British Library Journal (volume 7, number 2, autumn 1981)

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The Lumley Library: a supplementary checklist
(1981-10)
Selwyn, D. G.
THE notes that follow relate to some eighty-nine printed books and manuscripts from the collection of John, Lord Lumley (1534-1609), on which new information has become available since the publication in 1956 by Sears Jayne and Francis Johnson of the 1609 Catalogue of the Lumley Library from a manuscript in Trinity College, Cambridge. The list concludes with a further seven items which, although not recorded in the 1609 Catalogue, had also belonged at one time to Lumley. Most of these new identifications have come to light in the course of reconstructing the library of archbishop Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556), first attempted by Edward Burbidge in 1885. The greater part of the books and manuscripts which have survived from Cranmer's library came to Lumley by way of his father-in-law, the Earl of Arundel, Queen Mary's Lord High Steward, who acquired the books when the archbishop's property was confiscated by the Crown shortly after her accession in 1553.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: Add. MS. acquisitions, January-December 1979; Egerton MS. and Add. Ch.acquisitions, January 1978-December 1979
(1981-10)
Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: Add. MS. acquisitions, January-December 1979; Egerton MS. and Add. Ch. acquisitions, January 1978-December 1979.
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A Shahnama from Transoxiana
(1981-10)
Titley, Norah M.
THE Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books has recently acquired an unusual, and stylistically rare, illustrated copy of the Shahnama (Book of Kings) by Firdawsi (Or. 13859). The latter part of the manuscript, which might have included a colophon, is missing but the miniatures appear to be in the late Timurid style of Transoxiana of which so little has survived and which has hitherto not been represented in the collection. Two artists have worked on the manuscript. Artist A in a bold style with large figures whilst Artist B is responsible for more refined work. The miniatures by Artist B are forerunners of sixteenth-century Bukhara work before it was influenced by artists, working in the Later Herat style, who went to Bukhara after the conquest of Herat by the Shaybanid Uzbeks early in the sixteenth century. This would place the manuscript in the late fifteenth or very early sixteenth century.
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The General Catalogue of printed books, 1881-1981
(1981-10)
Chaplin, A. H.
ON 30 April 1881 George Bullen, the Keeper of Printed Books, laid before the Trustees of the British Museum the first printed part of the catalogue of books in his department. When completed twenty-five years later, the catalogue, containing about two million entries, became and remained for half a century - an essential work of reference in the major libraries of the world as the most comprehensive record in existence of printed publications of all periods in European languages. In a modified form with additions it still retains much of its importance and is still in use in the library.
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A purchase of books in 1615
(1981-10)
Nickson, M. A. E.
WHILE making a study of manuscript annotations and marks of provenance in English incunabula for the forthcoming volume of B.M.C. xi, I was pleasantly surprised to come upon a priced list of twenty-three books, transcribed below, in a copy of the English translation of Cicero's De Senectute printed by Caxton in 1481 (Duff 103; BL, IB.55046 = C.10.b.6; fig. 1). Few priced lists of books have survived from the beginning of the seventeenth century and the item is therefore interesting on its own account; this interest is, of course, greatly enhanced by the inclusion in the list of an identifiable copy ofa book printed by Caxton (i.e. the 1481 Cicero itself). The list, which is dated 16 December 1615, is written in a fluent italic hand on the verso of the last leaf.
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The paint surfaces in the Psalter of Henry of Blois
(1981-10)
Haney, Kristine Edmondson
THE condition of the miniatures in the Psalter of Henry of Blois, British Library MS. Cotton Nero C. IV, has long been a subject of interest to students of Romanesque illumination. Those who have commented upon this problem agreed that originally the miniatures were fully painted. At some point, the paint flaked away, leaving traces of color on some of the figures. It was also suggested that the lapus lazuli of the backgrounds was deliberately scraped off to be reused. Because of the loss of most of their original paint, the miniatures were considered to be in an extremely fragmentary condition.
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Note: The Spanish Scala Celi
(1981-10)
Rhodes, D. E.
The Scala celi in Spanish, in the edition with which I am here concerned, is a small printed work of only twenty quarto leaves. It has nothing whatever to do with much longer works of the same title (but in Latin) with which it has been confused. Haebler, for example, enters it under 'Johannes Junior', but this is Johannes Gobii, a Dominican, whose folio-sized book was printed at Lubeck in 1476, at Ulmin 1480, at Strasburg in 1483, and at Louvain in 1485 (Goff G 310-13).
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The Poppelauer catalogues of Hebraica and Judaica
(1981-10)
Goldstein, David
THE Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books has been fortunate enough to acquire a unique and almost complete set of the Catalogues of Hebraica and Judaica issued by M. Poppelauer of Berlin between 1887 and 1929. Twenty-seven catalogues were issued, and the only (but important) one missing from the set is no. 20 which was devoted to incunabula. The uniqueness of the acquisition lies in the fact that many of the catalogues are interleaved and the names of the buyers have been inserted in manuscript. In addition, some volumes have leaves bound in, giving in manuscript the complete financial accounts of the transactions involved. The shelf-mark is 01927.aa.53. The set gives a picture of an important Jewish bookseller and his international clientele over a period of more than fifty years, since the last transaction recorded is dated 19 December 1938.
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Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1980-1981: English Books 1501-1800
(1981-10)
Archibald, Jean
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Jannetta, M. J.
Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1980-1981: English Books 1501-1800.
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The acquisitions system of the Department of Printed Books in the 1870s
(1981-10)
Harris, P. R.
PANIZZI'S years as Keeper (1837-56) were the revolutionary period in the history of the Department of Printed Books. After such a turbulent time consolidation was needed and this was provided first by John Winter Jones who was Keeper from 1856 to 1866. His successor was Thomas Watts, a man of very considerable ability, who had been one of Panizzi's ablest lieutenants, but he died suddenly in September 1869 at the age of fifty-eight after only three years as Keeper, and so did not have time to make his mark as head of the department. The next Keeper was William Brenchley Rye whom Esdaile described somewhat condescendingly as 'one of those useful competent men without much initiative whom seniority brings to the top'. But this unexciting man has left some useful reports which give a good picture of the Department of Printed Books after the storms of the Panizzi period had subsided.
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British Library Journal (volume 7, number 2, autumn 1981)

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