eBLJ 2012

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The Pacific King and the Militant Prince? Representation and Collaboration in the Letters Patent of James I, creating his son, Henry, Prince of Wales
(2012)
Murray, Catriona
The relationship of King James VI and I with his elder son and heir, Prince Henry Frederick, has received much scholarly attention in recent years. James has often been portrayed as a resentful father whose peaceful policies were at odds with his son’s martial interests and militant Protestantism. With reference to the Letters Patent of James I, creating his son Henry, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester (1610, British Library, Additional MS 36932), this article reassesses their familial and political relationship, as well as its contemporary representation. Decorated with two superb and extremely detailed miniature portraits of the King and his son, here their conflicting iconographical identities were carefully managed and depicted in finely balanced harmony. Questions of artistic attribution, patronage and display are addressed, while the Patent’s imagery is contextualized by analysis of its use during the ceremonial investiture of Henry as Prince of Wales and consideration of the surrounding celebrations. The Letters Patent is a complex object, containing a variety of visual and textual material which can only be properly understood when its contents, context and function are considered in their entirety.
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Bob Cobbing, Visual Art Works (1942-73): A Preliminary Survey
(2012)
Beckett, Chris
Amongst the papers of Bob Cobbing at the British Library are two lists the poet compiled of his visual art works. Taken together, the lists record 153 works produced between 1942 and 1973. Information from these two documents has been collated to generate a single list, prefaced by an introduction and illustrated by photographs taken by the author of a number of Cobbing’s art works that remain with the poet’s wife and collaborator, Jennifer Cobbing. The purpose of the exercise is to provide a convenient document of reference to the relatively unknown body of visual art works that immediately preceded Cobbing’s emergence as a sound and visual (or concrete) poet in the mid-1960s, and to enjoin to discussion a body of work that, although continuous with the more familiar concrete work that followed, has been little seen since it was first exhibited.
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An Unidentified French Incunable: Sir John Mandeville, Le lapidaire en francoys, [Lyon, c. 1495-1496]
(2012)
Shaw, David J.
The British Library's copy of the Lapidaire en francoys attributed to Sir John Mandeville, previously dated [c. 1530], can be shown on typographical grounds to be an incunable edition printed in Lyon c. 1495 or 1496. The book is printed with a very peculiar Lyon bastarda type whose printer is tentatively identified as Martin Havard. A census of other early editions of the Lapidaire shows that the newly identified incunable edition is the earliest to survive.
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'A Programme for the Reign': Press, Propaganda and Public Opinion at Russia's Last Coronation
(2012)
King, Greg
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Ashton, Janet
Russia's last coronation took place in Moscow in May 1896. To the click of camera shutters, the rattle of telegraphs and the whirring of the earliest cine machines, the twenty-eight-year-old Nicholas II crowned himself as absolute autocrat, inheritor of the spiritual-political legacy of Byzantium. But the world-wide publicity Nicholas sought for the political programme embodied by this occasion proved a double-edged sword. Within days of the Emperor's moment of triumph, the assembled journalists and photographers would report on another quite different event, the tragic crush at Khodynka Meadow in which thousands of ordinary Muscovites and visitors were killed in the rush for commemorative mugs and free refreshments. Little-known published accounts held in the British Library, supplemented by material from other archives, allow a full examination of contemporary responses to the whole coronation, from its most triumphant moments to its most disastrous, exploring themes of myth, propaganda and expectation as the coronation unfolds before the eyes of contemporary observers from all walks of life.
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Lewis Morris and the Mabinogion
(2012)
Luft, Diana
In 1764 the antiquarian Lewis Morris described the medieval Welsh texts known as the Four Branches of the Mabinogi in a notebook now in the British Library (BL, Additional MS. 14024). This is the first description of those texts which were to become the centrepiece of medieval Welsh prose literature with their publication some seventy-five years later. This article examines Morris's response to the texts and demonstrates that while he anticipated some later approaches to them, in other ways his attitudes differed markedly from those of subsequent scholars. While he made connections between some elements of the texts and other constituents of the Welsh literary tradition, such as the triads and poetry, for him the stories themselves were mere 'wild romances'. It is uncertain whether Morris would have given these texts the exalted place in Welsh scholarship which they now enjoy.
