eBLJ 2009
eBLJ 2009
eBLJ 2009
The Journal is published continuously throughout the year, with one volume per year. Articles undergo production as soon as they are ready, to ensure minimal delays in publication.
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Item type:Journal article, The Identification of a Print Study for a Woodcut in Hieronymus Kà¶ler’s Album Amicorum in the British Library(2009)Letkiewicz, EwaA coloured woodcut portrait of Mikolaj [Nicholas] Krzysztof Radziwill (known as Sierotka, 'The Orphan') (1549-1616) is included in the album amicorum compiled c. 1563 by Hieronymus Kà¶ler of Nuremberg (BL, Egerton MS. 1184). An uncoloured version of the portrait also occurs in a volume of Greek poems by Martinus Crusius, Martini Crusii Poematum graecorum libri duo, published in Basle by Oporinus in 1566. In this article the print study for the portrait is shown to be a drawing in the Louvre, signed with the monogram DK, and attributed to David Kandel. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Underground London: From Cave Culture Follies to the Avant-Garde(2009)Harskamp, JaapLondon has had a long love affair with grottos, cellars, and caves. Based on the G. Creed collection, a superb discovery in British Library collections of fourteen large folio volumes on taverns in England and Wales, this essay traces the history from eighteenth century follies like Pope's grotto, to the nineteenth century Holes in the Wall, Bob's and Tom's, and Dirty Dick's where dirt, drink, and naughty entertainment were the main attractions. From there a move is made to first London 'cabaret clubs'. The concept of cabaret was a Continental one. Artistic London suddenly became gripped by avant-garde performances, by music from Schoenberg to ragtime, short plays, art exhibits and champagne tango nights.4 4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Tambimuttu and the Poetry London Papers at the British Library: Reputation and Evidence(2009)Beckett, ChrisThe papers of the most influential literary magazine of the 1940s, Poetry London (1939-51), and the associated papers its Sri Lankan editor, M. J. T. Tambimuttu, were long considered lost until they came to light in 2005, when they were passed to the British Library. The papers of author Richard March (purchased by the British Library in 2003), who was the magazine's owner and editor in its later years, complement Tambimuttu's papers. Taken together, the two collections provide an opportunity to review the accomplishments of the magazine and its principal editor, Tambimuttu. As A. T. Tolley observed, in The Poetry of the Forties (1985), Tambimuttu's 'decided achievements deserve to be disengaged from the legends that have come to surround him.' This paper adopts an evidential approach to Tolley's challenge. It considers the exotic presentation of Tambimuttu in the memoirs of Julian Maclaren Ross, the context of Tambimuttu's dismissal as editor (in 1949), and endeavours to separate fact from fiction in respect of his literary reputation, particularly with regard to the posthumous publication of The Collected Poems of Keith Douglas (Editions Poetry London, 1951).1 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Confronting Cook(2009)Smith, Keith VincentA pronged fishing spear, a twisted bark shield with a handle and a length of timber used to propel spears. Those famous explorers James Cook and Joseph Banks picked them up from a beach after the first skirmish between Australian Aborigines and British voyagers. These objects, probably those now in British museums, hold the key to the identity of one of two brave Aboriginal warriors who confronted a landing party from HM Bark Endeavour at Botany Bay in 1770.1 7 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, J. M. W. Turner and his World: John Platt (1842-1902), a Late Victorian Extra-illustrator, and his Collection(2009)Myrone, FelicityThis essay highlights a recent re-discovery at The British Library: an extra-illustrated copy of George Walter Thornbury's The Life of J. M.W. Turner, London, 1862 (Tab.438.a.1). Thornbury is still a standard source for the history of this great British artist, but this unique copy enhanced with over 1,600 portraits, views, engravings, drawings and letters collected by John Platt (1842-1902), a retired businessman from Warrington, has had little exposure. Platt's additions bring Thornbury's story to life, and include drawings, watercolours and manuscripts by some of the most significant figures in the history of British art, including Turner, Paul Sandby (1731-1809), John Robert Cozens (1752-1797), Francis Nicholson (1753-1844), Joseph Farington (1747-1821) and John Constable (1776-1837). The essay explores the practice of extra-illustration in the late nineteenth century, the contents of this collection, and what can be traced about its compiler, John Platt.7 5 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, A Fresh Look at Harley MS. 1413: ‘A Book … fairly written in the German or Switz language’(2009)Porter, PamelaAlthough described extensively in the British Museum's printed catalogue of Harleian manuscripts Harl. MS. 1413, a 16th-century manuscript containing Books VII-X of an illustrated German warfare treatise, has remained unidentified and virtually unnoticed since the catalogue was published soon after the beginning of the 19th century. In this article the volume is re-examined and the text identified as the second part of a hitherto unknown version of the Kriegsordnung of Albrecht, 1st Duke of Prussia. The circumstances of its composition are explored and some preliminary remarks are made on its significance, not just in a military context but as a cultural artefact in its own right.7 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, The Royal Music Library and its Handel Collection(2009)Burrows, DonaldOn 27 November 1957 Queen Elizabeth II presented the Royal Music Library to the Trustees of the British Museum, a gift commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of King George II's presentation of the Old Royal Library to the recently-established Museum. It was among the largest musical acquisitions ever made by a British library, and it remains today as a central component of the British Library's music collections at St Pancras. The Handel material in the Royal Music Library, both manuscript and printed, remains one of the essential resources for our knowledge of his music. Many aspects of the history of the Royal Music Library - including its arrangement and its location - are obscure, and nearly all of the descriptions of the royal music collection between 1780 and 1900 come from people who gained access in order to see the collection of Handel's autographs. From these descriptions, and from the British Museum's twentieth-century documentation, it is possible to trace individual items through the 200-year period, and to reconstruct something of the history of the royal music collection.6 5 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, The Library Lists of Francis Lodwick FRS (1619-1694): An Introduction to Sloane MSS. 855 and 859, and a Searchable Transcript(2009)6 4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Codicological Clues to the Patronage of Stowe MS. 39:A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Nun's Book in Middle English(2009)Kidd, PeterStowe MS. 39 is well-known for its Middle English texts (The Abbey of the Holy Ghost, and The Desert of Religion) and illustrations. An examination of its physical make-up leads towards the identification of its original patroness, a Yorkshire nun.7 3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, John Locke, Thomas Sydenham, and the Authorship of Two Medical Essays(2009)2 4