British Library Journal (volume 22, number 2, autumn 1996)

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A marginal sketch in BL, Additional Ms. 25690, the Cronica del Cid Campeador, and the legend of the 'Jura de Santa Gadea'
(1996-11)
Hook, David
ADDITIONAL MS. 25690 is a copy of the Cronica del Cid, incomplete at the end and with some dislocation in the sequence of the text. This chronicle circulated in printed editions from 1512. The MS. is briefly described by Gayangos, who assigns it to the fifteenth century and is of the opinion that its text predates the printed tradition; but one interesting feature apparently not noticed is that among the later marginalia are several sketches. Although most of these are crude outlines, on one folio several phases can be distinguished in the drawings (fig. i), the earliest of which are more finely executed. The latter are also closely related to the text of the chronicle in such a way as to suggest that the artist involved was aware of an alternative version of the events described at that point, possibly through a ballad.
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Notes on the bibliography of Rainerius de Pisis
(1996-11)
Rhodes, Dennis E.
THE Pantheologia of Rainerius de Pisis, the Dominican who died in 1351, must be one of the longest books ever composed in the Middle Ages. Although the author was an Italian, it is noticeable that of the six editions printed in the fifteenth century the first five appeared in Germany, suggesting that the manuscripts quickly found their way to Nuremberg, where it is quite possible that the celebrated humanist, physician and bibliophile Hartmann Schedel had something to do with seeing the formidable tomes of Rainerius de Pisis into print. The first edition, dated 8 April 1473, was produced by Johann Sensenschmidt, and this is the only book at Nuremberg which also contains the name of Heinrich Kefer, who had been one of Gutenberg's servants and testified in the lawsuit with Fust.
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An old Spanish tale from Add. Ms. 14040, flf. 113r-114v: 'Exenplo que acaesà§io en tierra de Damasco a la buena duenna climeà§ia que avia veynte annos e la mecia en cuna'
(1996-11)
Taylor, Barry
THE main body of Add. MS. 14040 contains three translations into Castilian: Ramon Lull's 'Libre del gentil e los tres savis' (ff. 1-85V) in a version by Gonà§alo Sanches de Useda and his 'Coment del dictat' (ff. 86r-iiir) from the Catalan, and an extract from the Flores Sancti Bernardi, probably from the Latin (ff. 111v-112v). The first text is copied in one hand, the second and third in another. The text published here for the first time (see figs. 2-5) was added to the manuscript between 1406 (the date of composition or copying of the Flores version) and its acquisition by Hernando Colà³n (d. 1539), who added his mark of ownership at the bottom of f. 114v. The copyist of our text doubtless thought the story suitable for inclusion because it cites the Flores at 11. 90-3.
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Some newly discovered miniatures by Simon Marmion and his workshop
(1996-11)
Kren, Thomas
THE late D. H. Turner, Deputy Keeper in the British Library's Department of Manuscripts, besides having a deep interest in liturgical manuscripts, was also the inspiration for Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library. Opening in 1983 in Los Angeles and transferring subsequently to New York and London, the show celebrated the British Library's unparalleled collection of Flemish manuscripts along with its important French and Italian illumination of the period 1450-1575. During Derek Turner's stewardship of the collection of illuminated manuscripts, the Hours of William Lord Hastings, one of its greatest Flemish manuscripts, was bequeathed to the nation. He published it subsequently in facsimile. This study, dedicated to the memory of D. H. Turner, introduces a more recent addition to the Library's Flemish holdings (Add. MS. 71117; Plates I-IV, figs. 1-6). It is a rare and splendid series of eight hitherto unrecorded miniatures here ascribed to the celebrated painter and illuminator Simon Marmion and his workshop. As representative illumination from the first half of his career, the new leaves complement in particular the Huth Hours (Add. MS. 38126), a major book from the last decade of Marmion's life.
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The Garendon cartularies in BL, Landsowne 415
(1996-11)
Postles, David
THE period of maximum productivity of extant cartularies occurred in the second half of the thirteenth century, so that part of the interest of the Garendon texts in the Lansdowne volume lies in their compilation in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century. Their broadly topographical arrangement conforms to the format suggested by David Walker, but perhaps takes that form of organization back to an earlier time. Godfrey Davis described Lansdowne MS. 415 as 'elements of at least two cartularies, written in 12th- and 13th-century charter- and book-hands', leaving aside extraneous later material added from the late thirteenth century through to the late fifteenth. Although his judgement is incontrovertible, a more extended discussion of the contents of the volume than was allowed in Medieval Cartularies may increase our knowledge of an earlier phase of production of monastic cartularies.
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A further note on 'asiantos' in Ephraem the Syrian
(1996-11)
Taylor, David G. K.
As a devotee of Ephraem the Syrian I recently read with great interest T. S. Pattie's welcome edition and translation of a tenth-century Greek fragment of the 'Sermo Compunctorius' (CPG 3908) which has traditionally, though probably erroneously, been attributed to St Ephraem. Whilst editing this fragment Pattie noticed that it contained the extremely rare word 'asiantos' which previous editors of the complete text had sought, whether explicitly or tacitly, to emend. Against these earlier editors Pattie argued, with impressive manuscript support, that asiantos is the authentic reading, and in this he is indubitably correct. I disagree, however, with his proposed derivation for the word and wish to propose an alternative.
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The printing history of the Constantinople Hebrew incunable of 1493: a mediterranean voyage of discovery
(1996-11)
Offenberg, Adri K.
THE place is Constantinople, capital of the Ottoman Empire; the date December 1493. Elia (Elijah), son of Benjamin ha-Levi, is writing the concluding lines to the almost complete edition of Jacob ben Asher's great early fourteenth-century religious compendium Arba'ah Turim ('The Four Rows'), a title referring to the four rows of gemstones on the breastplate of the High Priest. The work is completed on Friday 13 December. It is a folio volume of about eight hundred pages, divided into four parts and printed in two columns of mostly forty-nine lines. The four parts, respectively entitled 'Way of Life', 'Teacher of Knowledge', 'Stone of Help' and 'Breastplate of Judgement', deal with such subjects as prayer, blessings, the Sabbath, holy days and fasting, laws relating to ritual slaughter of animals, unclean food, idolatry and mourning, marriage, the marriage contract, and divorce. The book can without a doubt be called a bestseller among the Hebrew incunabula: including editions of its separate parts, at least thirteen editions of this work appeared within twenty years.
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The reconstruction of a burnt Cottonian manuscript: the case of Cotton Ms. Otho A. I
(1996-11)
Keynes, Simon
THE manuscript designated 'Otho A. I' in the library formed by Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631) was almost completely destroyed by fire in the early hours of Saturday 23 October 1731. The Cottonian Library, and with it the King's Library, had been removed from Cotton House, in Westminster, to Essex House, in the Strand, in 1722, and had remained there for the duration of a seven-year lease; but latterly the landlord at Essex House had begun to agitate for payment of his rent, prompting the officers of the Board of Works, on 11 December 1729, humbly to acquaint the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury 'that we have heard of a House in Westminster by its situation much more safe from fire & more commodious in all other respects belonging to Lord Ashburnham who is willing to let it to his Majesty'.
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British Library Journal (volume 22, number 2, autumn 1996)

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