British Library Journal (volume 8, number 2, autumn 1982)

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An unidentified Italian publisher's device: the knight on oxback
(1982-10)
Rhodes, Dennis E.
IN November 1891 the British Museum bought from Leo S. Olschki, the bookseller who was at that time established in Venice but later moved to Florence, a small liturgical work in 16mo format without imprint or date, and with the title printed in red as follows (abbreviations resolved): Diurnum Romanum: Cum capitulorum quotationibus: ac foliorum numero in margine ad omnia que in hoc diurno continentur faciliter inueniendum. At the top of the title-page, in black, is a roundel containing the Virgin and Child with five stars; and at the foot of the title-page, also in black, is a device, measuring 30 mm. high by 34 mm. wide, and showing a knight holding aloft in his right hand a sword, and riding on an ox. The device contains the letters Z.M. at the top and B.B. at the bottom. This device has never been identified by the British Museum catalogue, which still has a footnote reading: 'On the title page is a printer's device with the initials Z.M.'
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Socinian books with the Rakà³w imprint in the British Library
(1982-10)
Swiderska, H.
DURING the Reformation, Poland, with her religious tolerance, became known as an asylum haereticorum in which various trends in the New Faith peacefully coexisted with the official Catholic Church, and religious refugees from abroad found safety from persecution by both the Inquisition and Protestant theologians. One of the most distinguished refugees was Faustus Socinus (Sozzini, 1539-1604) of Siena, who united and gave ideological direction to the most radical group in the Polish Reformation. Hence they came to be known in the seventeenth century in western Europe as Socinians. They preferred to style themselves Fratres Poloni or simply Christians (chrystianie) while their antagonists scornfully called them Arians. This term, no longer derogatory, is accepted in the extensive Polish literature of the subject.
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Thomas Wilkinson of Yanwath, friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge
(1982-10)
Kelliher, Hilton
AT the very northernmost border of Westmorland, a couple of miles before the train enters Penrith station from the south, the observant traveller will be struck by the appearance, immediately to the left of the embankment, of a large farmhouse dominated by a fine fourteenth-century peel-tower, built in the traditional red sandstone that prevails in the flat plain of the Eden, below the western Pennines. This splendid building is Yanwath (pronounced Yan'ath) Hall; and during the last century its reprieve simultaneously from imminent collapse and unhandsome restoration was the work of a Westmorland 'statesman', or small landowner, called Thomas Wilkinson (1751-1836), a task undertaken at the instance of his friend and neighbour William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale. Though mercifully not the case in their day, the railway-line now separates the Hall from Wilkinson's own much more modest house, known as The Grotto, that he himself had built in 1773 and that stands hard by the track a little to the south. At that time among the principal features of his forty acres were the walls that he had shaped along a small horseshoe of the River Eamont that formed their boundary.
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Swift, Oxford, and the composition of Queen's speeches, 1710-1714
(1982-10)
Downie, J. A.
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Woolley, David
SWIFT'S involvement in the composition of Queen's speeches during the years of the Oxford ministry is almost a commonplace of his biography, and statements in the Journal to Stella provide the evidence for his importance in government circles. 'I was at Court, where every body had their Birthday Cloaths on, & I dined with Ld Treasr, who was very fine'. Swift records on 8 March 1713, 'He shewd me some of the Qu---'s Speech, wch I corrected in sevrall Places and penned the vote of Address of thanks for the Speech.'
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The raid on Raglan: sacred ground and profane curiosity
(1982-10)
Hewish, John
". . . and therefore I call this a Semi Omnipotent Engine, and do intend that a model thereof be buried with me." EDWARD Somerset, 6th Earl and 2nd Marquis of Worcester (1601-67) is one of the best known of his resilient family, both for his part in the Civil War and his controversial reputation as the possible inventor of the steam engine. His performance as Charles l's Lieutenant-General in Wales was a tale of defeats. His mission to bring in the Irish Catholics on the King's side miscarried and was disowned by Charles, who had ordered it. Poverty drove him back from exile in France on to the charity of Cromwell. He died during the Restoration, but too soon for the full revival of his family's fortunes. He was born at the wrong time, with the tastes of an amateur natural philosopher when fate required him to be a man of action. Yet his curiosity and mystical dreams of mastering nature by means of machines were characteristic of the age in which the Royal Society was established.
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Rembertus Fresen and his writings
(1982-10)
Rhodes, Dennis E.
THREE small books in the British Library, all printed in northern Germany towards the end of the sixteenth century, are of unusual interest both for their author and for their printers. Unfortunately it has to be confessed that all three were accidentally omitted from the British Museum's Short-title Catalogue of. . . German books, 1453-1600, published in 1962, the result being that there is no mention in the printers' index to that volume of the little-known printer at Emden who was responsible for the second and third books which we are studying here. The first, however, was printed at Marburg, and the title-page reads as follows: Carmen gratulalorium in honorem . . . Domini M. Edonis Hilderici Ieverensis, Academiae Heydelbergensis in facultate Theologica Professoris primarii . . . scriptum per Rembertum Fresen Frisium Orientalem. Martispurgi Cattorum per Augustinum Colbium, 1578. Quarto. 6 leaves. A6 (British Library, 837.h.3(32)).
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A new portrait of George Eliot?
(1982-10)
Goldman, Paul
FOR an author who was at once both lionized in some quarters, and despised in others, it is remarkable that descriptions of George Eliot's appearance are so much at variance. On one hand is the unkind, but memorable yet still unattributed line, 'Have you seen a horse, sir? Then you have seen George Eliot!' In contrast are the words of John Fiske, an American admirer, who wrote to his wife, 'She is much better looking than George Sand . . . her features are regular, her nose is very good, her eyes are a rich blue and very expressive, her mouth is very large, but it is pleasant in expression. Her hair is light and profuse and she wears a lovely lace cap over it . . .'
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'This so-called autobiography': Anthony Trollope, 1812-1882
(1982-10)
Brown, Sally
'THERE is perhaps no career of life so charming as that of a successful man of letters', Trollope declares in a happy moment, adding that 'it is in the consideration which he enjoys that the successful author finds his richest reward.' A good deal of the interest and fascination of his Autobiography (now Add. MS. 42856) lies in its frank charting, by turns mournful, angry, and wryly amused, of the long and often painful progress towards this longed-for state. That the 'idle, desolate hanger-on', the 'hobbledehoy of nineteen' he once was has become the man of property and substance, the best-selling author and respected Post Office official he now is, seems to be Trollope's chief source of satisfaction and delight, although the joy is occasionally tinged with a superstitious dread: 'There is unhappiness so great that the very fear of it is an alloy to happiness'.
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Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1981- March 1982: English Books 1501-1800
(1982-10)
Archibald, Jean
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Jannetta, M. J.
Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1981-March 1982: English Books 1501-1800.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions January-December 1980
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Smith, Robert A. H.
Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions January-December 1980.
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British Library Journal (volume 8, number 2, autumn 1982)

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