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Was Jacques Le Forestier the printer of the Horae Ad Usum Sarum of 1495?
THE British Library and the Bodleian Library both own a copy of a Book of Hours for Sarum use dated 1495, but without indication of place of printing or printer's name. Two Gothic types are employed for the book, one measuring 113 mm, the other 63 mm for twenty lines,...Baurmeister, Ursula
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Alban Berg and the BBC
Edward Clark (1888-1962), who was a programme planner with the BBC from 1927 to 1936, had been introduced to Arnold Schoenberg after a performance of the latter's symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande in Berlin in 1910. He was thereafter an ardent champion of the music of Schoenberg (whose pupil he...Chadwick, Nicholas
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Marlborough as Imperial Prince, 1704-1717
EARLY in June 1704, as the campaign that was to culminate in the victory of Blenheim-Hochstadt was gaining momentum, Johann Wenzel, Count Wratislaw von Mitrowitz, the Imperial ambassador at the English court, who was accompanying the Allied armies on their march to the Danube, suggested in a confidential letter to...Barber, Peter
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The Mainz indulgences of 1454/5: a review of recent scholarship
THE earliest extant piece of European printing from movable type with which an absolute date can be associated is a Papal Letter of Indulgence which bears the printed date 1454 and the handwritten purchase date 22 October 1454. Forty-nine other printed copies of this Indulgence are known, some unsold and...Ing, Janet
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A mysterious Italian newsletter of 1517
'MYSTERIOUS' seems to be the most appropriate word to describe a newsletter, printed on only two leaves in quarto, and purchased by the Department of Printed Books of the British Library in August 1981, since it has taken a year of continuous research and puzzled contemplation to reach a conclusion...Rhodes, D. E.
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Two East Slavonic Primers: Lvov, 1574 and Moscow, 1637
Cultural life in Russia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries differed from cultural life in Western Europe in two important respects. Works of literature and scholarship were not written in the spoken vernacular (Russian), but in Church Slavonic, and the predominant medium for conveying thought was not the printed book,...Thomas, Christine
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The making of the Harley Psalter
The artists of later Anglo-Saxon England are particularly noted for the lively and delicate multi-coloured line drawings which feature in some sixty of the illuminated manuscripts which have come down to us from the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. These drawings are in distinct contrast to the often rather...Backhouse, Janet
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Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1982-March 1983: English books 1501-1800
Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1982 - March 1983: English books 1501-1800.Archibald, Jean ; Jannetta, M. J.
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'My darling baby': Charles Kingsley's letters to his wife
A few days before his marriage on 10 January 1844 to Frances Grenfell, 'Fanny' as she was called by her family, Charles Kingsley wrote to his bride-to-be about their honeymoon, 'shall I bring down all our letters to Cheddar?-I think so. -My baby, we will classify them, & put the...Wright, C. J.
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Day's Service Book,1560-1565
The period of gestation of this article has been truly elephantine. I first became interested in Day's Service Book in 1934 when working in the Westminster Abbey Library and I solved-to my own satisfaction-the main problem which it presents over twenty years ago. Its publication has, however, been delayed by...Nixon, Howard M.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1980-1982: Hispanic section
Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1980-1982: Hispanic section.Whitehead, H. G.
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Accounts of the conduct of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, 1704-1742
SARAH, Duchess of Marlborough's self-justifying narrative of her years at Court, An Account of the Conduct of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough attracted a considerable amount of attention at its first publication in 1742, and has since frequently been used as an historical source. For not only had she been...Harris, Frances
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions January-December 1981
Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions January-December 1981.Simoni, Anna E. C.
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The book of Franciscan saints by Cornelius Thielmans, 1610: a question of title
On 31 August 1974 the British Library received as part of the Van Stuwe donation the gift of a book in small quarto entitled Cort Verhael van het Leven der Heijlighen van S[.] Franciscus Oirden Met Haer Levende Figuren Wt Diuersche schyvers [sic] genomen Deur Den E. P. Broeder Cornelius...Simoni, Anna E. C.
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Printing with gold in the fifteenth century
Gold printing in the fifteenth century is very rare. There are only two printers who are known to have applied this technique. One of them was Erhard Ratdolt who first used gold for printing a gloriously spectacular full page of dedication in a number of copies of his editio princeps...Carter, Victor ; Hellinga, Lotte ; Parker, Tony
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Fernando Pessoa, poet, publisher, and translator
FERNANDO PESSOA is widely considered to be the greatest Portuguese poet of the twentieth century and a major writer of European stature. His enigmatic personality and the potent combination of poetic genius and metaphysics in his verse have fascinated a wide variety of readers both in Portugal and abroad. His...Howes, R. W.
