondence of the

committee set up to examine the principle

behind the distribution of funding for books

by department

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Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/1/2/D/1

Title Department Allocations Sub-Committee

Date(s) 1970-2003


Scope and Content Minutes of meetings and related correspondence discussing

the equable distribution of the book fund allocations.

Includes tables of monograph and periodical expenditure

figures by department


Subseries E – Lampeter Local History Museum Management Group

Identity area

Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/1/2/E

Title Lampeter Local History Museum Management

Group Meetings

Date(s) 2013-2015



Context area

Name of creator Lampeter Local History Museum Management

Group

UWTSD


Hanes Llambed

Cynnal y Cardi

Ceredigion County Council

Grapevine


Scope and content Minutes, agendas and correspondence of the

committee set up to establish the Lampeter

Local History Museum within the former

Porters’ Lodge of Saint David’s’ College

Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/1/2/E/1

Title Lampeter Museum Committee Meetings

Date(s) 2013-2015


Scope and Content Minutes of meetings and related correspondence of the

committee set up to establish the Lampeter Local History

Museum, which opened in May 2014. Includes Bursary

Agreement, Memoranda of Agreement, designs and publicity

materials


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Subseries F – WWI Centenary Commemorations

Identity area

Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/1/2/F

Title WWI Centenary Commemorations Group

Meetings

Date(s) 2013-2015



Context area

Name of creator Roderic Bowen Library and Archives

JISC

National Library of Wales

WHELF Special Collections

WWI and the Welsh Experience Project Board

Alfred Edwin Morris

WWI Local Project Board

Hanes Llambed


Scope and content Minutes, agendas, correspondence and

supporting documentation relating to the

committees established to promote the

commemorations of the Centenary of WWI

both at Welsh national level and locally to

Lampeter

Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/1/2/F/1

Title WWI and the Welsh Experience

Date(s) 2012-2015


Scope and Content Agenda and minutes of meetings and related

correspondence of the committee set up to deliver the JISC

funded project to digitise WWI material for the website

Welsh Experience of World War One 1914-1918. Includes

copy of the consortium agreement, project timetable and

reports, details of material sent from the RBLA archives for

digitisation at NLW and written permission for use of Alfred

Edwin Morris’ war diaries


Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/1/2/F/2

Title WWI Local Project Board Meetings

Date(s) 2013-2015


Scope and Content Agendas, minutes of meetings and correspondence relating

to the committee set up to plan the local Lampeter

commemorations of the centenary of WWI. Includes

newspaper articles, copies of exhibition materials and

invitations to events


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Subseries 3 – Reports Identity area


Title Official Reports

Date(s) 1976-2015


Extent and Medium 1 folder (23 items)

Context area

Name of creator SDUC Library


Old Library


UWTSD


Scope and content Annual reports of the college libraries

including the Main Library and the Old

Library. References to library

developments, staffing, acquisitions,

donations, statistics and finances

Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/1/3/1

Title Libraries Report 1975-1976

Date(s) 1976


Scope and Content Annual report of the college libraries including the Main

Library and the Old Library. Refers to staffing, notable

acquisitions and donations, statistics and finances



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/3/2


Date(s) 1977



Library and the Old Library. Refers to staffing, library

accommodation, notable acquisitions and donations,

visitors to the library, cataloguing, statistics and finances



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/3/3


Date(s) 1978




acquisitions and donations, visitors to the library,

statistics and finances



26



Date(s) 1979




acquisitions and donations, services to readers, statistics

and finances





Date(s) 1980




acquisitions and donations, accommodation, security,




Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/3/6


Date(s) 1981




acquisitions and donations, security, Welsh Library

Association, statistics and finances



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/3/7


Date(s) 1982




acquisitions and donations, accommodation, services to

readers, statistics and finances



27



Date(s) 1983




acquisitions and donations, statistics and finances



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/3/9


Date(s) 1984




acquisitions and donations, services to readers,

publications by members of library staff, statistics and

finances



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/3/10


Date(s) 1985





cataloguing, publications by members of library staff,






Date(s) 1986




acquisitions and donations, services to readers, statistics

and finances



28

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/3/12


Date(s) 1987




acquisitions and donations, developments in automation,

staff development, publications by members of library

staff, statistics and finances



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/3/13


Date(s) 1988




acquisitions and donations, developments in automation,

cataloguing, exhibitions, publications by members of

library staff, statistics and finances





Date(s) 1989





publications by members of library staff, statistics and

finances





Date(s) 1990




acquisitions and donations, automation, services to

readers, exhibitions, publications by members of library

staff, statistics and finances


29



Date(s) 1991



Library and the Old Library. Refers to staffing, security,

automation, services to readers, donations, publications

by members of library staff, statistics and finances



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/3/17

Title College Libraries Report for 1991-1992

Date(s) 1992



Library and the Old Library. Refers to staffing,

automations, notable acquisitions and donations, services

to readers, cataloguing, statistics and finances



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/3/18


Date(s) 1993




automation, services to readers, acquisitions, cataloguing,

thefts from the Old Library, statistics and finances



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/3/19


Date(s) 1994


Scope and Content Annual report of the college library including the Main


automation, services to readers, acquisitions and

donations, publications, thefts from the Old Library,



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Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/3/20

Title Libraries Report for 1994-1995

Date(s) 1995


Scope and Content Draft Annual report of the college libraries including the

Main Library and the Old/Founders Library. Refers to

staffing, automation, services to readers, notable

acquisitions and donations, publications by members of

library staff, statistics and finances

Extent and Medium 16 pages

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/3/21


Date(s) 1996



Main Library and the Founders Library. Refers to staffing,

automation, services to readers, notable acquisitions and

donations, publications by members of library staff,


Extent and Medium 1 unbound item (12 pages)

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/3/22


Date(s) 1997



Main Library and the Founders Library. Refers to staffing,

automation, services to readers, notable acquisitions and

donations, publications by members of library staff,

statistics and finances and a commemoration of Librarian

Robin Rider


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/3/23

Title Library and Learning Resources Survey 2015

Date(s) 2015


Scope and Content Draft Annual report of the UWTSD libraries including the

Lampeter, Carmarthen, Swansea and London campuses,

produced as a result of student survey


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Subseries 4 – Policies

Identity area


Title Policies

Date(s) 1991-2015



Context area



Old Library

Founders’ Library

University Research Centre

UWTSD Learning Resources Centre



Scope and content Policies, participation agreements, and

mission statements for the College

Libraries


Title Corporate Development Plan for the College Libraries

Date(s) 1991


Scope and Content Policy paper prepared by the College Librarian, George

Lilley, in response to a request by Senate. Includes

references to expansion, automation, collection development

and the role of the Old Library



Title Founders’ Library Reproduction Policy

Date(s) 1997


Scope and Content Policy for reproduction of images in the Founders’ Library.

Includes information on conditions, copyright restrictions,

fees and application form


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/4/3

Title Founders’ Library Draft Mission Statement

Date(s) 1998


Scope and Content Statement of the aims and responsibilities of the Founders’

Library including services, research, promotion and

outreach, conservation, cataloguing

Extent and Medium 1 Page

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Title Gathering the Jewels Participation Agreement

Date(s) 2003


Scope and Content Terms and conditions of participation in the ‘Gathering the

Jewels’ Project. Prepared by National Library of Wales and

signed by Professor Nigel Yates, October 2003


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/4/5

Title University Research Centre Statement of Objectives, Service

Aims and Collecting Policies for the University’s Special

Collections

Date(s) 2005


Scope and Content Draft policy paper prepared by Professor Nigel Yates,

Director of the University Research Centre, for submission to

Senate, February 2005


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/4/6

Title LRC Collection Development Policy

Date(s) 2012


Scope and Content Acquisition, selection and disposal policy for Main Library

collection materials; effective August 2012


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/4/7

Title Emergency Planning

Date(s) 2009


Scope and Content Draft Library Disaster Recovery Plan


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/4/8

Title Emergency Planning

Date(s) 2013


Scope and Content Draft Post-Merger Library Integration Plans



Title Records Management Policy

Date(s) 2015


Scope and Content Draft Records Management Policy for UWTSD prepared by

Gill Fildes, Acting Records Manager, Swansea Metropolitan

University


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Subseries 5 – Finance

Identity area


Title Finance

Date(s) 1842-2012


Extent and Medium 1 volume, 3 folders and 2 items

Context area



Old Library

Founders’ Library




British Museum


Scope and content Financial records relating to Library

business including ledgers, budgets and

grant funding information

Subseries A – Ledgers

Identity area


Title Library Ledgers

Date(s) 1842-1983


Extent and Medium 1 volume and 1 folder

Context area



Scope and content Library Account Books

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/5/A/1

Title Saint David’s College Library Account

Date(s) 1842-1889


Scope and Content Ledger listing library income and expenditure including:

entrance fee subs; fees for individuals; Bursar’s cheques;

rent of lodge; costs for binding; books; subscriptions to

journals; carriage bills and insurance payments. Various

hands


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Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/5/A/2

Title Saint David’s College Library Account

Date(s) 1992-1993


Scope and Content Photocopy of petty cash book dated August 1989 to October

1989 and correspondence regarding proper the use of

receipts


Subseries B – Library Funding

Identity area


Title Library Funding

Date(s) 1950-2014


Extent and Medium 2 folders and 2 items

Context area


Old Library

H. K. Archdall

George Lilley


HEFCE



Scope and content Annual library budgets, appeals for funding

and grant applications

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/5/B/1

Title New Method of Library Finance

Date(s) 1950


Scope and Content Discussion document prepared by Principal Archdall

proposing a new method of Library finance


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/5/B/2

Title Annual Budgets

Date(s) 1991-2005


Scope and Content Figures, operational criteria and reviews of the Annual

Library budget


35

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/5/B/3

Title Library Appeal 1972

Date(s) 1972


Scope and Content Illustrated brochure appealing for funds to extend the New

Library facilities for students and to catalogue and conserve

the Special Collections of the Old Library



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/5/B/4

Title Grant Applications

Date(s) 1979-2008


Scope and Content Correspondence and applications for funding of Library

projects including cataloguing, binding, conservation,

microfilming, training, staffing, the Research Centre (RBLA)

and the development of a Museum of the Arts of the Book.

Agencies approached include the British Library, Sainsbury’s,

The Leverhulme Trust, the Heritage Lottery Fund and CyMAL


Subseries C – Expenditure

Identity area


Title Library Expenditure

Date(s) 1936-1994


Extent and Medium 1 folder and 2 items

Context area


Library Research Centre



Scope and content Library expenditure reports, receipts for

purchases and questionnaire results

Title

Library Expenditure Reports

Date(s) 1969-1994


Scope and Content Library expenditure on books, subscriptions, staff

expenses, computer equipment maintenance, binding and

sundries



36


Title Blackwell’s Invoice

Date(s) 1936


Scope and Content Invoice from B. H. Blackwell to Professor H. A. Harris

(Latin and Greek) for a copy of a Plutarch volume

Extent and Medium 1 unbound item (1 page)

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/5/C/3

Title Expenditure Questionnaire

Date(s) 1965


Scope and Content Questionnaire regarding Annual library expenditure issued

by the Sub-Librarian, Robin Rider, and the summarised

results from five university libraries


Subseries D – Valuations and Proposed Sales of Stock

Identity area


Title Collection valuations and proposed sales of

stock

Date(s) 1898-2012


Extent and Medium 1 folder and 13 items

Context area


Founders’ Library

C. H. Frith

Sotheby & Co.

British Museum

Anthony James Brothers (Tony)

Bernard Quaritch Ltd.


George Lilley


Scope and content Valuations of the Special Collections both

for sales and insurance purposes.

Discussions of possible sale of elements of

the collections. See also Minute Books (GB

1953 UA/C)

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Title Letter from C. H. Frith to Principal Bebb

Date(s) 1898


Scope and Content Letter from the historian C. H. Frith to Principal Bebb,

dated November 3rd 1898, regarding his recent re-

arrangement of the pamphlets, with the assistance of

Professor Tout. Frith comments upon the physical state of

the collections, their significance and offers payment of

£200 for the collection



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/5/D/2

Title Letter from R Proctor of the British Museum to Bebb

Date(s) 1899


Scope and Content Letter from R Proctor of the British Museum to Principal

Bebb, dated March 28th 1890, in reply to a letter from Bebb

which had enclosed a list of books then held in the College

Library. Proctor comments upon the value and significance

of the collection and wishes Bebb well in his endeavours to

catalogue the collections. Proctor mentions the

bibliographers De Bure, Dibdin and Brunet



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/5/D/3

Title Letter from Sotheby & Co. to the Rev. A. E. Morris

Date(s) 1929


Scope and Content Letter dated 18th December 1929 from Sotheby & Co. to the

Rev. A. E. Morris including an approximate valuation of the

books examined by their expert a few days prior



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/5/D/4

Title Collection assessment and valuation

Date(s) 1947


Scope and Content Preliminary schedules of Saint David’s College Library

manuscripts, incunabula and printed books, deposited at the

National Library of Wales (NLW) for evaluation, April 1947.

