British Library Journal (volume 9, number 2, autumn 1983)

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Fernando Pessoa, poet, publisher, and translator
(1983-10)
Howes, R. W.
FERNANDO PESSOA is widely considered to be the greatest Portuguese poet of the twentieth century and a major writer of European stature. His enigmatic personality and the potent combination of poetic genius and metaphysics in his verse have fascinated a wide variety of readers both in Portugal and abroad. His invention of heteronyms, or alter egos, poets of his own creation who conducted a poetic 'drama in people', has found a response in the anxieties of the twentieth century, while the innovations in his poetic style, partly influenced by his fluency in English, have revolutionized modern Portuguese poetry.
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Antonio de Sancha, 1720-1790: a tentative list of holdings in the reference division of the British Library
(1983-10)
Whitehead, H. G.
THE remarkable improvement in printing standards in eighteenth-century Spain is generally considered to have been due to the work of Joaquin Ibarra. However, an almost equal place must be accorded to his contemporary Antonio de Sancha, whose printing skills came to rival Ibarra's, and whose literary formation and enthusiasms possibly outstripped those of the latter. Certainly the enterprise - sometimes risky, but always courageous - Sancha showed in publishing large collections of historical, poetic, and scientific works has no equal in eighteenth-century Spain.
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Manifestations of Arthur Waley: some bibliographical and other notes
(1983-10)
Johns, Francis A.
IF Ezra Pound's assertion that the great ages of literature are always allied with great ages of translation is true, then those interested in the work of what Cyril Connolly called 'the Modern Movement' would have ample justification, like Connolly in his book, for including in their collections Arthur Waley's translations together with the other works of outstanding originality that appeared between 1880 and 1950. Though Connolly chose as one of his hundred 'key books' A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems for bringing Chinese civilization into English poetry, he noted Waley's subsequent achievement in bringing Japanese civilization to Western readers with the monumental rendering of Genji Monogatari. If the dual accomplishment amply justifies the attention of the collector interested in recording the development of the taste of that time, this translator of genius also has another, if lesser, place in the record, as a poet in his own right. Edmund Blunden numbered him among the poets, for example, and W. B. Yeats included his work in The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936), as did Philip Larkin in The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (1973).
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An anonymous guidebook to Rome, 1677
(1983-10)
Rhodes, D. E.
FOR well over a century (perhaps for two centuries) the British Museum has owned a book of 192 pages in an unusually small format, 24mo, which has remained hidden and unnoticed in the general catalogue under the unobtrusive heading 'S., P. de''. The title is Nuouo metodo per acquistare brieuemente la lingua Toscana Romana. Per commodita delle Nationi Oltramontane. Di P. de' S. In Roma, per Paolo Moneta. 1677. Con licenza de' Superiori.
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Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1982-March 1983: English books 1501-1800
(1983-10)
Archibald, Jean
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Jannetta, M. J.
Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1982 - March 1983: English books 1501-1800.
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A mysterious Italian newsletter of 1517
(1983-10)
Rhodes, D. E.
'MYSTERIOUS' seems to be the most appropriate word to describe a newsletter, printed on only two leaves in quarto, and purchased by the Department of Printed Books of the British Library in August 1981, since it has taken a year of continuous research and puzzled contemplation to reach a conclusion as to the place where it was printed and the identity of the printer. The result, which fortunately is quite decisive, comes as a great surprise, since it shows that such newsletters, describing as they do local events, were not necessarily printed anywhere near where they were written. We cannot know where they were sent in manuscript; in the present case it turns out that the piece was printed some hundreds of miles away from its place of composition, and we shall never know why this particular printer chanced upon the text and decided to print it so far away from the city named in its title, which is Copia delle stupende i horri= || bile cose che ne boschi di Bergamo sono || a questi giorni apparse. The letter ends on 2v: 'Data in Castello de Villa chia || ra adi. xxiii. di Dicebre. || M.ccccc.xvii.'
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Early Ottoman miniature painting: two recently acquired manuscripts in the British Library
(1983-10)
Titley, Norah M.
THE Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books has recently acquired two illustrated Ottoman manuscripts. Historically and stylistically important, they are welcome additions to the small but select collection of some sixty illustrated Turkish manuscripts in the British Library. It is only comparatively recently that Turkish miniatures, unlike Persian, have been seriously studied in their own right. This is partly due to the fact that the great collections in libraries in Turkey were inaccessible for study by outsiders until some fifteen years ago. It is increasingly recognized that, however much may have been owed initially to the influence of Persian artists and miniatures, Turkish artists developed their own distinctive style of painting.
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The composition of the manuscript of Christine de Pizan's Collected Works in the British Library: a reassessment
(1983-10)
Hindman, Sandra
THE exquisite manuscript copy of Christine de Pizan's Collected Works, one of the greatest treasures of the British Library (Harley MS. 4431), is well known to scholars of late medieval literature and art. A splendid frontispiece depicts the first owner, Queen Isabeau of Bavaria, the wife of King Charles VI of France. Seated in the intimacy of her bedroom, Isabeau receives the large book from Christine, who wrote mostly for those prominent in royal circles between 1399 and 1416. A special dedication to the Queen precedes twenty-nine separate works by Christine, which together constitute the fullest version of her writings up to 1410-15, the date of its completion. Now bound in two volumes and containing 398 folios of large format, the British Library manuscript marks the culmination of Christine's literary career, which effectively began in 1389 when her husband, a royal secretary, died while on a mission for the King. Beset by financial difficulties, she became a writer in order to support herself and her family. By 1399, following ten years of study, the still-young widow had produced her first work, the Cent balades with which the Harley manuscript opens.
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British Library Journal (volume 9, number 2, autumn 1983)

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