British Library Journal (volume 18, number 2, autumn 1992)
British Library Journal (volume 18, number 2, autumn 1992)
British Library Journal (volume 18, number 2, autumn 1992)
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Item type:Journal article, The 'Tregian' manuscripts: a study of their compilation(1992-11)Thompson, Ruby ReidBETWEEN 1609 and 1619, during his confinement in the Fleet Prison, in London, Francis Tregian the younger, a Cornish Roman Catholic recusant, has hitherto been thought to have compiled an important group of music anthologies. These comprise the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book: Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum Mus. MS. 168; British Library, Egerton MS. 3665; New York Public Library, Drexel MS. 4302; and the second part of Oxford, Christ Church, Mus. MSS. 510-514. This attribution was derived from references to members of the Tregian family which appear in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, and from the presence of compositions attributed to Francis Tregian in that manuscript and in Eg. 3665. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Camden, Cotton and the chronicles of the Norman Conquest of England(1992-11)Houts, Elisabeth M. C. vanThe collaboration between William Camden (1551-1623), the Clarenceux King of Arms, and his pupil Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631) in antiquarian studies is well known. Whereas Camden developed the principles on which the study of history should be based. Cotton provided the raw material by gathering together what, judged by quality rather than quantity, was the most important collection of medieval manuscripts owned by a single person. The range of his collection of medieval chronicles was unrivalled in Western Europe and his generosity towards scholars enabled them to borrow his manuscripts in order to print their texts and make them available to a larger public. In some cases these early editions are now our only witnesses for texts of which no manuscripts any longer survive. In this article I shall discuss the contributions made by Camden and Cotton to the process of editing and publishing the chronicles of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, 'Lost or stolen or strayed': a survey of manuscripts formerly in the Cotton Library(1992-11)Tite, Colin G. C.THE manuscript collection that was founded by Sir Robert Cotton in the 1580s passed by inheritance first to his son, Thomas, and then to his grandson, John. In 1702, on the death of John and in accordance with the intentions of Sir Robert, it became national property, and fifty years later it entered the British Museum as one of the foundation collections. This orderly succession, disturbed only by the damage wrought by fire in 1731, does not appear to provide occasion for the haemorrhaging that often occurs in a great collection on the death of its founder or the immediate heirs. In consequence, little attention has been given to the losses that the Cotton library suffered while in private ownership and, although a few instances are well known, the reputation of Sir Robert as a collector who was certainly acquisitive and perhaps greedy, and of his successors as men who regarded themselves as custodians of a holy relic, has conveyed the impression that the manuscript library remained substantially inviolate. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, An internecine administrative feud of the Commonwealth: Thomason Tract 669.f.20(18)(1992-11)Carter, PatrickIN the Thomason collection of tracts from the Civil War and Interregnum held in the British Library there exists a single sheet, annotated 'A paper from ye first frutits office about payinge ye first fruits', printed for Thomas Baker, Deputy Remembrancer and Receiver of First Fruits and Tenths, in November 1655. A warning to clergy that first fruits were payable to Baker alone, this sheet was but one salvo in a lengthy battle waged between the Receiver and the Trustees for the Maintenance of Ministers for control of ecclesiastical tax collection. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Sir William Musgrave and British biography(1992-11)Griffiths, AntonyTHE Gentleman's Magazine carried for 3 January 1800 the following obituary: 'At his house in Park-place, St. James's, Sir W[illia]m Musgrave, bart. V.P.R.S. and F.A.S., a trustee of the British Museum, formerly a commissioner of his Majesty's customs, and afterwards an auditor of the public accompts; in both which situations he had exerted himself with ability and attention. Nor was he less conversant in the several branches of literature and science; and, though for many years suffering great infirmities of body, his mind continued unshaken; and, with the practice of the philosophy he had acquired, he united these talents and manners that rendered his society coveted, and will occasion his death to be generally lamented. His large collection of engraved portraits was advertised for sale by auction just before his death.' This obituary is unenthusiastic and fairly uninformative, as if the writer knew little about his subject. This was almost certainly the case, for Musgrave was far from a public figure. He never became the subject of an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography, and the few printed accounts of his life suggest that there was little more to it than that of a successful civil servant with scholars interests.William Betham, in his Baronetage of England, gives the information that his baronetage was inherited, and that he was 'baptised at Aspatria 8 October 1735, entered the Middle Temple 7 April 1753, called to the bar 1758 (and subsequently a bencher 25 May 1789, Reader, and in 1795 Treasurer of the Middle Temple); appointed a commissioner for customs 15 May 1763; FRS 1774; FAS 1777; vice-president of the Royal Society 1780; trustee of the British Museum 1783; vice-president of the Antiquarian Society January 1786; a commissioner for auditing the public accounts July 1785.' - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, The author portraits in the Bedford Psalter-Hours: Gower, Chaucer and Hoccleve(1992-11)Wright, SylviaAN inscribed portrait of John Gower, literary champion of Lancastrian kingship, provides the key to the reading of the unique illustrative programme of the Duke of Bedford's Psalter-Hours, Add. MS. 42131, the only manuscript he is known to have commissioned in England. Two hundred and ninety of the 300 minor text divisions are illustrated with portrait heads; a national portrait gallery of Lancastrian friends and foes is concealed in the initials of carefully selected texts. Many of the portraits are repeated, creating distinct subtexts; Gower himself appears ten times as prophet, preacher, and penitent lending the weight of his moral authority to the imagery. The depiction of contemporaries within the text of the Psalter is almost without precedent in the Middle Ages; the exception is in a Bible which was probably made for the Duke's father, Henry IV, by the artist of the inscribed portrait of Gower. This invasion of scriptural text defies convention and, it might be argued, good taste.1 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, An autobiographical ballad by Matthew Prior(1992-11)1 1