British Library Journal (volume 13, number 1, spring 1987)

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The printing of the 'Sermà³n de Amores' of Cristà³bal de Castillejo
(1987-04)
Rhodes, Dennis E.
This book, printed in 1542 with no imprint, is a quarto of twenty leaves, having the unusual collation a20. Three gothic types are employed, and there is a woodcut on the last leaf verso, which we shall mention later. Despite the words 'Agora nueuamente corregido y enmendado', there seems to be no trace of an earlier edition. The work is anonymous, but the author is known to be Cristobal de Castillejo, who was born at Ciudad Rodrigo most probably in 1490, and died at Vienna on 12 June 1550. He is buried at Wiener Neustadt.
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Ephraem the Syrian and the Latin manuscripts of De Paenitentia
(1987-04)
Pattie, T. S.
EPHRAEM the Syrian is perhaps the greatest Christian poet before Dante. He was admired by Jerome, he was loved by Syriac-speaking Christians, and on 5 October 1920, somewhat belatedly, he was declared Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XV. He was born about AD 306 in Nisibis in the Roman province of Mesopotamia (now Nusaybin on the border between Syria and Turkey) and died on 9 June 373 in Edessa (now Urfa in Turkey). He wrote in a dialect of Aramaic (for centuries the lingua franca of the Near East) called Syriac which had an extensive literature, and was important in the transmission to the Arabs of Greek philosophy and science as well as Christian doctrine. Nisibis, which had been conquered by the Romans in AD 298, resisted a three-year siege by the Persians and surrendered in 363 only after the failure of a Roman expedition. Many of the Christian inhabitants moved westwards behind the Roman frontier, and Ephraem settled in Edessa, one of the holy places that the Spanish nun Etheria visited about the year 400. Not far south is the ancient city of Harran, the original home of Abraham, better known in Roman history as Carrhae where Crassus's Army was destroyed in 53 BC.
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The account book of a Marian bookseller, 1553-4
(1987-04)
King, John N.
MS. EGERTON 2974, fois. 67-8, preserves in fragmentary form accounts from the day-book of a London stationer who was active during the brief interval between the death on 6 July 1553 of Edward VI, whose regents allowed unprecedented liberty to Protestant authors, printers, publishers, and booksellers, and the reimposition of statutory restraints on publication by the government of Queen Mary. The entries for dates, titles, quantities, paper, and prices make it clear that the leaves come from a bookseller's ledger book. Their record of the articles sold each day at the stationer's shop provides a unique view of the London book trade at an unusually turbulent pointin the history of English publishing.
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The Evanion Collection
(1987-04)
Harland, Elizabeth
IN 1895 the British Museum's Department of Printed Books acquired a collection of ephemeral material relating to the nineteenth-century entertainment world and contemporary life in general. It was purchased from a man who had been a moderately successful conjuror and ventriloquist but now in his old age had fallen into distressed circumstances, Henry Evans Evanion.
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Deciphering the Cotton Genesis miniatures: preliminary observations concerning the use of colour
(1987-04)
Wenzel, Marian
THE Cotton Genesis (British Library, Cotton MS. Otho B. VI) was written and illuminated at some point during the period of the fourth to sixth centuries AD, and very badly charred in the Cotton Library fire of 1731. Since 1979 I have been recording all the decipherable features of the 200 or so surviving miniatures as full-size copies. These are not reconstructions, since I have not attempted to supply anything which is not visible to the naked eye; my intention has been to make available at a glance features which often can be read only with great difficulty (e.g. by careful comparison of the recto and verso of a leaf) on the fire-damaged originals.
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Recent acquisitions: manuscript collections: acquisitions January-December 1982
(1987-04)
McKendrick, Scot
Recent acquisitions: manuscript collections: acquisitions January-December 1982.
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'Carte Blanche'
(1987-04)
Skeat, T. C.
ALTHOUGH in the earlier part of the last century it was included in the permanent exhibition of manuscripts, the Department of Manuscripts has in more recent times been rather reluctant to publicize what is (or at any rate may be) one of the most dramatic items in the whole of its collections, the 'Carte Blanche' reputed to have been given by Charles, Prince of Wales, the future Charles II, 'to save his father's head' on the eve of his execution on 30 January 1648/9 (Harley MS. 6988, fol. 222).
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The embroidered binding of the Felbrigge Psalter
(1987-04)
Wallis, Penelope
MANY fine medieval manuscripts are exhibited in the British Library's Grenville Library, but one of the most unusual is the Felbrigge Psalter (Sloane MS. 2400), which was probably written and illuminated in Northern France in about the middle of the thirteenth century. At some time the manuscript came to England and its calendar was altered, removing a number of the French saints and adding English ones, some having particular connections with East Anglia. Another apparent East Anglian link is the addition of the date of the dedication of Norwich Cathedral on 24 September.
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British Library Journal (volume 13, number 1, spring 1987)

British Library Journal (volume 13, number 1, spring 1987)

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