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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Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books: select manuscript acquisitions January 1970 to June 1973
(1975-04)
Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books: select manuscript acquisitions January 1970 to June 1973
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Notes on the 1503 edition of Petrarch
(1975-04)
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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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books
(1975-04)
Brown, Sandra
List of recent acquisitions for the Department of Printed Books.
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Newton in the timberyard: the device of Frans Houttuyn, Amsterdam
(1975-04)
Simoni, Anna E. C.
THE use of printers' and publishers' devices is as old as the printed book. Their origin goes back even further to heraldry and medieval shop signs. Few collections of devices used in the Netherlands have been published; there is one by Nielson on those in Latin which, though quite useful and entertaining, is neither systematic nor complete. A much more scholarly collection of devices used in the whole of the Low Countries is found under the heading 'Marques Typographiques' in the Bibliotheca Belgica, but even this is by no means exhaustive. Separate articles on Dutch devices have been published in Het Boek, Grafisch Museum, and elsewhere. But the device which is the subject of this article seems to have escaped attention until now. Its curious connection with England and even, however tenuously, through Sloane with the British Library, sets it apart from other devices.
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Foreword
(1975-04)
Eccles, Viscount
SCHOLARLY YET READABLE' was the editor's prescription for The British Library Journal, for the first issue of which I am glad to write a foreword. Do not let us underestimate the skill required to make a publication of this kind both scholarly and readable, if by this we mean that people who are not themselves scholars are going to become regular readers. Is the attempt worth making? Since the quality of the scholarship is not in question and no one suggests it should be watered down, at how wide a non-professional audience can we aim. The question cannot be answered without first looking at the Journals sponsor, the British Library, and asking why the Board hopes and believes this publication can attract readers in unsuspected numbers.
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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.

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

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

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