British Library Journal (volume 2, number 2, autumn 1976)

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Note: A hitherto unattributed German elegy on the death of Simon Dach, 1659
(1976-10)
Paisey, D. L.
Simon Dach, one of the most lovable of German poets, died in 1659 after a lifetime's production of occasional verse for his fellow citizens of Konigsberg.
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An Index of Articles in the "British Museum Quarterly" On Material in The Department Of Oriental Manuscripts And Printed Books
(1976-10)
Pritchard, A. P.
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Oriental material in the reference division of the British Library
(1976-10)
Gaur, Albertine
THE Oriental material housed in the three Library Departments of the old British Museum and the Science Reference Library which now constitute the Reference Division of the British Library is much larger and more comprehensive than is generally realized.It is by no means limited to printed books only but includes extensive collections of manuscripts, maps, charts, personal papers, and objects as diverse as oracle bones, palmleaves, copper plates, and ivory boards. Taking a wider view one can divide it into material written in Oriental languages (not necessarily connected with the Orient) and material about the Orient written in Western languages. Both have their place in the field of Oriental studies, but they require an entirely different kind of attention - the second maybe dealt with by librarians, the first can only be handled by appropriately trained scholars.
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The French Revolution collections in the British Library
(1976-10)
Brodhurst, Audrey C.
IN 1899 there was printed 'by order of the Trustees of the British Museum' a small edition of a modest guide entitled List of the contents of the three collections of books, pamphlets and journals in the British Museum relating to the French Revolution. Its compiler was G. K. Fortescue, then the Senior Assistant Keeper, but later in the same year appointed Keeper of Printed Books. The preface, by the Keeper to whom Fortescue succeeded, Richard Garnett, is an appropriate introduction to the subject.
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More light on sixteenth-century printing at Salamanca
(1976-10)
Rhodes, Dennis E.
No history of printing at Salamanca has yet been written. This may be partly due to the difficulties surrounding two of the principal incunable presses in the city, both of which are anonymous. In the first half of the sixteenth century, however, there are some extremely interesting links between one press at Salamanca and another, and they are links which need to be closely investigated. Almost twenty years ago I published a short article on this subject, but it was an article which suffered from the disadvantage of being illustrated.^ The present notes are an extension of the same theme, and while they are in no way exhaustive, they do at least add something to our knowledge of printing at Salamanca between 1500 and 1550.
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Cowley and 'Orinda' autograph fair copies
(1976-10)
Kelliher, Hilton
ABRAHAM COWLEY'S elegy 'On the Death of Mr. Crashaw' was his tribute to a fellow poet with whom he had exchanged verses at Cambridge and whom he had later befriended in exile at Paris where, according to Anthony Wood, he presented the destitute Crashaw to Henrietta Maria. The elegy has generally been recognized as one of Cowley's finest poems: 'In these verses', wrote Johnson, 'there are beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment, but above their ambition.' A calligraphic fair copy by Cowley himself, representing a slightly earlier stage of composition than the text printed in the 'Miscellanies' of 1656, has now come to light among the papers of the Marquess of Ormonde, on loan to the British Museum and then to the British Library (Department of Manuscripts Loan 37/6) since 1950.
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Caxton in the British Library
(1976-10)
Nixon, Howard M.
IN 1877 the four hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the first printing press in England was celebrated with, among other things, a staggering exhibition in the National Art Library, South Kensington (now the Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum). Inspired by William Blades, a practical printer, whose biography of Caxton was a landmark in English bibliographical studies it was organized by an unwieldy series of committees, but Blades's section on Caxton's printing was of the highest importance. The exhibition aimed at comprehending every activity of the printing industry and the massive catalogue records 4734 items.
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Two missals printed for Wynkyn de Worde
(1976-10)
Rhodes, Dennis E.
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Painter, George D.
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Nixon, Howard M.
The British Library has recently acquired two important and exceedingly rare editions of the Sarum Missal. These were produced in Paris in 1497 and 1511 for Wynkyn de Worde and others, and are fully described in the second and third sections of this article. The first section gives a brief general account of the printing of the Sarum Missal for the English market during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books
(1976-10)
Dethan, L. Le R.
Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books.
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Patrick Cary and his Italian poems
(1976-10)
Willetts, Pamela
INVESTIGATION of the provenance of a seventeenth-century music manuscript recently acquired from Richard Macnutt led into some unexpected by-ways of literature and history, both English and Italian. At first sight, apart from a fine binding, there is little to distinguish this manuscript from other collections of contemporary Italian music. It contains solo cantatas to Italian words and is written in the hand of a professional Italian copyist. The title-page (fol. i) is, however, unusual in drawing attention to the authorship of the words rather than that of the music: 'Parole di Gio. Patritio Carey messe in musicada Diuersi Autori.' This title is followed by a note in a different hand, 'per Guglmo Reymes'.
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British Library Journal (volume 2, number 2, autumn 1976)

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