British Library Journal (volume 4, number 2, autumn 1978)

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Some notes on Andrew Marvell : Marvell before and after the continental tour 1642 and 1647
(1978-10)
Kelliher, Hilton
THE precise limits of Marvell's four-year tour of the Continent during the 1640s, attested in Milton's letter to Bradshaw of February 1653 and in poems such as 'Fleckno, an English Priest at Rome', have been the subject of much speculation. Thanks to Mrs Burdon's article in the previous number of this journal we now know that Marvell was in London at the end of February 1642, and a passage (lines 21-32) that occurs in the commendatory verses that he composed for publication in Lovelace's Lucasta has generally been taken as implying that he was back there before the book was licensed on 4 February 1648.
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Notes: Italian printed statutes: a correction
(1978-10)
Rhodes, D. E.
In my recent brief account of the printed Italian statutes in the British Library, I made one misleading statement when I failed to mention the statutes of the Duchy of Savoy, of which the Library has three editions printed before 1600. I wrote: 'It will be noted that certain important cities, such as Naples and Turin, did not produce any early printed editions of their statutes'. Turin was in fact busily printing not the statutes of the city itself, but of Savoy, which, although not at that time politically part of Italy as we know it, deserves to be included here.
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Patrick Cary: a sequel
(1978-10)
Willetts, Pamela
To place the recently acquired manuscript of Italian poems attributed to Patrick Cary more exactly in context and to dispel any doubts concerning his authorship I should like to bring together some scattered information. I should also like to discuss further sources regarding the last few years of his life.
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Pictorial printing in Chinese books: three examples from the seventeenth century
(1978-10)
Brown, Yu-Ying
CHINA, the country of origin of both paper and the printed word, was also the first to print book illustrations. However, it is the Japanese achievement in this field that has captured the imagination of the outside world, as was so eloquently and reflectively demonstrated by my colleague David Chibbett, in a comprehensive study published shortly before his sudden death last November.
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A Khamsa of Nizami dated Herat, 1421
(1978-10)
Titley, Norah M.
THE Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books has recently acquired a Persian manuscript (Or. 13802) dated Herat, 824 (1421), which is illustrated by miniatures of considerable interest and importance, both stylistically and historically. The work consists of 794 folios containing the five poems (Khamsa) of Nizami (d. 1203) written in the centre; the poems of Amir Khusraw Dihlavi (d. 1325) were added in the margin in 1435 with, at the end and also in the margin, the Dahnama of Ibn 'Imad. The colophon does not give the date of completion of the latter work but it was probably copied later than 1435. The eighteen miniatures which illustrate the central text of the Khamsa of Nizami appear to be contemporary, i.e. 1421.
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Notes: An unknown Mendelssohn autograph
(1978-10)
Neighbour, O. W.
Two volumes of music which once belonged to Queen Victoria have recently been acquired and reunited with the Royal Music Library. They are uniformly bound in half morocco with marbled boards. This simple style had been widely popular for music since the late eighteenth century. As usual, a label on the front names the owner - in this case 'The Queen'. The lettering on the spines shows that the volumes occupied 14th and 18th place in a series devoted entirely to piano duets. As this series was not deposited in the British Museum with the main music collection in 1911, it was presumably not housed with it but kept to hand for domestic use. The fate of the bulk of the volumes is unknown, but the two that have now come to light passed into the possession of the Queen's youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice.
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Learning to read: Friedrich Gedike's primer of 1791
(1978-10)
Paisey, David
IN a culture still as firmly based as ours on written language, it is hardly possible to overestimate the importance to the individual and to society of the skill of reading. It gives a degree of power, through access to recorded information, from the simple signals of everyday life to complex messages, and through access to the accumulated experience of others and to the legal and other codes of authority. It has further an integrating function, as a means both of communication and participation, and of the dissemination of standards. Its history in European society, from the Reformation which required all Protestants to find their own way to theological salvation through private reading of the Bible, a direction technically facilitated by the recent invention of printing, has been one of conflict between these emancipatory and normative aspects.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions, January-December 1977
(1978-10)
British Library
Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions, January-December 1977
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David Hume, De Unione Tractatus Secundus
(1978-10)
Lindley, David
THE description of MS. Royal, 12 A.53 in the British Library catalogue states that 'it does not appear to have been printed'. Indeed it was not; but two letters in the Public Record Office indicate that it did very nearly achieve publication in France in 1610, some five years after its composition. These letters, written by David Home, a Scottish minister at Duras, to the King and to Robert Cecil, not only shed light on the history of the British Library manuscript itself, but also more generally on the course of the debate about Anglo-Scottish Union.
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Some early English editions of Voltaire
(1978-10)
Barber, G.
ON Friday 10 May 1726 it would seem that Voltaire left Calais in the Betty to cross the Channel by the regular service and to arrive the following morning, 30 April, at Gravesend. The shift from Gregorian to Julian calendars, only removed by England's adoption of New Style some twenty-six years later, was probably the least of his worries. Forced to leave France he must have crossed in a very different frame of mind from that of his friend Bolingbroke who had returned from his exile in France under a year previously.
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British Library Journal (volume 4, number 2, autumn 1978)

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