The list of incunabula has sale values added by Bernard

Quaritch Ltd., July 1947. Letters between NLW and Sotheby

& Co. and NLW and Principal Archdall regarding the possible

sale of items in the library collections

Extent and Medium 5 unbound items (32 pages)


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Title Proposed sale of materials in the Old Library

Date(s) 1987-1991


Scope and Content Minutes, memoranda and correspondence relating to the

feasibility and desirability of selling parts of the old library in

order to raise funds to employ a curator



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/5/D/6

Title Sale of Books from Saint John’s College, Ystrad Meurig

Date(s) 1995


Scope and Content Letter from George Lilley (Librarian) to G. O. Jones (Bursar)

regarding the sale of books donated to the College Library

by the trustees of Saint John’s College, Ystrad Meurig,

assessed as surplus to requirements.


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/5/D/7

Title Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Valuations

Date(s) 1991-2012


Scope and Content Valuations of the Special Collections by Bernard Quaritch

Ltd., dated 1991, 2004, 2009 and 2012

Extent and Medium 4 items


Subseries 6 – Staff

Identity area


Title Staff Papers

Date(s) 1981-2015



Context area

Name of creator Jennie Bracher

George Lilley

Kathy Miles

Idris Reynolds

Robin Rider

Jennie Thomas

Alexander de Zandt


Scope and content Papers relating to staffing of the libraries

and to individual members of college library

staff, including articles authored by staff

members, biographies, newspaper cuttings

and obituaries

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Title Staff Papers

Date(s) 1981-2015


Scope and Content Papers relating to staffing of the libraries and to individual

members of college library staff, including articles authored

by staff members, biographies, newspaper cuttings and

obituaries



Previous References GB 1953 UA/L/20; 69 ;70; 72 & 73

Subseries 7 – Stock Management

Identity area


Title Stock Management

Date(s) 1968-2011



Context area

Name of creator Founders’ Library

UoW Lampeter Library

Tract Collection

ESTC

James Catalogue

Wing Short Title Catalogue


Scope and content Papers relating to the management of library

stock including stocktakes, inventories,

handlists and notes and queries on cataloguing

issues, including ESTC and Wing Short Title

Catalogue entries

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Subseries A – Stocktakes and Cataloguing Information

Identity area


Title Stocktakes, Inventories and Cataloguing

Information

Date(s) 1968-2002



Context area


Founders’ Library


B Ll James

George Lilley

Revd P D May

Miriam Perrett

Caroline Pilcher

Robin Rider

David Selwyn

Nigel Yates

HEFCW

JISC

The British Library

Harvard University


Research Support Libraries Programme

(RSLP)


Scope and content Cataloguing notes, correspondence,

reports, inventories and stocktakes

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/7/A/1

Title Tract Collection Cataloguing

Date(s) 1968-2002


Scope and Content Papers relating to the cataloguing of the Lampeter Tract

Collection. Includes folders of historical notes made by Robin

Rider and B Ll James and correspondence with external

researchers and institutions. References made to ESTC,

Wing and James Short Title Catalogues. Printouts of

individual Bibliographical Records


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Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/7/A/2

Title Founders’ Library Catalogue Conversion

Date(s) 1994-1999


Scope and Content Papers relating to the computerisation of the Founder’s

Library Catalogue funded by HEFCW. Includes application for

funding, monitoring and progress reports, instructions on

methodology


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/7/A/3

Title Lampeter Special Collections Stock Management

Date(s) 1999-2011


Scope and Content Papers including correspondence, handlists, inventories,

index cards and bibliographic records relating to various

Special Collections including: the May Hymnals; Heraldic

Books; Incunabula; Joseph/Robert Butler Donations; SPEC

prefix items; Welsh Tracts; Isaac Williams; Limited Edition

books. Printout of online Copac entry for RBLA


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/7/A/4

Title Library Stocktake

Date(s) 1995


Scope and Content Annotated printouts of Main Library stocktake


Subseries B – Disposals

Identity area


Title Disposals

Date(s) [1990]-2016



Context area


Main Library


Miriam Perrett

Nigel Yates

Paul O’ Leary


Scope and content Details of items selected for disposal from

the Main Library collections

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Title Periodical Disposals

Date(s) [1990]-2016


Scope and Content Papers relating to holdings of periodicals including

Crockfords. Includes annotated lists of items identified for

disposal and subsequent consultation with academic staff


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/7/B/2

Title Book Disposals

Date(s) 2006


Scope and Content Printouts of ‘duplicates’ identified for disposal and indication

of resale values

Extent and Medium 14 unbound pages


Title Reference Disposals

Date(s) 2010-2011


Scope and Content Printouts of details of books selected from the reference

section for disposal


Subseries 8 – Inter Library Loans Identity area


Title Inter Library Loans

Date(s) 1978-2003



Context area

Name of creator UoW Lampeter Library

The Ad Hoc Group to Review the Inter-

Library Loans Service

Pauline Daniels

Kathy Miles


Scope and content Papers relating to Inter Library Loans

including reports, statistics, questionnaires,

departmental allocations and memoranda

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/1/8/1

Title Inter Library Loans

Date(s) 1978-2003


Scope and Content Papers relating to Inter Library Loans including statistics,

questionnaires, departmental allocations and memoranda


43

Series 2 – Research and Outreach

Identity area


Title Research and Outreach



Extent and medium 12 boxes

Context area



Old Library

Founders’ Library





Scope and content Material relating to the use of the collections

including user guides, collections-based

publications, bibliographical information and

finding aids, details of enquiries, both

archival and bibliographical, and details of

events and exhibitions

Subseries 1 – User Guides

Identity area


Title User Guides




Context area



Old Library

Founders’ Library





Scope and content Library rules and regulations, user guides

to the college libraries, and information

literacy guides

44

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/1/A

Title Saint David’s College, Lampeter. Library Rules

Date(s) 1897


Scope and Content Nine-point list of rules governing the use of the college library

including library access, reader conduct, borrowing rights and

terms of use




Title University of Wales, Lampeter. Library Regulations

Date(s) c. 2005


Scope and Content Thirty-three-point list of rules governing the use of the

college library including library access, reader conduct,

borrowing rights and terms of use


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/1/C

Title Reader Guides

Date(s) 1977-2015


Scope and Content Series of booklets variously entitled ‘Notes for Readers’

(1977-1990) and ‘Readers Guides’ (1992-1994) including

information on opening hours, contact details, staff lists,

library floor plans, lists of sequence codes, information on

loan periods and fines, guides to study skills techniques

and information on the Special Collections




Title Founders’ Library Reader Guides

Date(s) 1995-2010


Scope and Content Series of leaflets including information on the nature of

the Special Collections, opening hours, contact details,

handling guides, lists of sequence codes and catalogues,

list of ‘frequently asked questions’ and application form

for Founders’ Library Reader Card


Previous References GB 1953 UA/L/58 and GB 1953 UA/L/60

45

Subseries 2 – Publications

Identity area


Title Publications



Extent and Medium 5 volumes and 39 items

Context area



Old Library

Founders’ Library




The British Library


Scope and content Academic publications relating to the

college libraries and special collections

including originals, offprints and

photocopies of journal articles, and

monograph extracts

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/1

Title Lampeter – The Monk Austin

Date(s) 1865


Scope and Content Extract from George Borrow’s Wild Wales: its People,

Language and Scenery, (2nd ed.) pp294-294. London:

John Murray. Chapter XCV describes Borrow’s visit to the

College Library and refers to TP2, the 13th century MS

Distinctiones Theologicae


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/2

Title The College Library, by Professor S. C. Boorman

Date(s) 1959


Scope and Content Photocopy of an article published in Gateway, Saint

David’s College Student Magazine, pp6-7. Lampeter: Saint

David’s College. Professor Boorman was the College

Librarian at the time and his article describes the nature of

the “antiquarian” content of the library


46


Title The Library of St David’s College, Lampeter

Date(s) 1964


Scope and Content Offprint of article by Robin Rider, sub-librarian, published

in The Library Association Record 66:6, pp255-258.

London: The Library Association. Refers to manuscripts,

incunabula, early printed books and tracts held in the

college library. See also GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/4 and GB

1953 UA/L/2/2/5




Title Some Interesting and Valuable Material in the College

Library

Date(s) 1966


Scope and Content Photocopy of article by Robin Rider, sub-librarian,

published in the March 1996 edition of Gateway, Saint

David’s College Student Magazine pp20-23. Lampeter:

Saint David’s College. See also GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/3 and

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/5


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/5

Title The Library of Saint David's College (I)

Date(s) 1966


Scope and Content Offprint of article by Robin Rider, sub-librarian, from

Trivium 1, pp36-43. Lampeter: Trivium Publications.

Contains photocopy of an erratum which appeared in the

subsequent volume of Trivium, p152. See also GB 1953

UA/L/2/2/3 and GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/4


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/6

Title Thomas Johnes and the Hafod Press, 1803–10

Date(s) 1973


Scope and Content Photocopy of an article by James A. Dearden from The

Book Collector, 22, pp315-336


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/7

Title The Tract Collection of St David’s University College,

Lampeter

Date(s) 1974


Scope and Content Offprint of article by Ll. J. Harris & B. Ll. James,

published in Trivium 9, pp100-109. Cardiff: University of

Wales Press


47


Title Review of D. F. Foxon’s ‘English Verse 1701-1750’

Date(s) 1976


Scope and Content Copy of review by Llewelyn John Harris of D. F. Foxon’s

‘English Verse 1701-1750’ published in Library, 5th

series, 31:2 pp158-64. Harris gives details of more than

twenty Lampeter poems not mentioned in Foxon


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/9

Title Maps and Atlases in the Old Library at St. David’s

University College, Lampeter

Date(s) 1976


Scope and Content Offprint of article by B. Ll. James published in Society of

University Cartographers Bulletin 10:1, pp15-24.

Illustrated with items from the college collections


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/10

Title The Library of St David’s University College, Lampeter:

Unfamiliar Libraries XXI

Date(s) 1977


Scope and Content Offprint of article by Ll. J. Harris & B. Ll. James,

published in The Book Collector 26, pp195-227.

Illustrated with items from the college collections


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/11

Title The Career of John, First Duke of Marlborough: Tracts

from the Collection of St. David’s University College

Lampeter

Date(s) 1977


Scope and Content Unpublished article by Deborah A. Sabalot, student at

the Wales College of Librarianship



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/12

Title The Ordinal of the Vadstena nuns: the Latin text found in

Saint David's University College library, Lampeter, Wales

(MS.5)

Date(s) 1981


Scope and Content Offprint of article by Monica Hedlund, from Eranos: Acta

Philosophica Sueca 79, pp121-136


48


Title Symbolic Decoration in a Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours

Date(s) 1983


Scope and Content Photocopy of article by Celia V. Hewerdine in Trivium 18

pp49-54


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/14

Title The Bowdler Bequest

Date(s) 1984


Scope and Content Specimen copy of Country Quest magazine containing

article on the Bowdler bequest written by Robin Rider,

college archivist and librarian

Extent and Medium 1 volume (76 pages)


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/15

Title Bibliotheca: the Library of Bishop Burgess at St. David's

University College, Lampeter

Date(s) [1987]


Scope and Content Booklet produced by the Working Group of the Old

Library. Contributions by A.J. Brothers, D.T.W. Price, D.

