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Būmīgirāyī va ta's̲īr-i ān bar adabiyāt-i dāstānā-i mu'ās̲ir-i Irān
بومی گرایی واکنش روشنفکرانی بود که می خواستند مخاطبان خود را به اصالت ها و ریشه هایشان توجه دهند، بنابراین کشورهای فراوانی که در معرض استعمار قرار داشتند، به این موضوع توجه کردند و طبیعتا جریان های گوناگون روشنفکری در ایران نیز به آن بی توجه نماندند. در بررسی جریان...Sedighi, Alireza
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Flexibility and egalitarianism: musical insights from hunter-gatherers
Among egalitarian hunter-gatherer groups across the African continent, musical practices and egalitarianism are argued to be constitutive of one another. Southeast Asian hunter-gatherers also practice egalitarianism, however, their musical practices represent a seeming anomaly alongside those of African hunter-gatherer groups. Discussion of ‘hunter-gatherer musics’ that includes Southeast Asian perspectives has...Rudge, Alice
egalitarianism, polyphony, aesthetics, hunter-gatherer, diversity, and flexibility
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions, January 1973 to December 1974
Department of Manuscripts Acquisitions, January 1973 to December 1974. The following list includes manuscripts incorporated into the collections between January 1973 and December 1974. The inclusion of a manuscript in this list does not necessarily imply that it is available for study. -
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The ruling as a clue to the make-up of a medieval manuscript
ADDITIONAL MS. 47678,' acquired by the British Museum in 1952, is an early ninth century Cicero manuscript written at Tours in Carolingian minuscules. It was still complete when it was at the Abbey of Cluny but only 39 leaves survive out of the 140 or 150 that it probably once...Pattie, T. S.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books
List of recent acquisitions for the Department of Printed Books.Brown, Sandra
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Notes on the 1503 edition of Petrarch
THE first collected edition of Petrarch's Latin works to appear in Italy was printed at Venice by Simon de Luere for the publisher Andrea Torresano de Asula with two colophons dated respectively 27 March and 17 June 1501. There is no comment to be made on this edition, except to...Rhodes, Dennis E.
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Some illustrated Jain manuscripts
THE Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books has recently acquired several illustrated Jain manuscripts of great interest. The earliest is the Uttarddhyayanasutra, one of the four Mulasutras of the Svetambara Canon. The scribe provided no colophon: but the miniatures, in the Early Western Indian style, fix the date of...Losty, Jeremiah P.
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Note: Rosichino and Pietro da Cortona: a correction with notes on the printer Fabio de Falco
Note: Rosichino and Pietro da Cortona: a correction with notes on the printer Fabio de Falco.Rhodes, Dennis E.
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An illustrated Persian text of Kalila and Dimna dated 707/1307-8
A MANUSCRIPT (Or. 13506) of Kalila and Dimna recently acquired by the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (with the valuable assistance of the National Art Collections Fund, the Pilgrim Trust, and the Mark Fitch Fund) is of the highest importance as providing for study a unique example of...Waley, P. ; Titley, Norah M.
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The Napier papers
IN 1956 the Department of Manuscripts incorporated in its collections a series of papers of various members of the Napier family which had been bequeathed by Miss Violet Bunbury Napier, youngest daughter of General William Craig Emilius Napier. They commence with those of the Hon. George Napier, 6th son of...Blake-Hill, Philip V.
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The Sir Arthur Phayre Collection of Burmese manuscripts
IN 1886 the British Museum acquired approximately eighty Burmese manuscripts, now located at Or. 3403-80. These manuscripts formed part of the collection of Sir Arthur Purves Phayre, one of the most distinguished of Burma's early administrators. Phayre's life spanned the formative years of British colonial rule in Burma. He left...Herbert, Patricia M.
