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  • 1994
    Journal article

    The role of the wax tablet in medieval literacy: a reconstruction in light of a recent find from York

    MOST scholars are aware of the major role played by writing tablets as a vehicle for informal composition, learning exercises, note-taking, correspondence, accounting and document-production during Antiquity. Fewer, perhaps, are familiar with the extension and modification of their use throughout the Middle Ages (and indeed even until the nineteenth century...
    Brown, Michelle P.
  • 1992
    Journal article

    English bookbindings: additions to the collections 1975-1985

    DURING the ten years from 1975 to 1985, the Library has been fortunate in obtaining through purchase or gift several particularly interesting English bookbindings dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
    Marks, Philippa
  • 1991
    Journal article

    A glimpse above the clouds: the Japanese Court in 1859

    THOSE of us seeing pictures of the recent enthronement of the 125th Emperor of Japan on television or in the newspapers might have been forgiven for thinking that we were seeing a Heian picture scroll come to life. The ceremonies serve to remind us of the great antiquity of the...
    Todd, Hamish
  • 1991
    Journal article

    From copy to facsimile: a millennium of studying the Vatican Vergil

    BOOKS do have their fate. When it was produced in Rome sometime around A.D. 400, presumably for a wealthy pagan aristocrat of the old school, the manuscript we know as the Vatican Vergil (Vat. lat. 3225) was a nice book for a gentleman's library, but not an extraordinary artistic accomplishment....
    Wright, David H.
  • 1992
    Journal article

    The Royal Library as a source for Sir Robert Cotton's collection: a preliminary list of acquisitions

    PUBLIC Record Office, Augmentation Office, Misc. Books 160 (E. 315/160), ff. 107v-120r, contains an alphabetical list of 910 books, printed and manuscript, found in the Upper Library at Westminster Palace in 1542. At approximately the same time the inventory was compiled, so it would appear, a number was entered into...
    Carley, James P.
  • 1990
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    Books seen by Samuel Ward 'In Bibliotheca regia' circa 1614

    As early as the 1530s the antiquary John Leland (1503?-1552) envisaged the establishment of some sort of royal library, designed as a repository for the manuscript collections being removed from their previous monastic homes. From the period in which Leland was gathering, there is one particularly valuable piece of evidence:...
    Carley, James P.
  • 1992
    Journal article

    Sir Robert Cotton's record of a royal bookshelf

    OUR knowledge of the early history of the English royal library, conveniently sketched out by Warner and Gilson in 1921, has been considerably amplified in recent years. An edition of the vital Westminster library catalogue of 1542 is now in preparation and will be of major advantage to future students....
    Backhouse, Janet
  • 1992
    Journal article

    The 'Tregian' manuscripts: a study of their compilation

    BETWEEN 1609 and 1619, during his confinement in the Fleet Prison, in London, Francis Tregian the younger, a Cornish Roman Catholic recusant, has hitherto been thought to have compiled an important group of music anthologies. These comprise the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book: Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum Mus. MS. 168; British Library, Egerton...
    Thompson, Ruby Reid
  • 1991
    Journal article

    An archive of the 1989 Chinese Pro-Democracy Movement

    A collection of photocopies of leaflets relating to the Spring 1989 Pro-Democracy Movement in China has been assembled in Oriental and India Office Collections. Most of the original leaflets were collected in Peking by Robin Munro, who was working for Amnesty International at the time and is now a member...
    Bond, Sherry
  • 1991
    Journal article

    Malay manuscript art: the British Library collections

    MANUSCRIPTS written in the Malay language originate from throughout the Malay archipelago, the area occupied by the present-day nations of Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Singapore and the southern, ethnically Malay, regions of Thailand and the Philippines. Malay manuscripts are usually written on imported paper of European, Chinese or Indian manufacture in...
    Gallop, Annabel Teh