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The Manuscripts of Jan van Naaldwijk’s Chronicles of Holland, Cotton MSS. Vitellius F. XV and Tiberius C. IV
(2012)
Levelt, Sjoerd
London, British Library, Cotton MSS. Vitellius F. XV and Tiberius C. IV are the autograph manuscripts of two chronicles of Holland by Jan van Naaldwijk, the son of a Dutch nobleman, written between 1513 and c. 1520. Renewed investigation of the manuscripts shows they came into the possession of Sir Robert Cotton through the hands of Emanuel van Meteren, and suggests a possible provenance. Additionally, this paper provides a description of a number of irregularities in the current state of MS. Vitellius F. XV, providing a reconstruction of its original shape; it concludes with a brief history of scholarly interest in the two manuscripts.
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John Wilson Croker's Image of France in the Quarterly Review
(2012)
Morphet, David
Political developments in France provided a substantial topic for British periodicals during the first half of the nineteenth century. The most sustained comment came from the Rt Hon. John Wilson Croker, a close associate of the Duke of Wellington, Canning and Pitt, who was Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830. Croker was the principal contributor to the High Tory Quarterly Review (QR) on political matters over much of the period. His thirty or so articles on France published up to 1851 constitute a significant part of his total QR output. He prided himself on his knowledge of French affairs, and regarded himself as particularly expert on the events of the French Revolution of 1789. He had a special connection with France through his father-in-law, a member of the British consular service based in France, and through his son-in-law, the British Consul in Brest. He regularly took Paris newspapers, and visited Paris when he could. Over the years, he assembled extensive collections of original printed documents from the French Revolution – a total of over 48,000 items, which are held in the British Library. Croker’s image of France was partial. He had no sympathetic understanding of social and economic forces, and read events in a narrowly political light. He considered that the 1789 Revolution had been brought about by the conspiracy of malcontents and that its effects had been entirely pernicious. Well into the 1840s he believed that revolution in Britain was a real threat and that advocates of Parliamentary reform were playing with fire. By constantly drawing attention to instability in France, he hoped to contribute to the avoidance in Britain of revolution or reform à la franà§aise. He undoubtedly believed that it was his mission to do so.
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Newly Catalogued Pamphlets from the India Office Library Collection
(2012)
Pickett, Catherine
This note records the recent cataloguing of a collection of pamphlets received by the India Office Library during the 1920s and 30s, nearly 75% of which are new to the British Library.
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Monastic Learning in Twelfth-Century England: Marginalia, Provenance and Use in London, British Library, Cotton MS. Faustina A. X, Part B
(2012)
Là³pez, Francisco José à lvarez
BL, Cotton Faustina A.x is a composite manuscript consisting of a late Anglo-Saxon copy of à†lfric’s Grammar and Glossary (Part A) and an early 12th-century copy of the Regula Sancti Benedicti in Old English (Part B). This study attempts to shed new light on the question of the composite’s provenance and use of Part B by carefully considering the marginal annotations entered by a mid-12th-century hand. Moreover, the quantity and nature of extracts copied by this productive annotator may provide us with valuable information regarding the development of the English monastic school under the influence of continental traditions in the aftermath of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance.
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The National Printed Archive from Panizzi’s Time to the Digital Era
(2012)
Willison, I. R.
We have tended to view the modern development of the national research library and printed archive in the West in terms of a sequence of conspicuous innovators: Panizzi, Althoff and Harnack , Putnam and Evans, Francis and Hookway. Such a sequence can be best understood if it is seen as interacting not only with the order of learning but with the larger process of cultural-political change in general.
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