No. 43: October 2004 ISSN 0263-3442 AMARC NEWSLETTER Newsletter of the Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections

AMARC News Recent AMARC Meetings implemented policies in relation to the Data Protection Act and were well advanced in their AMARC AGM and Summer preparations for the implementation of Free- Meeting dom of Information. It was agreed that the meeting had been very helpful in providing William Frame writes: comparisons of approaches between institutions The AMARC summer meeting took place at and it was felt that further meetings on this the University of Nottingham on Monday 12 subject would be useful. July. The subject was Access and Restrictions Strategies for making clear to researchers their in Modern Papers and Archives. The meeting responsibilities under data protection legislation was well-attended, with delegates from over were examined and it was felt further publicity thirty institutions present. The main topics of work could usefully be done in this area. The discussion were the Data Protection and Free- question of whether papers reserved from use at dom of Information Acts and the implications the request of the donor could be accessed by of these acts for repositories holding modern researchers under FOI was discussed. FOI papers. would also affect uncatalogued material and The day began with talks by Edward Higgs would need to be considered by repositories as (University of Essex) and Nina Fishman part of their general cataloguing strategy. The (University of Westminster) describing the difference in law between material owned by historian’s perspective on issues of access to an institution and material held on deposit on modern records. This was an opportunity to behalf of private individuals was also raised. understand the practical implications of past, present and future access restrictions for users Forthcoming AMARC Meetings of modern papers and archives. This was followed by lunch and an opportunity to view The next meeting is due to be held on 13 the exhibition ‘Hooked on Books: The Library December at Corpus Christi College, of Sir John Soane, Architect, 1753–1837’ in the Cambridge, on the theme of ‘Libraries at Risk’, Weston Gallery. but is likely to be cancelled. After lunch Susan Healy (The National Archives) gave a presentation on the legal AMARC Committee framework, highlighting the main provisions of Alex Buchanan had resigned as Membership the two acts and outlining current thinking on Secretary since the 2003 AGM, with Clare the implications for modern papers and Brown kindly acting in that role for most of the archives. This was followed by Christine time since then. At the AGM in July Clare Woodland (University of Warwick), Helen Brown was formally elected Membership Wakely (The Wellcome Library) and Christine Secretary, and the other officers and Committee Penney (University of Birmingham) who each members were re-elected. discussed the impact of Data Protection and Freedom of Information in their own work, providing an opportunity to compare areas of AMARC Grants similarity and difference between institutions. As previously reported, the first AMARC grant The day concluded with a panel session at was awarded earlier this year to help cover the which outstanding issues of concern were costs of holding the Colloquium on English discussed. The overall impression from the day Codicological Vocabulary, held in July. An was that most institutions had successfully account of the meeting is given below. AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 1 The AMARC Questionnaire A notable feature of many responses is that AMARC grants seem to be poorly understood: About 30 of the questionnaires mailed out with respondents either assumed that they are the previous issue of the AMARC Newsletter intended to help with the cost of publication, or have been returned. else said that we ought to provide grants for On the whole everyone who responded was this purpose. Two of the most imaginative very positive about the Association, its proposals for our financial support were the meetings, its Newsletter, etc. This is encour- provision of high-quality book-rests to archives aging, as those who feel content are perhaps and libraries that might otherwise not be able to those least likely to take the trouble to return a afford them; and pump-priming purchase questionnaire. appeals, for example by paying for costs of leaflets and other publicity. One respondent said we should be less focussed on the medieval period, but most thought that Other general requests included a desire to be we should concentrate more on the Middle invoiced for meetings (rather than having to Ages; one said that they would like to see seals pay by cheque and then reclaim the money and seal matrices given greater prominence; from an employer); a plea for the Association and a third hoped we could do more of interest to accept Direct Debit payments for to conservators. But on the whole there seemed membership; and more visits to collections. to be a feeling that the balance of activities is The AMARC committee will doubtless discuss about right, and should not be ‘diluted’ by these suggestions in due course. attempting to cover a broader remit. Quite a number of respondents said that they Several respondents observed that there are would be interested in receiving AMARC- several other organisations concerned with related news and updates by email, which is archives, with newsletters that cater to surprising, because in AMARC Newsletter no. archivists, but none other that deals specifically 38 we invited members to register for email with medieval codices, and that AMARC announcements, and only one reader, in Japan, should therefore keep this as a primary focus. responded.

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James Anthony, formerly of the Libraries of Stephen Fliegel, who has been at the Cleveland Courtauld Institute and University College, Museum of Art since 1982, and is responsible London, has been appointed librarian at for the current ‘Art from the Court of Hereford Cathedral. Burgundy’ exhibition, has been promoted to Curator of Medieval Art. Michelle Brown has left the Department of Manuscripts at the British Library, but Holger Klein, formerly of the Department of continues to work for the Library part-time, Art History and Archaeology at Columbia promoting its collections as its Outreach University, has been appointed Robert P. Officer in the Regional and Library Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at the Programmes division of the Strategic Cleveland Museum of Art. Marketing & Communications directorate. Padraig Breatnach (Ireland), Consuelo David Dumville, Professor of Palaeography Dutschke (USA), Mirella Ferrari (Italy), and Cultural History at Girton College, and Rudolf Gamper (Switzerland), Alois Reader in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Haidinger (Austria), Christopher de Hamel Norse, and Celtic at the University of (UK), Marc Smith (France), and Patricia Cambridge, is leaving to take up a post in Stirnemann (France) were elected to the Celtic Studies at Aberdeen. Comité International de Paléographie Latine this summer.

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 2 In Memoriam

Vittore Branca, Director of the Fondazione Hours (British Library, Additional MS. 34294) Giorgio Cini, died in Venice on 28 May, aged (catalogue no. 86; see Recent Accessions, 91. Best-known for his work on Boccaccio, he below). An obituary appeared in the The Times worked on a variety of medieval and on 27 August and The Independent on 25 Humanistic texts. Il Sole-24 ore for 30 May September. devoted an entire page to his obituary; another Albi Rosenthal, book dealer and authority on appeared in the Corriere della Sera on 28 May Mozart and other music manuscripts, died in and is summarised in the Gazette du livre Oxford on 3 August, aged 89. Born in Munich médiéval, no. 44. in 1914, he was the grandson of the booksellers Nicholas Hadgraft, conservator of books and Jacques Rosenthal and Leo Olschki, and son of medieval manuscripts, died on 4 July, aged 49. the art historian Erwin. He was given his first In 1980 he joined the British Library, preparing violin for his seventh birthday, and his first books for binding and conservation; in 1984 he Mozart manuscript for his twenty-first. To moved to Cambridge and worked for Corpus escape Nazi persecution he moved to London Christi College, before becoming head of the in 1933, where he soon became assistant to Cambridge Colleges Conservation Consortium. Rudolf Wittkower at the Warburg Institute. He While working and leading the Cambridge studied palaeography and musicology in team he wrote his PhD on 15th-century binding London and Oxford before setting up a structures, completed in 1988. In the same year bookselling business in London in 1936, but it he went freelance, working on a variety of was bombed in 1940, and he moved to Oxford, projects both in Cambridge and as far afield as where he remained for the rest of his life, Mount Sinai. An obituary appeared in The playing music in Oxford orchestras, playing a Independent on 27 July. part in the sale of many of the most important music manuscripts, receiving an honorary Bernard Breslauer, book-dealer and collector, M.A., and serving on the Council of the died in New York on 11 August, aged 86. Born Bodleian Library. Albi Rosenthal: Obiter in Berlin in 1918, he fled to London in 1937, scripta, edited by Jaqueline Gray (Oxford, and moved to New York in 1977, where he 2000), relates the picaresque tale of how came lived in a spacious apartment overlooking the to acquire from the Marquis de Noblet the 13th- Metropolitan Museum, surrounded by his century La Clayette manuscript containing collection of manuscript leaves, fine bindings, miniatures and numerous otherwise unknown and reference books. Having no heirs or motets: the Marquis did not know what is was, dependents, he enjoyed tantalising the Pierpont and kept it wrapped in a sheet of old Morgan Library with the possibility that they newspaper, but assumed that it was worth might eventually get his manuscript collection, £15,000 because he had read a report that this is which they catalogued and exhibited in 1992–3 the price for which another ‘manuscrit unique’, (William M. Voelkle and Roger S. Wieck, The the manuscript of Alice in Wonderland, had Bernard H. Breslauer Collection of Manuscript been sold a few years earlier. An obituary Illuminations). But ill-health and the attendant appeared in The Independent on 10 August. medical bills forced him to sell the manuscripts, most of which have appeared in the past two Desmond Slay, authority on Icelandic literature years at Christie’s, Sam Fogg’s, Jörn whose work in tracking down the Codex Günther’s, and elsewhere. Parts of the Scardensis ensured that this significant treasure collection were undistinguished, but it included was saved for the Icelandic nation, died on May a number of museum-quality items, including 20 aged 76. An obituary appeared in the Daily the 13th-century leaf from a Spanish Telegraph on 14 June: www.telegraph.co.uk/ Commentary on the Apocalypse (catalogue no. news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/14/db140 29); the December calendar leaf from the 2.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/06/14/ixportal.html Arenberg Psalter (Paris, BNF, ms. n.a.l. 3102) Patrick Wormald, historian of Anglo-Saxon (catalogue no. 34), for which he paid over England, died in Oxford on 28 September 29, £250,000 in 1990, a record auction price; and aged 57. An obituary appeared in The Times. the October calendar leaf from the Sforza

