British Library Journal (volume 3, number 1, spring 1977)

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The Cuttack Mission Press and Early Oriya printing
(1977-04)
Shaw, Graham W.
REFERENCES to early printing in the distinctive script of Oriya, the Indo-Aryan vernacular of Orissa, the region of India to the south-west of Bengal, are very scarce indeed.The attention of scholars has naturally enough tended to focus upon Bengal in the context of early printing in northern India, especially in view of the remarkable achievements of the Serampore Mission Press under the famous trio of William Carey, Joshua Marshman, and William Ward. In this article I have attempted to redress the balance a little by tracing the development of early printing in Oriya and in particular the setting up of the first printing press in Orissa itself, some of the earliest products of which are to be found in the British Library's Oriya collection, in the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1965-1975: English books 1501-1640
(1977-04)
Jannetta, M. J.
The custom of providing each year a brief descriptive survey of some of the more interesting and important books acquired by the Department of Printed Books, has been discontinued for a number of years. The ensuing article marks its revival by listing in all a little over one hundred items of the STC period which came into the Library between March 1964 and February 1975. Subsequent articles will list items of the periods 1640-1700 and 1701-1800; thereafter it is intended to issue, as before, annual summaries of acquisitions made by the Department in the field of English books 1501-1800.
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The paved court theatre at Somerset House
(1977-04)
Orrell, John
B.L. LANSDOWNE MS. 1171 is a collection of careful drawings of early English stages equipped with various kinds of scenery. All but one have been identified, however tentatively, and among them are what have hitherto been accepted as the earliest detailed designs for an English scenic stage - that erected in the Great Hall at Whitehall for a performance of Florimene in 1635. Fols. 5-6 give a full account of the layout of the hall on that occasion, while fols. 7-8 and 13b-16 show the mechanics of the scenery more closely.
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The Codex Sinaiticus
(1977-04)
Pattie, T. S.
THE Codex Sinaiticus of the Greek Bible, even though it has lost over 300 leaves, is still the earliest complete New Testament, and is the earliest and best witness for some of the books of the Old Testament. It was written in the first half of the fourth century, when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, when all the books of the Bible were collected in one volume for the first time, and the codex (our modern sewn book) achieved its final victory over the roll, a victory only now challenged by the glued book.
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Foreign bookbindings added to the department of printed books from 1963 to 1974
(1977-04)
Nixon, Howard M.
IN volume 1, number 2 of The British Library Journal I discussed some of the English bindings acquired by the Department of Printed Books since 1962. This article followed others on acquisitions from 1941 to 1950, from 1952 to 1962, and in 1962, which appeared respectively in the British Museum Quarterly, xvii, 2 (1952); xxvi, 1-2 (1962); and xxvil, 3-4 (1964). Turning now to the foreign bindings, it will be found that they are almost all French, except for one German and two Italian examples. And the Italian bindings were made for an English king. In 1964 Mr. and Mrs. Ehrman gave us, through the Friends of the National Libraries, the first two volumes of Cardinal Sforza Pallavicino's Dell'istoria del Concilio di Trento published in Rome in 1664, and almost certainly bound in that city in gold-tooled red morocco. In the centre of an elaborate panel design are the arms of King Charles II composed from a number of small heraldic tools. It was only when the books arrived that the happy discovery was made that they were rejoining the third volume of the set, similarly bound, which had reached Bloomsbury with the Old Royal Library over two hundred years earlier.
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Brother and sister: new George Eliot letters
(1977-04)
Burnett, T. A. J.
ON 20 July 1854 Mary Ann Evans, who two and a half years later was to assume the nom de plume George Eliot, left London for an excursion to Germany in the company of George Henry Lewes, and henceforward until his death they lived together as man and wife. She had carefully weighed the consequences of such an unconventional step, and had decided to accept the certain ostracism that would follow. Lewes had left his wife in 1851 after she had presented him with a second child fathered by Thornton Leigh Hunt, Lewes's partner in editing the radical weekly paper, the Leader. He was prevented from divorcing her by his condonation of the earlier child. Among those who did in fact suspend all social contact with George Eliot was her elder brother Isaac Evans, the second of the three children born of their father's second marriage, she herself being the youngest.
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Additional Sheridan papers: Add.MSS. 58274-58277
(1977-04)
Smith, R. A. H.
A QUANTITY of political papers, mostly speech notes, and miscellanea of Richard Brinsley Sheridan have recently been added to the Department of Manuscripts' holdings of Sheridan family material. The new acquisition had once been part of the Sheridan papers preserved at Frampton Court, Dorset, and had been sold by auction in 1964 as the property of the late Mrs. Clare Sheridan. Tom Moore and later Sheridan biographers had had access to the collection of which the recent acquisition had formed a part, but it had disappeared from view during the First World War and came to light again only in the 1960s. Some Frampton Court material, relating to the Drury Lane theatre and Sheridan's descendants, had been acquired earlier by the Department (Add. MSS.42720-42723, 42767-42771).
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Italian City and regional statutes 1473-1600, in the British Library
(1977-04)
Rhodes, Dennis E.
WITH the purchase in September 1974 of the printed statutes of Bologna, a book which was completed shortly after 28 February 1475, the British Library increases its holdings of the products of the first press in Bologna, that of Baldassare Azzoguidi, from fourteen to fifteen out of a total of perhaps thirty editions known to have been issued by this printer. It is the first time that a copy of this important book has entered a British collection, although it is by no means one of the rarest of early Italian incunabula, six copies being recorded in Italy (two of these in Bologna itself) and four in the United States.
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A Shakespeare allusion of 1605 and its author
(1977-04)
Kelliher, Hilton
SURPRISINGLY few critical notices of Shakespeare have so far been recovered from sources dating from his own lifetime; fewer than a dozen are known to survive, and all of these originate from more or less professional literary circles. The most famous is the schoolmaster Francis Meres's comment in Palladis Tamia (1598): 'As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines: so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage.' Apparently the only other estimates recorded until now of his skill as a writer of tragedy are a marginal jotting by Gabriel Harvey and a sentence in Anthony Skoloker's Daiphantus (1604), both specifically praising Hamlet. A further testimony has now come to light which, though decidedly more ambiguous than these, implies that for one gentleman playgoer, as for Meres, Shakespeare was the greatest tragedian of the age.
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Deterioration in leather bookbindings - our present state of knowledge
(1977-04)
Haines, Betty M.
DETERIORATION in leather and the mechanism by which deterioration proceeds has been a subject for investigation by the British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association over a number of years. Leather is widely used, not only for clothing, upholstery, and bookbinding, but in industry for machinery drive belts, hydraulic seals, etc. and each one of this wide variety of end uses imposes a particular set of conditions which can bring about deterioration in the leather.
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British Library Journal (volume 3, number 1, spring 1977)

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