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English Bookbindings added to the Department of Printed Books 1963 to 1974
THE most important acquisition of bookbindings during this period has unquestionably been that of the Henry Davis Collection. It is, indeed, far the most important gift of this nature that the Department has ever received, being almost the whole of one of the three great collections of bookbindings made in...Nixon, Howard M.
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A manuscript of poems by Robert Sidney: some early impressions
IN January of this year the British Library, with the aid of generous grants from the Pilgrim Trust and the Radcliffe Trust, purchased from an unrevealed source through Messrs. Sotheby's an autograph manuscript, now numbered Additional MS. 58435, comprising sonnets, pastorals, songs, and epigrams composed by Robert Sidney (1563-1626), Earl...Kelliher, Hilton ; Duncan-Jones, Katherine
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The von Siebold Collection from Tokugawa Japan: 1. Dr Philipp Franz von Siebold's career in the Orient
BY 1867 the collection of Japanese printed books and manuscripts in the British Museum Numbered barely three hundred items whereas, for example, that of printed books alone in Hebrew ran to well over ten thousand. This relatively small collection of Japanese Materials in what were then two sections of the...Brown, Yu-Ying
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Some occasional aspects of Johann Hermann Schein
IN 1973 the Department of Printed Books of the British Library, Reference Division, acquired a collection of some ninety separate pieces of occasional verse in Latin and German, mainly epithalamia, published in Leipzig between 1608 and 1630. Amongst these are four relating to the composer Johann Hermann Schein (born 1586,...Paisey, David
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Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books: select manuscript acquisitions January 1970 to June 1973
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The original reconnaissance map for the Battle of Quebec
THE original reconnaissance report prepared by Major, later Colonel, Patrick Mackellar for General Wolfe prior to the battle of Quebec on Abrahams Heights has been known to historians since it was printed by Lieut.-Col. C.V.F. Townshend in 1901 in the Military Life of Field-Marshal George First Marquess Townshend from Townshend...Hudson, J. P.
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An illuminator's sketchbook
ONLY a handful of the sketch- and model books compiled by artists during the Middle Ages have survived to the present day. In those which have come to light pictorial subject matter predominates, and it is often far from clear whether the book contains models for miniatures or whether it...Backhouse, Janet
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Notes: An Italian imprint identified; Work in progress: Catalogue of German Books,1601-1700, in the British Library, Reference Division; Work in progress: Catalogue of Polish Books to 1800 in the Slavonic and East European Branch of the Reference Division of the British Library
It is hoped in this section to include notes on items of interest which members of the staff and readers have come across in the course of their work in the Library, but which either do not warrant a full-length article or are peripheral to their discoverer's interests.Rhodes, D. E. ; Paisey, D.L. ; Swiderska, Hanna
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A collection of German religious songs of the mid-sixteenth century
THE British Library has recently acquired a notable collection of texts of German religious songs of the mid-sixteenth century, contained in seventy-two separate contemporary publications bound in one volume (pressmark C. 175. i. 31 (1-72)). The Reformation in Germany gave a great impetus to vernacular literature and was a period...Paisey, D. L.
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Newton in the timberyard: the device of Frans Houttuyn, Amsterdam
THE use of printers' and publishers' devices is as old as the printed book. Their origin goes back even further to heraldry and medieval shop signs. Few collections of devices used in the Netherlands have been published; there is one by Nielson on those in Latin which, though quite useful...Simoni, Anna E. C.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books
Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books.Dethan, L. Le R.
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More light on sixteenth-century printing at Salamanca
No history of printing at Salamanca has yet been written. This may be partly due to the difficulties surrounding two of the principal incunable presses in the city, both of which are anonymous. In the first half of the sixteenth century, however, there are some extremely interesting links between one...Rhodes, Dennis E.
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Two missals printed for Wynkyn de Worde
The British Library has recently acquired two important and exceedingly rare editions of the Sarum Missal. These were produced in Paris in 1497 and 1511 for Wynkyn de Worde and others, and are fully described in the second and third sections of this article. The first section gives a brief...Rhodes, George D. ; Painter, Dennis E. ; Nixon, Howard M.
