eBLJ 2012
eBLJ 2012
eBLJ 2012
The Journal is published continuously throughout the year, with one volume per year. Articles undergo production as soon as they are ready, to ensure minimal delays in publication.
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Item type:Journal article, Newly Catalogued Pamphlets from the India Office Library Collection(2012)Pickett, CatherineThis 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. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Monastic Learning in Twelfth-Century England: Marginalia, Provenance and Use in London, British Library, Cotton MS. Faustina A. X, Part B(2012)López, Francisco José à lvarezBL, 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.4 4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, The Golden Treasury: 150 Years On(2012)Spevack, MarvinThe success of the Golden Treasury was immediate and enduring. Buoyed by adroit advertising and burgeoning national literacy, its enthusiastic reception by critics and public led to four editions within the lifetime of its originator, Francis Turner Palgrave, and eventually to a prominent place in schools, households, and indeed the cultural history of England. It came about through the impressive knowledge, hard work, and flexibility of the anthologist, his novel way of selecting and arranging the poems, his evaluative discussions with friends, his meticulous involvement in the details of its publication, and, most of all perhaps, his utter devotion to the intrinsic value of poetry. Not merely the contents but the conception itself became a subject of intellectual discourse. With the passage of time the popularity of the Golden Treasury led to imitations and expansions which could not replicate the original conception and ultimately had only the title in common.8 8 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, 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.1 5 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Manuscripts Supplied to Robert Harley by John Bagford: Further Information from BL, Harl. MS. 5998(2012)Tite, Colin G. C.The London bookseller, John Bagford (? 1650/1-1716), transferred – probably by sale – many parts of his collections, printed and manuscript, to Sir Robert Harley (1661-1724), with the assistance of Harley’s librarian, Humfrey Wanley (1672-1726), and Harley’s son, Edward Harley (1689-1741). BL, Harl. MS. 5998, once thought to be an account book, lists with prices a considerable number of books, both printed and manuscript, transferred or to be transferred to Harley, Wanley, and a number of other people. This article transcribes the entries relating to manuscripts and attempts to identify which further volumes in the Harley manuscript collection at the British Library came from Bagford.1 9 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Bob Cobbing, Visual Art Works (1942-73): A Preliminary Survey(2012)Beckett, ChrisAmongst 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. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, 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.2 7 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, 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, CatrionaThe 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.1 7 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, The Manuscripts of Jan van Naaldwijk’s Chronicles of Holland, Cotton MSS. Vitellius F. XV and Tiberius C. IV(2012)Levelt, SjoerdLondon, 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.2 7 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Lewis Morris and the Mabinogion(2012)Luft, DianaIn 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.6 5