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 3 News The Macclesfield Psalter manuscript for a more general audience, include it in the education pack produced for Probably the biggest news of the year was the teachers using the Museum, include it in the appearance and sale at Sotheby’s on 22 June of ‘Cambridge Illuminations’ catalogue and an early 14th-century Psalter illuminated in the exhibition next year, explore the possibility of ‘East Anglian’ style, closely related to the sending the manuscript on tour to other venues, Gorleston, Ormesby, and Douai Psalters. exhibit it regularly at the Fitzwilliam, and, of Much controversy has surrounded the sale of course, publish the manuscript extensively on the manuscript, and several features of the the web. It is hard to imagine what more the ongoing saga are worthy of note: Fitzwilliam could have done to meet the HLF’s ‘requirements for access and education’. The First, the Fitzwilliam Museum applied to the HLF spokeswoman emphatically and Heritage Lottery Fund for a grant of up to £2.4 categorically denied the suggestion that the million well in advance of the auction, having Fitzwilliam’s application had been rejected for already secured £500,000 from other sources, reasons of ‘Political Correctness’, such as the in order to allow them to bid on the Psalter up idea that a medieval Christian manuscript to its full market value, based on independent would have little meaning to a diverse 21st- advice and valuations. With what appears on century audience, that the small volume would the face of it to be astonishing incompetence, be difficult to see from a wheelchair, or that it the Lottery Fund published the amount of the would not appeal to all members of Britain’s Fitzwilliam’s grant application on its website in multi-cultural society. advance of the auction (and it is still there at the time of writing, in early October; see Third, when the Getty Museum had bought the www.hlf.org.uk/cgi-bin/hlfframemast. manuscript at auction and applied for an Export pl?K=11&S=ET), allowing the auction house, Licence, the Export Licence Reviewing their clients, and all other interested parties to Committee judged that the Psalter met all three see how highly the Fitzwilliam valued the of the Waverly Criteria, and awarded it manuscript, and how high above Sotheby’s ‘starred’ status. On 10 August the Arts Minister £800,000–£1,200,000 estimate they might be Estelle Morris deferred an export licence on the willing to bid. The HLF removed the web page Macclesfield Psalter until 10 November, with when the mistake was realised, but it remained the possibility of a further extension to 10 possible to see a cached copy of the page stored February 2005 if there is a serious effort to by Google and other search engines. When raise the funds. This would appear to suggest queried about this, an HLF spokeswoman that the Heritage Lottery Fund completely admitted (verbally—she always avoided failed to grasp the national (and international) responding in writing to our written enquiries) importance of the manuscript. that this was an “error”, a “mistake”, and Anyone perturbed by the actions of the “should not have happened”, but she also tried Heritage Lottery Fund—a body responsible for to suggest that it could not have made allocating £300,000,000 per year of public difference to the outcome of the sale – which money—should register their support for the was either disingenuous or displays remarkable Fitzwilliam’s appeal (see below). ignorance of how the art market works. Numerous newspaper reports surrounding the Second, the Lottery Fund then turned down the sale of the Macclesfield Psalter can be found on Fitzwilliam’s grant application, just a few days the web, including, for example: before the auction, subsequently stating that www.theartnewspaper.com/news/ they ‘were unable to support an application article.asp?idart=11757 , from the Fitzwilliam Museum earlier this year www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/ as it failed to meet two of our key requirements 0,3604,1300168,00.html and for access and education’. This is difficult to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/ comprehend: the Fitzwilliam had clearly stated arts/3641844.stm its intention to digitise the manuscript in its entirety, publish a facsimile and commentary volume (they had already lined-up a publisher and an author), issue publications of the

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 4 The Macclesfield Psalter Appeal many believe to be an absurdly inflated price of over £4m), with the ignorant desire of medieval The Fitzwilliam Museum is committed to institutions to own relics of saints. The acquiring the Macclesfield Psalter and is suggestion is made that such purchases often delighted that the National Art Collections have more to do with individual curators’ Fund has launched a campaign by pledging desire to make their mark, than with the true £500,000 towards its purchase. The Museum ‘heritage’ value of the work of art in question. has been able to commit £100,000 from its The Becket chasse and the Jean Bourdichon exiguous acquisition funds and the Friends of miniature of the Adoration of the Magi (also the Fitzwilliam Museum have pledged £50,000. bought recently by the V&A—for a very hefty The Fitzwilliam has also applied to the £250,000—thus ‘saving’ it from the fate of National Heritage Memorial Fund and is being reunited with some of its sister launching a public appeal. It has to raise miniatures in a foreign public collection), are another £1.7 million. interesting cases in point: both were made in The National Heritage Memorial Fund has an France, neither was demonstrably made for a annual budget of £5m, and is administered by British patron, neither has demonstrably spent the same body as the National Heritage Lottery much of its existence within these shores, and Fund, which has an annual budget sixty times both have appeared for public sale before. With larger, at £300m. There now exists a bizarre the notable exception of Tim Clifford—who situation in which the HLF, having reluctantly nearly single-handedly scuppered the efforts of admitted that it made errors in its handling of the V&A and the National Gallery of Scotland the Fitzwilliam’s original application, may feel to ‘save’ Canova’s Three Graces from export— that it has to award a grant out of its smaller most speakers advocate a sharing and budget: they can and should expect public ‘distributed’ approach to 21st-century outcry if the Fitzwilliam’s second appeal for collecting, arguing that if an artwork is funding is also turned down. exported, whether to Holland or the USA or Russia, it acts as an ambassador for the culture Anyone who wishes to register their support for it represents, and that it remains available to the the appeal should do so at: public who are more mobile in their www.freesurveysonline.com/fso/ international travel than ever before. AskSurvey.fso?Survey=4818&CheckID=4299 While it would be quite misleading to suggest If you would like to support the campaign in that the Fitzwilliam has not acted honourably, other ways, please contact the National Art the National Art Collections Fund publications Collections Fund (www.artfund.org), Stella and the ‘Macclesfield Psalter Affair’ reminds Panayotova ([email protected]) or the us once again of the ugly issue of narrow- Fitzwilliam Museum’s Development Office minded nationalism that often surrounds ([email protected]). ‘saving’ art for the nation: patriotic sentiments are invoked, as if allowing an item to be owned ‘Saving Art for the Nation’ by someone beyond these shores is to allow pearls to be cast before undeserving swine. In Coincidentally, at exactly the same time that a reality it is often the case that the foreign furore surrounds the Macclesfield Psalter, the institution will be better funded, better staffed, National Art Collections Fund has published and better able to care for the object, and it will the papers from its November 2003 centenary make a much greater impact in their collection conference: Saving Art for the Nation: A Valid than in a British one, and will do more to Approach to 21st-Century Collecting? (ISBN: encourage the study, understanding, and 1-874184-03-8; 152pp.; £10 to cover admin enjoyment of the culture that we are so and p&p; see www.artfund.org). fervently being urged to ‘protect’ from export. It is concerned with the full range of art objects The obvious and immense cultural value of from all periods, but it has much of relevance to having some of one country’s artworks owned manuscripts, ranging from single undecorated by the public institutions of other countries is items such as a letter signed by Mary Queen of precisely why many people believe the Scots, to artistic tours-de-force such as the Parthenon Marbles should not be returned to Macclesfield Psalter. One of the most Athens. interesting papers is that by David Starkey, who While the Fitzwilliam is to be applauded for its compares the modern desire to own the Becket efforts to try to enhance its collections for the chasse (bought in 1996 by the V&A for what benefit of its visitors, one cannot help feeling

