British Library Journal (volume 2, number 1, spring 1976)

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The Wyndham Payne Crucifixion
(1976-04)
Turner, D. H.
IT is to an American that we owe the only comprehensive study of English medieval painting. Margaret Rickert's Painting in Britain: the Middle Ages saw its first edition in 1954, and a second eleven years later, in the series The Pelican History of Art. The first edition made public for the first time 'a magnificent new "Herman" miniature' owned by the late Mr. A. Wyndham Payne. By 'Herman' Miss Rickert meant Herman Scheerre, the most important artist in England of the International Gothic style. This is the name given to the art of western Europe north of the Alps c. 1380-1430. For identification of Scheerre we are again indebted to Miss Rickert. In 1935 in the Burlington Magazine she established that the painter previously regarded as an Englishman called Richard Herman was really someone of Continental origin named Herman Scheerre.
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What became of Magna Carta?
(1976-04)
Borrie, Michael
THE loan of one of the British Library's two exemplars of King John's Magna Carta to the United States to mark the bicentenary of their independence is an historic event in itself, clearly deserving a commemorative note of some kind in this Journal. But what kind? The loan has, however, drawn attention to one part of Magna Carta's history often puzzling to the non-historian, and therefore perhaps worth retelling. What seems most frequently to confuse about Magna Carta is that there is more than one of it. 'But which is the Magna Carta?'. Here it is pertinent to observe that we know remarkably little about what actually happened at Runnymede. Contemporary chroniclers confuse rather than inform. If they bother to mention Magna Carta at all, it is only as an adjunct to the peace made between the king and his rebellious subjects. To reconstruct the events at Runnymede in June 1215, and so answer the question posed above, we are therefore thrown back on what can be deduced from the official records of the King's Chancery and the Magna Carta documents themselves.
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Correspondence from The Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of St. Andrews
(1976-04)
Watson, J. Steven
Correspondence from The Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of St. Andrews.
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Illustrated German broadsides of the seventeenth century
(1976-04)
Paisey, D. L.
THE seventeenth century was the great age of the illustrated broadside in Germany, where its suitability as an instrument of propaganda was exploited to the full. Engravings, varying in quality from crude to excellent, with images sometimes simple and direct, sometimes of the complex symbolism which is a Baroque commonplace, were usually allied with letterpress which might consist of straightforward prose accounts of historical events or of verse, mostly anonymous, and often bitingly satirical. It must be said that the general tendency of this particular ephemeral genre is conservative, perhaps an inevitable concomitant of the relative elaborateness of its make-up.
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Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman and the Werkmaniana in the British Library
(1976-04)
Simoni, Anna E. C.
THE city of Groningen, capital of the Dutch province of the same name, lies in the far north-east corner of the country, separated from its main cultural centres by the IJsselmeer and being reached, before the advent of air travel, only by a long journey by road or rail. Before the last war a business visitor from Amsterdam without the use of a car to take him across the Afsluitdijk could not hope to make the return trip in a single day. Luckily this prospect did not deter W. J. H. Sandberg, then keeper, later director of the Municipal Museum of Amsterdam, from undertaking the journey in 1938 for the sole purpose of visiting Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman. He returned full of admiration and carrying with him the first of many acquisitions which were to give the Stedelijk Museum it's unequalled Werkman collection.
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An unexpected effect of the change of calendar in 1752
(1976-04)
Pattie, T. S.
IN 1752 in the backward country of Great Britain the calendar was eleven days out of phase with the sun. Midsummer Day (for the purpose of this article 22 June) fell on 11 June. That day could be described as 11/22 June. What happened in 1752 was that Britain caught up with the enlightened countries of Europe and adopted the Gregorian calendar which they had been using for two centuries. Consequently, the day after 2 September was 14 September (that is, 2/13 was followed by 3/14 September). The mob, however, feeling that this procedure savoured of black magic rioted and shouted 'Give us back our eleven days'.
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The von Siebold Collection from Tokugawa, Japan: 2. certain features of the Collection
(1976-04)
Brown, Yu-Ying
IN December 1867, fourteen months after the death of Dr. Philipp Franz von Siebold, his eldest son Alexander approached the British Museum about the sale of an extensive range of Japanese materials which his father had acquired during the extraordinary career described in the previous article. Negotiations went on for several months, but in July 1868 a purchase price of £1,100 was finally agreed on. Herein lies the origin of what we know as the von Siebold Collection.
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The guest papers, Add.Mss.57934-57941
(1976-04)
Smith, Robert A. H.
MONTAGUE JOHN GUEST (1839-1909), Liberal M.P. for Youghal 1869-74, and for Wareham 1880-5, presented his papers to the British Museum in 1906; they were transferred to the Department of Manuscripts from the Department of Prints and Drawings in 1973. Guest was the third son of Sir Josiah John Guest, Bart., of Dowlais, the ironmaster, and Lady Charlotte Guest (later Schreiber), the Welsh scholar and celebrated collector of china, fans, and playing-cards. J.J. Guest was a dissenting industrialist who married into the aristocracy, obtained a baronetcy and a seat in Parliament, and became accepted by Whig Society. His eldest son, Ivor, succeeded in 1852 to the baronetcy, to Cranford Hall in Dorset and estates in Dorset and Wales; in the 1880s he possessed over 17,000 acres in Dorset alone; in 1868 he married the eldest daughter of the Duke of Marlborough; another brother, Merthyr, married the youngest daughter of the Marquess of Westminster, and Guest was to number among his brothers-in-law the future eighth Earl of Bessborough and A.H. Layard the archaeologist, diplomat, and Radical M.P. Guest therefore possessed wealth, status, and good connections; he had the means to pursue a number of interests, to become a keen yachtsman and fisherman, and a frequent visitor to country estates in the shooting season; he became a shooting companion of the Prince of Wales; he was also 'an enthusiastic and discreet collector of Georgian and other engravings and antiques'; furniture, porcelain, and the works of Rowlandson also aroused his interest, and he presented his collection of badges, tokens, and passes to the British Museum in 1907. His papers reflect his wide range of interests and social contacts, containing letters from authors, artists, and sculptors such as Thomas Hardy, G.F. Watts, Sir Oswald Brierley, Sir Frederick Leighton, and Sir Edgar Bohun, from men of the press, including Sir Francis C. Burnand, A. Borthwick, W. H. Russell, Linley Sambourne, and others, and from Winston Churchill, Lord Shaftesbury, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Thorold Rogers, Thomas Gibson-Bowles, Colonel Pitt-Rivers, and Sir Henry Cole. Guest also collected autographs, and his papers include letters of Landseer, Thomas Moore, Tennyson, Browning, Darwin, and Disraeli, along with three letters of William Barnes, the Dorset poet, whom Guest later sought to honour with a memorial statue.
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British Library Journal (volume 2, number 1, spring 1976)

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