Selwyn and G. Walters



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/16

Title Bibliographica: Serial notes on the Book Arts and History

of Printing represented by notable volumes in the Old

(Antiquarian) Library at St. David's University College,

Lampeter. I: Printed Catalogues

Date(s) 1987


Scope and Content Photocopy of article by Gwyn Walters, Trivium 22, pp69-

81






Lampeter. II: Early Illustrated Editions of Terence

Date(s) 1988


Scope and Content Offprint of article by Gwyn Walters, Trivium 23, pp107-113


49


Title The Old Library, Saint David's University College,

Lampeter

Date(s) 1988


Scope and Content Booklet written by Gwyn Walters, Occasional Publications

(SDUC Department of English) no. 3



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/19

Title The Word and the Visual Imagination: A Decade in the

Lampeter MA in Literature and the Visual Arts

Date(s) 1989


Scope and Content Booklet edited by W. Marx, P. Miles and G. Williams for

the English Department, Saint David’s University College


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/20




Lampeter. III: Aquatint and Lithography in England

1800-1850

Date(s) 1989


Scope and Content Photocopy of article by Gwyn Walters and Helen Palmer,

Trivium 24, pp133-143


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/21

Title The Founders’ Library, University of Wales, Lampeter

Date(s) 1994


Scope and Content Booklet compiled by C.W. Marx and D.G. Selwyn on

behalf of the Principal's Advisory Group on the Founder's

Library



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/22

Title The Library of Thomas Burgess (1756-1837)

Date(s) 1994


Scope and Content Offprint of article by Gwyn Walters, The Book Collector

43:3



50


Title 'A gentle and amiable prince': Louis-Lucien Bonaparte

and Welsh studies

Date(s) 1996


Scope and Content Photocopy of article by Brynley F. Roberts in

Transactions of the Honourable Society of

Cymmrodorion, 1995, New Series 2, pp79-99. Describes

the visit in 1855 of Louis-Lucien Bonaparte to the College

Library


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/24

Title From Herbals to Floras: The Illustrated Botanical Works

in the Founders’ Library

Date(s) 1997


Scope and Content Photocopy of article by William Condry from Trivium 29 &

30, pp1-12. Additional set of illustrations for the article

and Voyager catalogue records for the items cited in text

Extent and Medium 1 unbound item (45 pages and 9 black and white

photographs)

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/25

Title Romilly's Visits to Wales, 1827-1854

Date(s) 1998


Scope and Content Photocopied pages describing Romilly’s visit to the

College Library



Title English Carthusian books not yet linked with a

charterhouse

Date(s) 1998


Scope and Content Photocopy sent by the author, A. I. Doyle, in July 1999.

Published in: T. Barnard, D. Ó Cróinín & K. Simms (Eds.)

A Miracle of Learning, pp122-136.

Refers to Lampeter MS I, the Vulgate Bible (p124)


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/27

Title Books from the ‘Nabob’: The Benefactions of Thomas

Phillips and Lampeter and Llandovery

Date(s) 1999


Scope and Content Photocopy of article by Gwyn Walters in Transactions of

the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, New Series 5,

pp36-61


51


Title ‘The Young Upstart’: Dr. E. Roderic Bowen (1913-2001)

Date(s) 2003


Scope and Content Photocopy of article by Graham Jones in Ceredigion:

Journal of the Ceredigion Historical Society, 14:3, pp71-

90


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/29

Title University of Wales, Lampeter - The Founders' Library

Date(s) 2003


Scope and Content Printout of description of Lampeter holdings prepared by

William Marx for Fabian-Handbuch 2003


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/30

Title Mr Baldwin’s Sermon and the Norwich Printers

Date(s) 2004


Scope and Content Offprint of article by David Stoker in Transactions of

Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 8:1, pp33-43. Refers

to the Tract Collection



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/31

Title Expeditions to Greece in the seventeenth and eighteenth

centuries

Date(s) 2006


Scope and Content Copy of T. Brothers, D. Gill and B. Stones’ Travellers to

Greece, The Classical Association, containing article by

Tony Brothers citing Special Collections material


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/32

Title An Unrecorded Collection of Early Music Sources in

Lampeter: Description and Annotated Inventory

Date(s) 2008


Scope and Content Photocopy of article by Barry Cooper, published in the

Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 41, pp93-

120


52

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/33

Title ‘A cultivated and well-stored mind’: Thomas Phillips

MRCS, Benefactor of St David’s College, Lampeter

Date(s) 2010


Scope and Content Copy of Cronicl Powys 81, Powys Family History Society

magazine, containing an article by Dr John Morgan-Guy

in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the birth

of Thomas Phillips, pp22-24


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/34

Title Research Libraries UK UDC Report 2014

Date(s) 2014


Scope and Content Unique and Distinctive Collections: Opportunities for

Research Libraries. Report by RLUK Research Libraries

UK

Extent and Medium 1 unbound copy (52 pages)

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/35

Title WHELF Annual Report 2014-2015

Date(s) 2015


Scope and Content Contains a report on the RBLA (pp13-14)


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/36

Title The Library of Edward Richard, Ystradmeurig, in

Ceredigion: Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian

Society - Vol. 9, no.3 p.227-244

Date(s) 1982


Scope and Content Copy of article by William H. Howells on the library of

Edward Richard, now housed in the Special Collections

See also GB 1953 UA/L/2/3/A/9



Title A catalogue of the tract collection of Saint David's

University College, Lampeter. Brian Ll James (ed.).

London: Mansell

Date(s) 1975


Scope and Content The Lampeter collection of the Bowdler family with minor

additions; includes bibliographical references and index


53


Title ‘Street Literature’ in the Roderic Bowen Library, Trinity

St David, Lampeter”

Date(s) 2012


Scope and Content A Report to the Fellowships & Bursaries Subcommittee of

the Bibliographical Society, by John Hicks, as part of the

University of Leicester Chapbooks Project

Extent and Medium 1 page

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/39

Title A Rare Lubeck Missal

Date(s) 1967


Scope and Content Off-print of V. Scholderer ‘A Rare Lubeck Missal’

reprinted from The British Museum Quarterly Volume

XXXII Number 1-2

Extent and Medium 4 bound pages

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/40

Title Les Oevres Completes de Voltaire 45A

Date(s) 2009


Scope and Content Proof of article produced by the Voltaire Foundation,

Oxford relating to Panegyricus Francisco et Mariæ

Theresiæ Augustis, Georg Maister 1717-1795 – T810

Extent and Medium 5 unbound pages and one postcard

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/41

Title ‘Odds and Quads’

Date(s) 2010


Scope and Content Copy of article from The Times Higher Education 3-0

June 2010 no 1 950 referring to the ‘Blood Stained

Manuscript’ (Distinctiones Theologicae)



Title Two Malay manuscripts from Wales: Sejarah Melayu and

Hikayat Hang Tuah

Date(s) 20 November 2013


Scope and Content Online article on Malay literary MSS from Phillips’

collection now in the British Library (See GB 1953

UA/L/2/4/A/4)


54

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/43

Title Herbals and Florals

Date(s) November 2015


Scope and Content Article in the Welsh Historic Gardens Trust Bulletin

reporting on visit to the RBLA


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/44

Title Into the Archives: A Celebration of Archives in Wales

Date(s) 2016


Scope and Content Report from the Archives and Records Council Wales

Extent and Medium 16-page booklet

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/45

Title The Roderic Bowen Library and Archives

Date(s) 2009


Scope and Content Notes written by Caroline Pilcher outlining the history of

the Special Collections and its move into the RBLA. In

Memoriam Professor Nigel Yates, 1944-2009


55

Subseries 3 – Bibliographical Information and Finding Aids

Identity area


Title Bibliographical Information and Finding Aids

Date(s) 1836-2014



Context area

Name of creator Founders Library

Historical Documents Centre, Bahrain

Llandovery College

Main Library


Old Library


(RSLP)

Saint David’s College Library

Special Collections

Alcuin Blamires

Thomas Bowdler

Timothy Cutts

William Davies

Peter Hopkins

William Howells

B Ll James

George Lilley

John Morgan-Guy

Philip Oldfield

Dr Owen Thomas

Trevor Peach

Rev. Rice Rees

Edward Richard

D E Rhodes

Sarah Roberts

Margaret Sharrow

Nigel Yates

Gwyn Walters

Thomas Wood


Scope and content Catalogues, handlists and subject guides

relating to library holdings, and supporting

bibliographical research and documentations

56

Subseries A – Catalogues and Handlists

Identity area


Title Catalogues and Handlists

Date(s) 1836-2015


Extent and Medium 1 box (24 items)

Context area


Historical Documents Centre, Bahrain

Llandovery College



(RSLP)


Alcuin Blamires

Thomas Bowdler

Timothy Cutts

William Davies

Peter Hopkins

William Howells

B Ll James

Alston Kennerley

John Morgan-Guy

Trevor Peach

Rev. Rice Rees

Edward Richard

D E Rhodes

Sarah Roberts

Margaret Sharrow

Nigel Yates

Gwyn Walters

Thomas Wood


Scope and content Catalogues and handlists for collections

within the libraries, including the libraries

of individual donors and for the named

special collections

See also GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/37


Title A catalogue of books deposited in the library of St

David’s College from the opening of the institution to

January, 1836. Compiled by Rev. Rice Rees, Librarian

(Llandovery, 1836)

Date(s) 1836


Scope and Content Catalogue of the contents of the college library written

by the first librarian, Rev. Rice Rees (1827-1839)

Extent and Medium 1 bound volume

57


Title List of Books in the Welsh Library

Date(s) 1904


Scope and Content Offprint from the College and School Magazine, June

1904. List compiled by the Bursary Clerk, William Davies.

Photocopy of same, annotated with Dewey call numbers

Extent and Medium 2 bound volumes (26 pages); 1 unbound copy


Title A second list of Books in the Welsh Library

Date(s) 1905


Scope and Content Offprint from the College and School Magazine, June

1905. List compiled by the Bursary Clerk, William Davies.

Photocopy of same, annotated with Dewey call numbers

Extent and Medium 2 bound volumes (31 pages); 1 unbound copy


Title Llandovery College deposit to NLW

Date(s) 1950 and 2010


Scope and Content Photocopies of the pages of the accession ledger listing

the books deposited in the National Library of Wales by

Llandovery College in 1950. Accompanying letter from

Timothy Cutts to Dr John Morgan Guy, dated August

2010



Title St David’s College Lampeter Short-Title Catalogue

Date(s) c. 1970


Scope and Content List of items in the Old Library cross-referenced to Short-

title Catalogue numbers

Extent and Medium 1 bound volume (14 pages)


Title Index of Printers

Date(s) c. 1975


Scope and Content Alphabetical index to volumes in the Special Collections

produced by continental printers 1501-1600. Compiled

by B Ll James

Extent and Medium 1 bound volume

58


Title Handlist of incunabula in the Founders’ Library,

University of Wales, Lampeter

Date(s) 1979 and 1999


Scope and Content Handlist of incunables compiled by D E Rhodes of the

British Library in 1979 and revised in May 1999.

Separate list of incunables annotated with dimensions

Extent and Medium 3 unbound items


Title Handlist of post-medieval MSS in the Founders’ Library

Date(s) 1998-2000


Scope and Content Three revisions of a provisional handlist for the post-

medieval manuscripts in the Special Collections dated

1998, 1999 and 2000



Title Catalogue of the Library of Edward Richard of Ystrad

Meurig

Date(s) c. 1980


Scope and Content Catalogue compiled by William Howells (?)

for the contents of the school library at Ystrad Meurig,

deposited with the Special Collections. See also GB 1953

UA/L/2/2/36

Extent and Medium 1 bound volume and 1 unbound copy


Title Handlist of Selected Illustrated or Decorative Books in

SDUC Old Library

Date(s) c. 1987


Scope and Content Handlist conceived by Alcuin Blamires (with

acknowledgements to Gwyn Walters) in relation to ‘The

Word and the Visual Imagination’ MA in book illustration.

