British Library Journal (volume 5, number 2, autumn 1979)

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Two eighteenth-century manuscripts on the geography of the Levant
(1979-10)
Salt, George
A MANUSCRIPT on my bookshelves contains a collection of geographical and other notes relating to Greece and Asia Minor. It has no title, and is unsigned. It was written during a period of years beginning before 1739, probably before 1733, and continuing at least until 1749. Among its contents are about a hundred Greek inscriptions. Some of the inscriptions attracted the interest of Professor R. Stroud, of Berkeley, when he visited Cambridge in 1977-8, and he intends to publish an article about them. For that purpose it is desirable to know what authenticity they command, in short, who wrote the manuscript. This paper records an enquiry into the question.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1968-1978, Map Library
(1979-10)
Tyacke, Sarah
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Wallis, Helen
Between 1968 and 1978 the Map Library has acquired a number of important and unusual atlases, maps, and globes dating from c. 1500 to 1850. Although all acquisitions are entered in the published Map Catalogue and in its subsequent accessions parts, this article provides fuller descriptions of some of the more interesting items acquired which, it is hoped, will reach a wider audience. A second article will complete the listing of notable acquisitions for the period 1968-78.
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Some uncollected letters of Andrew Marvell
(1979-10)
Kelliher, Hilton
EARLIER this year the British Library acquired an unpublished letter of Marvell to Sir Henry Thompson of Escrick, dated 16 December 1675. Sir Henry (c. 1627-84), the second of the five sons of Richard Thompson of Kilham and his wife Anne Thompson, nee Nelthorpe, was a successful wine merchant, knighted in 1665 and serving as Member of Parliament for York from 1673 until 1681, in succession to Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby.- With him and with his youngest brother Edward (c. 1637-1701), whose political views coincided largely with his own, Marvell corresponded over the last eight years of his life in a friendly and even playful fashion, thanking them for favours to himself and to his nephew William Popple when the latter was setting up in the wine trade at Bordeaux, and retailing current news and gossip. This new letter, which brings the total so far known of the series to eighteen, that is, to no less than two-fifths of Marvell's miscellaneous correspondence in the standard edition, fits neatly between two that were written on 9 and 28 December to Sir Henry and Edward Thompson respectively.
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Innocence and experience in the poetry of Andrew Marvell
(1979-10)
Lord, George De F.
ANDREW MARVELL is the most enigmatic of English writers. Aubrey tells us that he was merry and cherry-cheeked, but that he would not drink in company, keeping, nevertheless, some bottles of wine in his lodgings 'to refresh his spirits and exalt his muse'. Nearly all the poems on which his fame depends were not published until after his death, and, if they circulated in manuscript during his lifetime, they made nothing like the impression that Donne's Songs and Sonnets did. Even when they were published posthumously in 1681, Marvel's poetry met, as far as we can tell, with indifference. The fact that so many extant copies of the folio lack the portrait suggests that interest in Marvell was confined to the political figure and not the poet.
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Notes: Nicolaus Falcutius and Nicolaus Nicoli
(1979-10)
Rhodes, Dennis E.
Nicolaus Falcutius, or Falcuccius (Niccolo Falcucci) must be the one medieval author who holds the record for having been wrongly catalogued in the largest number of modern European libraries. In the hope that he may be correctly catalogued in the future, I will here list the printed editions of his major writings only, the seven huge volumes Sermones (which are medical, not theological), and show what has been their fate in the printed catalogues of the English-speaking world: for no one has ever got him quite right. For lack of space I will not enter into the question of his fortuna in continental libraries, but will restrict myself to Britain and America.
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Notes : The Laurence Nowell Manuscripts in the British Library
(1979-10)
Warnicke, Retha M.
For centuries historians have asserted that the Laurence Nowell who transcribed old chronicles with William Lambarde, the sixteenth-century antiquary of Kent, was a churchman, the Dean of Lichfield. A careful reading of the facts in a 1571 Court of Requests case has recently disclosed that this belief is unfounded.
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Notes: Richard Hodges and Stowe Manuscript 15
(1979-10)
Alsop, J. D.
This note is intended to explain the relationship between Stowe Manuscript 15 and Richard Hodges, whose name appears on folio 12v with the date 1545. The manuscript is a small volume of ninety-two vellum folios containing diverse subjects dating from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. It was originally begun as a twelfth-century Latin copy of the four gospels and this occupies the majority of the text (fols. 26-84).
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Reconstruction of a Liège psalter-hours
(1979-10)
Oliver, Judith
IN the sad history of crimes against books, British Library Add. MS. 28784 must be placed high on the list of scrapbooks headed by the Carmelite Missal, Add. MSS. 29704-29705. When acquired by the British Museum in 1871 Add. MS. 28784 was composed of a complete late fifteenth-century book of hours' embellished with sixteen inserted full page miniatures from an earlier fifteenth-century book of hours and with over 400 bits and pieces cut from a late thirteenth-century manuscript.' These cut-outs enliven the broad empty margins of text pages in the first book of hours, and cover all areas of text on rectos and versos of the sixteen leaves of the second. The job of separating this composite manuscript into its three constituent parts was begun in 1876 when the sixteen inserted pages were removed from what is now Add. 28784A and bound separately to form Add.28784B. Parts A and B are both bound in nineteenth-century blind-tooled red leather bindings. The much more difficult task of separating the thirteenth-century part has yet to be attempted.' The purpose of the present investigation is therefore to identify the type of book it was, to determine the school of manuscript illumination to which it belongs and its approximate date, and finally to reconstruct its probable appearance.
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Joseph Timothy Haydn, of Dictionary of Dates fame: 'a long and laborious life, writing chiefly for the publishers'
(1979-10)
Myers, Robin
'Is it for this', Robert Hurton's melancholy scholar asks, 'we rise so early all the year long, leaping (as he saith) out of our beds, when we hear the bell ring, as if we heard a thunderclap? If this be all the respect, reward, and honour we shall have . . . let us give over our books, and betake ourselves to some other course of life. To what end should we study?'
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British Library Journal (volume 5, number 2, autumn 1979)

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