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Recent acquisitions: a Shahnama miniature of the fourteenth century
THE Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library has recently acquired an illustrated Shahnama (Book of Kings) (Or.14403) from Transoxiana dating from circa 1600.Titley, Norah M.
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Book chapter
Artaria
Austrian firm of music publishers. It was founded in Mainz in 1765 and by 1768 was operating in Vienna, where it became the first important music publishing firm in the city.Weinmann, Alexander
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Furṣatī barā-yi dīdan
Sedighi, Alireza
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Mozart's Publishing Plans With Artaria in 1787: New Archival Evidence
A previously unknown document witnessing a transaction between Mozart and his principal Viennese publisher, Artaria, appears in an inventory ledger compiled by the firm in 1787. The documentary, financial, and bibliographical contexts suggest that Mozart was paid in advance for six piano trios and twelve songs, but failed to complete...Ridgewell, Rupert
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'Making tradition': healing, history and ethnic identity among Otjiherero-speakers in Namibia, c. 1850–1950
For at least the last century and a half, Otjiherero-speakers in central Namibia have engaged in healing rituals played out around the Holy Fire and involving a resolution of tension through appeal to male patrilineal ancestors. These ceremonies are part of traditions that have increasingly come to define Herero ethnic...Wallace, Marion
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Conference paper (published)
Issues raised by a 'rap' translation of a poem by Velimir Khlebnikov 'Kamennaia baba'
Chadwick, Brian
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Conference paper (published)
Los libros españoles que fueron del Baron Achille Seillière ahora en la British Library de Londres
West, Geoffrey
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Was Elizabeth interested in maps - and did it really matter?
It tends to be assumed that Queen Elizabeth was interested in maps and globes, not least because she was frequently depicted in their vicinity. Investigation strongly suggests that this was not the case. It is argued that this did matter. By depriving her of an independent source of spatial information,...Barber, Peter
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Conference paper (published)
Where are they now? The dispersal of Spanish printed book collections, 1810-1850
West, Geoffrey
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New Zealand Philately at the British Library
The British Library Philatelic Collections are the National Philatelic Collections of the United Kingdom. These collections, estimated to be over eight million items, include postage and revenue stamps, artwork, essays, proofs, covers and entires, cinderella material, specimen issues, airmails, some postal history materials, official and private posts, etc., for almost...Beech, David R.
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Muqāyasah-i shakṣiyat-i Rustam va Arjun dar Shāhnāmah va Mahābahārāt
مهابهارات اثر حماسی هندوان روایتگر جنگ پاندوان و کوروها بر سرحکومت منطقه ای به نام هستناپور است. در این جنگ که هیجده روز به طول می انجامد پاندوان برپسرعموهای خود پیروز می شوند. ارجن در میان باقی قهرمانان این کتاب از نظرگاه های متفاوت شبیه رستم، جهان پهلوان شاهنامه است....Sedighi, Alireza
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Muqāyasah-i sākhtārī-i khvaishāvankushī va khvaishāvanāzārī dar Shāhnāmah va Mahābahārāt
این پژوهش در صدد است تا با بررسی قصه های دو حماسه ایرانی و هندی، یعنی شاهنامه و مهابهارت، نشان دهد، ساختار این قصه ها تا چه اندازه از نظر طرح و محدوده، شبیه به هم است. بنابراین بخشی از قصه ها با موضوع «خویشاوند کشی خویشاوند آزاری» انتخاب گردید...Sedighi, Alireza
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Conference paper (published)
Archiving web site resources: a records management view
In this paper, we propose the use of records management principles to identify and manage Web site resources with enduring value as records. Current Web archiving activities, collaborative or organisational, whilst extremely valuable in their own right, often do not and cannot incorporate requirements for proper records management. Material collected...Pennock, Maureen ; Kelly, Brian
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Āshiyānah-i Simurgh az dirakht-i Vispubīsh tā kūh-i Alborz
به سبب شباهتهای متعددی که میان درخت و کوه وجود دارد، سیمرغ شاهنامه از درخت ویسپوبیش به کوه البرز نقل مکان می کند. سیمرغ، سئن یا مرغو سئن اوستا در شاهنامه نیز حضور خود را با تفاوتهایی حفظ کرده است. اگر سیمرغ اوستا چهره ای آیینی و پذیرفته دارد. شاهنامه...Sedighi, Alireza
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Conference paper (published)
Co-operation for digital preservation and curation: Collaboration for collection development in institutional repository network
The digital preservation problem is a series of interrelated technical and organizational challenges that can only be met co-operatively by the many different stakeholders that are involved. The rise of the institutional repository paradigm backs this up with its focus on co-operation within national or subject-based networks and the wider...Day, Michael ; Pennock, Maureen ; Allinson, Julie
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Nawrūz va Jamshīd
Sedighi, Alireza
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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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Nāhamkhvānī-i nazariyah va nivishtār(barrisī va naqd-i romān-i Gonjishkhā bihisht rā mīfahmand)
رمان گنجشک ها بهشت را می فهمند مطابق با آموزه های پسامدرنیستی نوشته شده است. توجه به آشفتگی در روایت و به تبع آن زمان داستان، ویژگی های فراداستانی، ایجاد دور باطل با استفاده از شخصیت های تاریخی در کنار شخصیت های داستانی و حضور نویسنده در داستان برای به...Sedighi, Alireza
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Philatelic Conservation - Restoration
Carl Aage Moller in his article 3 rightly continues the long running debate within philately as to what is acceptable conservation and restoration. Most previous articles have ignored, or not taken into account, the professional paper conservator's views and experience. Good philatelic conservation is a question of what is good,...Beech, David R.
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Philatelic Research - a basic guide
For those at the beginning of a philatelic research project it will be of much value to both themselves and the results of that research, to have a systematic approach. This article attempts to set out some basic concepts that will help the researcher. This set of guidelines should not...Beech, David R.
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My way: Interview with Neil Fitzgerald
Working with Microsoft, the British Library is embarking upon a massive programme to digitise its unmatched collection of books, manuscripts and other items. It's a daunting challenge, even using semi-automated systems that scan thousands of pages per month, as the project's manager Neil Fitzgerald explains. Interview by Keri Allan.Allan, Keri ; Fitzgerald, Neil
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Doctoral thesis
Dynamic, Articulation and Special Effect Markings in Manuscript Sources of Luigi Boccherini’s String Quintets
Luigi Boccherini's chamber works form the largest part of his compositional output of nearly 500 works. In these works Boccherini included performance markings to a much greater extent that in his violoncello sonatas and concertos. His string quintets, in particular, present a large variety of dynamic, articulation and special-effect markings,...Drosopoulou, Loukia