Includes a representative sample of illustrated volumes

in the Special Collections



Title Catalogue of the Revd Professor Thomas Wood’s Library

Date(s) c. 1988-2015


Scope and Content Copy of an annotated handlist of books donated by the

family of Revd Professor Thomas Wood (Department of

Theology 1957-1984) to the College library. Research

Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) Revelation

cataloguing project notes. Printout out of remaining

holdings as of January 2015

Extent and Medium 3 unbound items, c. 200 pages

59


Title List of books presented to the Library of Saint David’s

College Lampeter Wales by the Historical Documents

Centre, Bahrain in 1991

Date(s) 1991


Scope and Content Annotated list of books including political, historical and

religious volumes



Title Éditions Françaises du XVIe Siècle Conservées dans le

Fonds Ancien de la Biliothèque de Saint David’s

University College Lampeter (Pays de Galles). Review for

same from ‘Nouvelles du Livre Ancien, vol. 71, 1992’

Date(s) 1992


Scope and Content Alphabetical list of the sixteenth century French volumes

in the Special Collections by Trevor Peach, School of

Modern Languages, SDUC Lampeter

Extent and Medium 1 volume and 2 unbound pages


Title List of Medieval Manuscripts in the Founders’ Library

Date(s) 1995


Scope and Content Printed list compiled by Margaret Sharrow



Title Handlists for Music Boxes

Date(s) 2007


Scope and Content Box listings for the music books in the Special Collections

compiled by Peter Hopkins



Title Handlists of RBLA holdings of Serials

Date(s) 2008


Scope and Content Four variations of unclassified periodicals

Extent and Medium 4 items, unbound pages

60


Title Manuscript Fragments

Date(s) 2009


Scope and Content List of items in the Special Collections containing

manuscript fragments, compiled by Peter Hopkins



Title Contents of the Lampeter Corpus

Date(s) 2013


Scope and Content List of material downloaded from the Lampeter Corpus

website



Title WWI Book Collection

Date(s) 2014


Scope and Content Handlist of the RBLA WWI collection



Title East India Company

Date(s) 1998


Scope and Content Handlist of items relating to the East India Company

Extent and Medium 8 unbound pages – computer printout


Title East India Company

Date(s) Undated c. 2000


Scope and Content Handlist of items relating to ‘The Cabinet Cyclopedia

Conducted by Dionysius Lardner’



Title Notes on Navigation

Date(s) 2016


Scope and Content Research notes and bibliography of navigation material

in Special Collections compiled by Alston Kennerley,

Plymouth University


61


Title Dr Owen Thomas’s Library

Date(s) 1893


Scope and Content Photocopy of the catalogue of Dr Owen Thomas’s Library

from the Theological College, Bala


Subseries B – Bibliographical Research

Identity area Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/2/3/B

Title Bibliographical Research

Date(s) 1961-1997


Extent and Medium 5 folders and 6 notebooks

Context area

Name of creator Tony Brothers

B LL James

Robin Rider

A J Sambrook


Scope and content Research relating to Special Collections

See also GB 1953 UA/L/2/4/A,

Bibliographical Enquiries

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/3/B/1

Title Robin Rider Old Library Research Notes

Date(s) c. 1973

Level of Description file

Scope and Content Handwritten notes and correspondence relating to Robin

Rider’s research on the Old Library and Special

Collections

Extent and Medium 1 folder of unbound papers

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/3/B/2

Title Robin Rider Tract Collection Research Notes

Date(s) 1961–1986


Scope and Content Handwritten historical notes and correspondence relating

to Robin Rider’s research on provenance and

identification of items in the Lampeter Tract Collection

for STC and Wing. Includes contributions from B Ll

James and A J Sambrook

Extent and Medium 3 folders of unbound papers


Title B Ll James Lampeter Tract Research

Date(s) c.1974 - 1997


Scope and Content Notebooks and papers of B Ll James’ survey of the

Lampeter Tract Collection and later addenda to original

catalogue

Extent and Medium 6 notebooks and 46 unbound pages

62


Title Tony Brothers’ Harford Research

Date(s) 2001


Scope and Content Papers relating to Tony Brothers’ Research in to the

Harford family and their donations to the Special

Collections. Includes photocopies of card catalogue

entries

Extent and Medium 1 folder of unbound pages

Subseries C – Subject Guides

Identity area


Title Subject Guides

Date(s) [1970]-2012



Context area

Name of creator Old Library

Founders Library


Special Collections

Peter Hopkins

George Lilley

Philip Oldfield

Margaret Sharrow


Scope and content Subject research guides and book lists for

the Special Collections

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/3/C/1

Title Subject Research Guides

Date(s) [1980]-2003


Scope and Content Guides to the collections including: the Tract Collection;

the Library of the United Theological College; the

Founders Library as a resource for research in Theology,

Church History, Religious and Islamic Studies and

Christianity in Wales


63


Title Subject Book Lists

Date(s) [1970]-2012


Scope and Content Book lists for a range of subjects relating to the Special

Collections. Subjects include:[ Ireland; Christian

scholarship during the Reformation; Biographical and

other related works printed before 1860; India; Slavery

and the slave trade; Martin Luther; Oliver Cromwell;

Typography and early printers; British armorial bindings;

Artists, philanthropists, poets, scientists and writers;

Illustrations in the Welsh Ballads; Mapping the Counties


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/3/C/3

Title Subject Bibliographies

Date(s) 1995-1996


Scope and Content Collection of subject bibliographies compiled by Margaret

Sharrow; cover letter from MS to George Lilley. Subjects

include: English literature; German and Germany;

Italian; Dutch language and literature; Hebrew language

and literature; Welsh and Wales; Dictionaries; travel

(UK, Europe and World); Classics; History; science

(natural history, medicine and technology); education;

environment; economics; philosophy; utopias; religious

studies; morality and manners; art history; and music


64

Subseries D – Collaborative Projects

Identity area


Title Collaborative Projects

Date(s) 1998-2009



Context area


Harford Collection


The British Library

Consortium of University Research Libraries

(CURL)

Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP)

WHELF

University of Wales Birmingham

University of St Andrew’s Library

University of Wales Bangor

University of Wales Lampeter

Peter Borsay

D P Davies

Penny Dransart

Frances Knight

Alison Mears

Peter Miles

Miriam Perrett

Thomas Phillips

Keith Robbins

David Selwyn

Ex Libris Ex Dono

Gathering the Jewels

Mapping Research Resources in Wales

Pamphlet and Polemic

Revelation

Wales 1801-1919

Wales on the Web

Welsh Ballads

Welsh Research Inventory

Welsh Writing in English

WERIN


Scope and content Externally funded collaborative projects

involving the Special Collections

65


Title Collaborative Projects

Date(s) 1998-2009


Scope and Content Correspondence relating to collaborative bids including

projects funded by JISC, RSLP, the Arts and Humanities

Research Board and The British Library Co-operation and

Partnership Programme. Includes bid proposals, minutes,

reports, cataloguing information and labels for associated

exhibition ‘Libraries, Archives and the Researcher:

Improving Access to the University’s Research Collections’


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/3/D/2

Title Mapping Research Resources in Wales

Date(s) 2000-2002


Scope and Content Correspondence relating to the RSLP-funded and

WHELF/NLW-led WERIN (Welsh Research Inventory)

project to enable the UK academic community to make

more effective and shred use of research collections in

and about Wales by creating an online inventory. Includes

proposals, reports, minutes and catalogue information


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/3/D/3

Title Wales 1801-1919: The Final Piece in the UK/Ireland NSTC

Geographical Jigsaw

Date(s) 2000-2002


Scope and Content Correspondence relating to the RSLP-funded and

University of Bangor-led programme to convert/upgrade

existing records for an online Union catalogue at the

NLW, Lampeter’s contribution being 8, 500 items.

Includes leaflet, expression of interest, bid proposals,

memorandum of understanding and cataloguing

information including details of ‘missing books’


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/3/D/4

Title Revelation: 19th and 20th Century Church History and

Theology

Date(s) 2000-2004


Scope and Content Correspondence relating to RSLP-funded and University of

Birmingham-led programme for retrospective conversion

of records, Lampeter’s contribution being 11, 000

items. Includes Letter of Understanding, letters of

support, minutes of partnership meetings and records of

payments to UWL, locally-created theology book records,

leaflet, final report and CURL-led Revelation Plus final

report


66


Title Pamphlets and Polemic: 17th – 19th Century Pamphlets

Date(s) 2000-2002


Scope and Content Correspondence relating to RSLP-funded and University

of St Andrews-led programme to upgrade 11, 400

records of printed and manuscript tracts including the

Bowdler Collection. Includes expression of interest, bid

proposal, particulars of project cataloguers role,

cataloguing guidelines, minutes of meetings, records of

payments to UWL, catalogue of the ‘Brown-Lindsay and

Christ’s College Pamphlet Collection’, leaflet, interim and

final reports


Subseries 4 – Enquiries

Identity area


Title Enquiries




Context area




Scope and content Correspondence relating to internal and

external enquiries regarding special

collections materials. Includes

bibliographical and archival enquiries, and

requests for images

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Subseries A – Bibliographical Enquiries

Identity area


Title Bibliographical Enquiries



Extent and Medium ½ box

Context area



Professor S C Boorman

Rev D N Griffiths

Arthur Harford

Peter Hopkins

B Ll James

N Kerr

George Lilley

D R S Pearson

Caroline Pilcher

Robin Rider

Sarah Roberts

David Selwyn

The British Library

British Museum

Cambridge University Library

Duke University Divinity School

ESTC

King’s College London

National Art Library (V & A)

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

Wilhelms University, Munster

Winchester College

University of Tennessee

University of Warwick


Scope and content Correspondence relating to bibliographical

enquires into Special Collections material.

Includes provenance queries and printing

and publishing details

68

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/4/A/1


Date(s) 1965-1979


Scope and Content Correspondence relating to bibliographical enquires into

Special Collections material. Includes research on:

Selden, John: Joannis Seldeni de jure naturali... 1695: St

Ambrose Opera Omnia ...1527; inscription beati paupers

recoll.angl, ownership of Robert Burton; ownership by

Howel Harris of Whole Duty of Man; provenance of

Barnes, J. The History of that most victorious monarch

Edward III, formerly in the possession of Robert

Southey; Lampeter Lubeck Missal including Sotheby Sale

Catalogue June, 1966 (Lot 88 is Missale Lubicense – see

also GB 1953 UA/L/2/2/39); The Welsh Prayer Book;

anonymous and pseudonymous (J Horden, editor of the

revised edition of Halkett and Laing Dictionary of

Anonymous and Psuedonymous English Literature); St

Ambrose Opera Omnia; Ordinal of the Vadstena Nuns -

mention made of visit by Swedish Ambassador during

which he was shown the MS (see also GB 1953

UA/L/2/2/12)


Previous Reference

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/4

GB 1953 UA/L/2/4/A/2


Date(s) 1980-1999




Extraordinaire Haerlemse Donderdaegse Courant;

‘Monk’s Blood MS’; Ladies of Llangollen; Kingsborough

Antiquities of Mexico; Henry Fielding’s The Masquerade

(T269); The Jubilee Necklace (T69)


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/4/A/3


Date(s) 2000-2009




Elizabeth Elstob’s (1683-1756) Alefric; Early Venetian

printed books; works by Timothy Rogers (1658-1728);

the Bowdler family; Scroll of Esther; Antonio Possevino;

Swift’s The Publick Spirit of the Whigs; Susanna Hopton


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Special Collections material. Includes research on the

Tract Collection; Richard Gibson; Emynau’r Eglwys;

Katherine Philips; Thomas Burgess; David Bogue Lecture

Notes; manuscript fragments; The history of the

rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in the year

1641 – Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. Edmund

Gibbon’s set. PHI 00186; Works of John Sheffield (1729)

& Wesley association. PHI 03714 (2 vols); Anthony

Sparrow’s A sermon concerning confession of sinnes;

Duke of Wellington; Charles Wesley's Book of Common

Prayer; Two Malay MS now in the British Library


Subseries B – Archival Enquiries

Identity area


Title Archival Enquiries




Context area



Peter Hopkins

John Morgan-Guy

Caroline Pilcher

Andrew Prescott

Sarah Roberts

Nigel Yates


Scope and content Correspondence relating to College Archive

enquires

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/4/B/1


Date(s) 2003-2009


Scope and Content Correspondence relating to College Archive enquires

including family history searches and ‘biographies’ of

former college members, primarily of students who went

on to be clerics


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Date(s) 2010-2014




former college members. Includes two queries on

students who joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. in

1916; Rev T J Stretch (liberation of Bergen-Belsen); Rev

Lewis Lewis; former College Bursar Group Captain

Charles Herbert Wiggins; and Thomas Evans, the 1st

student to enrol 1st March 1827


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/4/B/3






former college members. Includes searches for The Link

magazine on University Challenge Teams; Illtud Evans; A

W Scott and the Scott Lecture Series; visit of Humphrey

Lyttelton in 1964


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Subseries C – Image Requests