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Note: A hitherto unattributed German elegy on the death of Simon Dach, 1659
BY 1878, Sir Anthony Panizzi was dying. His biographer Edward Miller paints an affecting picture of his condition at that time: "Almost a complete cripple, half blind, he was but the wreck of the magnificent man he had once been. All he could manage was a short drive in the...Prescott, Andrew
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Oriental material in the reference division of the British Library
THE Oriental material housed in the three Library Departments of the old British Museum and the Science Reference Library which now constitute the Reference Division of the British Library is much larger and more comprehensive than is generally realized.It is by no means limited to printed books only but includes...Gaur, Albertine
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The von Siebold Collection from Tokugawa, Japan: 2. certain features of the Collection
IN December 1867, fourteen months after the death of Dr. Philipp Franz von Siebold, his eldest son Alexander approached the British Museum about the sale of an extensive range of Japanese materials which his father had acquired during the extraordinary career described in the previous article. Negotiations went on for...Brown, Yu-Ying
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Cowley and 'Orinda' autograph fair copies
ABRAHAM COWLEY'S elegy 'On the Death of Mr. Crashaw' was his tribute to a fellow poet with whom he had exchanged verses at Cambridge and whom he had later befriended in exile at Paris where, according to Anthony Wood, he presented the destitute Crashaw to Henrietta Maria. The elegy has...Kelliher, Hilton
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Illustrated German broadsides of the seventeenth century
THE seventeenth century was the great age of the illustrated broadside in Germany, where its suitability as an instrument of propaganda was exploited to the full. Engravings, varying in quality from crude to excellent, with images sometimes simple and direct, sometimes of the complex symbolism which is a Baroque commonplace,...Paisey, D. L.
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The French Revolution collections in the British Library
IN 1899 there was printed 'by order of the Trustees of the British Museum' a small edition of a modest guide entitled List of the contents of the three collections of books, pamphlets and journals in the British Museum relating to the French Revolution. Its compiler was G. K. Fortescue,...Brodhurst, Audrey C.
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Correspondence from The Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of St. Andrews
Correspondence from The Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of St. Andrews.Watson, J. Steven
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The Wyndham Payne Crucifixion
IT is to an American that we owe the only comprehensive study of English medieval painting. Margaret Rickert's Painting in Britain: the Middle Ages saw its first edition in 1954, and a second eleven years later, in the series The Pelican History of Art. The first edition made public for...Turner, D. H.
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An unexpected effect of the change of calendar in 1752
IN 1752 in the backward country of Great Britain the calendar was eleven days out of phase with the sun. Midsummer Day (for the purpose of this article 22 June) fell on 11 June. That day could be described as 11/22 June. What happened in 1752 was that Britain caught...Pattie, T. S.
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What became of Magna Carta?
THE loan of one of the British Library's two exemplars of King John's Magna Carta to the United States to mark the bicentenary of their independence is an historic event in itself, clearly deserving a commemorative note of some kind in this Journal. But what kind? The loan has, however,...Borrie, Michael
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The guest papers, Add.Mss.57934-57941
MONTAGUE JOHN GUEST (1839-1909), Liberal M.P. for Youghal 1869-74, and for Wareham 1880-5, presented his papers to the British Museum in 1906; they were transferred to the Department of Manuscripts from the Department of Prints and Drawings in 1973. Guest was the third son of Sir Josiah John Guest, Bart.,...Smith, Robert A. H.
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Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman and the Werkmaniana in the British Library
THE city of Groningen, capital of the Dutch province of the same name, lies in the far north-east corner of the country, separated from its main cultural centres by the IJsselmeer and being reached, before the advent of air travel, only by a long journey by road or rail. Before...Simoni, Anna E. C.