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 5 sympathy for the Getty Museum, which is foreign) terms for additional phenomena not in trying to do exactly the same thing. They have the Vocabulaire although not as yet certainly been treated very shabbily in previous incorporable in it. David Ganz, who was a very export cases, notably that surrounding valiant chairman, is ready to hear from anyone, Canova’s Three Graces. apart from those we already know, willing to engage in larger field reshaping. Colloquium On English A. I. Doyle, University Library, Palace Green, Codicological Vocabulary Durham DH1 3RN A. I. Doyle writes: Accessing our Archival and The colloquium on English codicological Manuscript Heritage Project vocabulary was held on Thursday 8 to Saturday 10 July 2004 at the Institute of English Studies ‘Accessing our Archival and Manuscript in the Senate House, University of London, Heritage’ is a project that has recently started at with the aid of grants from the British Academy Senate House Library, University of London, and AMARC. There were over one hundred which aims to develop a set of research ‘tools’ registered participants, more than seventy specifically aimed at life-long learners using attending each day, from Europe, America and archives and undertaking manuscript studies. Australia. The discussions were led by fifteen The project is for fourteen months and is speakers in nine sessions, following the funded by the LASER foundation and the Vocabulaire Codicologique by Denis former Electronic Access to Resources in Muzerelle, 1985, with displays of it from Libraries (EARL) Consortium for Public CDRom, kindly supplied by the author (who Library Networking. was present with great patience throughout the The project will ‘rapidly prototype’ a set of proceedings) of his multilingual version (for tutorials and research aids and then spend time which see AMARC Newsletter no. 42, May taking those resources to interested user 2004, p. 7), besides a tentative American communities, such as local and family history Anglophone alternative, and shows of slides of groups, and evaluating and refining them decoration and binding. There were many accordingly. For further information, see: useful handouts, an exhibition of writing http://cards.shl.lon.ac.uk/aamh/ implements belonging to Mr Alan Cole and guided visits to the Palaeography Room of the University Library. A reception was sponsored Bradfer-Lawrence MSS to be by the Bibliographical Society on the first Catalogued evening. The collection of family and estate documents, An attempt was made to record all the medieval charters, accounts and maps relating introductions and comments from the audience, to large areas of North Yorkshire, Bradford, but the latter were frequently too fast and Wakefield and adjoining Lancashire formed by furious for the stationary and roving Harry Bradfer-Lawrence, which were given to microphones, as Pamela Robinson and I have Yorkshire Archaeological Society by his son now found. By the time of the final session, on and daughter after his death in 1965, is being the ways forward, it had emerged that conserved and catalogued, thanks to a £49,000 participants had several different notions of grant from the National Heritage Lottery Fund. what they wished to be done and a number The jewel of the collection is the 15th-century were prepared to extend the terminology in stock book of Fountains Abbey, which contains their special fields, while others wanted a detailed accounts of how the monks built up shorter English-language equivalent of the vast wealth from the sale of livestock and dairy Vocabulaire to be published. I announced that I products. The manuscript will be cleaned, should be glad to receive corrections and repaired, and digitised before being rebound. alternatives to the English terms I had already The Society will work in partnership with the suggested and circulated to many people, not Access to Archives (A2A) team at London’s all present, as are on available online National Archives over the course of 13 (http://vocabulaire.irht.cnrs.fr/vocab.htm), months. The completed records will be adding them to what we picked up at the available at www.a2a.org.uk colloquium, and would offer all to Denis Muzerelle to incorporate if he wants in his web site. I am also willing to receive English (and

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 6 Illustrated Catalogue of 12th- Law School. It is his second purchase in the UK: his first was the coin and medal dealer, Century French and Occitan Spink & Son Ltd., but he has stressed that Literary Manuscripts Quaritch will continue as an independent business and that there are no plans to combine The intention of this project, based at the IRHT, it with Spink. Quaritch will remain, with its Paris, is to produce both a full-scale catalogue present staff, at 5-8 Lower John Street, Golden and an exhaustive study of the whole of 12th- Square, London, W1. century vernacular manuscript production in both French and Occitan. This corpus, situated For further details, see www.quaritch.com chronologically between the earliest extant monuments of French written culture and the IRHT Closure opening years of the 13th century, will for the The Centre Félix-Grat of the l’Institut de first time give scholars direct access to the recherche et d’histoire des textes, at 40 avenue founding manuscripts of Medieval French and d’Iéna, Paris, will close for building work on 1 Occitan literatures. October, and is not expected to re-open before Detailed analyses will be provided of 1 February 2006. When the work is complete, manuscripts containing texts that can be the building will offer a large new reading assumed to have originally been designed for room with an unparalleled collection of independent books (such as the Oxford Roland databases and reproductions of manuscripts, or the Hildesheim Alexis), or texts that were and a new seminar room. The other four IRHT added over the course of time on blank pages or sites will remain open, including the in the margins of Latin manuscripts (like the filmothèque at Orléans: microfilms and vernacular paraphrase of the Song of Songs reproductions will continue to be available as at copied at the end of a sacramentary). Incidental present. A temporary centre will be opened at and isolated vernacular survivals, such as the Délégation du CNRS de Paris A, 27 rue glosses, notes or lists, which figure in a Paul Bert, Ivry-sur-Seine, with computers and predominantly Latin context, will be itemised microfilm-readers providing access to IRHT and described in a separate appendix. databases and microfilms, by prior For further details, see www.irht.cnrs.fr/ appointment. Scheduled seminars and other events will take place as planned. recherche/programme_catlitfr_english.htm For further details, see Reduced Opening at TCD www.irht.cnrs.fr/actualites/travaux_iena.htm Due to reduced staff numbers, the Manuscripts Chaucer’s Scribe Identified Department at Trinity College, Dublin, will open to readers only on the following dates up In July several newspapers and websites picked to the end of the calendar year: up the story that Linne Mooney had identified Geoffrey Chaucer’s scribe, to whom he 18–22 Oct.; 8–13 Nov; 29 Nov.–4 Dec.; 20–23 Dec. directed ‘Chaucer's Wordes Unto Adam His Own Scriveyne’, as one Adam Pinkhurst, who Normal opening hours will be resumed as soon signed his name shortly after 1392 in the as possible, on the appointment of replacement Common Paper (i.e. members’ book of staff. For further information contact the regulations) of the Scriveners’ Company. Manuscripts Department of the Library at Mooney has proposed that his handwriting can [email protected] be identified as that of the Ellesmere and Hengwrt copies of the Canterbury Tales: part of Quaritch Sold the significance of the discovery is that this proves that the Hengwrt and Ellesmere The business of Bernard Quaritch Ltd, founded manuscripts were—even if not written before in 1847, is today one of the world’s leading Chaucer’s death in 1400—written by a scribe manuscripts dealers, and regularly acts as agent who had been directly employed by the author, for a considerable number of the world’s major and quite possibly knew how he wanted his research libraries. In September the company works arranged. was acquired by a company controlled by John Koh, a 49-year-old Malaysian-born Senior Numerous versions of the story can be found on Advisor to Goldman Sachs, who was educated the web. at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Harvard AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 7 BnF Curator Stole MSS detail during the 20th century, at that rate it would take another three and a half centuries to The French daily newspapers Le Monde and deal with the existing cataloguing backlog. Libération reported in August that twenty-five Another Vatican cataloguer admitted to have manuscripts and 121 other items have been spent 2 months preparing ten pages of stolen from the Bibliothèque nationale de description of a single manuscript – and to still France in recent years. It has transpired that at being only halfway through. Aware of the least one was taken by Michel Garel, aged 56, problems of attempting to catalogue vast head of the Library’s Hebrew manuscripts quantities of material in great detail, a new collections since 1980, but he is thought not to second cataloguing campaign, running have acted alone, and he has not been accused alongside the existing one, will aim to describe of all the thefts. He has admitted to the theft of manuscripts much more summarily and one manuscript, and is suspected of at least four therefore more rapidly. This should allow a more. In one case a stolen manuscript has complete overview of the collections to be appeared on the open market, re-bound and accomplished within about 40 years: this with Library markings removed: the authorities change of gear is very similar to that made at were alerted in an anonymous letter in 2003 to the Bodleian Library in the late 19th century, the fact that the 14th-century manuscript had when it switched from detailed cataloguing in been sold at auction in New York. the ‘Quarto’ series of catalogues (1845–1900), to more concise cataloguing in the ‘Summary More on the Danish Thefts Catalogue’ volumes (1895–1953). More details have emerged concerning the theft Discussing other problems, such as the well- of books from the Royal Library, Copenhagen. publicised theft of illuminated leaves by Prof. A story in The Times on 20 June estimates the Anthony Melnikas, and a recent insect scales of the thefts at about 3,000 books and infestation, Ambrogio Piazzoni summarised the copper prints, with a value of £26m. The thefts position of manuscripts librarians around the came to light when Christie’s in London world with a particularly nice turn of phrase: contacted the police, after Meg Ford, one of “The job of a library like ours is twofold; it’s their book specialists, was shown a copy of a that of conserving that which we have received 1517 edition Propalladia by Bartholome de from the past for the future. But we are also the Torres Naharro, the Spanish poet. Only two future of yesterday; we have the right to read copies were known to exist, and a third could and to study things that have arrived from the sell for more than £500,000; but after noticing past.” traces of an erased library stamp, Ford realised that this was the Copenhagen copy. The French Voynich Manuscript Contains newspaper Le Monde reported in August that ‘Gibberish’ the thief’s family had already sold about 80 books and manuscripts through Christie’s and In a note on the Vinland Map in the previous the Swann Galleries in New York for a total of issue of the AMARC Newsletter we referred to about €1,350,000, and an unknown number the fact that the Beinecke Library at Yale through other channels, before they were University holds another of the world’s most caught. famous and perplexing potential forgeries: the Voynich manuscript, so called after Wilfred “The Future of Yesterday” at the Voynich, a respected rare book and manuscript dealer, who discovered it in 1912 in the library Vatican Library of a Jesuit College near Rome. It is written in a Several newspapers ran stories during the language or code that has defied understanding summer based on the fact that the Vatican or decryption for over 90 years, despite the best Library has started to place electronic tags in efforts of many of the world’s leading linguists printed books, to tackle the problem of mis- and cryptographers. Drawings in the shelved volumes: a hand-held scanner wand manuscript suggest that it is a note-book of an will alert staff if any of the books on a shelf are unidentified late-15th-century person with an out of place. Some stories went on to discuss interest in alchemy, medieval herbals, and the problems presented by the manuscripts astronomy, among other subjects. collections: a member of the Vatican Library’s Naturally, the manuscript attracted worldwide staff was quoted as saying that although about interest, and everyone wanted to be the first to 15,000–20,000 manuscripts were catalogued in crack the code. William R. Newbold, a