Identity area


Title Image Requests




Context area



Hogarth

Lampeter Bible

Ortelius

Seres Psalter

Thomas a Kempis

Welsh Ballads

Gathering the Jewels

Lonely Planet

Museo de Ragazzi


National Maritime Museum

National Trust

Oxford University Press

Welsh Portrait Archive


Scope and content Fee information and requests for image

reproduction

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/4/C/1

Title Reproduction Charges

Date(s) 1997-2001


Scope and Content Lists of fees for reproducing images, conditions of use of

images and application forms for requests


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/4/C/2

Title Image Requests



Scope and Content Requests for reproductions of Special Collections material

and for images from other collections for use in exhibitions

Extent and Medium 2 folders and slide transparencies

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Subseries 5 – Events and Exhibitions

Identity area


Title Events and Exhibitions




Context area


New Library

Founders Library


Tony Brothers

Lampeter History Society

Gregynog

Free Library of Philadelphia

HRH Prince Phillip

HRH Prince Charles

Rt. Hon Rhodri Morgan MP

John Alden Philbrick III

Gwyn Walters

Content and structure area Scope and content Material relating to events and exhibitions

including posters, display materials,

catalogues and audio-visual material

Subseries A – Events

Identity area


Title Events




Context area


New Library

Founders Library


Tony Brothers

Peter Mitchell

Gwyn Walters

Lampeter History Society

Gregynog

Free Library of Philadelphia

HRH Prince Phillip

HRH Prince Charles

Rt. Hon Rhodri Morgan MP

John Alden Philbrick III


Scope and content Material relating to library events and visits

including posters, display materials,

catalogues and newspaper articles

73


Title Opening of the New Library

Date(s) 1966


Scope and Content Brochure for the opening of the New Library 7th July

1966, by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh. Copies of the

Western Mail Friday and the Carmarthen Journal for

Friday July 8 1966

Extent and Medium 2 newspapers and 6 page brochure (2 copies)

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/2

Title Gregynog Conference Exhibition

Date(s) 1974


Scope and Content Catalogue for exhibition of books from the Old Library on

‘Books relevant to the Romantic Period’. Gregynog 18th –

20th October 1974


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/3

Title Opening of the New Library Extension

Date(s) 1984


Scope and Content Copy of newspaper article from The Cambrian News 20

January 1984 and typescript of speech given by HRH

Prince Charles on the opening of the Library extension 21

June 1984. Exhibition hand list for an exhibition held in

the Founders’ Library entitled X Monuments of Western

Man: An exhibition of items from the Scriptorium to the

Private Press on the occasion of the formal opening of

the New Library, Saint David’s University College,

Lampeter by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (2

copies)


Previous References

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/25 and GB 1953 UA/L/41

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/4

Title Declaration of Office of Dr John Cule as the High Sheriff

of Dyfed

Date(s) 1985


Scope and Content Leaflet and copies of catalogue cards referring to books

on Early works on Science, Medicine and Natural History,

an exhibition in the Old Library St. David’s University

College Lampeter


74


Title New Entrants’ Conference Exhibition

Date(s) 1985


Scope and Content Exhibition Brochure entitled Dickens Illustrated


Previous Reference

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/25

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/6

Title Proceedings of the First Annual Symposium of the Saint

David’s University College Centre for Research and

Scholarship

Date(s) 21-22 September 1990


Scope and Content Programme including typescript of lecture delivered by

Gwyn Walters on ‘Antiquarianism and Eighteenth Century

Libraries’


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/7

Title Gregynog Conference on Romanticism and the Picturesque

Date(s) 30 June – 3 July 1991


Scope and Content List of books from the Old Library illustrative of the

picturesque movement, with an emphasis on the landscape

of Wales


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/8

Title King’s School Rochester Visits

Date(s) 1992-1993


Scope and Content Correspondence between George Lilley and Alan Wakely

relating to the visits of King’s School sixth form students

to see the Rowland Williams ‘memorabilia’


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/9

Title Elizabeth Haines exhibition

Date(s) 21 June - 30 July 1993


Scope and Content Signed exhibition leaflet and invitation to a private view

for exhibition of drawings and paintings by Elizabeth

Haines. Leaflet advertising sale of a limited edition print

of the college by same artist


75


Title Free Library of Philadelphia visit

Date(s) January 1995 – March 1997


Scope and Content Correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to visit

of John Alden Philbrick III to investigate the potential of

working with the Founders Library, on behalf of the Free

Library of Philadelphia, for a Wales – Philadelphia

beneficial partnership


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/11

Title Albanian Ambassador

Date(s) 1995-1996


Scope and Content Exhibition labels and poster relating to exhibition of

books selected for the visit of the Albanian Ambassador.

Associated bibliography prepared by Margaret Sharrow.

Exhibition held in support of the chapel Albania Appeal

Extent and Medium 3 pages and loose labels

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/12

Title Contemporary Turkey Conference

Date(s) 6-8 December 1996


Scope and Content Conference programme, provisional list of speakers,

exhibition labels and list of books used in the exhibition

to accompany the conference ‘New approaches to

contemporary Turkey’

Extent and Medium 3 pages and loose labels

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/13

Title ‘Early Connexions with Durham’

Date(s) April 1999


Scope and Content Working notes, poster, book list and exhibition labels for

exhibition held in the Founders’ Library, coinciding with

the third annual Founders’ Library Lecture by Dr Ian

Doyle of the University of Durham


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/14

Title Early Book Society Conference for the Study of

Manuscripts and Printing History

Date(s) 10 July 1997


Scope and Content Exhibition brochure for exhibition to accompany Early

Book Society conference

Extent and Medium 9 bound pages (2 copies)

76


Title Welsh Religious History Society Conference

Date(s) 19th September 1997


Scope and Content Material relating to exhibition held in conjunction with

conference of same name including brochure, labels and

correspondence between Dr David Selwyn and Rev. Dr

Ian Bradley


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/16

Title Lampeter History Society visits

Date(s) 5th and 26th November 1997


Scope and Content List of books and exhibition labels relating to Tours and

Travels through Wales, including Lampeter, used during

visits to the Founders’ Library

Extent and Medium 11 unbound pages and loose labels

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/17

Title Classical Association Conference

Date(s) 6-9 April 1998


Scope and Content Brochure, labels and newspaper cuttings relating to

‘Travellers and Texts’ exhibition mounted by Mr Anthony

James Brothers, Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer and Senior

Lecturer in Classics 1964-2003

Extent and Medium 18-page catalogue (2 copies) plus loose labels

Previous Reference

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/37

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/18

Title Founders Library Lecture

Date(s) 29 April 1998


Scope and Content Notices for lecture given by Nicholas Barker, editor of

The Book Collector and formerly Head of Conservation at

the British Library


Previous Reference

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/50

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/19

Title Christianity Summer School: Celtic Sinner, Celtic Saints

Date(s) 13th – 19th June 1998


Scope and Content Exhibition labels and book list of ‘selected exhibits for

Celtic Exhibition’. Leaflet for summer school


77


Title British Association for the Study of Religions: Religion

and Innovation

Date(s) 16 September 1998


Scope and Content Details of ‘Exhibition of manuscripts and printed books from

the 13th century to the 19th relating to the study of religions’


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/21




Scope and Content Notices for lecture given by Dr Ian Doyle, former keeper

of Rare Books at the University of Durham and Honorary

Reader in Bibliography


Previous Reference

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/51

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/22

Title Western Group History of Medicine Course

Date(s) 8–11 April 1999


Scope and Content Course programme and handwritten notes for talk by

Gwyn Walters on Thomas Phillips, the East India

Company and an exhibition of Herbals


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/23

Title Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland Conference

Date(s) 20-22 July 1999


Scope and Content Labels for exhibition of Hymn Collections

Extent and Medium 22 labels

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/24

Title Founders Library Open Day

Date(s) 26 October 1999


Scope and Content Notice of guided tours of the Founders Library,

workshops and an exhibition of FL books


Previous Reference

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/52

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/25


Date(s) 10 May 2000


Scope and Content Details of lecture given by Eiluned Rees, formerly

Assistant Keeper, NLW, entitled ‘Servant and Catalyst:

the Printer in Wales’ and associated exhibition

Extent and Medium 1 folder of notes and labels

78


Title Art of the Garden, Historic and Contemporary

Date(s) 1-21 July 2000


Scope and Content Exhibition label, leaflet (x2) and newspaper-clipping

relating to exhibition which was part of the National

Gardens Scheme Millennium Project and displayed in

venues throughout the college


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/27

Title Ecclesiastical History Society Conference

Date(s) 19-22 July 2000


Scope and Content Leaflet, notes and labels to accompany Founders Library

exhibition entitled ‘The Church and the Book’


Previous Reference

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/39

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/28

Title Founders Library Open Day

Date(s) 14 March 2001


Scope and Content Notice of guided tours of the Founders Library,

workshops and an exhibition of FL books


Previous Reference

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/53

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/29


Date(s) 2 May 2001


Scope and Content Notice of lecture given by David Pearson, Librarian,

Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, entitled

‘Books, Owners and History: Books Beyond the Texts’.

Notes on books selected for associated exhibition. See

Trivium 35, 2004


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/30

Title Women’s Writing in Wales and the Celtic Fringe c.1650 –

c.1800

Date(s) 24-26 August 2001


Scope and Content Programme, call for papers and abstracts of conference

and working notes for accompanying exhibition by

Cathryn Charnell-White, Department of Welsh, UWL,

entitled ‘Women and Print in the Founders Library’


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Date(s) 1 May 2002


Scope and Content Notice of lecture given by Andrew Green, Librarian, NLW,

entitled ‘Researchers: how should libraries and archives

help?’ Associated FL exhibition






Scope and Content Notice of lecture given by Dr Clive Field, Director of

Scholarship and Collections, The British Library, entitled

‘Underpinning the UK research base: proposals for a

research libraries network’. Associated FL exhibition


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/33

Title Tony Brothers’ Donation to the Founders Library

Date(s) 2003


Scope and Content Exhibition labels


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/34

Title Edward Llwyd (Lhuyd) Conference

Date(s) 19-21 September 2003 and 15 January 2013


Scope and Content Correspondence between David Selwyn and Ieuan

Roberts regarding visit of delegates to view Lhuyd items.

Correspondence and labels for Edward Llwyd material

displayed at Hanes Llambed meeting

Extent and Medium 9 pages and 4 A5 labels


Title Library Lunchtime Seminar



Scope and Content Notice of lecture given by Professor David Skilton, Cardiff

University, entitled ‘Literary Illustration: Conservation,

Access, Use’


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Scope and Content Notice of lecture given by Professor Nigel Yates entitled

‘Literary Antiquarianism and the Welsh Historiographical

Tradition’. Associated FL exhibition


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/37

Title Classics Conference

Date(s) September 2008


Scope and Content Book list and labels for associated exhibition

Extent and Medium 7 pages and 18 labels

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/38

Title Official Opening of the Roderic Bowen Library and

Archives



Scope and Content Invitation and programme to commemorate the opening

of the RBLA by Rt. Hon. Rhodri Morgan PC AM, First

Minister for Wales. Special Collection FAQs. Notes and

labels for exhibition

Extent and Medium 11 page booklet (2 copies), 15 unbound pages and 13

labels

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/39

Title John Milton: Early Editions

Date(s) 9 December 2008


Scope and Content Invitation and exhibition handbook for ‘John Milton: An

Exhibition to Commemorate the Quatercentenary of his

Birth, on 9 December 1608’. See also GB 1953

UA/L/2/5/A/45

Extent and Medium 8 bound pages and 1 A5 card


Title Illustration in the Literature of Travel and Topography

Date(s) 18-19 March 2009


Scope and Content Programme for workshop in the series ‘Literary

Illustration: Conservation Access and Use’ (see GB 1953

UA/L/2/5/A/35)


81


Title Western Herbal Medicine Conference



Scope and Content Leaflet and labels for Herbal Conference Special Exhibition.

Also included are book lists, catalogue cards, black and

white photographs and labels relating to an exhibition

entitled ‘Early Printed Herbals from the Old Library St.