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The composition of the manuscript of Christine de Pizan's Collected Works in the British Library: a reassessment
THE exquisite manuscript copy of Christine de Pizan's Collected Works, one of the greatest treasures of the British Library (Harley MS. 4431), is well known to scholars of late medieval literature and art. A splendid frontispiece depicts the first owner, Queen Isabeau of Bavaria, the wife of King Charles VI...Hindman, Sandra
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The raid on Raglan: sacred ground and profane curiosity
". . . and therefore I call this a Semi Omnipotent Engine, and do intend that a model thereof be buried with me." EDWARD Somerset, 6th Earl and 2nd Marquis of Worcester (1601-67) is one of the best known of his resilient family, both for his part in the Civil...Hewish, John
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions, German Section
Lists of notable acquisitions often concentrate on the expensive and rare: this mixed baker's dozen is, on the whole, no exception. Some of the books listed chronologically here are not only rare but unique, some are of obvious historical or scholarly importance, some are beautiful. All are, I hope, interesting;...Paisey, D. L.
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Bagford and Sloane
THE way in which over a hundred volumes of John Bagford collections were acquired for the Harleian Library after his death in 1716 is well known to bibliographers. However, the acquisition by Hans Sloane of several other volumes compiled by Bagford, including one which contained the Gutenberg leaf discussed by...Nickson, Margaret
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: Dutch acquisitions
Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: Dutch acquisitions.Simoni, Anna E. C.
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Early Ottoman miniature painting: two recently acquired manuscripts in the British Library
THE Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books has recently acquired two illustrated Ottoman manuscripts. Historically and stylistically important, they are welcome additions to the small but select collection of some sixty illustrated Turkish manuscripts in the British Library. It is only comparatively recently that Turkish miniatures, unlike Persian, have...Titley, Norah M.
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Manifestations of Arthur Waley: some bibliographical and other notes
IF Ezra Pound's assertion that the great ages of literature are always allied with great ages of translation is true, then those interested in the work of what Cyril Connolly called 'the Modern Movement' would have ample justification, like Connolly in his book, for including in their collections Arthur Waley's...Johns, Francis A.
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Swift, Oxford, and the composition of Queen's speeches, 1710-1714
SWIFT'S involvement in the composition of Queen's speeches during the years of the Oxford ministry is almost a commonplace of his biography, and statements in the Journal to Stella provide the evidence for his importance in government circles. 'I was at Court, where every body had their Birthday Cloaths on,...Downie, J. A. ; Woolley, David
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Rembertus Fresen and his writings
THREE small books in the British Library, all printed in northern Germany towards the end of the sixteenth century, are of unusual interest both for their author and for their printers. Unfortunately it has to be confessed that all three were accidentally omitted from the British Museum's Short-title Catalogue of....Rhodes, Dennis E.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: Add. MS. acquisitions, January-December 1979; Egerton MS. and Add. Ch.acquisitions, January 1978-December 1979
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Antoine De Guiscard, 'Abbé de la Bourlie', 'Marquis de Guiscard'
SOME wars more than others offer scope to the hopeful military adventurer armed with plausible projects. The chevalier d'industrie flourished mightily in the War of the Spanish Succession, as the papers of the 1st Duke of Marlborough reveal. The imagination of the military projector was admirably stimulated by the obstacles...Jones, Peter
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Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1981- March 1982: English Books 1501-1800
Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1981-March 1982: English Books 1501-1800.Archibald, Jean ; Jannetta, M. J.
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A side-light on Panizzi in the letters of Prosper Mérimée
THIS is an attempt to break into a patch of silence and a zone of half-light in the later years of Sir Anthony Panizzi. The silence and obscurity are the result of a historical accident. The bulk of Panizzi's papers and correspondence has been preserved - it is available now...Brodhurst, Audrey C.
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Some unpublished correspondence of Sir Richard Steele
IN its January issue of 1782, the Gentleman's Magazine carried amongst its obituaries the following item: 'January 1st . . . In the Circus, Bath, the right hon. Lady Trevor, relict of John Lord Trevor, and dau. of the late Sir Richard Steele'. The story of the Steele Family, it...Wright, C. J.
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Antonio de Sancha, 1720-1790: a tentative list of holdings in the reference division of the British Library
THE remarkable improvement in printing standards in eighteenth-century Spain is generally considered to have been due to the work of Joaquin Ibarra. However, an almost equal place must be accorded to his contemporary Antonio de Sancha, whose printing skills came to rival Ibarra's, and whose literary formation and enthusiasms possibly...Whitehead, H. G.
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'A pleasing example of skill in old age': Sir Christopher Wren and Marlborough House
THE lease of the site of what was to become Marlborough House was first granted to the Duke of Marlborough by the Crown in 1708. The Duke left the whole matter of the projected town house to his Duchess, so the choice of architect was hers. In her own words:...Searle, Arthur
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Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1980-1981: English Books 1501-1800
Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1980-1981: English Books 1501-1800.Archibald, Jean ; Jannetta, M. J.
