British Library Journal (volume 3, number 2, autumn 1977)

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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: English books 1501-1640 concluded
(1977-10)
Jannetta, M. J.
Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: English books 1501-1640 concluded
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The Awag Vank Í¤ Armenian Gospels A.D. 1200
(1977-10)
Dowsett, C. J. F.
IN 1975 the British Library acquired the Awag Vank Í¤ Armenian Gospels formerly belonging to the Collection of the late Mr. Hagop Kevorkian of New York, a work of both artistic and historical interest.This illuminated manuscript, now Or. 13654, comprises the Four Gospels in Classical Armenian, with the Letter of Eusebius to Carpianus, and some of the Eusebian Concordance Tables (nos. 10, 5, 6-7, the rest, nos. 1-4, 8 9 , being now missing). There are no kephalaia, etc. The manuscript consists of 384 vellum folios, 373 mm by 288 mm, with four paper fly-leaves.
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Two Stanley Spencer letters from Salonika
(1977-10)
Waley, D. P.
THE most memorable experience which twentieth-century British painting can provide is a visit to Stanley Spencer's masterpiece, the Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere, Hampshire. An inscription in the chapel explains that the paintings 'are the fulfilment of a design which he conceived whilst on active service' and these scenes of Spencer's wartime life, painted a decade after the end of the First World War, could well be used to illustrate the phrase 'emotion recollected in tranquillity'. This is particularly true of the Salonika panels portraying life in camp and the trenches, of 'Map reading' and the extraordinary painting on the end wall, 'Resurrection of the Soldiers'.
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An unrecorded German periodical from the time of the Napoleonic Wars: Beytrà¤ge zur Geschichte des Krieges der Jahre 1812 und 1813
(1977-10)
Paisey, David
GERMAN resistance to Napoleon, fostered by exiles such as Clausewitz and Stein in St. Petersburg as well as by local patriots, burst into renewed life at the retreat from Moscow and gathered strength throughout the year or so of struggle which followed, called in German the Freiheitskriege, wars of liberation from French occupation. A multifarious underground literature sprang up, aimed at the ending of collaboration with Napoleon by rulers and their administrations and by the large German contingent in the Grande armee. Passionately nationalistic in a pan-German sense, it took the form mainly of small pamphlets, the most successful texts being reprinted many times and in many places, in spite of the close attention of censors and the informants of the French secret police, but usually without evidence of origin or with false imprints.
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The British bindings in the Henry Davis gift
(1977-10)
Foot, Mirjam M.
WHEN Henry Davis, C.B.E. died on 10 January 1977 the majority of his magnificent collection of bookbindings joined those already on exhibition in the British Library. The Gift, which comprises approximately 800 decorated bookbindings and 260 reference books is too extensive and too varied to receive proper justice in a series of articles, but while a full-dress catalogue is in preparation, a few high spots may be worth a preliminary airing.
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The Malory manuscript
(1977-10)
Hellinga, Lotte
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Kelliher, Hilton
IN March 1976 the British Library purchased from the Warden and Fellows of Winchester College the famous manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory's English cycle of Arthurian tales, now numbered Additional MS. 59678. Almost immediately upon transfer to its new home the manuscript went on display in the Caxton quincentenary exhibition, held in the King's Library, next to the only complete copy known of Caxton's Morte d'Arthur (1485) that had been generously loaned for this purpose by the Pierpont Morgan Library of New York. A certain piquancy was added to their temporary conjunction here by the suggestion, then only recently put forward, that the two volumes had once before occupied premises together, namely Caxton's office at Westminster during the 1480s. The notes that follow present the evidence for this exciting possibility, disclose new information regarding the early history of the manuscript, and conclude with some random observations on its make-up and transcription. Needless to say, however, several promising avenues of investigation still remain to be explored.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions, Slavonic Division
(1977-10)
Swiderska, H.
Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions, Slavonic Division.
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Letters of Robert Briffault
(1977-10)
Searle, Arthur
ROBERT BRIFFAULT (1873-1948) was a prolific and influential writer in the years between the two world wars. He achieved international fame as a novelist, with the publication of Europa in 1935. It was a first novel, portraying the decadence of western European society. In its sequel, Europa in Limbo (1937), Briffault took his disillusioned hero from the trenches of Flanders to Russia, to fight with new-found conviction for the revolutionary Red Army.
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Note: A Catalogue of Seventeenth-Century Books from the Low Countries in the British Library
(1977-10)
Simoni, Anna E. C.
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Two sixteenth-century Italian devices
(1977-10)
Rhodes, Dennis E.
THE two devices here discussed have nothing in common except that they are both Italian of the sixteenth century, occur in books in the British Library, and have not been satisfactorily explained or identified hitherto. Much work remains to be done on Italian printers' and publishers' devices, and indeed there is no comprehensive book devoted to the subject. In the years leading up to the Second World War Mr. L. A. Sheppard, Assistant Keeper and later Deputy Keeper in the Department of Printed Books of the British Museum, did a vast amount of work on this subject; and his tracings of several hundred of such devices, as well as his notes on them, have always been of immense value to me, as they would be to any other researcher in the field: but they remain unfinished and unpublished, and are not readily accessible to the public. This is a major task which, if completed and published, would be of incalculable assistance to all those who are concerned with the cataloguing of Italian books of the sixteenth century. I take this opportunity of recording my deep indebtedness to Mr. Sheppard's unpublished work.

British Library Journal (volume 3, number 2, autumn 1977)

British Library Journal (volume 3, number 2, autumn 1977)

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