British Library Journal (volume 19, number 1, spring 1993)

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The works of Paolo Angelo
(1993-05)
Rhodes, Dennis E.
NOTHING seems to be recorded about the life of Paolo Angelo, except for the meagre scraps of information which his own books reveal. He was a humble priest of Venice, apparently a member of the Dominican Order, and he had a fanatical hatred of Luther and his doctrines, which he more than once described as being like the croaking of frogs. He is represented in the British Library by three small printed books, which have never been examined thoroughly hitherto, and which have in common the one feature that none of them bears any imprint or date of printing. For two of them the General Catalogue suggests the imprint [Rome?]; but it is my intention in this article to give a full description of each book, in chronological order as I believe they were printed; and to demonstrate, I hope convincingly, that they were all printed in Venice.
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Ramon Miquel y Planas and his Biblioteca catalana: medievalism, publishing and bibliophilia in early twentieth-century Barcelona
(1993-05)
Taylor, Barry
RAMON Miquel y Planas (1874-1950) was the complete bookman. He published on the history of texts, binding, printing and bookplates; folklore and criticism of contemporary literature; preceptive works on publishing; and on the normalization of Catalan. His most enduring works, however, are his editions of medieval and Renaissance texts in a number of series, most notably the popular Histories daltre temps and the luxurious Biblioteca catalana. Here the hand of Miquel shaped every aspect of the book, physical and intellectual: the choice of typeface, of paper, the choice of graphics and binding, the establishment of the text, the critical matter (including some opinionated aperà§us), seeing the work through the press (the vicissitudes minutely documented in the preliminaries and colophons) and the often difficult financing.
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Two unrecorded incunables: Rouen, circa 1497, and Lyons, circa 1500
(1993-05)
Shaw, David J.
FOR a number of years, I have been re-examining the British Library's books printed in France between 1501 and 1520 for a typographical catalogue of the Library's French post-incunables. This catalogue is a revision of the unpublished manuscript of Col. Frank Isaac's Index to the British [Museum] Library's books printed in France between 1501 and 1520 which remained incomplete at his death in 1943. The Indexes of books printed between 1501 and 1520 were started by Robert Proctor, who published the volume for Germany in 1903 as an outgrowth from his incunable catalogue, and were continued by Isaac for Italy (published in 1938) and for France (unpublished). As with the incunable catalogues, these Indexes are arranged according to Proctor's methodology- by place of printing, then by printer, and for each printer the books are hosted in chronological order. The main function of the work is to attribute unsigned books to their printer when possible and to order the production of each workshop chronologically, assigning dates where necessary. As with the incunable catalogues, a large part of this task involves the identification and classification of each printer's typographical material. I have tried to extend this aspect of the work, so that the finished catalogue should present important new evidence on the supply of type in France in the early sixteenth century and on its use in the printing-houses of the time.
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'The collection of Marat's bibliographer' at the British Library
(1993-05)
Cock, Jacques de
'TELL me what you do and I shall tell you who you are.' We are reminded of this saying when considering the personality of Francois Chevremont, an enthusiastic collector, a scholar and the author of two works on Jean-Paul Marat. From 1845 onwards throughout fifty years of patient research, Chevremont assembled the most important collection of documents relating to the 'Friend of the People'. His works are highly regarded and yet we know almost nothing about this man, who was born in 1824 and died in 1907, who lived in Paris in the Avenue de Clichy, before moving to Lizy-sur-Ourcq in the department of Seine-et-Marne. His destiny is, therefore, especially connected with that of his work and his collection. It is with the fate of the latter that we shall be concerned here.
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Three early Cavafy items in the British Library
(1993-05)
Michaelides, Chris
THOUGH the British Library holdings of early Cavafy literature are meagre, the Library has recently had the good fortune to acquire, by donation, a copy of G. Vrisimitzakes, (To ergo tou K. P. Kavaphe, 'The Work of C.. P. Cavafy'). Published in Alexandria in 1917, this slim and unassuming volume constitutes a milestone in Cavafy studies. It was the first publication of Cavafy's poetry in book form attempting to give Cavafy's poetry, which had up till then been known to only a very limited circle of his friends, a wider circulation. It joins the Library's other major Cavafy rarities, two of the poet's collections of broadsheets of his poems which he circulated between 1917 and 1920.
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The picture of the Crucifixion in the Floreffe Bible (London, BL, ADD. MS. 17738, f. 187r): typology as an expression of the history of salvation
(1993-05)
Telesko, Werner
THE stylistic and iconographic avant garde of the second half of the twelfth century is represented by the art of the Rhineland and Maasland regions. The imitation of classical antiquity by Nicholas of Verdun originated there, as did the application of the typological method that was so significant in the second half of the century. This makes it all the more astonishing that exhaustive studies dealing with the problems of typology in this period have tended to be the exception and that works like the Floreffe Bible (London, BL, Add. MSS.77371, 17738), which are important in terms of the history of artistic development, still await detailed iconographic analysis. Wescher saw the Floreffe Bible as the father of a group of manuscripts. S. Gevaert discerned the close connection between this manuscript and the Averbode Gospel (Liège, Bibliothèque de l'Université MS. 363 C) and perceived a stylistic relationship between these manuscripts and enamel art. However, Gevaert altered the 'ranking' of the manuscripts insofar as she felt the Floreffe Bible to be an 'imitation maladroite' of the Averbode Gospel, blaming this on the more schematized gestures and less convincing corporeality of the figures.
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Paine's Rights of Man, Swedenborgianism and freedom of the press in Sweden: a publishing enigma of 1792
(1993-05)
Hogg, Peter C.
A copy of the earliest Swedish translation of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, recently acquired by the British Library, illustrates the old tag that 'books have their fates'. The item is a slim octavo volume in plain grey board covers entitled Menniskans rattigheter and bearing the imprint Stockholm, tryckte hos Controlleuren C. G. Cronland, den 11 Julii 1792. The text is an abridged version of part one of Paine's best-seller, first published in London in February 1791. The translator-adapter was the Finnish-born Swedenborgian publicist Carl Fredrik Nordenskiold (1756-1828).
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The Swiss Civil War of 1712 in contemporary sources
(1993-05)
Nattrass, Graham
IN 1991 the British Library mounted an exhibition, 'Switzerland 700', to coincide with the seventh centenary celebrations of the Swiss Confederation. One of the items on display was Die edle Friedens-Lust ('The noble joys of peace'), a poem commemorating the conclusion of a formal peace between the Abbot of St Gall and the Protestant cantons of Zurich and Berne in 1718, following a civil war which had threatened to tear the country apart six years earlier. The work came from a tract volume (BL press-mark 9305.aa.8) containing forty-six printed pamphlets or longer works relating to Swiss history, as well as a number of manuscripts. Approximately two thirds of the printed works, and three of the manuscripts, nos. 10*, 10** and 30*, concern the war of 1712, otherwise known as the War of the Toggenburg or Second Villmergen War. The volume has a plain binding, probably of around 1800, and is described on the spine as 'Alte Schweizer Sachen', and inside the book as 'Alte Schweizer Piecen'. It bears the label of the Schweizer Antiquariat, Zurich, but was actually acquired in 1877 from the firm of Asher in Berlin for exactly £2.
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British Library Journal (volume 19, number 1, spring 1993)

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