British Library Journal (volume 16, number 2, autumn 1990)

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Recent acquisitions: music: a monument of the ancient music
(1990-11)
Pont, Graham
THE British Library recently acquired a fine and complete copy of an important Handel collection: "Forty Eight Overtures, Composed by Handel, as Performed at the Concerts of Antient Music, Newly Arranged for the Organ or Piano Forte, with a Figured Bass for the use of the Organ, By John Watts."
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James II in pursuit of a pirate at Malta
(1990-11)
Allen, D. F.
AMONGST the British Library's many manuscripts which describe Britain's long involvement with Malta and the Mediterranean, Add. MS. 19306 is interesting for several reasons. 'Wood's Journal' is evidence of how the Royal Navy's Mediterranean squadron supported and protected from piracy that English trade to the Levant which had been growing in volume under Charles II and James II. It also contains a description of the Maltese islands and their distinctive institutions under the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, at the very moment when James II was negotiating secretly in Rome to restore the Order of Malta in the British Isles. In particular, Wood's depiction at Malta ' of some of the Wonderfull Miracles which at this day is said to bee upon that Island' and his prominent mention of the Inquisition in Malta set apart his own survey of Malta in 1687 from other seventeenth-century reports of the island.
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Working with Vaughan Williams: some newly discovered manuscripts
(1990-11)
Douglas, Roy
IN the Autumn of 1988 the British Library published Working with Vaughan Williams my account of eleven years spent as musical assistant to the composer, and of the friendship which grew up between us during that time. The volume prints in full seventy-four letters written to me by Vaughan Williams, interwoven with an explanatory commentary and personal narrative; it is illustrated with examples of some of the manuscripts and documents from which I had to work.
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Swift, the Earl of Oxford, and the management of the House of Lords in 1713: two new lists
(1990-11)
Jones, Clyve
THE two lists of members of the House of Lords published here are from the Harley papers in the former Portland Loan in the British Library (Add. MS. 70305, formerly Loan 29/31/2), and are in the hand of Jonathan Swift, with additions by Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford. They can be dated to the Spring of 1713, and are important for three reasons; firstly, the lists underline, with further documentation, the close relationship between Swift and Lord Treasurer Oxford in the months before the politically turbulent parliamentary session of 1713; secondly, they are yet more evidence of Oxford's system of parliamentary management of the Upper House; and finally, they illustrate the rapidly changing allegiances amongst the supporters of the administration at a crucial time for the 'party of the Crown' in the Lords.
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Ephraem's 'On Repentance' and the translation of the Greek text into other languages
(1990-11)
Pattie, T. S.
EPHRAEM the Syrian, who died on 9 June 373 in Edessa, was a writer of prodigious output if it is true, as the church historian Sozomen tells us, that he wrote three million verses. Certainly, the Catalogues of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library list ninety or so manuscripts which contain works by or attributed to Ephraem. These include twenty-five dated manuscripts, for Syriac scribes were in the habit of adding a colophon giving their name, the date and place of writing. They may have inherited this habit from cuneiform scribes, for similar dated colophons have been found on cuneiform tablets of two millennia earlier. The manuscripts are fairly evenly distributed by century (counting manuscripts dated in the Catalogues to the 'fifth/sixth century' as belonging to the earlier date) from the fifth to the thirteenth centuries: six in the fifth, fourteen in the sixth, four in the seventh, eleven in the eighth, nineteen in the ninth, seven in the tenth, twelve in the eleventh, eight in the twelfth, and eleven in the thirteenth century.
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The authorship and date of HARL. MS. 6249, ff. 106V-110
(1990-11)
Shimada, Takau
HARL. MS. 6249 contains an anonymous and undated general history of the world. Part of this manuscript is printed in Memorials of the Empire of Japan in the XVI and XVII Centuries (Hakluyt Society: London, 1850), but the editor of this book, Thomas Rundall, failed to identify its author. Quoting a passage from the manuscript, he merely suggests that it was written in the reign of Elizabeth I. The manuscript is divided into 'The firste booke of Relations of Moderne states And first of those which are in Europe' and 'Of the relations of Moderne States The second booke.Asia' (f.56V), and in the second book is included a Japanese relation 'The Kinge of Iaponia'. By examining sources of the Japanese relation, I have found that this portion of the manuscript is attributable to Robert Johnson, that it is based on Giovanni Botero's Relaztoni universali (1592-95), and that it had been completed between 1595 and 1601.
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Isaac Bernard: Prague Jew, jeweller, mintmaster and spy
(1990-11)
Barber, Peter
IN his 'Catalogus Brevior' (1709-24), the text of which now constitutes the first part of the existing Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, Robert Harley's librarian, Humfrey Wanley hesitantly - and ambiguously - recorded that a Hebrew cabbalistic work, now Harleian MS. 1204, was 'ut accepi, a quodam Isaaco Bernard, Judaeo Pragensi'. Presumably his source was Robert Harley himself. Like Wanley, Harley was no Hebrew scholar and may have wrongly assumed that the manuscript had been written as well as presented to him by Isaac Bernard. It was probably because of this misunderstanding that Cyril Wright omitted Bernard and Harleian MS. 1204 from his magisterial Fontes Harleiani. For misunderstanding it was. In his catalogue of Hebrew manuscripts Margoliouth identified the manuscript as being in a sixteenth century Italian rabbinic hand, while letters and papers held by the British Library among the Portland, Blenheim and Sloane manuscripts and among its state papers show that in 1706-8 Harley came into repeated contact with 'Isaac Bernard, Jeweller, a Jew of Prague'.
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London, Bengal, the China trade and the unfrequented extremities of Asia: the East India Company's settlement in New Guinea, 1793-95
(1990-11)
Griffin, Andrew
ON 25 October 1793 an Englishman, Captain John Hayes, hoisted the British flag at Dore Bay on the north-west coast of New Guinea, near present-day Manokwariin Irian Jaya. With appropriate ceremony a twenty-one gun salute was fired and Hayes, on behalf of the King and nation of Great Britain, took possession of the newly named and thus far unexplored country of 'New Albion'. A formal proclamation describing the annexed territory's bounds was signed by Hayes, his three senior officers and twenty-two crewmen of the Duke of Clarence and Duchess under his command. So began the first European presence on the great island of New Guinea.
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Some officials of the early eighteenth-century Secretaries of State
(1990-11)
Alsop, J. D.
PRESENT knowledge of the personnel in the offices of the Secretaries of State is dependent upon the pioneering work of J. C. Sainty whose researches provide an essential foundation for historical study of this period. In the interests of completeness, this note is intended to fill in several gaps for the early eighteenth century from information contained in the manuscripts of Charles Spencer, third Earl of Sunderland and John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough.
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British Library Journal (volume 16, number 2, autumn 1990)

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