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2005
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Tupaia's Sketchbook
A group of watercolours in the British Library painted during the Pacific Ocean voyage of HM Bark Endeavour has long been attributed to the 'Artist of the Chief Mourner', sometimes identified as Joseph Banks. This article identifies the true artist as an indigenous Polynesian, Tupaia.Smith, Keith Vincent
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1999
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Robert Fulton: A Letter to Lord Nelson
Among the thousands of documents preserved in the British Library's holdings of the papers of Horatio Nelson is a brief note, dated 4 September 1805, from one Robert Francis, writing from 13 Sackville Street, Piccadilly; the writer sought an interview with Lord Nelson concerning the former's naval inventions, while the...Smith, R. A. H.
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2005
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Thomas Smith, Humfrey Wanley, and the 'Little-Known Country' of the Cotton Library
Although there were many handwritten, often informal catalogues of Sir Robert Cotton's manuscripts and books during his lifetime and in the years afterwards, the desire for an official printed catalogue which could be circulated in the public realm did not really bear fruit until the late 1600s. And when two...Joy, Eileen A.
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1998
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The British Library's Sado mining scrolls
AMONG the nearly eleven hundred works acquired by the British Museum from the collection of Philipp Franz von Siebold in 1868 were three hand-painted scrolls depicting mining activities on the Japanese island of Sado. The scrolls belong to a genre of manuscripts known as Kinzan emaki (Illustrated scrolls of gold...Todd, Hamish
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2004
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Writing-Tables and Table-Books
On the occasion of the British Library's purchase from the collection of Colonel W. A. Potter of the only known copy of a set of writing tables (or pocket notebook) issued by John Hammond and published in 1618, this paper describes this new acquisition and and surveys references to writing...Woudhuysen, H.R.
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2003
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Emigration, Abolition and the Atlantic World in the Revolutionary Era
The upheavals of the French Revolution not only affected France and Europe, but heralded crucial consequences for the Caribbean. Revolution in Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti) led to the collapse of slavery and the creation of Haiti as an independent republic. 'Jacobin' slaves fleeing the island carried word of Revolution to British...Shaw, Matthew J.
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1998
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The Codex Alexandrinus and the Alexandrian Greek Types
THE Codex Alexandrinus is one of the three great Greek manuscripts of the Bible, and was probably written during the first half of the fifth century. Apart from some minor imperfections where damage or loss has occurred, it contains the complete text of the Greek Bible, including the Apocrypha, and...Bowman, J. H.
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2006
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Little Red Riding-Hood
The history of the tale of Little Red Riding-Hood from Charles Perrault's manuscript of 1695, via illustrated editions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the present day.Daniels, Morna
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2003
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Recent Acquisitions: a Rare Work by Jacobus Tevius
Jacobus Tevius (Diogo de Tieve) is a key figure in the Portuguese Renaissance. This note describes the contents of his Epodon siue Ia(m)bicorum carminum libri tres [...] Ad Sebastianum primum, inuictissimum Lusitaniae Regem (Lisbon: Francisco Correia, 1565) and examines the author's contacts with courtly and scholarly circles in sixteenth-century Portugal...Taylor, Barry
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2006
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Using a Collection to Discover Reading Practices: The British Library Geneva Bibles and a History of their Early Modern Readers
This paper uses the British Library's entire collection of Geneva Bibles, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to investigate their early modern readership. A survey of both the paratextual material of the vast range of editions in the collection, and of the marks which men and women from this...Molekamp, Femke
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1999
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A History of Edward Gibbon's Six Autobiographical Manuscripts
Edward Gibbon finished writing the last page of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and added his colophon, 'Lausanne, 27 June 1787'. After laying down his pen, he walked among his acacias, and 'a sober melancholy' was spread over his mind by the idea that,...Gawthrop, John
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2002
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The English reception of Hugh of Saint-Victor's Chronicle
Explicit evidence for the reception of Hugh of Saint-Victor's Chronicle, a twelfth-century Biblical, historical and geographical compendium, has previously been limited to mainland Europe, predominantly France, Germany and Italy. This list can now be extended to include the British Isles, based on the identification of a further seven manuscripts of...Harrison, Julian
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2005
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William Plate, an Unknown Acquaintance of Karl Marx at the British Museum: A Biographical Sketch
Though much has been written on Marx's association with the British Museum, the circumstances of his admission to that institution have remained undocumented. A recent find in the British Museum Archives throws some light on the subject, and reveals for the first time the name of the remarkable gentleman who...Henderson, Bob
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2005
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The Library of Henry Oldenburg
This article presents three hitherto unpublished listings of books in the library of Henry Oldenburg (c.1619-1677), the first Secretary of the Royal Society. The main list is a catalogue of his collection, first drawn up in 1670 and augmented in 1677 by his friend John Pell, who surveyed the library...Malcolm, Noel
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2002
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George Chowdharay-Best: a bibliography
Until his death in April 2000, George Chowdharay-Best was a familiar figure in the reading rooms of the British Library. For many years he was on the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary, rising to be a Senior Assistant Editor. While most of his scholarly work was subsumed in this...Beedell, A. V. ; Harvey, A.D.
