eBLJ 2008

eBLJ 2008

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    The Harleian Medical Manuscripts
    (2008)
    Nuvoloni, Laura
    The article offers an overview of the contents and chronological and geographical range of the medieval medical manuscripts in the Harleian collection which has recently been the object of a full cataloguing project sponsored by the Wellcome Trust. It also provides information regarding the provenance of the manuscripts highlighting the role played by both medieval English doctors and practitioners and later collectors in the conservation of such manuscripts. Particular relevance to the collecting activity of Samuel Knott (d. 1687), rector of Combe Raleigh in Devon, as the source of no less than twenty among the 153 Harleian medieval medical manuscripts.
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    Early Northern Iroquoian Language Books in the British Library
    (2008)
    Edwards, Adrian S.
    This article surveys seventy-six antiquarian materials in or about Northern Iroquoian, a group of indigenous North American languages from the eastern side of the United States and Canada. The languages covered are: Laurentian, Huron/Wyandot, Susquehannock, Tuscarora, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Mohawk. The aim is to survey what can be found in the British Library, and to place these items in a linguistic and historical context. In scope are printed media produced before the twentieth century, in effect from 1545 to 1900.
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    From the 'Bibliographical Nightmare'to a Critical Bibliography. Tesori politici in the British Library, and Elsewherein Britain
    (2008)
    Testa, Simone
    This is the first critical bibliography of one of the most intricate bibliographical cases of early-modern Europe: the Tesori politici (1589-1618). For the first time, printers involved in the publication, dedicatees, and many authors of the various texts have been identified; the complete content of the various editions, reprints, and translations exposed; texts are referred to manuscript versions held in the British Library, and elsewhere in Britain. The research shows the difference between the three Tesori politici ; reveals the previously unknown, wide circulation the Tesori politici enjoyed in Britain; and suggests they were important publications for the development of the contemporary discourse on raison d'etat .
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    'Peculiar Circumstances': Catholic chaplains of the Victorian British Army in India
    (2008)
    Mulvihill, Margaret
    Documents from the Indian Office Records paint a picture of the employment and conditions of Catholic chaplains in the British Army in India, chiefly among the Irish regiments and the Indian Labour Corps (previously known as coolies). Despite opposition from the Protestant Alliance, a live-and-let-live policy was largely followed.
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    Witnesses to Medieval Medical Practice in the Harley Collection
    (2008)
    Jones, Peter Murray
    The new Wellcome Trust funded catalogue of medieval medical manuscripts in the Harley collection brings to light some of the critical documents for understanding how medicine was actually practised in fifteenth-century England. Thomas Fayreford and John Crophill both kept notes of their cures in manuscripts they owned, while the anonymous apothecaries writing in Harley MS. 1628 recorded medicines made for individuals at the court of Edward IV.
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    A Mirror for Deaf Ears?A Medieval Mystery
    (2008)
    Fischer, Klaus-Dietrich
    Speculum medicine (The Mirror of Medicine) is the title of several works attested in manuscripts of the High Middle Ages. The present study deals with two of them that share some material, although their exact relationship is not clear at present. The shorter and certainly older text is a compilation, based in its first part on the Physica Plinii and in the second on the medical textbook of Esculapius (both works from late antiquity and popular in the Middle Ages). The longer Speculum medicine adds many pieces from Salernitan authors, sometimes identified by name, and was translated into Middle English, although at present only one manuscript (British Library, Add. MS. 34111) is known.
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    Wolfenbüttel HAB Cod. Guelf. 51. 9. Aug. 4º and BL, Harley MS. 3542: Complementary Witnesses to Ralph Hoby's 1437 Treatise on Astronomical Medicine
    (2008)
    Voigts, Linda Ehrsam
    Two manuscript copies of a 1437 treatise on medical astronomy are by Ralph Hoby, Franciscan of Hereford and Oxford: Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Cod. Guelf. 51. 9. Aug. 4º, ff. 123-33 (W), and London , British Library Harley MS. 3542, ff. 103-10 (H). The text in W occurs in a discrete booklet, carefully written in the mid-fifteenth century. In H it is one text of many in two carelessly written quires of medical and topographical writing from the second half of the fifteenth century. Although the two versions of the Hoby treatise are related, each manuscript provides information not found in the other. The apparent association of the booklet in W with the English royal physician Roger Marchall (fl. 1436-77) sheds light on the early reception of the text as well as on the provenance of W.
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    Guy of Saint-Denis and the Compilation of Texts about Music in London, British Library, Harl. MS. 281
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    Mews, Constant J.
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    Jeffreys, Catherine
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    McKinnon, Leigh
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    Williams, Carol
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    Crossley, John N.
    This paper explores the codicological features, contents and history of BL Harl. MS. 281, an anthology of writings on music theory copied by a single hand in the early fourteenth century, well known inter alia for including one of only two copies of the Ars musice of Johannes de Grocheio. We argue that the anthology was commissioned by Guy of Saint-Denis, a monk of that abbey, and that this Guy was responsible for numerous corrections throughout the manuscript, in particular to his own treatise, the Tractatus de tonis, which closes the anthology. The opening treatise in the anthology, three books attributed to Guido of Arezzo, constitutes a carefully edited collection of writings, supplemented with a range of other texts, including the Dialogus de musica of Pseudo Odo, and writings about Guido of Arezzo that may have been specially compiled by Guy of Saint-Denis. We argue that the compilation provides a comprehensive manual of writings on music theory, all of which influence Guy in one way or another. We propose that Guy may have commissioned and then corrected the manuscript so that it could serve students at the College of Saint-Denis, established in Paris in the thirteenth century to enable an elite group of monks to pursue university studies. We also explore the subsequent history of the manuscript, in particular how it came into the possession of Jean Gosselin (c. 1505-1604), Guardian of the French Royal Library from 1560 until his death. The manuscript indirectly throws light on the otherwise unknown whereabouts of the French Royal Library during the wars of religion.
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    A Wesleyan Musical Legacy
    (2008)
    Pont, Graham
    This article describes the contents of the manuscript music collection Add. 69859 assembled by Ms Rosalind Eleanor Esther Glenn (1834-1909) and presented to the British Library by the firm of Novello & Co. The principal composers represented are Jonathan Battishill (1738-1801) and Samuel Wesley (1766-1837). The album includes several autographs of Battishill, thus confirming Ms Glenn's attribution to Battishill of the very important annotations to Handel's keyboard overtures in Hamburg M B/165
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    ‘Swifte and Secrete Writing’ in Seventeenth-Century England, and Samuel Shelton’s Brachygraphy
    (2008)
    Henderson, Frances
    In the autumn of 2006 the British acquired S. Shelton's Brachygraphy of 1672, the only copy now known to be extant. This article sets Shelton's invention in the general context of seventeenth-century shorthand and considers its importance in understanding contemporary attitudes to the new fashion of short-writing both then and now.
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