eBLJ 2013

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A Place for Music: John Nash, Regent Street and the Philharmonic Society of London
(2013)
Langley, Leanne
The founding of the Philharmonic Society of London (from 1912 'Royal') has long been understood only in the simplest terms: in 1813 thirty musicians started a regular orchestral concert series to present the best classical works for select audiences. Two centuries later, a fresh look at circumstances and documents, some newly discovered, reveals a more vivid picture of action and intent behind the UK's oldest 'music-loving' society. Partnering with the Regency architect John Nash to erect the first purpose-built orchestral concert hall in Britain – the Argyll Rooms, Regent Street – entrepreneurial members invested in prime real estate for an even grander vision: to create an all-embracing national music institution akin to the Royal Academy of Arts, exhibiting top performances, stimulating new works, fostering research, publishing music and training young players, all without patrician interference. In positioning themselves on Regent Street, the musicians encountered multiple problems. Nash’s support was crucial, yielding a stunning multi-purpose building. Although many of their biggest goals had to be relinquished, the Society succeeded brilliantly in establishing world-class orchestral music at the heart of a picturesque and revitalized West End.
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Paris National and International Exhibitions from 1798 to 1900: A Finding-List of British Library Holdings
(2013)
Daniels, Morna
The series of exhibitions which were held in Paris from the end of the eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth gave rise to a rich collection of publications, often illustrated, ranging from maps and guide books to catalogues, official reports and volumes of reflections. This article gives a brief history of the subject and lists publications held by the British Library, with notes on their contents.
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Accounts of Debates in the House of Commons, March-April 1731, Supplementary to the Diary of the First Earl of Egmont
(2013)
Hayton, D. W.
John Perceval (1685–1748), 1st Viscount Perceval and (from 1733) 1st Earl of Egmont, was an assiduous recorder of his own life and times. His diaries, published by the Historical Manuscripts Commission from manuscripts in the British Library, are the best source for parliamentary debates at Westminster in the 1730s. For the years 1730-1733, when Perceval sat in the Commons (as an Irish peer) they are remarkably full. His practice seems to have been to prepare two versions (presumably on the basis of notes taken in the House), the first attributing speeches to individuals, and the second, entered up in the diary, which listed speakers and summarized all arguments on each side. His letterbooks for 1731 contain accounts of five debates that embody his first editing process, with speeches attributed to individuals. They were sent to an Irish correspondent, Marmaduke Coghill, and largely omitted from the diary because Perceval had already transcribed them elsewhere. They are new to historians and cast light on two main issues: the unsuccessful attempts by Perceval and the ‘Irish lobby’ to persuade the British parliament to settle the Irish woollen trade, a question bedevilling Anglo-Irish relations in this period; and an attempt by the opposition to stir up anger against perceived Spanish aggression against Gibraltar. One of the most interesting features is the insight afforded into the Commons performances of Sir Robert Walpole: his management of debates, his own style of speaking, and his sharp exchanges with opponents like William Pulteney.
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A Fourteenth-Century Register of Freizins Rents from Erfurt (British Library, Add. MS. 24637)
(2013)
Pope, Ben
Add. MS. 24637 is a register of specially-privileged Freizins rents collected by the archbishop of Mainz at Erfurt from the years 1351-1358. Other registers in the series from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are preserved at the Landeshauptarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt in Magdeburg, and consequently the British Library manuscript has been overlooked so far. This article can thus offer new perspectives on these sources in considering both the evolution and use of the registers within the archiepiscopal administration at Erfurt and their practical and symbolic roles in Erfurt’s society in the later Middle Ages.
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The Problem of Death: Dr Maurice Ernest and his Longevity Library
(2013)
Evans, Lucy
Maurice Ernest (ne Ernst, 1872-1955) was a notable student of human longevity. This article studies his life and his extensive library, which was donated to the National Central Library and is now in the British Library at Boston Spa.
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An Unusual Position of Watermarks in an Italian Eighteenth-Century Paper
(2013)
Dumontet, Carlo
Positions of watermarks in laid paper can vary, but normally fall within a few patterns. This note examines the watermarks in the paper used in two quarto books in the British Library printed by G. F. Mairesse and G. Radix of Turin in 1713 and 1717. These watermarks fall in the middle of the book leaves, pointing to a hitherto unrecorded type of watermarked laid paper.
