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  • This wallpainting features the 'Martyrdom of St Lawrence'.
Detail of wallpainting at St Lawrence's Church, Gumfreston (reconstruction drawing)
Wallpainting of St Christopher at St Saeran's Church, Llanynys
  • The medieval church of St Teilo, which originally stood in Llandeilo Tal-y-bont, near Pontarddulais, is currently being re-erected and refurbished at the site of the Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans.
Wallpainting of St Catherine at St Teilo's Church, Llandeilo Talybont (near Pontarddulais)
  • The Liber Pontificalis Aniani of Bangor is a manuscript volume compiled in c. 1260-6, which consists of 167 parchment leaves. Medieval Pontificals were designed for the practical convenience of the bishop and contained in full those services which appertained to his ministerial functions, e.g. confirmation, the ordination of priests and deacons, along with the consecration and enthronisation of bishops and archbishops. It is believed that this manuscript was written for Anian who was bishop of Bangor from 1267 to 1305. The three acorns which appear on the corners of the page are possibly an allusion to the Franciscan house at Llan-faes, Anglesey. The Welsh word for 'acorns' is 'mes' [Llan+mes/Llan-faes], and oak leaves and acorn motifs featured in the medieval floor tiles at Llan-faes. Only a small selection of the folios is shown here. Source: T. J. Morris, 'The Liber Pontificalis Aniani of Bangor', 'Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club' (1962),
Liber Pontificalis Aniani of Bangor, c. 1260-6 [folio 8v, image 1 of 4]
  • Bequeathed by George E. J. Powell, 1882.
Istoriato plate (Noah's Sacrifice, after Raphael), c. 1500
  • This illuminated book of hours was written in Florence in the middle of the fifteenth century and contains illuminations by Zanobi Strozzi. The manuscript came to Wales in 1846 when it was donated to St David's College, Lampeter, by Thomas Phillips (1760-1851). In all, Thomas Phillips donated some 22,500 books to Lampeter, which, when added to the collections given and bequeathed by Bishop Burgess and the Bowdler family, made the library of the infant college the largest and most comprehensive in Wales.
A folio from an illuminated fifteenth century Italian book of hours [image 1 of 10]