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 8 professor of philosophy at the University of forger could produce a document that exhibited Pennsylvania, for example, claimed that each the manuscript’s combination of randomness character in the Voynich script contained tiny and language-like patterns. pen strokes that could be seen only under The manuscript has hit the news recently, magnification, and that these strokes were an thanks to an article in the July issue of the ancient Greek shorthand. Based on his reading scholarly journal Scientific American in which of this hidden microscopic shorthand, he Gordon Rugg, of Keele University, claimed that the manuscript had been written demonstrates that the Voynich ‘code’ could by Roger Bacon, the 13th-century Oxford have been produced using a tool called a philosopher and scientist. This theory was soon ‘Cardan Grille’: a sheet of paper with a number debunked when it was pointed out that the ‘tiny of holes cut in it, through which syllables can pen-strokes’ were in fact natural cracks in the be read from a grid of random prefix-, suffix-, ink. and word-like combinations of letters or A 17th-century letter accompanying the symbols. manuscript states that it was purchased by the For the full story, see: www.sciam.com/ Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II, in 1586. The article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID manuscript is foliated by John Dee, and there is =0000E3AA-70E1-10CF-AD1983414B7F0000 a long-held theory that Edward Kelley—Dee’s partner in angelic communication and spiritual For a sober description of the manuscript, see wife-swapping—may have concocted the MS 408 in Barbara A. Shailor, Catalogue of document to defraud Rudolph II, who paid 600 Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the ducats for the manuscript. This theory has Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, always seemed perfectly plausible, except that Yale University (Binghampton, NY, 1987). For no one had ever worked out how a 16th-century a variety of less sober accounts, search the web

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2004 8–10 Oct., Cerisy-la-Salle, France 2 Oct., Oxford Léopold Delisle St. John’s College, MS. 17 Centre Culturel International St. John’s College Françoise Vielliard: ‘La jeunesse et la For further details, see AMARC Newsletter no. formation de Léopold Delisle’ 42, or contact the librarian Anita Guerreau-Jalabert: ‘Léopold Delisle et [email protected] l’Ecole des chartes’ François de Beaurepaire: ‘Léopold Delisle, Eugène et Charles de Beaurepaire: un demi- 7–8 Oct., Paris siècle d’amitié’ European Conference on EAD Michel Nortier: ‘Ce qu’un érudit du XXIe siècle (Encoded Archival Description) and doit à Léopold Delisle’ EAC (Encoded Archival Context) Marie-Pierre Laffitte: ‘Léopold Delisle et Le Cabinet des manuscrits’ DTD (Document Type Definition) François Avril: ‘Léopold Delisle et les Musée National des Arts et Traditions enluminures’ Populaires Jean-François Delmas: ‘La rétrocession par la bibliothèque de l’université de Paris des plans For details, in French and English, see du domaine de Chantilly au musée Condé à www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/fr/ l’initiative de Léopold Delisle (1905)’ quoideneuf/journeeEAD.pdf or contact Charles Ridoux: ‘Léopold Delisle et l’affaire [email protected] Libri’ AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 9 Emmanuel Poulle: ‘Léopold Delisle, Hanneke van Asperen: ‘Prayer and Pilgrimage: paléographe ou historien’ Traces of Pilgrim’s Badges in Books of Prayer’ Julie Fontanel: ‘Léopold Delisle et l’érudition Krijn Pansters: ‘Vice Virtue, Vice Versa: The dans le Cotentin’ Inverted Moral Tradition of David of Nicholas Vincent: ‘Léopold Delisle, Augsburg’s “Compositione” in Manuscripts of l’Angleterre et le Recueil des actes d’Henri II’ the Low Countries’ François Neveux: ‘Le Cartulaire normand et Rob Dückers: ‘Manuscript Illumination in the l’histoire de la Normandie au XIIIe siècle’ Upper Quarter of the Duchy of Gelders: A First Pierre Bouet: ‘Léopold Delisle et les récits Survey’ littéraires en latin’ Virginia Brown: ‘Humanist Commentators on Jean-Loup Lemaitre: ‘Léopold Delisle et la Virgil: Quid novi?’ mémoire des morts’ Julia Haig Gaisser: ‘Picturing Apuleius: The Yann Potin: ‘«J’ai manqué ma vocation ... Intersection of Word and Image in Some j’aurai du être archiviste !»: Léopold Delisle, la Renaissance Manuscripts’ diplomatique et le monde des archives’ Angela Fritsen: ‘The Renaissance Afterlife of Heroides XV: A Humanist Response to For further details, see: Sappho’ www.ccic-cerisy.asso.fr/delisle04.html Dennis J. Dutschke: ‘Collecting Italian Manuscripts in the United States: Dante, 14 Oct., Leuven Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Others’ ‘Moving manuscripts’ (Over William P. Stoneman: ‘“Dispersed again handschriften en tentoonstellen) among Boches, Jews and Transatlantics”: Collecting Medieval and Renaissance Katholieke Universiteit Manuscripts in America’ Jan Van der Stock: ‘Tussen Diest en Sint- Richard A. Linenthal: ‘“The collectors are far Peterburg: Het reizende middeleeuwse more particular than you think”: Selling handschrift’ Manuscripts to America’ Leon Smets: ‘Een kwart eeuw van boeken Julia Griffin: ‘Ordering the Book: The Interplay tentoonstellen: de fluwelen evolutie’ of Script and Print in the Poetry of Edward, Per Cullhed: ‘Display of Books in Sweden: Lord Herbert of Cherbury’ Openness versus Preservation’ Robert Batchelor: ‘The Calligraphic Other: Barbara O’Connor: ‘“Neither a borrower nor a Media for Arabic and Chinese Writing in lender be”: Risk Management and Exhibiting Seventeenth-Century England’ Manuscripts’ Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann: ‘Creating a New Elsje Janssen: ‘Coördineren om beter te Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts in the bewaren en te beheren’ Collections of the USA: Challenges and Lieve Watteeuw: ‘Meten, bewegen, tonen en Progress to Date’ zien: Handschriften tentoonstellen tussen 1995 William Voelkle: ‘Manuscript Cataloguing at en 2004’ the Pierpont Morgan Library: Yachting on the John Lowden: ‘Medieval Manuscripts on Web’ Exhibition: Reflecting on Purposes, Melissa Conway and Lisa Fagin Davis: Practicalities, and Possibilities’ ‘Orphans in the Storm: Establishing a Registry of Single Leaves in North American For further details contact Collections’ [email protected] Thomas Kren: ‘The Flight of the Phoenix: The Elusive Career of an Innovative Flemish Book 15–16 Oct., St. Louis Painter’ 31st Annual Saint Louis Conference Roger S. Wieck: ‘The Printed Book of Hours as on Manuscripts Studies First Bestseller’ Virginia Reinburg: ‘A Book for Prayer’ Sponsored by the Vatican Film Library and Manuscripta, Saint Louis University For further details contact: Vatican Film Library, Pius XII Memorial Library, Saint Papers include: Louis Univ., 3650 Lindell Boulevard, St. Louis, Lilian Armstrong: ‘The Hand-Illumination of MO 63108, USA. Tel.: 314-977-3090; Fax: Venetian Law Incunables in the Late Fifteenth 314-977-3108; [email protected]; or see: Century’ www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl/events.htm Mary Beth Winn: ‘Paint, Pen, and Print: Royal Presentations in France, 1495–1520’