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1998
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French newspapers and ephemera from the 1848 revolution
THE British Library has exceptionally fine holdings relating to the French Revolution of 1789. The three collections purchased from or on the recommendation of John Wilson Croker comprise 48,579 pieces and have been briefly listed with some indication of subject, but not all have been catalogued. The 'R' set, the...Daniels, Morna
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2005
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Caricatures from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the Paris Commune
This article identifies and illustrates some little-known collections of caricatures on the subject of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the Paris Commune of 1871.Daniels, Morna
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1999
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'A Flute of Arcady': autograph poems of Tennyson's friend, Arthur Henry Hallam
Although Arthur Henry Hallam is granted a column and a half in the pages of the Dictionary of National Biography, he remains a tenuous shade in the national memory. He achieved no conventional academic distinction or position of political or social prominence, he left little that may be called ground-breaking...Evans, Roger
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1999
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Cuttings from an unknown copy of the Magna Glossatura in a Wycliffite Bible (British Library, Arundel MS. 104)
Three historiated initials from a Latin manuscript have been pasted as marginal illustrations in the Psalter section of an early fifteenth-century English Bible which is now Arundel MS. 104 in the British Library. The manuscript, to which the initials belonged originally, is unknown or lost. On the basis of stylistic...Panayotova, Stella
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1999
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Six Unpublished Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria
In the morass of papers left by that diligent servant of the House of Stuart, Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State to Charles I and Charles II, is a small cache of six letters written by, or at the command of, Queen Henrietta Maria. Five of them are addressed to...Beddard, R. A.
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2004
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The Potter Almanacs
On the occasion of the British Library's purchase of fourteen items from Colonel W. A. Potter's collection of rare English almanacs, this paper places these new acquisitions on the context of the genre of popular ephemeral publications of the 16th and 17th centuries.Capp, Bernard
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1999
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Francisco Muñoz y San Clemente and his 'Reflections on the English Settlements on New Holland'
The significance of Francisco Muñoz y San Clemente's 'Reflexiones sobre los establecimientos Ingleses de la Nueva-Holanda' lies in the influence it had in causing the politico-scientific expedition to the Pacific led by Alexandro Malaspina to include in its itinerary a visit to the new English colony in New South Wales...King, Robert J.
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2004
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A New Parallel to the Prayer 'De tenebris' in the Book of Nunnaminster (British Library, Harl. MS.2965, f.28rv)
This article studies and edits the text of the prayer 'De tenebris' as preserved in the Book of Nunnaminster (BL, Harl. MS. 2965).Raw, Barbara
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2003
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'Everything Curious': Samuel Hieronymus Grimm and Sir Richard Kaye
The British Library's Manuscript Collections contain a wealth of British topographical drawings which reflect the collecting instincts of antiquarians with a passion for recording, in word and image, the urban and rural landscapes around them. One such collector was the ecclesiastic and baronet Sir Richard Kaye, who recorded his thoughts...Dolman, Brett
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1998
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Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas and his contemporaries
SIR Robert Kennaway Douglas (1838-1913) was the first Keeper of the British Museum's new Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts when it was created in 1892. Despite his fame as the compiler of the first published catalogues of the Museum's Chinese as well as Japanese collections, memories of the...Brown, Yu-Ying
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1998
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Four unpublished paintings from Dunhuang in the Oriental Collections of the British Library
THE Stein collection in the British Library is essentially a manuscript collection numbering thousands of scrolls of Buddhist sutra texts and other documents, the great majority originating from Cave 17 at the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas at Mogao near Dunhuang in Gansu Province, built in the mid-ninth century as...Whitfield, Roderick
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1999
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Jacobites under the Beds: Bishop Francis Atterbury, the Earl of Sunderland and the Westminster School Dormitory case of 1721
In British Library, Harleian MS. 7190 there is a list of names which at first glance seems puzzling, even to an historian of early eighteenth-century Britain. The initial clue to its identification comes from the words 'For the Bp of Rochester' and ' Ag[ain]st' at the foot of the two...Jones, Clyve
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2002
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The Tale of Charles Perrault and Puss in Boots
The publication in 1697 of Charles Perrault's Histoires ou contes du temps passe, better known by their subtitle of Contes de ma mere L'Oye, was to prove a seminal event in the history of children's literature. Often assumed subsequently to be folk tales, these stories were, in fact, the product...Daniels, Morna
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1999
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Tyrwhitt's Urry's Chaucer's Works: the Tracks of Editorial History
The British Library owns six copies of John Urry's 1721 edition of Chaucer's Works, three of which are catalogued as containing manuscript notes. Of these three catalogue entries, two ascribe annotations to particular people, and one, 642.m.i (the second copy listed in the British Library catalogue), is described as containing...Kelen, Sarah A.
