British Library Journal (volume 1, number 1, spring 1975)

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Notes: An Italian imprint identified; Work in progress: Catalogue of German Books,1601-1700, in the British Library, Reference Division; Work in progress: Catalogue of Polish Books to 1800 in the Slavonic and East European Branch of the Reference Division of the British Library
(1975-04)
Rhodes, D. E.
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Paisey, D.L.
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Swiderska, Hanna
It is hoped in this section to include notes on items of interest which members of the staff and readers have come across in the course of their work in the Library, but which either do not warrant a full-length article or are peripheral to their discoverer's interests.
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A collection of German religious songs of the mid-sixteenth century
(1975-04)
Paisey, D. L.
THE British Library has recently acquired a notable collection of texts of German religious songs of the mid-sixteenth century, contained in seventy-two separate contemporary publications bound in one volume (pressmark C. 175. i. 31 (1-72)). The Reformation in Germany gave a great impetus to vernacular literature and was a period of prolific hymn- and song-writing. Many of the songs which poured from the presses quickly became extremely popular, some remaining so for centuries, the best being distinguished by directness and simplicity of expression and form, and often benefiting from the deliberate cross-fertilization of sacred and secular texts and melodies. It is not just nostalgia which leads us to see in many of these exemplars of a truly popular culture, such for example as the anonymous song Der geistliche Jager ('Es wolt ein Jagerjagen / wol in des himels thron' no. 30), poems of the greatest beauty.
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The Napier papers
(1975-04)
Blake-Hill, Philip V.
IN 1956 the Department of Manuscripts incorporated in its collections a series of papers of various members of the Napier family which had been bequeathed by Miss Violet Bunbury Napier, youngest daughter of General William Craig Emilius Napier. They commence with those of the Hon. George Napier, 6th son of Francis, 6th Baron Napier of Merchiston, and continue with those of four of his sons, Charles, George, William, and Richard, and Sir Charles's daughter, Emily. They have been arranged in eighty eight volumes of papers (Add. MSS. 49086-49172) and twenty-four charters, mostly army commissions (Add. Ch. 75438, 75767, 75769-75790). The first series is divided into sub-sections: (i) the Hon. George Napier, (2) Sir Charles James Napier, (3) Emily Cefalonia and William Craig Emilius Napier, (4) Sir George Thomas Napier, (5) Sir William Francis Patrick Napier, and (6) Richard Napier. The relationship between them is shown in the genealogical table. At the end is a section consisting of papers of other members of the family.
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Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books: Manuscript acquisitions July to December 1973
(1975-04)
British Library
This is a complete list of acquisitions since the formation of the Brithish Library. Items of exceptional textual interest are marked with an asterisk; those of exceptional artistic interest with a dagger.
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The ruling as a clue to the make-up of a medieval manuscript
(1975-04)
Pattie, T. S.
ADDITIONAL MS. 47678,' acquired by the British Museum in 1952, is an early ninth century Cicero manuscript written at Tours in Carolingian minuscules. It was still complete when it was at the Abbey of Cluny but only 39 leaves survive out of the 140 or 150 that it probably once had. It now contains fragments of the speeches against Catiline, for Quintus Ligarius, for King Deiotarus and the second speech in the second part of Verres' trial. Of these, the speech against Verres was the earliest to be composed. Verres was a flagrantly corrupt governor of Sicily in 73 70 B.C., who, on laying down office, was prosecuted for extortion. Cicero's speech in the first part of the trial brought such damning evidence of guilt that Verres anticipated the verdict by going into exile at Marseilles. The five speeches of the second part were never delivered, but were included in the subsequent publication of all seven speeches against Verres, which contain a wealth of information about the provincial government and the art treasures of Sicily. Catiline wasa disaffected nobleman who proposed a cancellation of debts in 63 B.C., the year of Cicero's consulship, and stirred up a rebellion, which in the event was easily put down. The speeches for Quintus Ligarius and for King Deiotarus were both delivered before Caesar, in 46 B.C. and 45 B.C. respectively. Ligarius was a republican opponent of Caesar, Deiotarusa tetrarch of the Tolistobogii, a tribe of western Galatia.
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The original reconnaissance map for the Battle of Quebec
(1975-04)
Hudson, J. P.
THE original reconnaissance report prepared by Major, later Colonel, Patrick Mackellar for General Wolfe prior to the battle of Quebec on Abrahams Heights has been known to historians since it was printed by Lieut.-Col. C.V.F. Townshend in 1901 in the Military Life of Field-Marshal George First Marquess Townshend from Townshend papers then at the family seat at Rainham in Norfolk. To his report there should have been annexed a map of Quebec, but despite a long search at Rainham, Colonel Townshend could not find the map and came to the conclusion that it had been lost. The hitherto missing map has, however, recently come to light in Townshend papers presented to the British Museum in 1959 by a London firm of solicitors, through the British Records Association, and now numbered Add. MSS. 50006-12.
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An illuminator's sketchbook
(1975-04)
Backhouse, Janet
ONLY a handful of the sketch- and model books compiled by artists during the Middle Ages have survived to the present day. In those which have come to light pictorial subject matter predominates, and it is often far from clear whether the book contains models for miniatures or whether it was intended for the use of wall or glass painters. The more purely decorative elements of a book painter's work are seldom found alone or even insubstantial quantity within a sketchbook and Sloane MS. 1448A in the British Library is therefore a welcome discovery.' It contains drawings for letters from six decorative alphabets, some of them combined with motifs for use in associated borders, executed on vellum partly with a brush and partly with a pen in varying combinations of brown, blue-black, and mauve inks.
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An illustrated Persian text of Kalila and Dimna dated 707/1307-8
(1975-04)
Waley, P.
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Titley, Norah M.
A MANUSCRIPT (Or. 13506) of Kalila and Dimna recently acquired by the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (with the valuable assistance of the National Art Collections Fund, the Pilgrim Trust, and the Mark Fitch Fund) is of the highest importance as providing for study a unique example of an early style of Persian miniature painting which forms a link between other, well-documented styles. The miniatures are fully discussed in the article below.
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The Sir Arthur Phayre Collection of Burmese manuscripts
(1975-04)
Herbert, Patricia M.
IN 1886 the British Museum acquired approximately eighty Burmese manuscripts, now located at Or. 3403-80. These manuscripts formed part of the collection of Sir Arthur Purves Phayre, one of the most distinguished of Burma's early administrators. Phayre's life spanned the formative years of British colonial rule in Burma. He left England for the East in 1828, two years after Britain's first acquisition of Burmese territory, the Arakan and Tenasserim provinces; he rose to high office as first Chief Commissioner of the newly created province of British Burma in 1862; and he died in 1885, just before Britain's tripartite dismemberment of the Burmese kingdom was completed by the annexation of Upper Burma. Phayre's last public pronouncement - a letter to The Times of 13 October 1885 - was in fact an endorsement of the policy of British intervention in Burma.
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Notes on the 1503 edition of Petrarch
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Rhodes, Dennis E.
THE first collected edition of Petrarch's Latin works to appear in Italy was printed at Venice by Simon de Luere for the publisher Andrea Torresano de Asula with two colophons dated respectively 27 March and 17 June 1501. There is no comment to be made on this edition, except to say that it includes the Bucolicum carmen about which there is much more to say when dealing with the next edition, which was completed on 15 July 1503 by Simon Bevilaqua, likewise at Venice.
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British Library Journal (volume 1, number 1, spring 1975)

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