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 10 5 Nov., Brussels For further details contact Michael Harris at Birkbeck College, 26 Russell Square, London Les bibliothèques médiévales et leurs WC1B 5DQ; Tel.: (020) 7631 6652; or catalogues dans les Pays-Bas [email protected] méridionaux Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten 2005 For details, see AMARC Newsletter no. 42 or http://calenda.revues.org/nouvelle4283.html 11–14 Jan., Liège Christine de Pizan: a Woman of 20 Nov., London Science, a Woman of Letters Book History Research Network University of Liège Study Day A conference to mark the 600th anniversary of Senate House, University of London writing of the Cité des dames, and in particular to examine Christine’s relationship with For details see www.bhpn.bham.ac.uk/ science. For further details, see 3–5 Dec., Harrisonburg, VA www.ulg.ac.be/ferulg/depisan.htm Ancient Studies – New Technology: The World Wide Web and Scholarly 5 Feb., London Research, Communication, and Creation and Dissemination: Art and Publication in Ancient, Byzantine, Architecture in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies The 10th Annual Medieval James Madison University Postgraduate Student Colloquium For further details, see Courtauld Institute www.cisat.jmu.edu/asnt3/index.html Call for papers. For further information contact [email protected] 4–5 Dec., London Book-trade Consumers: Owners, 19 Feb., London Annotators and the Signs of Reading The Arundel Manuscripts Annual Conference in Book Trade History 2004; at Swedenborg House and The AHRB-funded Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library is working Birkbeck College collection-by-collection to provide online Alan H. Nelson: ‘Shakespeare and the descriptions and digital images of the Library’s bibliophiles, 1593–1616: contemporary owners illuminated manuscripts. Having tackled the of Shakespeare’s poems and plays’ Burney, Hargrave, and King’s collections, the Rudi Eliott-Lockhart: ‘Monastic reading in project is moving on to the Arundel 12th-century England’ manuscripts. Stephen Colclough: ‘“A grey goose quill and Confirmed speakers at the time of writing an album”: the manuscript book and text include: transmission, 1800–1850’ David Howarth, on Arundel as a collector Heather Jackson: ‘“Marginal frivolities”: Richard Ovendon,on the changing interactions readers’ notes as evidence for the history of with manuscript collections—Arundel in reading’ particular—through catalogues as they have William H. Sherman: ‘The marginal history of developed over the past 400 years or so the manicule’ Peter Ainsworth, on Arundel MS 67 and Steven Zwicker: ‘Tracing readers in early Froissart modern England’ Lucy Sandler, on Arundel MS 83, the Howard Lucy Peltz: ‘Facing the text: the amateur and and de Lisle Psalters commercial histories of extra-illustration, 1770–1820’ For further details, contact Jon Millington, Mary Hammond: ‘The Reading Experience Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, Database project: a demonstration’ School of Advanced Study, Senate House (3rd AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 11 Floor), Malet Street, London WC1; Tel: 020 be requested to write more broadly in their 7862 8680; Fax: 020 7862 8720; or subject area, with the chapters of Book [email protected] Production and Publishing in Britain 1375– 1475 as models for breadth and depth. There 5–8 May, Kalamazoo will be published volumes from each of the conferences. The 40th Intenational Congress on Medieval Studies Call for Papers: To offer a paper contact Linne R. Mooney, [email protected], or at the Centre Western Michigan University, for Medieval Studies, King’s Manor, Kalamazoo Exhibition Square, York, YO1 7EP, UK, For details see: before the end of October. www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/ 22–24 July, Edinburgh 2–4 July, Oxford Material Cultures and the Creation of Still Kissing the Rod? Early Modern Knowledge Women’s Writing in 2005 University of Edinburgh St. Hilda’s College For details see: In part a celebration of the Perdita initiative, www.arts.ed.ac.uk/chb/matcult2005/index.html this conference reflects on the past twenty years and explores directions for the next phase in the 23–31 July, Utrecht study of early modern women’s writing. XXIst Triennial Congress of the Speakers will include Germaine Greer, Elizabeth Clarke, Margaret Ezell, Elizabeth International Arthurian Society Hageman, and Nigel Smith. Utrecht University For further details contact Elizabeth Clarke Call for papers. For further details, see: ([email protected]), Margaret www.let.uu.nl/alw/ARTHUR/ Kean ([email protected]), Arthur2005English.htm or see www.human.ntu.ac.uk/research/ perdita/sktr/sktr.htm 13–17 Sept., Vienna Regionalism and Internationalism: 3–7 July, Belfast Problems in Palaeography and New Finds in Old Books and Codicology in the Middle Ages Manuscripts, 1350–1550 Early Book Society Conference, at For details, contact Prof. Dr. Otto Kresten, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Queen’s University Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des For further details see www.qub.ac.uk/ebs2005 Mittelalters, Postgasse 7–9/4. Stiege/3. Stock, A 1010 Wien, Austria, Fax +43 1 515 81 3581; 15–18 July, York [email protected] , or see www.oeaw.ac.at/ksbm/ Tenth York Manuscripts Conference: Making the Medieval Manuscript: 13–16 Oct., Athens Book Production in Britain 1375– The Book in Byzantium: Byzantine 1525 and Post-Byzantine Bookbinding This conference will be the first of a pair of National Hellenic Research Foundation conferences relating to issues raised in Jeremy Papers include: Griffiths and Derek Pearsall, eds., Book Basile Atsalos: ‘New material on the Production and Publishing in Britain, 1375– terminology of bookbinding’ 1475 (Cambridge, 1989); the second to be held Kriton Chrysochoidis: ‘The bound book in at Cambridge in July, 2006. The first will be an Byzantine monastic documents’ open conference, including papers that centre Anna Kartsonis: ‘The liturgical function of on a single topic, manuscript, or work. The bound books’ second will be largely a conference of invited Zisis Melissakis: ‘References to bindings in speakers, culled from those at the first who will

