British Library Journal (volume 12, number 1, spring 1986)

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'Riches for the geography of America and Spain': Felipe Bauzà¡ and his topographical collections, 1789-1848
(1986-04)
Barber, Peter
THE British Library's Department of Manuscripts possesses a wealth of material relating to the history and culture of Spain and its colonies. This includes one of the largest collections of maps and official papers on colonial Latin America outside the Iberian Peninsula (now Add. MSS. 17556-676). Commonly known as the 'Bauza Collection', its story before December 1848, when it was acquired by the British Museum, throws light on some of the motives for map collecting and on the hazards to which collections of political and geographical papers were exposed in the last century.
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The man who wrote on the manuscripts in the British Museum
(1986-04)
Wright, C. J.
IN November 1898 W. C. Hazlitt, the grandson of Hazlitt the essayist and a distinguished men of letters in his own right, received out of the blue a letter from one W. S. G. Richards. Richards explained that he was working on the genealogies of West Country families, especially those boasting royal blood, and could trace the descent of Catherine Reynell, W. C. Hazlitt's mother, from Charlemagne. Would he be interested? This was not such a disingenuous inquiry as it might seem. W. C. Hazlitt had long been collecting and publishing material on his family history. His The Hazlitts, An Account of their Origin and Descent (Edinburgh, 1911) was to devote a whole chapter to the Reynells, but this makes no allusion to their Carolingian descent and there is no evidence that he never replied to Richards's letter. If this was the case he showed commendable prudence. At least one person who had accepted Richards's assistance with a genealogical matter had come bitterly to regret it. What Richards had neglected to say in his letter to Hazlitt was that in 1891 he had achieved temporary notoriety and been sent to prison for two months for tampering with the genealogical manuscripts in the British Museum.
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'Fortescue': the British Museum and British Library Subject Index
(1986-04)
Hill, F. J.
THE publication of a further fifteen volumes, covering the years 1971-5, brings to close the Subject Index of books added since 1880 to the British Museum Library and the British Library, which was begun by G. K. Fortescue and is still widely (though not officially) known by its originator's name. After service in both the mercantile marine and the Royal Navy, George Knottesford Fortescue entered the British Museum in 1870 through the influence of his uncle, A. C. Tait, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was one of the Principal Trustees of the Museum. In 1884 Fortescue was appointed Superintendent of the Reading Room, in which capacity he soon became aware of the difficulties attending a subject approach to the collections by readers. To meet their needs in the field of contemporary publications, he devised the Subject Index, which he continued to edit after his appointment as Keeper of Printed Books in 1899, until his death, on the point of retirement, in 1912. Since then the work has passed through numerous hands; the increased volume of accessions has called for a group of indexers, while the field of subjects has extended ever wider. Nevertheless, the Subject Index has continued throughout to bear the mark of Fortescue's hand and thought.
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John Denham: new letters and documents
(1986-04)
Kelliher, Hilton
IT was inevitable that the fundamental divisions made in English society by the Civil Wars should affect the ranks of the poets and playwrights, and unsurprising that the former largely and the latter almost entirely would adhere to the king's party. Not that, from our more distant vantage-point at least, the literary advantage lay with the larger faction. When the lines were drawn the Parliamentarians could muster Milton, Marvell, the young Dryden, and, proximum longo intervallo the elderly George Wither, who had done his best work in the reign of James L Edmund Waller occupied an unenviable position between the two camps; while Cowley, Denham, Fanshawe, Lovelace, Quarks, and Suckling, along with the dramatists Davenant, the two Killigrews and Shirley, are the most notable of those who either served Charles I or his successor in exile or suffered directly on their behalf. Among the latter party John Denham occupied in political terms a moderately distinguished place, acting as agent at home and as envoy abroad to both Charles Stuarts in turn.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: Polish books
(1986-04)
Swiderska, H.
Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: Polish books.
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A newly discovered leaf of 'The Sforza Hours'
(1986-04)
Evans, M. L.
IN 1894, twenty-three years after the discovery of the Sforza Hours (BL, Add. MS.34294) and shortly after its presentation to the British Museum, Sir G. F. Warner, in his monograph on the manuscript, drew attention to a letter from the Milanese illuminator Giovan Pietro Birago. Neither the date nor the addressee was stated in the letter, which sought that a certain Fra Gian Jacopo, then imprisoned in Milan, be detained until he had compensated the writer for the theft of an unfinished book of hours, upon which Birago had been engaged for Bona Sforza, dowager Duchess of Milan. It seems that part of this book was already in Bona's possession and that the stolen fragment had been taken by the thief to Rome, where it had been acquired by Giovanni Maria Sforza, a bastard half-brother of Bona's deceased husband and a future archbishop of Genoa.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: notable acquisitions 1975-1985: Italian books 1501-1600
(1986-04)
Rhodes, D. E.
Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: notable acquisitions 1975-1985: Italian books 1501-1600.
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Richard Garnett as censor
(1986-04)
McCrimmon, Barbara
DURING the 1890s the Department of Printed Books at the British Museum was beset by problems of censorship, most of them arising from complaints of libellous statements in library materials, and one of them actually resulting in litigation. The mere thought of being taken to court distressed the officers of the Museum, who deplored alike any unfavourable publicity for the institution or any hint of dereliction of duty on their own part.
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British Library Journal (volume 12, number 1, spring 1986)

British Library Journal (volume 12, number 1, spring 1986)

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