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Thomas Wilkinson of Yanwath, friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge
AT the very northernmost border of Westmorland, a couple of miles before the train enters Penrith station from the south, the observant traveller will be struck by the appearance, immediately to the left of the embankment, of a large farmhouse dominated by a fine fourteenth-century peel-tower, built in the traditional...Kelliher, Hilton
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions January-December 1980
Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions January-December 1980.Smith, Robert A. H.
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Woodcroft's heritage: the collections at the Science Reference Library
ANY considerable library has a character all its own, a character usually reflecting the disproportionate influence of a few outstanding men who have shaped its development. The Science Reference Library, which celebrated its 125th anniversary on 5 March 1980, is no exception for, primus inter pares, it is the library...Hall, R. M. S.
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The General Catalogue of printed books, 1881-1981
ON 30 April 1881 George Bullen, the Keeper of Printed Books, laid before the Trustees of the British Museum the first printed part of the catalogue of books in his department. When completed twenty-five years later, the catalogue, containing about two million entries, became and remained for half a century...Chaplin, A. H.
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Note: The Spanish Scala Celi
The Scala celi in Spanish, in the edition with which I am here concerned, is a small printed work of only twenty quarto leaves. It has nothing whatever to do with much longer works of the same title (but in Latin) with which it has been confused. Haebler, for example,...Rhodes, D. E.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: Acquisitions 1975-1980: English Books 1501-1800
Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: Acquisitions 1975-1980: English Books 1501-1800.Archibald, Jean ; Jannetta, M. J.
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The paint surfaces in the Psalter of Henry of Blois
THE condition of the miniatures in the Psalter of Henry of Blois, British Library MS. Cotton Nero C. IV, has long been a subject of interest to students of Romanesque illumination. Those who have commented upon this problem agreed that originally the miniatures were fully painted. At some point, the...Haney, Kristine Edmondson
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Some notes on seventeenth-century continental hospitals
SIR HANS SLOANE (1660-1753), the eminent Stuart and Georgian physician, was an avid collector of historical manuscripts, particularly those relating to all branches of medicine and the allied sciences. His collection, an original nucleus of the British Museum, remains one of the most important archives for research into the medical...Alsop, J. D.
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Vignettes in early nineteenth-century London editions of Mozart's operas
ON 21 June 1737 the royal assent was given to a measure entitled: An Act to explain and amend so much of an Act, made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for reducing the Laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, sturdy Beggars, and Vagrants,...King, Alec Hyatt
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'This so-called autobiography': Anthony Trollope, 1812-1882
'THERE is perhaps no career of life so charming as that of a successful man of letters', Trollope declares in a happy moment, adding that 'it is in the consideration which he enjoys that the successful author finds his richest reward.' A good deal of the interest and fascination of...Brown, Sally
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Joaquin Ibarra, 1725-1785: a tentative list of holdings in the reference division of the British Library
THREE printers in eighteenth-century Spain are commonly regarded as the leaders of the revival in printing standards in that country. Of the three, Joaquin Ibarra, Benito Monfort, and Antonio de Sancha, it is Ibarra who is generally considered to be pre-eminent.Whitehead, H. G.
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Department of Printed Books: Halthasar Bekker: some recent additions
In the 1978 Spring issue of this journal Dr. Hans Henning recalled that executions for witchcraft continued in Germany and Switzerland until 1782. If they came to an end then, and well before that date in England and some other countries, this is due in no small measure to Balthasar...Simoni, Anna E. C.
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Socinian books with the Raków imprint in the British Library
DURING the Reformation, Poland, with her religious tolerance, became known as an asylum haereticorum in which various trends in the New Faith peacefully coexisted with the official Catholic Church, and religious refugees from abroad found safety from persecution by both the Inquisition and Protestant theologians. One of the most distinguished...Swiderska, H.
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The Blenheim Papers
THE papers of John, 1st Duke of Marlborough, his wife, Sarah, and his son-in-law, Charles 3rd Earl of Sunderland, as well as of other members of the Spencer, Churchill, and related families, formerly kept at Blenheim Palace, were acquired by the British Library in 1978. They were originally offered to...Hudson, J. P.
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Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1965-1975: English Books 1701-1800
Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1965-1975: English Books 1701-1800.Jannetta, M. J.
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Reflections on librarianship: observations arising from examination of the Garrick Collection of old plays in the British Library
IN April 1980 it will be two hundred years since David Garrick's Collection of Old Plays was transferred from his house in the Adelphi to the British Museum. On a hand cart, so it is said, the volumes in their special binding, with the initials DG entwined on the spines,...Anderson, Dorothy
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An unidentified Italian publisher's device: the knight on oxback
IN November 1891 the British Museum bought from Leo S. Olschki, the bookseller who was at that time established in Venice but later moved to Florence, a small liturgical work in 16mo format without imprint or date, and with the title printed in red as follows (abbreviations resolved): Diurnum Romanum:...Rhodes, Dennis E.