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 12 bibliographical notes found in Athonite conference presided over by J. J. G. Alexander, codices’ George Henderson, and Jim Marrow. Maria Savvarika: ‘Representations of Speakers will include Lilian Armstrong, Paul bibliographical workshops’ Binski, John Friedman, Peter Jones, Catherine For the full programme and further details see Karkov, Eberhard König, Anne-Marie Legaré, www.eie.gr/ibe/programmata/bookbinding/ Margaret Manion, Michael Michael, Lary Nees, symposium-eng.html William Noel, Judith Oliver, Nicholas Rogers, Richard and Mary Rouse, Lucy Sandler, Robert 8–10 Dec., Cambridge Scheller, Bill Schipper, Kathleen Scott, Alison Stones, Rodney Thomson, Gennaro Toscano, The Cambridge Illuminations Roger Wieck, and Patrick Zutshi. The ‘Cambridge Illuminations’ exhibition (on Further details will appear in future issues of which see below) will close with a three-day the AMARC Newsletter.

Lectures & Seminars

Cambridge London Cambridge Bibliographical Society, British Library 2004–2005 Panizzi Lectures 17 Nov. Paul Quarrie: ‘The Library of the Earl Maria Luisa López-Vidriero: ‘The Polished of Macclesfield’ Cornerstones of the Temple: Queenly Libraries 16 Feb. Consuelo Dutschke and Stella of the Enlightenment’: Panayotova: ‘Medieval Manuscripts and 22 Nov.: ‘A Weakness for Reading: Heavy Modern Cataloguing’ Books in Light Hands’ 18 May. Suzanne Reynolds, ‘Manuscripts of 29 Nov.: ‘Libraries Under the Philosophical the Latin Classics at Holkham Hall’ Eye: Caroline of Ansbach and Elizabeth of 25 May. AGM, Fitzwilliam Museum, Farnesio’ Founder’s Library, 4 PM 6 Dec.: ‘Towards a Female Literary Canon’ 7 June. Visit to Holkham Hall The lectures are at 6:15pm in the Conference History of the Book Seminar, 2004–5 Centre at the British Library, and are free. 11 Nov. Paul Russell: ‘Beg, Steal or Borrow: Courtauld Institute Dr John Dee and his Welsh Manuscripts and Medieval Work-in-Progress Seminars Books’ 4 Nov. Maya Kominko: ‘Biblical Miniatures of Friends of Cambridge University the Christian Topography – in Search of Library Original Illustration’ To be kept informed of future Courtauld 24 Nov. Nicholas Pickwoad: ‘A Little Known Medieval Work-in-Progress Seminars, please Library in Ulster: A Look at the Derry send your name, address, and email address to Diocesan Library’ the Convenor: [email protected] 14 May. Bernard Nurse: ‘The Library of the Society of Antiquaries of London: Three Institute of English Studies, Centuries of Collecting’ University of London British Library Catalogue of Illuminated For further details see www.lib.cam.ac.uk/ FriendsProg-2004-2005.htm Manuscripts Seminar 15 Nov. Laura Nuvoloni and John Goldfinch: ‘Aspects of the King’s Collection’ The talks will focus on King’s MS 24, written

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 13 by Bartolomeo Sanvito; and illuminated Oxford incunabula in the King’s collection, respectively. Friends of the Bodleian 5.30 in Room 329/330, 3rd Floor, Senate 20 Oct. Lesley Forbes and Jeremy Johns: ‘The House, Malet Street, London WC1; see Bodleian Book of Curiosities: Some Answers www.sas.ac.uk/ies/centre/DigCIM/ and Many New Questions’ Seminars.htm 10 Nov. Gregory Walker: ‘Seven Million Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Series Volumes Described: Editing the New Subject 2004–2005 Guide to the Bodleian’s Collections’ 30 Nov. Julian Roberts: ‘Does the Bodleian 28 Oct. Anne Lawrence: ‘English Nuns and Library Deserve John Selden?’ their Books: Problems of Literacy and Language’ Oxford Bibliographical Society, 18 Nov. Richard Sharpe: ‘The Lenten 2004–5 Distribution of Books at Thorny Abbey: A Unique Witness to Monastic Reading’ 14 Oct. Ian Christie-Miller: ‘Paper Imaging as a Bibliographical Research Tool’ 9 Dec. The Annual Palaeography Lecture Martin Steinmann: ‘Abbot Frowin of Engelberg 2 Dec. Andrew Honey: ‘The Condition Survey and his Books: A Swiss Scriptorium of the 12th of the Manuscripts in the Monastery of Saint Century’ Catherine on Mount Sinai’ 27 Jan. Marigold Norbye: ‘Roll or Codex? 27 Jan. Mark Purcell: ‘Surveying the National Fifteenth-Century French Genealogical Trust’s Libraries; or, Five Years Around the Chronicles’ Houses’ 26 May. Suzanne Reynolds: ‘The Classical 15 Mar. Visit to the library of the Oxford Union Manuscripts of Holkham Hall’ Paris For further details see: www.sas.ac.uk/ies/centre.htm IRHT, Séminaires de recherche 2004–2005 Medieval Palaeography Workshops Les Évangiles dans la Bible moralisée A new palaeography discussion group will be (XIIIe siècle) meeting roughly once a month, usually in London. Each session will centre around On Tuesdays at 5 p.m., monthly from reproductions provided by one or more November. previously designated participants, who will Les matériaux du livre médiéval: then lead discussion of the issues they raise. supports, encres, pigments, reliures The dates of this year’s meetings will be: Thursdays from 4–6 p.m.: 25 Nov., 16 Dec., 20 18 Oct., 22 Nov., and 13 Dec., in the Durning- Jan., 17 Feb., 17 March, 14 April, 19 May, 2 Lawrence Room, Senate House Library, and 16 June. London, WC1 at 5.30pm. For further details, see: If you are interested in joining or have www.irht.cnrs.fr/formation/seminaires.htm enquiries, please contact Alun Ford: [email protected] or Rebecca Rushforth: [email protected]

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 14 Exhibitions

For further details contact Blickling Hall, 2004 Aylsham, Norfolk NR11 6NF; Tel.: 01263 738030; or see www.nationaltrust.org.uk Until 30 Oct., London Until 7 Nov., Evansville, Lords of All They Survey: Estate Maps Indiana Guildhall Library Print Room Pages from the Past: Illuminated An insight into the history of many of London’s Manuscripts from the Collection of oldest institutions is revealed through estate John M. Lawrence maps. A symbol of landowners’ status, maps Evansville Museum were hand-drawn by hired surveyors before the For further details, see: Ordnance Survey came into being in 1791. Not www.emuseum.org/pagesofhepast.html only focusing on the capital, the exhibition contains estate maps from across the South- East of England and as far a field as plantations Until 14 Nov., Zwolle on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts. Zwolse boeken, voor een markt Open Mon.–Sat., 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; for zonder grenzen 1477–1523 further details phone (020) 7332 1862. Stedelijk Museum For further details, see: Until 30 Oct., London www.museumzwolle.nl/ Graham Greene: Beyond the Novel British Library Until 14 Nov., St. Gall To mark the centenary of Greene’s birth, this Karl der Grosse und seine Gelehrten. display illustrates he diversity of Greene’s work Zum 1200. Todestag Alkuins (†804) beyond his novels: early poetry, plays, St. Gallen Stiftsbibliothek newspaper and magazine articles, plus sound recordings and films of his novels. For further details, see AMARC Newsletter no. 42, and www.codices.ch/ Until 30 Oct., Oxford Medieval Views of the Cosmos Until 16 Nov., London Bodleian Library, Exhibition Room Rinascimento Virtuale: Reading Between the Lines This exhibition on the cartographic traditions of British Library medieval Europe and the Islamic World centres upon a unique 11th-century Arabic treatise, the A small display about the Library’s part in a anonymous Book of Curiosities of the Sciences pan-European project—the ‘Rinascimento and Marvels for the Eyes. virtuale’—which has used digital photography and enhancement to render palimpsest texts For further details see: legible again. www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/exhibitions/ Until 31 Oct., Blickling Hall Until 5 Dec., Los Angeles Learning to Collect: The Library of Byzantium and the West Sir Richard Ellys (1682–1742) at J. Paul Getty Museum Blickling Hall For further details see: www.getty.edu/art/ exhibitions/byzantium/index.html Blickling Hall, Near Aylsham, Norfolk A catalogue may be obtained for £7 (including p&p) from Becci Shanks, The National Trust, 36 Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1H 9AS.

