ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL / ANNUAL REPORT 1951-52 PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES 1952001 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs K Abery, Builth Wells. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A large number of photographic plates of Brecknockshire, Radnorshire, and Border County interest, including plates of architectural features, places of historic interest, etc. (Dept of Pictures and Maps) H M ARTHUR 1952002 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr H M Arthur, LL.B., Machynlleth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Seven miscellaneous works, including the fourth edition of Brightman's The Revelation of St John, 1644 (Dept of Printed Books). THE HISTORY OF `THE TIMES' 1952003 Ffynhonnell / Source Colonel the Hon John J Astor, London. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description On behalf of the proprietors, Colonel Astor has presented the two parts of the fourth and final volume of The History of 'The Times' (Dept of Printed Books). The Library's set of the volumes of this magnificent work is now complete. Not only is it a historical document of the first importance, but it is also a monument of typographical excellence. The historical value of the work is enhanced by the use made of material additional to the archives of The Times Offfice. For example, use has been made of the Milne Papers at New College, the Asquith Papers at Balliol, and the Lloyd George and other papers in the possession of Lord Beaverbrook. The two parts between them run to over 1,000 pages and include long appendices and a most thorough index. SIR H IDRIS BELL 1952004 Ffynhonnell / Source Sir Harold Idris Bell, C.B., O.B.E., D.Litt., F.B.A., Aberystwyth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description The donor continues to supply the Library with, among other learned publications, offprints of articles or reviews by him mainly on the subject of Greek papyrology (Dept of Printed Books). He also frequently passes on to the Library copies of the works he has received for review. Among his more recent donations are Le Mikyas ou Nilometre de l'Île de Rodah, by Kamel Osman Ghaleb Pasha, an offprint of an article by him in The Indian Archives (Vol. 14, 1950) on 'The Custody of records in Roman Egypt', and a copy of the Oxford Almanack for 1951. DR LUKE BOOKER 1952005 Ffynhonnell / Source Miss Dulcie Booker, Bridgend. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A file of documents relating to the educational and ecclesiastical career of Dr Luke Booker, 1785-1814 (NLW MS 16047E), including the instrument of his appointment as chaplain to the Prince of Wales, 28 November 1814, and the diploma of his doctorate at Aberdeen, 1791; the marriage licence of Thomas William Booker of Pentyrch, 1824, and papers relating to his appointment to a deputy lieutenancy, 1831; four deeds, 1692-1819, relating to properties in Llantrissent, Llantwit Vaerdre, and Pentyrch; an account book of Dr John Thomas Casberd, 1818-19; and a song beginning 'In the tenth Book of Job'. BRITISH RECORDS ASSOCIATION 1952006 Ffynhonnell / Source The British Records Association. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Five documents, 1784-1880, relating to properties in Rhayader and Old and New Radnor, co. Radnor, Llanfihangel Penbedw, co. Pembroke, and Aberporth and Tremain, co. Cardigan. DIARIES OF L J BROWN 1952007 Ffynhonnell / Source The Relatives of the late Mr L J Brown, Dolgelley, per Mr Harold R Crabtree, Barmouth. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Personal records of Leonard Joseph Brown (d. 1951), an employee in the Clerical Department of the Great Western Railway, Paddington, who spent his retirement first at Barmouth and subsequently at Ty'n-y-ceunant, Islaw'r-dref, Dolgelley. They consist of 307 thick notebooks and fifty-two smaller draft notebooks being his diaries, with a few gaps, for 1892-1948, their main Welsh interest being detailed accounts of his 581 ascents of Cader Idris; registers of his correspondence, 1939-40, 1943-4; a register of over 5,000 snapshots taken by him, 1906-40; a volume of statistics of his mountain ascents, holiday travels, and walks, 1892-1951; individual accounts by him of the ascent of numerous British mountains, including Snowdon, Cader Idris, Pumlumon, Brecknock Beacons, Elidyr Fawr, Elidyr Fach, Sugar Loaf, Mynydd Pen Cyrn, etc.; and leaves abstracted from the diaries of his uncle L. W. Brown (1846-1926) of Bath, and a volume of extracts from the same diaries, 1870-1921, recording visits to South Wales, the first in 1873 and the last in 1904, on behalf of Messrs C. Milsom and Sons, pianoforte dealers, Bath. Mynegai Dolgellau CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON 1952008 Ffynhonnell / Source The Carnegie Institution of Washington, per The Director. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description The two most recent of the valuable publications of this Institution received by the Library are Vegetation of the Sonoran Desert, Vol. I, by Forrest Shreve, 1951, and Excavations at Nebaj, Guatemala, by A. Ledyard Smith and Alfred V. Kidder, 1951 (Dept of Printed Books). JOHN CLEMENT 1952009 Ffynhonnell / Source Mr John Clement, Llanelly. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Two interesting works on the history of the Christian Church in the United States of America, a subject on which the donor is a recognised expert (Dept of Printed Books). They are:- British humanitarianism: essays honouring Frank J. Klingberg, ed. by S. C. MacCulloch (Philadelphia, 1950), and The Catholic Movement in the American Church, by George E. de Mille, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia, 1950). JEAN VAN EYCK ET LE POLYPTYQUE 1952010 Ffynhonnell / Source Professor P Coremans of the Laboratoire Central des Musees de Belgique and Professor J Lavalleye of the University of Louvain, per The British Council (Fine Arts Department). Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description A copy of Jean Van Eyck et le Polyptyque: deux problemes resolus. Par Emile Renders (Bruxelles, 1950) (Dept of Pictures and Maps). No. 1790 of an edition which is limited to 2,000 copies and which will never be repeated. It is a magnificently produced work in two quarto volumes. The first volume, printed in large type, consists of text in which the author claims to prove that the celebrated polyptych of the Holy Lamb on the altar of the Church of St Bavon in Ghent is entirely the work of Jan van Eyck, and was not, as has been generally accepted, begun by his brother Hubert and then completed by him. The author even maintains that Jan had no brother named Hubert. The second volume consists of beautiful plates in monochrome, those giving details of the painting being marked with the letters J or H according as they are, in the author's view, the work of Jan van Evck or of his pretendu frere, as the author dubs Hubert. Study of these details, so the author maintains, reveals not two separate artists but two distinct periods in the evolution of one and the same artist, and that one Jan van Eyck. DR MORGAN DAVIES 1952011 Ffynhonnell / Source Mrs E Clement Davies, Meifod. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Manuscripts of the late Dr Morgan Davies, including his analysis of allusions to Britain and to places in Britain in Ptolemy, the Itinerary of Antonine, Notitia Imperii, the Anonymous Geographer of Ravenna, Tabula Peutingeriana, and Richard of Cirencester; notes on Caesar's 'De Bello Gallico'; a study of Latinized British names, a list of Brythonic personal names found in Greek and Roman authors; a study of Welsh terms of relationship; a copy of a letter to David Davies, esquire, afterwards Lord Davies of Llandinam, concerning the location of the National Library and National Museum of Wales, 25 April 1905; a translation into Welsh of Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; and a volume of press cuttings of articles by Dr Morgan Davies under his own name and under his pseudonym, 'Teryll y Bannau'. DAVIES, GREGYNOG 1952012 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Miss Gwendoline E Davies, C.H., per Miss Margaret S Davies, LL.D., Gregynog. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1951-52 Disgrifiad / Description Five volumes of outstanding interest and value, consisting of two medieval manuscripts and three printed books. The earlier of the two manuscripts, both of which are of great charm and beauty, is the 'Sherbrooke' Missal, a manuscript written in a stately hand of about 1310 and admirably decorated in the East Anglian style (NLW MS 15536E). There is no indication of its original home, but from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth it was the property of the Sherbrooke family. William Morris owned it later, and from his library it passed into the famous collection of Henry Yates Thompson in 1898. Additional offices written in the margin in a fifteenth century hand include those of SS David, Chad and Winifred. The other manuscript is the 'De Grey ' Book of Hours, a fine example of English illumination of the first half of the fifteenth century (NLW MS 15537C). It belonged to the De Grey family of Blisworth, Northamptonshire. A note opposite the Calendar refers to the death of Elizabeth Grey, wife of Sir John Grey of Blisworth. This Sir John Grey was a great-grandson of Reginald, third Baron de Grey of Ruthin, whose animosity towards Owain Glyn Dwr led to the latter's rising. This manuscript also was in the Yates Thompson collection. Two of the printed books are famous in the history of printing (Dept of Printed Books). The earlier of the two is the edition of Jacopo da Voragine's Golden Legerld in Caxton's translation, printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1512.