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Additions to the Library of William Dowsing (1596-1668): A Reformation Tract Volume Reassembled
(2013)
Roberts, Dunstan
This article identifies several volumes from the library of the seventeenth-century puritan William Dowsing (1596-1668). Dowsing is primarily known for the campaign of iconoclasm which he conducted in East Anglia between late 1643 and 1644 and for the journal in which he kept a detailed record of these activities. This aspect of his life has been a long-standing object of scholarly interest. More recently, the work of John Morrill has revealed that Dowsing owned a sizeable collection of books and annotated many of them. We find, amongst surviving volumes, evidence of the thoroughness of his reading and the strength of his religious convictions. This article contributes to this work by identifying three books from Dowsing's library (two of them from the British Library, the other from Balliol College, Oxford) which originally comprised a single volume of tracts and, by using the marginalia contained in these volumes, to identify further texts which were familiar to Dowsing and which he probably owned.
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Daniel Foote, M.D., of Cambridge: The Evidence in Print and from the Sloane Collection
(2013)
Thorley, David
This article introduces the physician and translator Daniel Foote (1629-1700), predominantly though his little-examined manuscripts in the Sloane Collection. Foote survives in the scholarly memory principally as the translator of the unpublished ‘Observations’ of Francis Mercury Van Helmont (1682) and sometimes as a contributor to a dispute in the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions about William Simpson’s Hydrologia Chymica (1669). It is largely forgotten that he was the translator of a published text, John Conrad Amman’s The Talking Deaf Man (1694), and scarcely acknowledged that a collection of over 30 manuscripts in his hand lie in the Sloane Collection. This article therefore provides an introduction to the contents of those manuscripts. The materials illuminate Foote’s education, reading, intellectual preferences, medical beliefs and religious convictions. They demonstrate that from the 1660s onwards, he translated prolifically and that, although the two Van Helmonts are the most frequently occurring subjects of his translations, his efforts were by no means confined to rendering works by those two. The Sloane manuscripts also include straightforward transcriptions of texts which existed in print (some difficult to obtain) and a collection of commonplace books containing notes on medicine, theology, logic, ethics, literature and the sermons Foote heard, offering insights into Foote’s reading and learning practices. Finally, the collection enables inferences about Foote’s mostly unnoticed religious identity, offering a portrait of varied theological reading and interests, but with an emphasis on non-conformity developing into an interest in Quakerism in the years following 1662 and the Great Ejection, of which he has been reported to have been a victim.
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The Making of L'Abreujamen de las estorias (Egerton MS. 1500)
(2013)
Botana, Federico
L’Abreujamen de las estorias (BL, Egerton MS. 1500) is an Occitan diagrammatic chronicle executed in Avignon in 1321-24. It is composed of synchronic tables, regnal lists and genealogical diagrams, and is illustrated with more than sixteen-hundred miniature busts. Written instructions, corrections, sketches and unfinished miniatures attest to different stages in the production of this complex manuscript. They also shed light on the involvement of the author, Fra Paolino Veneto, in its production.
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A Medieval Psalter 'Perfected': Eighteenth-Century Conservationism and an Early (Female) Restorer of Rare Books and Manuscripts
(2013)
Drimmer, Sonja
Many medieval manuscripts suffered from antiquarian zeal during the eighteenth-century revival of interest in medieval art: enthusiasts often augmented their own albums and private collections by removing attractive illuminations from manuscript pages, leaving wounded books in their wake. Less familiar is the restorative work of their contemporaries, a small number of facsimilists who repaired such damage by providing replacement paintings and text to compensate the manuscripts for their loss. A rediscovered manuscript in the British Library (Additional MS. 6894) contains some of the earliest known evidence of manuscript restoration, carried out c. 1792 by Eliza Dennis Denyer. A reconstruction of her biography and work as a restorer reveals a considerable portfolio, focused predominantly on the early printed books that made up the majority of her father’s collection. Attention to two of her most extensive campaigns along with accompanying documentation sheds new light on contemporary attitudes to medieval and early modern objects and suggests that there is a history of conservation practices extending back to the eighteenth century which remains to be written.
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