David’s University College Library’ dated variously as April

1985 and 8 July 1989. All three exhibitions, while not

identical, covered very similar material


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/42

Title Visit of HRH the Prince of Wales

Date(s) 1 July 2010


Scope and Content Invitation to witness the signing of a memorandum of

agreement

Extent and Medium 1 A5 card

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/43

Title Print Network Conference: Religion and the Book Trade

Date(s) 19-21 July 2011


Scope and Content Conference programme and correspondence with

Timothy Cutts relating to visit of delegates to RBLA

exhibition


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/44

Title Thirteenth-Century England XIV Conference: Plantagenet

Britain & Its Neighbours, 1180-1330



Scope and Content Notes on items from Special Collections exhibited to

accompany above conference


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/45

Title John Milton: Early Editions. An Inaugural Annual Welsh

Lecture of the Society of Renaissance Studies



Scope and Content Booklet, book lists and exhibition labels for exhibition

curated by Peter Mitchell to accompany the above

lecture. Includes notes on Milton made by Jim Ogden, 15

March 1994. See also GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/39

Extent and Medium 8 page booklet (2 copies), 11 unbound pages and labels

82


Title Constructing and Deconstructing the Past

Date(s) 14 May 2012


Scope and Content Programme for a one day postgraduate workshop in the



Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/47

Title Mothers and Children Workshop

Date(s) 2012


Scope and Content Set of colour reproductions of 16th century illustrative

material from the RBLA used in community workshop in

Victoria Hall

Extent and Medium 9 A3 pages


Title Opening of the Confucius Institute Reading Room



Scope and Content Posters, invitations, menus, exhibition labels and

correspondence relating to the opening of the CIRR by

the Minister Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy



Title University of Marmara Information Exchange



Scope and Content Poster for meeting held in the RBLA reading room

between staff of the University of Marmara, Turkey, and

staff and students of UWTSD


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/50

Title Alan Walks Wales: one thousand miles of poetry,

technology and community

Date(s) 19 June 2013


Scope and Content Labels for exhibition entitled ‘Walking around Wales’

curated by Sarah Roberts to coincide with the visit of

Professor Alan Dix. Typescript of online exhibition


83


Title Visit of Sulak Sivaraksa

Date(s) 30 August 2013


Scope and Content Exhibition material and labels for visit of alumnus Sulak

Sivaraksa

Extent and Medium 9 unbound pages, 1 card and 10 labels

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/52

Title Aberystwyth Bibliographical Group Symposium



Scope and Content Programme, correspondence, exhibition labels and

typescripts of presentations made by David Selwyn, John

Morgan-Guy and Peter Hopkins

Extent and Medium 1 folder including 1 CD-RW

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/53

Title Open Doors Event



Scope and Content Details of, and labels for, associated exhibition


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/54

Title Cambrian Archaeological Association 162nd Annual

Summer Meeting, Lampeter



Scope and Content Programme of visits including visit to RBLA



Title Ducere Foundation, Melbourne

Date(s) 22-25 November 2015


Scope and Content Briefing notes and itinerary for visit of representatives

from Ducere, including visit to RBLA


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/56

Title Visual Cultures of Wales: The Islamic Perspective



Scope and Content Draft proposal and exhibition labels prepared for the visit

of His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al-Faisal

Extent and Medium 16 page booklet 5 unbound pages and 7 labels

84


Title Lampeter, the Birthplace of Welsh Rugby

Date(s) 2016 - 1017


Scope and Content Programme, advertising, minutes of meetings,

newspaper articles, research material and exhibition

materials including labels, booklet and ephemera to

support 150th anniversary celebrations and the

contribution of Rowland Williams to Welsh Rugby and

‘Year of Legends’ Exhibition in 2017


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/58

Title Prime Patterns



Scope and Content Details of work of resident artist in RBLA, Stefan

Samociuk, Ceredigion Art Trail 2016

Extent and Medium 1 booklet, 1 poster, 1 card, 1 postcard and 1 CD

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/59

Title The Apocrypha in the Churches, a colloquium of the

Forum Patristicum with the Roderic Bowen Library

Date(s) 28 May 2008


Scope and Content Details of colloquium held in the RBLA

Extent and Medium 1 A3 poster

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/60

Title Sacred Ways: Trade, Routes and Cults



Scope and Content Details of Classics workshop hosted by the Founders

Library

Extent and Medium A3 poster (1 Welsh and 1 English)

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/61

Title Paradise Lost: The Early Years

Date(s) 30 April – 4 May 2012


Scope and Content Details of inaugural annual lecture of the Society for

Renaissance Studies, by Professor Thomas Corns,

Bangor University, and associated exhibition in the RBLA

Extent and Medium 1 A3 poster (bilingual)

85


Title Ruin or Renewal? Places and the transformation of

Memory in the city of Rome

Date(s) 9–10 March 2012


Scope and Content Details of conference held in the RBLA; part of the ‘City

of Rome Project’

Extent and Medium A3 poster (1 Welsh and 1 English)

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/63

Title Celtic Hagiography and Saints’ Cults



Scope and Content Details of exhibition held in conjunction with conference

of same name – covers the 13th to early 19th centuries

Extent and Medium Poster, book list and labels

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/A/64

Title The Beauty of Archaeology



Scope and Content Details of RBLA Lecture given by Professor Stephanie Moser

and accompanying exhibition. Part of the Faculty of

Humanities and Performing Arts Research Lecture Series

Extent and Medium Invitation, booklet and labels

Subseries B – Student Exhibitions

Identity area


Title Student Exhibitions




Context area




Scope and content Material relating to student-curated

exhibitions including posters, catalogues

and display materials

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/1

Title The Epic and Illustration

Date(s) December 1984


Scope and Content Brochure for exhibition curated by postgraduate students

studying MA in ‘The Word and the Visual Imagination’

Extent and Medium

Previous Reference

9 pages (2 copies in English, 1 copy in Welsh)

GB 1953 UA/L/27 & 28

86


Title F. Scott Fitzgerald

Date(s) 15 December 1986 – 1987


Scope and Content Brochure for exhibition curated by Allen Samuels,

Department of English


Previous Reference

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/29

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/3

Title Humour and Illustration

Date(s) 10 December 1990




Extent and Medium 10 pages (2 copies)

Previous Reference

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/30

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/4

Title Beasts of Burden/Beasts of the Bible

Date(s) 7 December 1993 – 28 January 1994


Scope and Content Brochure for exhibitions held simultaneously in the Old

Library and the New Library curated by postgraduate

students studying MA in ‘The Word and the Visual

Imagination’

Extent and Medium 18 pages (2 copies)

Previous Reference

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/32

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/5

Title Water, Water

Date(s) 23 January 1995


Scope and Content Brochure for exhibitions held simultaneously in the Old

Library and the New Library entitled Sea of Faith and

Water in Mind respectively. Curated by MA and PG Cert

students from the Department of English

Extent and Medium 30 pages (2 copies) and 19 labels

Previous Reference

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/33

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/6

Title The Art of Travel

Date(s) 23 January 1996




Extent and Medium 18 pages (2 copies), 2 posters, 2 invitations (bilingual), 2

compliment slips, 2 black and white photographs and 7 labels


87


Title Victorian Studies

Date(s) c. 1997


Scope and Content Exhibition labels


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/8

Title À la Carte in Art

Date(s) 5 May 1998 and 29 July 2000




Extent and Medium 14 pages (2 copies), 2 posters and selection of labels

relating to Food and Eating

Previous Reference

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/38

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/9

Title The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea



Scope and Content Material for exhibition curated by postgraduate students

studying MA in Cultural Heritage Management

Extent and Medium 35 page booklet (2 copies), 14 labels and floppy disc of

material for website

Previous Reference

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/46

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/10

Title The Gentle Art of Healing






Previous Reference

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/42

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/11

Title The Eternal Struggle

Date(s) 2004





Previous Reference

GB 1953 UA/L/43

88


Title Catastrophes: Disaster and its Responses





Extent and Medium 41 page booklet, A3 poster and 41 labels

Previous Reference

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/47

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/13

Title Royal Reach: Exploration under Royal Patronage in Latin

America

Date(s) March 2009




Extent and Medium 20 page booklet (2 copies), booklist and labels

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/14

Title Pirates: Past and Present Problem





Extent and Medium 15 page booklet (2 copies), posters, display materials

and labels


Title Monuments of Ancient Rome



Scope and Content Material for exhibition curated by graduates of the

School of Classics

Extent and Medium Bilingual introduction, posters, exhibition labels, CD,

postcards and bookmarks

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/16

Title People, Places and Books: Cultural Tourism 1750-1850



Scope and Content Material for exhibition curated by graduates of the

Faculty of Humanities

Extent and Medium 12 page booklet (2 copies), bilingual posters, exhibition

labels and postcard

89


Title Scarabs and Dragons? A Taste of Ancient Egypt in

Lampeter, Wales

Date(s) 7 June 2012


Scope and Content Invitation to talks and exhibition curated by students of

the School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/18

Title Celtic Myth and Landscape

Date(s) 22-27 October 2012


Scope and Content Material for exhibition curated by MA students of the

School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology

Extent and Medium Bilingual posters and exhibition labels


Title Ystrad Meurig: A Lost Education

Date(s) 22 May 2013


Scope and Content Material for exhibition curated by students studying for

the MA Heritage Practice

Extent and Medium Poster and invitation to exhibition

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/20

Title History, Politics and Kingship in China and Ancient Egypt



Scope and Content Material for exhibition curated by students of the School

of Archaeology, History and Anthropology

Extent and Medium 42 page booklet (2 copies), posters and exhibition labels

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/21

Title Artefacts, Images and Experiences of Foodstuffs

Date(s) 20-23 May 2014


Scope and Content Material for exhibition curated by students of the School

of Archaeology, History and Anthropology


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/22

Title Three Seasons with the Football Club,1961-64

Date(s) July 2014


Scope and Content Material for exhibition curated by Peter Groves (BA

1964) and Sarah Roberts


90


Title The Somme

Date(s) June-November 2016


Scope and Content Material for student archive project and exhibition

curated by students on the Roderic Bowen Centre:

Archives and Research module (level 6) and Sarah

Roberts

Extent and Medium 10 page booklet (2 copies – one Welsh and one English),

exhibition labels and DVD

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/24

Title The Museum of Lies

Date(s) May-June 2017


Scope and Content Invitation to talks and exhibition curated by students of

the School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology

Extent and Medium Posters and leaflets including one outsize poster


Title In Memoriam

Date(s) June 2017 - March 2018


Scope and Content Material for student archive project and exhibition to

commemorate the students who died during 1917. Curated

by students on the Roderic Bowen Centre: Archives and

Research module (level 6), Sarah Roberts (Archivist) and

volunteers (Yvonne Herbert and Steph Giles)

Extent and Medium Exhibition labels

Subseries C – Library Exhibitions

Identity area


Title Library Exhibitions




Context area


Founders Library



Scope and content Material relating to Library exhibitions

including posters, catalogues and display

materials

91


Title Degree Day Exhibitions

Date(s) c. 1994-1997


Scope and Content Material for exhibitions in the Founders Library including

‘The Picturesque Vision’, ‘Costume of the World’, Europe’

and ‘Printing and Book Illustration’

Extent and Medium

Previous References

1 folder of book lists, posters and labels

GB 1953 UA/L/36 and GB 1953 UA/L/44

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/C/2

Title Robin Rider Exhibitions

Date(s) 1994


Scope and Content Material for exhibitions in the Founders Library curated

by Robin Rider. Topics include ‘The Picturesque Vision’,

‘British Artists in Europe’ ‘Eastern Costume’ and

‘Botanical Works’

Extent and Medium 1 folder of book lists, posters and labels

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/C/3

Title Lampeter and the College

Date(s) 1977-2014


Scope and Content Material for exhibitions relating to the College including

150th and 175th anniversaries and A Bold Imagining –

University of Wales Lampeter 1827 – 2002: glimpses of

an unfolding vision.

Extent and Medium



Title Bishop Burgess

Date(s) 1987-2001


Scope and Content Exhibitions on Bishop Burgess (‘Bibliotheca, The Library

of Bishop Burgess’(see UA/L/2/2/15); ‘Anchovies and

Beer’; ‘Bishop Burgess and his World’)

Extent and Medium

Previous References


GB 1953 UA/L/56 and GB 1953 UA/L/74

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/C/5

Title Thomas Phillips

Date(s) July 2010


Scope and Content Thomas Phillips exhibition ‘Thomas Phillips and the

Greatest Little Library in Wales’, timed to coincide with

the 250th anniversary of his birth.