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Patrick Cary and his Italian poems
INVESTIGATION of the provenance of a seventeenth-century music manuscript recently acquired from Richard Macnutt led into some unexpected by-ways of literature and history, both English and Italian. At first sight, apart from a fine binding, there is little to distinguish this manuscript from other collections of contemporary Italian music. It...Willetts, Pamela
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Caxton in the British Library
IN 1877 the four hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the first printing press in England was celebrated with, among other things, a staggering exhibition in the National Art Library, South Kensington (now the Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum). Inspired by William Blades, a practical printer, whose biography...Nixon, Howard M.
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A Shakespeare allusion of 1605 and its author
SURPRISINGLY few critical notices of Shakespeare have so far been recovered from sources dating from his own lifetime; fewer than a dozen are known to survive, and all of these originate from more or less professional literary circles. The most famous is the schoolmaster Francis Meres's comment in Palladis Tamia...Kelliher, Hilton
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The Malory manuscript
IN March 1976 the British Library purchased from the Warden and Fellows of Winchester College the famous manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory's English cycle of Arthurian tales, now numbered Additional MS. 59678. Almost immediately upon transfer to its new home the manuscript went on display in the Caxton quincentenary exhibition,...Hellinga, Lotte ; Kelliher, Hilton
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Two Stanley Spencer letters from Salonika
THE most memorable experience which twentieth-century British painting can provide is a visit to Stanley Spencer's masterpiece, the Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere, Hampshire. An inscription in the chapel explains that the paintings 'are the fulfilment of a design which he conceived whilst on active service' and these scenes of...Waley, D. P.
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The British bindings in the Henry Davis gift
WHEN Henry Davis, C.B.E. died on 10 January 1977 the majority of his magnificent collection of bookbindings joined those already on exhibition in the British Library. The Gift, which comprises approximately 800 decorated bookbindings and 260 reference books is too extensive and too varied to receive proper justice in a...Foot, Mirjam M.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions, January-December 1975
Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions, January-December 1975.British Library
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The Cuttack Mission Press and Early Oriya printing
REFERENCES to early printing in the distinctive script of Oriya, the Indo-Aryan vernacular of Orissa, the region of India to the south-west of Bengal, are very scarce indeed.The attention of scholars has naturally enough tended to focus upon Bengal in the context of early printing in northern India, especially in...Shaw, Graham W.
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Letters of Robert Briffault
ROBERT BRIFFAULT (1873-1948) was a prolific and influential writer in the years between the two world wars. He achieved international fame as a novelist, with the publication of Europa in 1935. It was a first novel, portraying the decadence of western European society. In its sequel, Europa in Limbo (1937),...Searle, Arthur
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Deterioration in leather bookbindings - our present state of knowledge
DETERIORATION in leather and the mechanism by which deterioration proceeds has been a subject for investigation by the British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association over a number of years. Leather is widely used, not only for clothing, upholstery, and bookbinding, but in industry for machinery drive belts, hydraulic seals, etc. and...Haines, Betty M.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions, Slavonic Division
Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions, Slavonic Division.Swiderska, H.
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The paved court theatre at Somerset House
B.L. LANSDOWNE MS. 1171 is a collection of careful drawings of early English stages equipped with various kinds of scenery. All but one have been identified, however tentatively, and among them are what have hitherto been accepted as the earliest detailed designs for an English scenic stage - that erected...Orrell, John
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Foreign bookbindings added to the department of printed books from 1963 to 1974
IN volume 1, number 2 of The British Library Journal I discussed some of the English bindings acquired by the Department of Printed Books since 1962. This article followed others on acquisitions from 1941 to 1950, from 1952 to 1962, and in 1962, which appeared respectively in the British Museum...Nixon, Howard M.
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Two sixteenth-century Italian devices
THE two devices here discussed have nothing in common except that they are both Italian of the sixteenth century, occur in books in the British Library, and have not been satisfactorily explained or identified hitherto. Much work remains to be done on Italian printers' and publishers' devices, and indeed there...Rhodes, Dennis E.