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1999
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New light on Richard Steele
Richard Steele (1672-1729) has been studied so extensively that new factual information on the essayist and playwright is generally a consequence of accidental discovery. The following evidence was unearthed in the course of unrelated research amongst the archival records of Augustan and Georgian Britain.Alsop, J. D.
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2002
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England's Populist Pindars
During the Regency of 1811-1820 English readers were regularly and abundantly supplied with racy narrative poems that digested and satirized the news of the day, poems with such titles as The Royal Brood, The Cork Rump, A Peep at the Pavilion, The Disappointed Duke, and The German Sausages. Many of...Jackson, H. J.
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1999
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Dryden attributions and texts from Harley MS. 6054
In a footnote to the long and scholarly biography with which in 1800 Edmond Malone prefaced his edition of Dryden's prose he drew attention to a couplet preserved in a manuscript verse-miscellany in the British Museum Library.Kelliher, Hilton
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1998
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Photographs in the British Library of documents and manuscripts from Sir Aurel Stein's fourth Central Asian expedition
ON 1 September 1995, shortly before I returned to China from a visit to the British Library on a British Academy K. C. Wong Fellowship, a box containing photographs of documents and manuscripts from Sir Aurel Stein's fourth Central Asian expedition(1930-1) was rediscovered in the Oriental and India Office Collections...Jiqing, Wang
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2002
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The British Museum Library and the development of the international exchange of official documents
In 1867 the United States Congress empowered the Smithsonian Institution to negotiate complete reciprocal exchanges of official publications with foreign governments. The impetus to such international exchanges was eventually embodied in two Brussels Conventions of 1886, although the United Kingdom was not a signatory. This article traces how, despite this,...Sternberg, Ilse
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1998
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'Rise and shine!': the birth of the glossy magazine
BOTH as a field of study and as a reflective resource for the investigation of other topics, popular magazines are a sorely neglected medium. Few librarians want to keep them and an even smaller number of academics use them. Students of print culture oscillate in their affiliations between the poles...Reed, David
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1997
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Post-war Philippine fiction in English
PHILIPPINE fiction in English is one of the many consequences of Spain's cession of the islands to the United States after the war of 1898. The coming of the Americans introduced a new language and a new culture to the people. During the early part of the twentieth century Spanish...Sarvia, Illa
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1999
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Further Sources for the Swiss Civil War of 1712 in the British Library's Collections
The British Library's early collections are extremely rich in ephemeral, popular and small-scale printed works from many parts of the German-speaking world, not least from Switzerland, a point illustrated by an article by the present author which appeared in the Spring 1993 issue under the title 'The Swiss Civil War...Nattrass, Graham
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1998
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A Korean Buddhist illuminated manuscript
DURING the selection of manuscripts for loan to the 'Arts of Korea' Gallery which opened in the British Museum in July 1997, a richly decorated Korean Buddhist sutra copied in gold pigment around 1390 was identified, conserved and prepared for display. The manuscript seems to have received little attention since...McKillop, Beth
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1998
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Closely observed China: from William Alexander's sketches to his published work
WHEN Lord Macartney led the first British Embassy to China from 1792 to 1794, he and his entourage travelled largely by boat, even after their arrival in China. They proceeded up the coast in their flotilla and disembarked at the mouth of the Bei river, to transfer to smaller, flat-bottomed...Wood, Frances
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1997
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The Covenant of the League of Nations
1995 saw the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of the founding of the United Nations. Those in attendance had much with which to congratulate themselves: despite the inevitable controversies, the successes of the United Nations, and particularly those of its humanitarian agencies, represented a significant improvement on the work of its predecessor,...Ridgley, Gillian
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1998
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The Tyson Collection
IN 1961 an article appeared in a musical journal proving that two piano trios usually accepted without question as Haydn's were in fact by Ignaz Pleyel. The author was Alan Tyson, who for the next thirty years was to play a leading role in scholarly research into music of the...Neighbour, O. W.
