British Library Journal (volume 10, number 2, autumn 1984)
British Library Journal (volume 10, number 2, autumn 1984)
British Library Journal (volume 10, number 2, autumn 1984)
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Item type:Journal article, Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions January-December 1981(1984-11)Kelliher, W. H.Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions January-December 1981.1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, The making of the Harley Psalter(1984-11)Backhouse, JanetThe 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 heavy work in gold and full colour which is characteristic of the Winchester School, though both are frequently recognizable as the contributions of the same craftsmen. That the two techniques were not regarded as being of unequal artistic stature is clearly demonstrated by their joint appearances within the same miniature in such masterpieces as the Benedictional of St à†thelwold and the Eadui Psalter, and by the deliberate choice of line drawing as the medium of illustration not only in the Sherborne Pontifical' and the New Minster Liber Vitae but also for the magnificent Crucifixion page in the Ramsey Psalter, which is combined with a huge and fully coloured initial B to form one of the most striking decorative openings in English manuscript art.6 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, 'My darling baby': Charles Kingsley's letters to his wife(1984-11)Wright, C. J.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 answers with them, & keep a box on purpose for them, & often look at them in after years & at last leave them as an heir-loom to our children, to be studied often-but never published!' As is usually the case, this injunction against publication was to be disregarded but in this instance by someone with a moral right to do so. When in January 1875 Kingsley died, aged only fifty-five, his heart-broken widow set to work to compile a 'Life and Letters'. She thought that in her husband's case his correspondence was particularly important. The memorial volume was, indeed, eventually titled Charles Kingsley: his letters and memories of his life (London, 1877). Fanny was convinced that in his lifetime Charles's letters had helped to save men's souls and the thought that they might continue to do so in future was her consolation for 'giving out of my treasure-house what naturally I should wish to keep private'." After her death, however, her husband's papers vanished from sight until they were used by Susan Chitty in her biography of Kingsley, The Beast and The Monk (London, 1974), published to mark the centenary of his death. It is part of this collection which has been acquired by the British Library and, with some other family letters, now forms Add. MSS. 62552-62557.6 4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, The development of the collections of the Department of Printed Books, 1846-1875(1984-11)Harris, P. R.In June 1872 a special Sub-committee of the Trustees of the British Museum considered a report prepared by W. B. Rye, the Keeper of Printed Books, on the acquisitions system of his department. They expressed great satisfaction with it, but asked that a further report should be produced showing what progress had been made in improving the collections of the library since 1846 when the purchase grant for printed books had been increased to £10,000 per annum as a result of a report compiled by Panizzi in 1842-3 (and printed by order of the House of Commons in 1846) showing how defective the library was. The members of the Sub-committee were of the opinion that the British Museum library had by 1872 become the best in the world, but they thought that an occasional survey of it at infrequent intervals would help to ensure that progress was maintained.1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, The book of Franciscan saints by Cornelius Thielmans, 1610: a question of title(1984-11)Simoni, Anna E. C.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 Thielmans, Guardiaen vander Minderbroederen binnen Tshartogenbosch[.] Met gratie ende Priuilegie, Gedruckt Tshertogenhosch, By Jan Scheffers Anno M.D.CVI. [Short narration of the lives of the saints of the Order of St Francis together with their living portraits, drawn from various historians by the Revd Father, Brother Cornelius Thielmans, Guardian of the Friars Minor at 's-Hertogenbosch. With licence and privilege. Printed at 's-Hertogenbosch, By Jan Scheffer, 1606] (fig. 1). The mutilated remnants of the original printed text of this title-page, set within an engraved architectural border, have been clumsily repaired in manuscript. The rest of the book is in good condition.