eBLJ 2015

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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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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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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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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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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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J. G. Ballard's 'Elaborately Signalled Landscape': The Drafting of Concrete Island
(2015)
Beckett, Chris
The archive of J. G. Ballard at the British Library contains two very different draft texts for 'Concrete Island': an undated typescript substantially revised by hand, and a 'first draft screenplay' dated 20 September 1972. The screenplay is, in the author’s words on the title page, 'from the novel of the same title'. However, it is apparent that the screenplay is based not upon the final text of the novel but upon the unrevised typescript draft. A comparison of the two documents indicates that Ballard only turned to revising the novel by hand after having drafted the screenplay. Substantial revisions to the novel include, for example, removing the island's mummified old man (a figure present in both the typescript and the screenplay) and changing the circumstances of Proctor's death. The essay includes images of a number of draft passages that illustrate the development of the composition of Concrete Island, from typescript draft – through the intermediary text of the draft screenplay – to the revised and final text of the novel.
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Embedded Marginalia in the Psalter and Hours of Humphrey de Bohun (British Library, Egerton MS. 3277)
(2015)
Sandler, Lucy Freeman
The phrase 'embedded marginalia' refers to images on the pages of medieval manuscripts that are beyond the text block in both a physical and conceptual sense but integrated nevertheless in the form and meaning of the page as a whole. This study is focused on the many examples of embedded marginalia in the Psalter and Hours of Humphrey de Bohun (British Library, Egerton MS. 3277), a sumptuous manuscript produced in England between c. 1360 and c. 1380 by artists and scribes in the service of Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford, Essex and Northampton, and his descendants. The analysis of the physical and conceptual relationships between all the pictorial and verbal elements on the page is intended to reshape the conventional view of marginalia as belonging entirely to the sphere of the 'other'.
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Some Italian Eighteenth-Century Books Acquired by British Travellers in Italy
(2015)
Rhodes, Dennis E.
This article studies three Italian eighteenth-century books acquired in Italy by three British travellers: Sir Charles Frederick (1709-1785), Joseph Trapp (c. 1716-1769) and I. Teckel.
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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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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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