See also GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/C/7

Extent and Medium

1 folder containing (bilingual) catalogue, posters CD and

labels

92


Title Special Collections



Scope and Content Exhibitions of Special Collections printed books and

manuscripts; incunables; tracts; French books; German

presses; Gregynog Press; Renaissance Printing in

Venice; exhibition in the Founders’ Library in connexion

(sic.) with the publication of The Founders’ Library,

University of Wales, Lampeter: Bibliographical and

Contextual Studies. Essays in Memory of Robin Rider and

the naming of the Rider Seminar Room, 29 April 1997

(see Trivium 29 & 30); book bindings;

Extent and Medium 1 folder of book lists, posters and labels


Title Travel and Topography

Date(s) 1985-2016


Scope and Content Exhibitions based upon travel and foreign countries

including ‘Views and Plans of Cities’; Japan; Lapland; and

China, including Thomas Phillips and Timothy Richard in

China

Extent and Medium 2 folders of book lists, catalogues, posters, CD and labels

(English, Welsh and Chinese)

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/C/8

Title Wales

Date(s) 1984-1998


Scope and Content Exhibitions based upon Wales and the ‘Celtic World’

Extent and Medium 1 folder of book lists and labels

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/C/9

Title People

Date(s) 1999-2009


Scope and Content Exhibitions based upon famous individuals, usually

celebrating anniversaries. Includes material on Execution

of King Charles I; Guttenberg; Elizabeth I; John Henry

Newman; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Charles Darwin and Dr

Samuel Johnson

Extent and Medium 1 folder of book lists, newspaper articles and labels

93


Title The Bible

Date(s) 1999-2012


Scope and Content Exhibitions based upon the Lampeter Bible, ‘The Book of

Common Prayer’, ’Celebrating Diversity: Religious Tests

and Images from the 13th to the 19th Century’ and

‘Apocrypha’

Extent and Medium 1 folder of book lists and labels

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/C/11

Title Miscellany

Date(s) 1989-2010


Scope and Content Exhibitions relating to a wide variety of subjects based

upon the Special Collections including Botanical works;

Leisure in 18th century Britain; Music; Classical past;

Images of the Human Body in Science and Religion;

Anthropology; Textiles and Dyes; Witchcraft and

Wizardry

Extent and Medium 1 folder of book lists, posters and labels (English and

Welsh)

Previous References

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/35 & GB 1953 UA/L/48

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/C/12

Title Book of the Month Exhibitions

Date(s) 2015 – [ongoing]


Scope and Content Exhibitions displayed in the foyer of the main library

including Graduates Register; Book Design; Morgan

Rhys; Censoring Shakespeare; Micrographia; Black

History Month; Lampeter and the Atom Bomb; A. E.

Morris; Chris Staples donation; Nostradamus 450th;

Paradise Lost; Leviathan; Martin Luther and the ’95

Theses’; Birth of Jonathan Swift (350th); Invasion of

Fishguard and the Llanwnda Bible

Extent and Medium 1 folder of labels and display materials (English and

Welsh)

94


Title A Lost Generation: St David’s College and World War

One



Scope and Content Exhibitions displayed in the exhibition space outside the

RBLA relating to WWI including the life of the College

during the war years; Timothy Rees; A. E. Morris;

October 1917; Panorama de L’Yser; Parcell Rees Bowen

See also GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/B/23

Extent and Medium 1 folder of labels and display materials (English and

Welsh) and DVD

Notes See also Student Exhibitions and Book of the Month

Exhibitions

Subseries D – Exhibition Loan Agreements

Identity area


Title Exhibition Loan Agreements

Date(s) 1880-2010



Context area



Tony Brothers

Caroline Pilcher

Andrew Prescott

Nigel Yates

Aberystwyth University Library

Ceredigion Museum

The National Library of Wales

The National Trust


Scope and content Letters and agreements for loans of

material to other repositories for exhibition

purposes

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/D

Title Exhibition Loan Agreements

Date(s) 1988-2010


Scope and Content Letters and agreements for loans of material to other

repositories for exhibition purposes

Extent and Medium 1 folder of correspondence

95

Subseries E – Letters of Thanks

Identity area

Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/E

Title Letters of Thanks




Context area


Old Library


Bodleian Library

John Cule

Peter Hopkins

David King

David Lambert

George Lilley

Carl Lofmark

Caroline Pilcher

Idris Reynolds

Robin Rider

Sarah Roberts

Gwyn Walters

Selwyn Williams


Scope and content Correspondence from visitors and users of

the library and archives

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/E

Title Letters of Thanks



Scope and Content Correspondence from visitors and users of the library

and archives


96

Subseries F – Promotional Material

Identity area

Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/F

Title Promotional Material




Context area


Founders Library



Scope and content Advertising, press and publicity for the

libraries

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/5/F

Title Promotional Material



Scope and Content Advertising, press and publicity for the libraries

Extent and Medium

Previous References

½ box of leaflets, newspaper articles, bookmarks,

postcards, calendars, video cassettes and dvds and 1 roll

of posters

GB 1953 UA/L/49, GB 1953 UA/L/64 &

GB 1953 UA/L/71

97

Subseries 6 – Special Collections-Based Teaching

Identity area


Title Special Collections-Based Teaching




Context area




Scope and content Material relating to lectures and seminars

based upon the Special Collections

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/6/A

Title Special Collections-Based Teaching



Scope and Content Correspondence relating to teaching activities based

within (formerly) the Old Library and (latterly) the RBLA.

Book lists for a variety of special collections-based

subjects including Incunables, The Book and Illustration,

Urban Plans and Histories, Approaches to Ancient

History, Landscapes and Artists, Hogarth, Middle Eastern

Anthropology, Cultural Geographies, Travellers to

Ancient Lands, Hunter-Gatherers, John Milton and The

Bible and the Printing Press.


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/2/6/B

Title RBLA Special Collections Module HUSK6004



Scope and Content Class materials for HUSK6004 module


98

Series 3 – Donations and Transfers

Identity area Reference Code GB 1953 UA/L/3

Title Donations and Transfers

Date(s) 1902-2016 [ongoing]


Extent and medium 2 folders

Context area


Founders’ Library




George Lilley

A. R. Price

Nigel Yates


Scope and content Documents relating to donations

to and transfers from the library and

archive holdings

Subseries 1 – Donations to the Library

Identity area


Title Donations to the Library




Context area


Saint David’s University College

Founders’ Library

Old Library


Peter Allison

Paul Badham

Ian Barton

R. M. Bound

O. M. Brack

David Clegg

Crown Prince of Bahrain


Eric de Bellaigue

George Lilley

Revd P D May

John Metcalf

Ceridwen Lloyd Morgan

Trevor Emrys Morgan

Rt. Revd Daniel J. Mullins

Miriam Perrett

Caroline Pilcher

Andrew Prescott

99

A. R. Price

B. R. Rees

Robin Rider

David and Pamela Selwyn

Selwyn Williams


Scope and content Correspondence relating to donations to

the Library of manuscripts, books,

photographs, archive material and monies

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/1

Title Letter from A R Price, Vicar of Llandilo

Date(s) 1902


Scope and Content Letter from A R Price to Principal Bebb dated 20th

September 1902 regarding the donation to the College

Library of a collection of Welsh hymns ‘in the

handwriting of Mr Parry of Llywell’ and bequeathed by

Mr Parry to A. R. Price’s father




Title Papyri editions donated by B R Rees

Date(s) c. 1980


Scope and Content List of editions of papyri donated to the library by Dr B. R.

Rees, Principal of the College 1975-1980


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/3

Title Letter from Cliff Tucker to Mr Hadaway

Date(s) 1985


Scope and Content Letter from Cliff Tucker (SDC BA, 1934) to Mr Hadaway

dated 21st January 1985 including an offer of a donation of

books for the library. Refers to former Principal Maurice

Jones’ habit of distributing unwanted books donated by

‘deceased vicars’ as keepsakes to departing graduates


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/4

Title Donation of John James

Date(s) 1987


Scope and Content Letter from D. J. James, graduate of Saint David’s College

(1944), regarding the donation of a number of books

including a 19th century account of the Charge of the Light

Brigade


100


Title Proposed donation of books

Date(s) 1989


Scope and Content Letter and list of books offered to the College Library from

the collection of the author’s father. The letter is dated

11th September 1989 and signed by ‘Richard’, then

resident in Llandysul


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/6

Title Donations to the Old Library

Date(s) 1991


Scope and Content Chronicle of donations made to the Old Library between

1971 and 1989. Compiled May 1991 by George Lilley and

Robin Rider




Title Canon Richards Fund

Date(s) 1992


Scope and Content Letter dated 29th January 1992 from Peter Allison to the

Lampeter Society requesting use of the monies pledged by

the alumni to the Canon Richards memorial fund, for the

Old Library development fund



Title David Clegg Donation

Date(s) 1992


Scope and Content Letter dated 11th February 1992 outlining donations from

Lampeter alumnus David Clegg (1963-1967)


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/9

Title John D. Ward Donation

Date(s) 1992


Scope and Content Letter dated 9th August 1992 referring to a donation of

Kipling books by Lampeter alumnus John D. Ward


101

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/10

Title Crown Prince of Bahrain Donation

Date(s) 1992


Scope and Content Letter dated 16th December 1992 to Dr Aba Hussain from

Miriam Perrett to acknowledge a donation of books from

the Crown Prince of Bahrain


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/11

Title Professor S. C. Boorman Donation

Date(s) 1995


Scope and Content Letter to the Bursar dated 29th November 1995 referring

to the donation of approximately 1,500 books from

Professor S. C. Boorman. Invoice for transportation costs

attached


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/12

Title Mr Crittenden Donation

Date(s) 1996


Scope and Content Letter dated 6th June 1996 to Mr Crittenden in

acknowledgement of a donation of £100 for the Founders’

Library in memory of the late wife of Selwyn Walters


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/13

Title Francis Moore Donation

Date(s) 1996


Scope and Content Letter dated 6th June 1996 from Francis Moore confirming

his intention to bequeath his library to the Saint David’s

University College


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/14

Title May Hymnals Collection

Date(s) 1999


Scope and Content Correspondence relating to the donation of the May

Hymnals Collection by Revd P D May, Rector of Stoke

Abbot and Vicar of Netherbury, Wiltshire


102


Title Griffith Thomas Donation

Date(s) 2000


Scope and Content Correspondence between David Selwyn and Griffith S. W.

Thomas (alumnus 1953-1956) dating from 11th March

2000 to 28th July 2000, regarding the donation of six

printed volumes to the Founders’ Library from G. S. W.