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 15 Until 18 Dec., Cambridge To order a catalogue ($25 + $5 p&p) go to: www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/ Writing Poetry: Manuscript Verse, exhibitions/treasures/orderform.pdf 250 BC to 2000 AD University Library 24 Oct.–9 Jan., Cleveland For further details, see AMARC Newsletter no. Art from the Court of Burgundy: The 42, and www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/ Patronage of Dukes Philip the Bold and John the Fearless (1363–1419) Until 19 Dec., Ann Arbor The Cleveland Museum of Art A Medieval Masterpiece from For further details, see AMARC Newsletter no. Baghdad: The Ann Arbor Shahnama 41, and www.clevelandart.org University of Michigan Museum of Art Produced in Persia in the 1460s, all the 5 Nov.–10 April, London miniatures from the manuscript will be on view The Writer in the Garden for the first time in 40 years. British Library Until 9 Jan., 2005, Saint Louis In the Library’s main exhibition gallery, this assembly of manuscripts and printed books Painted Prayers: Books of Hours explores how gardens have inspired, and been from the Morgan Library portrayed by, writers through the ages. Includes Art Museum, Schoenberg Exhibition illuminated manuscripts of the Roman de la Galleries Rose, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Pope’s garden sketches, Evelyn’s Elysium Britannicum, For details below, or see: www.slam.org Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, Stoppard’s Arcadia, plus designs by garden designers. Until 28 Jan., New York For further details, see: Jewels in Her Crown: Treasures from www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/ the Special Collections of Columbia’s Libraries 13 Nov.–30 Jan, Edinburgh Butler Library, Columbia University The Private Life of Books The first major exhibition of treasures from the National Library of Scotland Special Collections Libraries at Columbia in To coincide with the CERL conference in over 50 years will give the public a glimpse of Edinburgh, this exhibition concerns books and the unique resources gathered by the University manuscripts from the National Library’s since its founding in 1754. collection, and their celebrity owners or The exhibition, mounted in conjunction with significant provenance. the 250th anniversary of Columbia, celebrates a For further details, see: rich collection of original books, manuscripts, www.nls.uk/news/events.html individual and corporate archives, architectural drawings, ephemera, musical scores, works of art, and artifacts, embodying over 5,000 years 19 Nov.–5 Jan., London of human history, including a Buddhist sutra Petrarch and his Readers dating from the year 1162 C.E.; a fragment of British Library the Iliad on papyrus; manuscripts of Sigmund Freud’s Totem und Tabu, 1912-1913; the The year 2004 is the 700th anniversary of the manuscript of Anton Bruckner’s Fourth birth of Francesco Petrarcha. This small display Symphony, 1878; and the typescript of Alan marks the anniversary by gathering together Ginsberg’s Howl for Carl Solomon, 1956. some of the Library’s Petrarch manuscripts and printed books that have significant associations For further details and a fully-illustrated web with English and Italian writes, readers, and exhibition, see: www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/ collectors. eresources/exhibitions/treasures/

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 16 28 Nov.–30 May, Wolfenbüttel 2005 ‘Divina officia’: Liturgie und Frömmigkeit im Mittelalter 29 March–12 June, 2005 Herzog August Bibliothek Masterpieces in Miniature: Italian For further details contact [email protected] Manuscripts from the Middle Ages and Renaissance From 2 Dec., London J. Paul Getty Museum Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his Own Drawn from the Getty’s permanent collection Words and featuring a dozen new acquisitions, this British Library exhibition presents 32 Italian manuscripts, leaves, and cuttings from the 13th to the 16th A first chance to see some of the Sherlock centuries, and includes choir books and other Holmes and other manuscripts acquired earlier liturgical manuscripts, a Bible, a register from a this year by bequest and purchase, including shoemaker’s guild, books of hours, and texts Conan Doyle’s first, unpublished, novel (see from classical antiquity. It traces the under Recent Accessions, below). development of manuscript decoration from the medieval period to the late Renaissance, 21 Dec.–13 March, Los Angeles examining important regional traditions such as Images of Violence in the Medieval those of Bologna, Lombardy, Florence, and World Rome. J. Paul Getty Museum 28 June–2 Oct., Los Angeles Featuring 17 manuscripts and leaves, this exhibition explores three aspects of violence in Shrine and Shroud: Textiles in the medieval world: violence in the Christian Illuminated Manuscripts religion, violence in the name of the state, and J. Paul Getty Museum violence in everyday life. Images of the This is the first exhibition at the Getty to focus tortured Christ were objects for devotional on the relationship between manuscripts and contemplation; fierce tournaments provided textiles. Featuring 26 manuscript books, leaves, entertainment for enthralled spectators; and cuttings, and textiles from the Getty’s wars were an accepted part of life. permanent collection, the exhibition explores the various ways textiles are integral to Dec.–Jan., Edinburgh manuscripts and the images they contain. It The Blaeu Atlas examines the use of actual textile fragments in National Library of Scotland the construction of manuscripts; the appearance of simulated textiles in manuscript A display of books, maps and mss. relating to th illumination; and the symbolic value of textiles the 400 anniversary of the Blaeu atlas. For in their various roles as shrines, shrouds, further details, see www.nls.uk curtains, and cloths of honour. Until 1 March, 2005, St.-Remy Late July–10 Dec., Cambridge de Provence The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Anges et démons, le monde enluminé Centuries of Book Production in the d’Augustin Gonfond Medieval West Musée des Alpilles Fitzwilliam Museum and University For further details, see AMARC Newsletter no. Library 42. Collectively, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the University Library, and the Colleges of Cambridge can write the history of manuscript production from the 6th to the 16th century, representing all major schools of European illumination, but this wealth of material has never been presented to the public in its

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 17 entirety. Since the series of catalogues the manuscript at the end of the 17th century published by M. R. James a century ago, no and have been widely dispersed. This systematic study of the collections has been exhibition reunites, for the first time in more undertaken. than 300 years, 15 miniatures from the book, including three that are now in the Getty’s The exhibition will display nearly 200 Western collection. The exhibition is co-organized by illuminated manuscripts from all Cambridge the Getty and the Victoria and Albert Museum collections, representing a wide range of in London. religious and secular texts, in Latin and the vernacular, from the major centres of manuscript production between the 6th and the 18 Oct.–8 Jan. 2006, Los 16th century. The catalogue will be published Angeles by Harvey Miller / Brepols. The final three days will coincide with a conference (on which Painted Prayers: Medieval and see above). Renaissance Books of Hours from Further details will appear in future issues of the Morgan Library the AMARC Newsletter. J. Paul Getty Museum This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to 18 Oct.–8 Jan., 2006, Los view some of the finest books of hours from the Angeles Pierpont Morgan Library, which is closed for renovation. The exhibition features 52 A Masterpiece Reconstructed: Jean manuscripts and six printed books ranging in Bourdichon’s Hours of Louis XII date from the 13th to the 16th centuries, J. Paul Getty Museum including masterpieces like The Psalter-Hours of Yolande de Soissons, The Hours of The Hours of Louis XII was an elegant Catherine of Cleves, The Hours of Henry VIII, devotional book illuminated for the King of and The Farnese Hours. France by his court painter, Jean Bourdichon (1457–1521), in 1497/8. Its large and innovative miniatures were all removed from

