British Library Journal (volume 23, number 1, spring 1997)

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English plague regulations and Italian models: printed and manuscript items in the Yelverton Collection
(1997-05)
Basing, Patricia
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Rhodes, Dennis E.
AMONG the papers of Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, which form the nucleus of the Yelverton collection at the British Library, is a group of printed proclamations and orders of the Governor and other officials of Milan issued at the time of plague there in 1576-7, which are unique among the British Library's collections. There is no obvious association between the proclamations and other papers in the volume, which relate largely to foreign affairs and trade. The last item in the collection is endorsed by Beale 'Placartes in Milan per il Marchese di Aymonte governatore. Tempore Pestis. C'. It is likely that the documents, which can be linked to two manuscript items in the Yelverton collection, were acquired in connection with the English government's attempts in 1577-8 to formulate and enforce regulations to contain the plague in London and the country at large.
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'Books with manuscript': the case of Thomas Cranmer's library
(1997-05)
Selwyn, David G.
THE library of Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556), though now widely dispersed, is a significant component of one of the main foundation collections of the present British Library - the Old Royal Library. Despite some losses through War damage and the duplicate sales of 1769 to 1819 there are still some 334 printed books and fifty-one manuscripts remaining there with evidence of Cranmer provenance, and these represent considerably over half the books so far traced from his personal library confiscated by the Marian authorities in 1553. Cranmer's earliest biographers, Ralph Morice and the unknown author of 'The lyfe and death of Thomas Cranmer' (BL, Harleian MS. 417) witness to his long hours of study while a don at Cambridge ('seldom...without pen in hand') and his habit of annotating books in his library; and this practice he apparently continued even as archbishop when he was frequently called upon by the king to deliver his opinion on some 'weighty matter in controversy' with no more than a night to collect his thoughts and the 'authorities' to support them. How far is this claim about Cranmer as an annotator actually supported from the evidence of his books that survive in the present British Library?
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Slavery and antislavery in the United States of America
(1997-05)
Kemble, Jean
SLAVERY existed on American soil from the colonial period until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. Contemporary sources of information about this 'peculiar institution' include slave narratives, journals and tracts published by abolitionist societies, travellers' reports, political speeches, religious sermons, newspaper articles and advertisements, and works of fiction. The British Library has a rich collection of all of these materials.
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Gandhi and the Indian women's movement
(1997-05)
Norvell, Lyn
THE acquisition of publications from India in English is the responsibility of the British Library's Overseas English Section, together with the Oriental and India Office Collections (OIOC), the Science Reference and Information Service (SRIS) and Official Publications and Social Sciences (OP&SS), and over the years material relating to Gandhi's influence on the emancipation of Indian women has been an interesting part of this intake. The present essay looks at the subject from a necessarily broad perspective, given the status quo of women in India, who do not make up a homogeneous group. As a result, 'the problems they face in development vary in kind and degree according to the differences in class, community, religion and caste backgrounds.'
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Three modern American acquisitions
(1997-05)
Digby, Andrew
THE British Library has recently acquired three rare American items, Mark Twain's Memory Builder, Ezra Pound's A Lume Spento (Cup.410.f918) and John Ashbery's Turandot and Other Poems (YA.1997.b.3915).
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Post-war Philippine fiction in English
(1997-05)
Sarvia, Illa
PHILIPPINE fiction in English is one of the many consequences of Spain's cession of the islands to the United States after the war of 1898. The coming of the Americans introduced a new language and a new culture to the people. During the early part of the twentieth century Spanish continued to dominate as the literary idiom, but works were also written in the vernacular languages such as Tagalog (Pilipino), Ilokano and Cebuano. Writers of this period who deserve mention are the pioneering novelist L. K.Santos, Fanny A. Garcia, a noted writer of short stories and fiction in Pilipino, Jose F. Lacaba, who was a poet and a journalist in both English and Pilipino, and Bienvenido L. Lumbera, a literary critic and authority on Philippine vernacular literature. However, 1908 saw the establishment of the University of the Philippines which, as the first English university in the country, became deeply involved in the rise of Filipino literature in English. English became the medium of communication and of instruction in schools and by the 1930s was also increasingly popular as the language of literature.
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Early printing from Africa in the British Library
(1997-05)
Holden, Carole
ALTHOUGH the date of the introduction of printing to Africa south of the Sahara ranges across the continent from the late eighteenth to late nineteenth century, its development usually followed a similar pattern and in many cases can be traced to the arrival of Christian missionaries. Indigenous literature was predominantly oral in nature, passed down from generation to generation in the form of folktales, myths, songs, riddles and proverbs. This rich tradition was largely ignored as a source of inspiration for printing since the earliest presses were invariably linked to one of two activities - the efforts at evangelism by missionaries in the field, or the endeavours of colonial governments to administer their colonies. Newspapers could fall into either of these categories, although, as printing developed, the independent newspaper press became a significant category in its own right.
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A rare Wyndham Lewis pamphlet
(1997-05)
Egles, James
IN January 1994 the British Library purchased at auction a copy of Wyndham Lewis's political pamphlet Anglosaxony: A League that Works (shelfmark: Cup.410.f.419.). Published 30 June 1941 in Toronto by the Ryerson Press in an edition of 1500 and priced at 75 cents, 310 copies were sold by February 1944. According to the publishers no record exists of the remaining 1190 copies and Lewis's biographer Jeffrey Meyers states that it 'may have been pulped - for it is now unobtainable'. No copy is known to exist in British libraries.
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An unrecognized novelist: Frances Jacson (1754-1842)
(1997-05)
Percy, Joan
ACCORDING to its General Catalogue the British Library possesses among its holdings of late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century novels seven by the minor writer Alethea Lewis. On their acquisition they were entered by title only as of uncertain authorship, but subsequently all were attributed to her. In reality, Alethea Lewis is the author of just two, Vicissitudes in Genteel Life (1794) and The Microcosm (1801), the other five being the work of Frances Jacson (fig. i), a writer of much greater merit. It is the purpose of this paper to re-establish her as a novelist, to provide a biographical setting and to give some assessment of her achievement, particularly in relation to Mrs Lewis.
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The Covenant of the League of Nations
(1997-05)
Ridgley, Gillian
1995 saw the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of the founding of the United Nations. Those in attendance had much with which to congratulate themselves: despite the inevitable controversies, the successes of the United Nations, and particularly those of its humanitarian agencies, represented a significant improvement on the work of its predecessor, the League of Nations, which began by being disowned by the American Senate and ended after a world war it had been unable to prevent. The UN Charter, formulated in the autumn of 1944, represented, in part, an attempt to avoid these and other mistakes of the past. Adopted and signed by the representatives of fifty states gathered together at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in April 1945, by 1992 it had been signed by 179 nations.
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British Library Journal (volume 23, number 1, spring 1997)

British Library Journal (volume 23, number 1, spring 1997)

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