Thomas and his brother, the Revd T. E. Thomas. Includes

photocopies of their title pages and receipt for same


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/16

Title John Metcalf Archive

Date(s) 2001


Scope and Content Letter dated 21st March 2001 from the composer John

Metcalf to Vice Chancellor Keith Robbins regarding the

possible donation/deposit of his (JM) archive to the

University


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/17

Title Cliff Tucker and Tony Dyson Archive

Date(s) 2002


Scope and Content Letter from Peter Allison to John Morgan-Guy dated 13th

December 2002 regarding the transfer to the University of

the archives of Cliff Tucker (SDC BA, 1934) and Tony

Dyson



Title Aberystwyth Theological College Library Transfer

Date(s) 2003 - 2004


Scope and Content Notes compiled by Miriam Perrett 21st May 2003

summarising the terms under which the contents of the

Aberystwyth Theological College Library, belonging to the

Presbyterian Church, were to be transferred to the

Lampeter library collections. Correspondence relating to

duplicate material


103


Title Eric de Bellaigue Donation

Date(s) 2003


Scope and Content Correspondence between Eric de Bellaigue and David

Selwyn, dated 31st August to 8th September 2003,

regarding the donation by the former of £500 to the

Founders’ Library. David Selwyn identified the library’s

15th century Italian Book of Hours as a work requiring

specialist attention by the conservation unit of the

National Library of Wales, for which the donation would be

used


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/20

Title Ken Bosward Donation

Date(s) 2003


Scope and Content Letter dated 26th September from Tony Brothers, then

Curator of Art Collections, to Ken Bosward, thanking him

for his donation of three photographs to the college

archive


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/21

Title R M Bound Donation

Date(s) 2003


Scope and Content Correspondence between Miss R. M. Bound and Nigel

Yates dated 6th and 27th October 2003 regarding the

donation of two photographs to the college archive

featuring the ‘Philosophical Society 1934-5’ and the ‘Lawn

Tennis Club 1934’. The images had belonged to Miss

Bound’s late uncle, Lampeter alumnus, and direct

descendent of Bishop William Morgan, the Revd William

Morgan Evans


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/22

Title Ian Barton Donation

Date(s) 2003


Scope and Content Letter to Ian Barton (Classics Department) from Nigel

Yates dated 27th November 2003 listing twenty-two

printed books donated by the former to the University’s

Special Collections. Volumes date to the years between

1528 and 1870


104


Title Lona Davies Donation

Date(s) 2009


Scope and Content Letter from Miriam Perrett dated 25th March 2009 to Lona

Davies to thank her for a donation of £5 to the Library

Language of Material Welsh



Title Gwilym Price Donation

Date(s) 2010


Scope and Content Letter dated 4th January 2010 from Professor Andrew

Prescott (Librarian) to Mr. Gwilym Price of Lampeter,

thanking him for his recent donation of ten early printed

books to the Roderic Bowen Library and Archives and

identifying three of them as having possibly belonged to

Ystrad Merurig School. The volumes, which are listed, date

to the years between 1620 and 1842


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/25

Title Mrs Evans Donation

Date(s) 2010


Scope and Content Letter dated 8th March 2010 from Caroline Pilcher to Mrs

Evans in acknowledgment of the donation of two letters,

dated 1798 and 1799, and written by Mr John George to

his sister and parents at the Blue Boar Inn, Haverfordwest


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/26

Title Tony Brothers Bequest

Date(s) 2012


Scope and Content Four letters dated from 10th January to 15th March 2012,

to and from Ruth Thomas & Co. solicitors, relating to the

bequest of £10,000 from Tony Brothers to the Roderic

Bowen Library and Archives. Monies to be used for repair

and conservation of the antiquarian book collection. See

GB 1953 UA/L/4


105

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/27

Title Menna Evans Donation

Date(s) 2012


Scope and Content Letter dated 2nd August 1012 from Menna Evans to

accompany a donation to the archive of four volumes of St

David’s College Magazine (December 1889–July 1893;

December 1892-July 1894; December 1895-June 1897;

December 1897-June 1898)



Title O. M. Brack Jr Donation

Date(s) 2005-2007


Scope and Content Correspondence relating to donation of books authored by

O. M. Brack Jr


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/29

Title Trevor Emrys Morgan Donation

Date(s) 2009


Scope and Content Correspondence relating to donation of books owned by

Trevor Emrys Morgan and given by his granddaughter

Ceridwen Lloyd Morgan


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/30

Title Donations to the Old Library

Date(s) 1991


Scope and Content Brief outline of donations to the library between 1971 and

1989. Compiled by G P Lilley and R C Rider including

donations from A E Morris; W G Curtis Morgan; Rev Canon

T J Jones; Rev Dan Ivor James; Professor H A Harris; A A

Myfanwy Owen, daughter of John Owen; J H Western on

behalf of Thomas Harries; Ystrad Meurig Grammar School

and the library of Edward Richard; Canon David Davies; F

R Newte and J D Welch


106


Title Storage of donations of Verdict on Jesus and The Greatest

Thing in the World

Date(s) 1986


Scope and Content Letter from Paul Badham to the Library regarding the

donation of Henry Drummond’s publications to all new

clergy in Wales and the possible temporary storage of said

items in the Library


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/32

Title Offer of The Cabinet Cyclopedia

Date(s) 1996


Scope and Content Letter from Selwyn Williams regarding the offer made by

Mr Leslie Chapman of Ffarmers for the purchase of fifty

volumes of The Cabinet Cyclopedia by Dionysius Lardner,

1835


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/33

Title Donations for Tony Brother’s 70th Birthday

Date(s) 2008


Scope and Content Letter from David and Pamela Selwyn to Andrew Prescott

regarding their wish to make a donation to the Founders

Library in celebration of Tony Brother’s 70th Birthday


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/34

Title Donation from Shirley Jones, Artist

Date(s) November 2016


Scope and Content Correspondence relating to donation of Artists Books by

Shirley Jones of Red Hen Press to the Special Collections.

Conditions of deposit/donation and bibliography of works

Extent and Medium 1 pages and one A4 booklet

107

Subseries 2 – Transfers from the Library

Identity area


Title Transfers from the Library

Date(s) 2003-2015



Context area


Founders’ Library


Bristol Record Office

British Library

Carmarthenshire Record Office

Ceredigion Record Office

Christ Church Oxford

John Rylands University Library


Powys Archives Office

George Lilley

Canon D. T. W. Price

Nigel Yates


Scope and content Correspondence relating to the transfer of

items from the special collections and

archives to other archive repositories and

libraries

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/2/1

Title Archbishop Gwilym Owen Williams’ Papers

Date(s) 2003-2004


Scope and Content Correspondence between Nigel Yates and D. T. W.

Price regarding the transfer, on deposit, of his (i.e.

Price’s) papers relating to Archbishop Gwilym Owen

Williams to the National Library of Wales. Letters date

from 17th October 2003 to 15th April 2004. Receipt for

same from NLW


108


Title Leonard Hodgson Papers

Date(s) 2004


Scope and Content Correspondence from Nigel Yates to The Archivist at

Christ Church Oxford regarding the transfer, as gift, of

the Leonard Hodgson Papers. Dated 12th February 2004


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/2/3

Title Revds. Joshua Jones and Evan Thomas Papers

Date(s) 2004


Scope and Content Correspondence from Nigel Yates to Carmarthenshire

Record Office regarding the transfer, as gift, of the

papers of the Revds. Joshua Jones and Evan Thomas.

Dated 12th February 2004


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/2/4

Title Revd David Evans Papers

Date(s) 2004


Scope and Content Correspondence from Nigel Yates to Ceredigion Record

Office regarding the transfer, as gift, of the Revd David

Evans Papers. Three letters dated between 12th February

2004 and 24th June 2004


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/2/5

Title Revd D. R. Davies Papers

Date(s) 2004


Scope and Content Correspondence from Nigel Yates to Powys Archives

Office regarding the transfer, as gift, of the Revd David

Davies Papers. Two letters and accession receipt dated

between 12th February 2004 and 30th June 2004


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/3/2/6

Title A. E. Dyson Papers

Date(s) 2004


Scope and Content Correspondence from the John Rylands University Library

to Nigel Yates regarding the transfer, as gift, of the A. E.

Dyson Papers. One letter and donation agreement dated

5th April 2004 and 27th October 2006 respectively


109


Title Oriental Manuscripts

Date(s) 2006


Scope and Content Details of British Library holdings of two Manuscripts

acquired by BL from UoW Lampeter in 2006



Title Parish Register All Saints Clifton

Date(s) 2013


Scope and Content Letter of acknowledgement and Certificate of Donation

from Bristol Record Office in respect of a Parish Register

relating to the Parish of All Saints Clifton. Dated 29th May

2013



Title Photographs of Lampeter Mayors

Date(s) 2015


Scope and Content Receipt from Lampeter Museum for donation of four

photographs of past Lampeter Mayors and memorial card

of Dina Thomas, Caio. Dated 29th October 2015


110

Series 4 – Conservation

Identity area


Title Conservation



Extent and medium 1 box

Context area

Name of creator Founders’ Library Advisory Panel

Harwell Document Restoration Services


National Manuscripts Conservation Trust

Elizabeth Bowerman

Iwan Jones

Kate Newton

Thomas Phillips

Robin Rider

David Selwyn

Margaret Sharrow

Raymond Tate


Scope and content Conservation reports and details of

conservation work carried out on Special

Collections materials.

See also GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/19 and

GB 1953 UA/L/3/1/26

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/4/1

Title Binding receipt

Date(s) 1840


Scope and Content Hand-written receipt for the binding of two volumes on

behalf of Thomas Phillips, by R. Spencer. Dated

September 14th 1840 addressed to Thomas Phillips.

Discovered with a calling card of ‘Mr F Stewart

MacGachen, Judd Street, Brunswick Square’ in a volume

donated by Thomas Phillips



Title Binding Estimates

Date(s) 1993


Scope and Content Letter addressed to Robin Rider, dated 15th June 1993,

from Raymond Tate of ‘Period Bookbinders’ quoting for

repairs on a number of ‘vandalised’ items from the special

collections. Items include Mercator (PHI 00197), Speed

(PHI 00234), Plot (PHI 01167) and Hayes (PHI 00112)


111


Title Survey of the Condition of the Collection

Date(s) 1995


Scope and Content Survey report, appendices and correspondence relating

to a conservation survey of the Founders’ Library

undertaken by Elizabeth Bowerman of the National

Library of Wales in 1995

Extent and Medium 6 unbound items (4 letters, one report and bundle of

appendices)

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/4/4

Title Comments on Conservation Survey

Date(s) June 1996


Scope and Content Memo written by Margaret Sharrow to the Founders’

Library Advisory Panel in response to the

recommendations made in the 1995 report (see GB 1953

UA/L/4/3). Memo on same from David Selwyn



Title Conservation Treatment of Founders’ Library Material

Date(s) 1997


Scope and Content Correspondence between David Selwyn and Iwan Jones

(Conservation Officer NLW) regarding the appointment of

a new member of NLW staff contracted to work on

Founders’ Library material from July 1997 to March

1999. Work to be based upon findings of 1995 condition

report (see GB 1953 UA/L/4/3)


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/4/6

Title The Future of Our Written Past

Date(s) 1999-2000


Scope and Content Survey (copy) of the preservation needs questionnaire

completed by David Selwyn for the Founders Library.

Questionnaire results informed the LISC report of March

2000 entitled ‘The Future of our Recorded Past, a Survey

of Library and Archive Collections in Welsh Repositories’,

a copy of which is included


112


Title Conservation Treatment Report

Date(s) 2008


Scope and Content Report prepared by Kate Newton, ACR Paper

Conservator, outlining the condition of SCD Annual

Athletic Sports poster and recommendations for

conservation and storage


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/4/8

Title Davenport Desk Restoration

Date(s) 2008


Scope and Content Correspondence relating to the restoration of the

Davenport desk in the RBLA reading room presented to

the Rev. John Owen in 1885 by his students “as a mark

of their esteem and affection”



Title Harwell collection cleaning

Date(s) 2009-2010


Scope and Content Reports, correspondence and item level list of RBLA

Strong Room material submitted to Harwell for specialist

cleaning in 2010

Extent and Medium 4 unbound items (1 bundle)

Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/4/10

Title Charter and Bible Conservation

Date(s) 2014


Scope and Content Invoice from NLW for conservation work carried out on

the 1827 charter and 1279 Lampeter Bible, and paid for

by the Lampeter Society. Associated report from The

Link attached


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/4/11

Title Incunables Conservation Assessments

Date(s) 2014


Scope and Content Assessments carried out by Iwan Bryn of NLW on the

condition of Incunables 11.1, 11.2 & 16. Letter replying

(in the negative) to an application for funding to the

National Manuscripts Conservation Trust


113


Title Dalrymple Conservation Assessment

Date(s) 2014


Scope and Content Assessment carried out by Iwan Bryn of NLW on the

condition of the Alexander Dalrymple Collection


Reference Code

GB 1953 UA/L/4/13

Title Conservation of Inc 13/14, Milton and Gesner

Date(s) 2014


Scope and Content Assessments carried out by Iwan Bryn of NLW of Inc.

13/14, Milton (BUR 00217) and Gesner (PHI 00359) and

invoice for work on same

Extent and Medium 4 items (6 pages)

Series 5 – Kupfermann

Identity area


Title Kupfermann Incident

Date(s) 1992-1998


Extent and medium 1 folder

Context area


Old Library

Elias Jonathan Kupfermann

George Lilley

Professor Keith Robbins

Robin Rider

Dyfed-Powys Police

Library Association Rare Books Group

The British Library

Sotheby’s


Scope and content Correspondence, catalogue index cards,

printouts and book lists of missing items

potentially relating to Kupfermann incident,

subsequent court case and the repatriation

of materials to the library. See also Minutes

of the Special Collections Committee

UA/L/1/2/B

Access and use area

Conditions governing access RESTRICTED ACCESS

114

Series 6 – Office Materials

Identity area


Title Office Materials

Date(s) c.1970–c.2012


Extent and medium 1 folder of papers and 13 stamps

Context area



Old Library

Founders’ Library



Scope and content Examples of library office stationery

including headed paper, sample forms,

compliment slips and stamps