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1997
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James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and the British Museum Library
IN an address on the Halliwell-Phillipps collection delivered before the Pennsylvania Library Club, at the Friends' Library, Philadelphia, on Monday, 14 January 1895, Albert H. Smyth, Professor of the English Language and Literature, Central High School, Philadelphia, no librarian and therefore 'rather reminiscent than doctrinaire', raised the curtain thus: "For...Spevack, Marvin
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1997
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The Perfect Scribe and an early engraved Esther scroll
THE origins of the tradition of decorating Esther scrolls for Purim are shrouded in mystery. Esther scrolls, also known by the Hebrew term Megillot (sing.: Megillah,''scroll") are copies of the Biblical book of Esther, transcribed on parchment scrolls to be read publicly on the feast of Purim, the anniversary of...Frojmovic, Eva
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1999
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Patronage and Connection: The Career of the Rev. William Talbot (1720-1811), Chancellor of Salisbury
William Talbot, Chancellor of Salisbury Cathedral from 1771 to 1811, has been unknown to history, other than by his entry in Alumni Cantabrigienses which records that he was a native of Odel, Bedfordshire, educated at Oakham School, served as a sizar at Clare College, Cambridge from 1738, and having graduated...Gibson, William T.
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1998
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The photographs from Stein's fourth expedition: a footnote
WHEN Wang Jiqing prepared his report on the photographs of the missing artefacts from Sir Aurel Stein's Fourth Central Asian Expedition, it was generally believed that the original negatives, from which the 'improved' versions were made at the Thomason College at Roorkee, had been lost. By coincidence, the recent detailed...Falconer, John
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1998
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Kenneth B. Gardner (1924-1995)
It is fitting that this issue of the British Library Journal, devoted to the East Asian collections, should open with an appreciation of the late Kenneth Gardner. Prior to his retirement in 1986, Ken had held distinguished posts for thirty-one years in the British Museum and British Library, including the...Brown, Yu-Ying
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1997
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An unrecognized novelist: Frances Jacson (1754-1842)
ACCORDING to its General Catalogue the British Library possesses among its holdings of late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century novels seven by the minor writer Alethea Lewis. On their acquisition they were entered by title only as of uncertain authorship, but subsequently all were attributed to her. In reality, Alethea Lewis is the...Percy, Joan
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1996
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The Garendon cartularies in BL, Landsowne 415
THE period of maximum productivity of extant cartularies occurred in the second half of the thirteenth century, so that part of the interest of the Garendon texts in the Lansdowne volume lies in their compilation in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century. Their broadly topographical arrangement conforms to the...Postles, David
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1997
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The rediscovery of Margery Kempe: a footnote
THE year 1934 was truly an annus mirabilis for English literary studies, when over the space of three months during the summer and autumn unique manuscripts of three major works were brought to light. In July came the announcement by Walter Oakeshott of his discovery in the Fellows Library at...Kelliher, Hilton
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1996
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An old Spanish tale from Add. Ms. 14040, flf. 113r-114v: 'Exenplo que acaesçio en tierra de Damasco a la buena duenna climeçia que avia veynte annos e la mecia en cuna'
THE main body of Add. MS. 14040 contains three translations into Castilian: Ramon Lull's 'Libre del gentil e los tres savis' (ff. 1-85V) in a version by Gonçalo Sanches de Useda and his 'Coment del dictat' (ff. 86r-iiir) from the Catalan, and an extract from the Flores Sancti Bernardi, probably...Taylor, Barry