British Library Journal (volume 6, number 2, autumn 1980)

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Joaquin Ibarra, 1725-1785: a tentative list of holdings in the reference division of the British Library
(1980-10)
Whitehead, H. G.
THREE printers in eighteenth-century Spain are commonly regarded as the leaders of the revival in printing standards in that country. Of the three, Joaquin Ibarra, Benito Monfort, and Antonio de Sancha, it is Ibarra who is generally considered to be pre-eminent.
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The Department of Manuscripts' George Eliot Holdings
(1980-10)
Waley, Daniel
'MR. LEWES had set his mind on their going after our death to the British Museum', wrote George Eliot of the manuscripts of her works in a letter to William Blackwood. In G. H. Lewes's lifetime the autograph manuscripts of her works had been inscribed and presented by her to Lewes, at least from Adam Bede, her first major novel (1859), onwards. On Lewes's death in 1878 these bound-up volumes containing the manuscript sent to the printer came back into the possession of George Eliot, to pass after she died in 1880 to Lewes's eldest son Charles. Only after the death of Charles Lewes in 1891 did they reach the British Museum, no doubt on the initiative of Charles's widow Gertrude, who also presented to the Museum the autograph manuscript of Lewes's Aristotle.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions, January-December 1978
(1980-10)
Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions, January-December 1978.
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A hitherto unrecognized Cavalier dramatist: James Compton, Third Earl of Northampton
(1980-10)
Kelliher, Hilton
ON 8 March 1978 there was offered for sale at Christie's, as lot 293, a large collection originating from Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire of plays and other writings in manuscript that had largely been lost sight of since Thomas Percy, the literary historian and editor of the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry first noted their existence during his residence in the area as Vicar of Easton Maudit between 1753 and 1782. They had been recovered as recently as September 1977 by the present Marquess of Northampton from the back of a drawer in the house, and their rediscovery had been announced in The Times Literary Supplement of 9 December that year by Professor William P. Williams, and American scholar whose inquiry regarding their whereabouts had prompted this fortunate event. The whole collection was subsequently purchased by the British Library (Add. MSS. 60273-85).
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Books from Japanese circulating libraries in the British Library
(1980-10)
Kornicki, P. F.
Over the last ten years there has been in Japan a steady growth of interest in the circulating libraries known as kashihonya and in due course this bids fair to make a valuable contribution to the study of the rise of literacy in Japan in the Tokugawa period (1600-1868). Some light may also be shed on other subjects, such as the nature of provincial culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the extent to which it was dependent on the major cities of Edo (Tokyo), Kyoto, and Osaka.
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Four Strasburg incunables incorrectly assigned to Anton Koberger of Nuremberg
(1980-10)
Needham, Paul
Four incunables, undated and anonymous as to place and printer, have for many generations been assigned to the Nuremberg press of Anton Koberger, and have in fact been classed as his very earliest productions. 1. Johannes Nider, Manuale confessorum. fol.: a-e10 f8, 58 leaves. Hain, *11834; Goff, N-178; Proctor, 1961; B.M.C. ii, 411 (IB. 7103). 2. Johannes Nider, De morali lepra. fol.: a-e10 f g8 h10, 76 leaves. Hain, *11813; Goff, N-I89; Proctor, 1960; B.M.C. ii, 411 (IB. 7104). 3. Honorius Augustodunensis, De praedestinatione et libero arbitrio. fol.: a-d10, 40 leaves (d 10 blank). Hain, *8801; Proctor, 1962; B.M.C. ii, 411 (IB. 7106). 4. Psalterium Iatinum. 8 in quarter-sheets: a-q12, 192 leaves (q 8-12 blanks). Hain, 13457; Proctor, 1964; B.M.C. ii, 411 (IA. 7112).
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The early catalogues of the Cottonian Library
(1980-10)
Tite, Colin G. C.
IN spite of the importance of the Cottonian library for a wide range of literary and historical studies we know very little about its organization and development in the first century of its existence. While its unique value was widely recognized long before the death of its founder, Sir Robert Cotton, in 1631, and while the collection was cherished and supplemented by his heirs - his son, Sir Thomas, and his eldest grandson, Sir John - it remained primarily a private library throughout the seventeenth century. Scholars and family friends were able to visit it and borrow books and manuscripts from it, but not until 1696 was the first printed catalogue published — the work of Dr. Thomas Smith, librarian to Sir John Cotton. Smith prefaced his volume with a note on the library's history and an analysis of its main subject divisions, as well as a longer essay on the Cotton family, but he was describing a long-established institution sixty years after the death of its founder and his catalogue was later to be criticized for its mistakes and omissions. However, in the eighteenth century Parliamentary and public interest in the library grew: in 1700, by transferring ownership to a body of trustees, Sir John in effect presented the collection to the nation, while the fire of 1731 drew further attention to it. In 1753 it was removed to Montagu House to become one of the foundation collections of the British Museum, and in 1777 Samuel Hooper published another printed catalogue, a version of a late seventeenth-century manuscript catalogue of the library. All this activity culminated in the work of J. Planta who was responsible for publishing the official catalogue of the collection in 1802.
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British Library Journal (volume 6, number 2, autumn 1980)

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