eBLJ 2015

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Black English in Britain in the Eighteenth Century
(2015)
Paisey, David
In eighteenth-century Britain, several works of imaginative literature by white authors included black characters speaking the form of English, largely a British West Indian creole, which would have been heard in everyday real life from members of the growing black population; samples are presented in chronological order.
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The Opening of the Impeachment of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, June to September 1715: The 'Memorandum' of William Wake, Bishop of Lincoln
(2015)
Jones, Clyve
July 2015 is the tercentenary of the opening of the impeachment of Robert Harley, earl of Oxford, for high treason and criminal misdemeanours together with three other leading figures of Harley's ministry of 1710-14: Bolingbroke, Ormond and Strafford. William Wake, bishop of Lincoln since 1705, and soon to be promoted to be archbishop of Canterbury in 1716, witnessed most of the opening weeks of the impeachments and wrote a 'memorandum' dealing in some detail with the proceeding in the house of lords after the house of commons had presented their articles of impeachment on 9 July 1715. The 'memorandum' also records the inner thoughts and moral crisis Wake (a whig) endured as a bishop entitled to attend and participate the proceeding up to but not including any vote of guilt or innocence (bishops by the standing orders of the Lords were forbidden to vote upon a man’s guilt if the death penalty was involved).
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Intelligent by Design: The Manuscripts of Walter of Whittlesey, Monk of Peterborough
(2015)
Luxford, Julian
This article examines two important fourteenth-century manuscripts containing historical and other texts from Peterborough Abbey, both made for a monk named Walter of Whittlesey (Add. MS. 37958 and Add. MS. 47170). It reviews the biographical evidence for Whittlesey, the muddied issue of his role in the manuscripts' production, and also the textual and iconographic constitution of these manuscripts. As such, it is essentially a study of the exercise and effects of personal monastic book-patronage. As its objects show, this patronage was heavily inflected by institutional culture, oriented in practical ways towards specific goals, and intelligently implemented. Particular emphasis is placed here on subtleties of design, and how these contributed to the utility of the manuscripts. Although the evidence for Walter's patronage is unusually clear (at least where illuminated manuscripts are concerned), opportunities for similar analysis exist elsewhere, and this study offers a model for how such work might proceed.
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Henry VIII and British Library, Royal MS. 2 A. XVI: Marginalia in King Henry's Psalter
(2015)
Christie-Miller, Ian
The book which Henry VIII most heavily annotated is the manuscript Psalter Royal MS 2 A XVI held in the British Library. This note records and comments on one previously overlooked feature - the omission of numerous verses from Psalm 77. It also records the findings of a more detailed comparison of that manuscript against the British Library copy of the Psalter printed by Edwarde Whytchurch: London, [1542?] which was also annotated by Henry VIII.
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Whose Acquisitions Policy? Panizzi and his Predecessors
(2015)
Sternberg, Ilse
Among his many accomplishments Sir Anthony Panizzi is generally credited with devising the acquisitions policy that led to the superior position of the British Museum amongst world libraries. A notable document was his 'On the Collection of Printed Books at the British Museum' of 1845. However, he was not without predecessors, among them Dr Samuel Johnson, Matthew Maty and Joseph Planta. Without detracting in any way from his real abilities this article is an attempt to demonstrate where in fact these policies originated.
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Raja Jivan Ram: A Professional Indian Portrait Painter of the Early Nineteenth Century
(2015)
Losty, J. P.
The painter Jivan Ram is referenced in 19th-century European publications on India, but little of his work was known from actual examples. He was the first Indian artist totally to abandon the traditional techniques of Indian miniatures and instead to work fully in European techniques of oil painting and portrait miniatures. He also abandoned the traditional reliance of the Indian artist on court patronage and set himself up as a portrait artist in his own right. This article traces for the first time a full outline of his career in the light especially of new works that have appeared over the last twenty years, many now in the British Library.
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Michael Renshaw: A Society Figure in War and Peace
(2015)
John-McAlister, Michael St
For someone who was far from the public eye, Michael Renshaw had a remarkable circle of friends, from the aristocracy, politics, and the arts. The letters he received, donated to the British Library in 2008, not only cast light on the lives of their famous writers and some of the major events they lived through, but also help to flesh out the details of Renshaw’s own fascinating life. Born into a privileged family, the grandson of an earl, Renshaw served in north west Europe following the Normandy landings, was instrumental in the success of the Sunday Times Magazine, and witnessed first hand the immediate aftermath of the Turkish invasion of northern Cyprus. He was both a generous host and a sought-after guest at society parties and functions, yet he was a complex character and not always easy to like. Renshaw’s collection of correspondence, his wartime papers, and references to him in secondary sources come together to give the life story of a highly interesting individual.
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The Letters of Shen Fuzong to Thomas Hyde, 1687-88
(2015)
Poole, William
The earliest surviving direct correspondence of a learned nature between a Chinese person and an Englishman comprises several letters sent between May 1687 and February 1688 by a young Christian convert from Nanjing, Michael Shen Fuzong (c. 1658-1691), to the Oxonian oriental scholar and librarian Thomas Hyde (1636-1704). This correspondence had been sparked off by the visit of Shen to London in 1687 in the entourage of visiting Jesuits, and Hyde, always keen to attract native speakers of oriental languages, soon persuaded Shen to visit Oxford. This article presents the surviving letters of Shen to Hyde, in their original Latin and Chinese texts, with English translations, and also provides an extensive contextual introduction and full annotations to the letters themselves.
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'I Have Neither Interest nor Eloquence Sufficient to Prevaile': The Duke of Shrewsbury and the Politics of Succession during the Reign of Anne
(2015)
Eagles, Robin
On 13 April 1710 Queen Anne deprived the marquess of Kent of the office of lord chamberlain and appointed in his stead Charles Talbot, duke of Shrewsbury. Many have seen in this event the opening salvo in Robert Harley's assault on the ministry of the duumvirs, Godolphin and Marlborough, which culminated in the establishment of the Harley ministry later that year. Shrewsbury's role in all of this has tended to be overlooked, in spite of his subsequent appointment as lord treasurer in Harley's place at the close of Anne's reign. This paper seeks to return the focus to Shrewsbury as a politician of real weight and to reconsider his role in the events of spring 1710 and summer 1714.
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Sloane's Portuguese Books
(2015)
Costa, Jàºlio
This article aims to systematize and briefly analyse the collection of books printed at Portuguese presses which once belonged to Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753). Portuguese books (or Portuguese printing) are here defined as early books and other materials printed in Portugal (including overseas territories during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) regardless of whether the authors are Portuguese or foreign and whether the works are written in Portuguese or another language (Latin, Spanish and Italian). Deliberately out of scope are books by Portuguese authors printed at other European presses, of which Sloane also owned a considerable number. The Sloane Printed Books Catalogue was the starting point for the study. From this database the author searched all relevant information, analysed several features of the data (Appendix A) and composed a list (Appendix B) that reunites all the Portuguese printed titles in Sloane’s personal library.

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