Recent Accessions Aberystwyth (Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 18 March 2004, lots 624 and 630; now NLW MS 23926–7). National Library of Wales Eleven letters, 1967–93, from Robert Graves Ten designs for stained glass panels with to Owen M. Roberts, who served with him in anarmorial pedigree of the Myddelton family, the Royal Welch Fusiliers, and is credited with attributed to A. W. N. Pugin and John saving Graves’s life at the battle of High Wood Hardman Powell (now added to Chirk Castle in 1916 (Sotheby’s, 8 July 2004, lot 163; now Papers). NLW MS 23931). Diary and notebook, November 1914– November 1916, of a former Welsh miner, Baltimore serving as a member of a field ambulance unit Walters Art Museum attached to the Welsh Army Corps. The volume contains diary entries, medical notes and verse Last year the Museum re-united six illuminated in Welsh and English, all relating to life on the cuttings from the Conradin Bible with their Western Front (now NLW MS 23924). parent volume (WAM W.152); they were among thirty cuttings from the Bible sold at A collection of sixty autograph letters, 1944– Sotheby’s in 1981 (14 July, lots 12–16), and 61, from John Cowper Powys to his typist Mrs these six were published in Filippo Todini and Dorothy M. Meech, together with a signed Milvia Bollati, Una collezione di miniature photograph of the author and three letters to italiane dal Duecento al Cinquecento (Milan, Mrs Meech from Littleton C. Powys 1993), no. 1. AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 18 This year the Museum re-united three long-lost poems by Ted Hughes, and correspondence fragments from the Beaupré Antiphoner with Nicholas Johnson and Kevin Perryman. with their parent volumes (WAM, W. 759– 762). Thought not to have survived a fire at Glasgow Sotheby’s in 1865, these fragments were unknown until they were recognised by Alison Hunterian Library Stones in the collection of Sir Walter Oakeshott With the help of the National Art Collections some thirty-five years ago, and then lost sight Fund, the Library has reunited the second of again, re-surfacing again only a few years volume of a copy of Bartolo da Sassoferrato’s ago, to be identified—coincidentally—by Lectura super Digesti infortiati with its Stones for a second time. companion volume, MS Hunter 6, acquired by Dr William Hunter (d. 1783) (see Sotheby’s, 22 Dublin June 2004, lot 65, with colour plate). Trinity College London Processional, South Germany, made for a Benedictine convent, c. 1450 (purchased from British Library Sokol Books, London). The Library bought 19 lots at Christie’s, 19 Texts by Bernard of Clairvaux, Jean Gerson May, of Conan Doyle papers: papers relating and others; Bavaria, Rebdorf abbey, c. 1500 to his Jesuit education (lot 3); his unpublished (Sotheby’s, Ritman sale, 17 June 2003, lot 34). first novel (lot 11); a fragment and notes (4pp) concerning ‘The Stark Munro Letters’ (lot 14); Smythe family of Barbavilla, Co. Westmeath: political letters (lot 53); letters to Conan Doyle correspondence, verse and papers, 17th–19th from his mother (lot 80); letters from Conan centuries. Doyle to his brother Innes (lot 82); Colin Mawby (born 1936), composer and miscellaneous family correspondence (lot 89); choral conductor: scores and papers. Conan Doyle’s general correspondence (lot 118); his second wife’s general correspondence, mostly written after his death Edinburgh (lot 119); general correspondence of Adrian National Library of Scotland Conan Doyle (lot 125). Further papers were Two letters, 1745, being contemporary or early bought by private treaty later in the year. copies of ones purporting to be addressed by With the generous assistance of the National Prince Charles Edward Stuart to his father, Art Collection Fund and the Friends of the the Old Pretender. National Libraries, the Library purchased the Copy of The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) by calendar leaf for October from the Sforza Walter Scott, with watercolour illustrations Hours (now Additional MS 80800), the only by Adam Duncan, 2nd Earl of Camperdown. known leaf from the manuscript that was still in private hands. It shows a man and a woman on Archives of James Thin, Edinburgh horseback hawking, while in the background booksellers, 1848–2004. peasants gather in the grape harvest. The horses Additional estate papers, c. 1860–1950, are almost certainly modelled on the unfinished belonging to the family of Lockhart of Lee. equestrian statue of Bona Sforza’s brother-in- law, Duke Ludovico il Moro, by Leonardo da Papers, 1928–2000, of Janet Adam Smith, Vinci. The parent manuscript (Additional MS including correspondence concerning her own 34294), which was executed for Bona, widow writing and her work on Buchan, Scott and of the Duke of Milan, by the Milanese court Stevenson. artist Giovan Pietro Birago, c. 1490, has been Manuscripts, 1973–89, of works for piano & in the Library’s collection since 1893. for cello and piano by Ronald Stevenson. Lambeth Palace Library Personal and literary papers, 1989–c.2000, of The Library was the purchaser of the Vow of Angus Calder. Chastity mentioned in AMARC Newsletter no. Literary papers, up to & including 1993, of 42 (Christie’s, 19 Nov. 2003, lot 4). The 14th- Séan Rafferty, including notebooks, century document records that the vow was manuscripts and typescripts of poems, short taken by Elizabeth Talleworth, widow, before stories, sketches and revues, typescripts of Simon, Archbishop of Canterbury. The

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 19 Christie’s cataloguer did not know whether this Merewether (1784–1864) (Bonhams 29 June referred to Archbishop Simon Islip (1349–66), 2004, lot 505). or his successor Simon Langham (1466–8), but the register of the latter, at Lambeth, provides New York the missing details and reveals that Elizabeth took her vow before Langham on the Feast of Butler Library, Columbia University the Epiphany, 6 Jan. 1367, in the Chapel at A group of ten leaves from a variety of Lambeth Palace itself. Rarely can £4000 have illuminated manuscripts, 12th century and later th been better spent on four lines of 14 -century (Christie’s, 2 June 2004, lot 1). text on a scrap of parchment less than 2 inches high. Northampton The original owner of the Tarleton Hours, Northamptonshire Record Office made probably in Rouen c. 1430 (see AMARC Newsletter no. 42) has been identified by Ann With the help of the National Art Collections Payne as a lady of the Colvile family of Fund, the Record Office has acquired the Finch Newton, Cambridgeshire. Hatton Archive, the archive of the Finch Hatton family of Kirby and Holdenby, covering With help from the National Art Collections a period of 700 years, and including the 1st Fund, the Purchase Grant Fund, and the Friends Lord Hatton’s Book of Seals, compiled and of Lambeth Palace Library, the Library has copied by William Dugdale (1605–1685); bought the only known Breviary from the Lord Hatton’s Ceremonial of the Creation of Benedictine Abbey of Abbotsbury in Dorset, the Knights of the Bath, and a Survey of the c. 1400. One of the particularly pleasing Estates of Sir Christopher Hatton. The Book of features of the volume is that most of its 25 Seals includes over 500 facsimiles of charters elaborate illuminated initials depict a Catherine and seals (many of which are not know to Wheel, which may associate it in some way survive), including a depiction of the earliest with the chapel dedicated to St. Catherine, built seal of an English noble, that of Odo of Kent at Abbotsbury in the late 14th century. It is (pre-1089). The Ceremonial of the Creation of described in Bernard Quaritch Ltd., Early the Knights of the Bath, dating from about the Books and Manuscripts (Summer 2004), no. 1640s, contains depictions of the stages of the 50. ceremony of the creation of a knight. The Additional correspondence and papers of Survey of the Estates of Sir Christopher Hatton Archbishop Charles Thomas Longley (1794– consists of maps drawn up by Ralph Treswell 1868); and correspondence of Revd. Francis (d. 1616), the outstanding cartographer of his age.

Recent Publications Dated and Datable MSS 8 (Amalfi: Centro di cultura e storia amalfitana, 2003). S. Bianchi, I Manoscritti datati del fondo M. Milman, Les Heures de la prière: Palatino della Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Catalogue des livres d’heures de la Firenze, Manoscritti datati d’Italia, 9 bibliothèque de l’abbaye d’Einsiedeln (Tavarnuzze: SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003). ISBN: 2503510442 2003). ISBN: 8884501156 C. Pasini, Inventario agiografico dei Collection catalogues manoscritti greci dell’Ambrosiana, Subsidia Hagiographica, 84 (Bruxelles: Société des Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Bollandistes, 2003). ISBN: 2873650141 (pbk) Library of Wales (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 2003). ISBN: 1862250375 D. E. Pingree, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Astronomical Manuscripts Preserved V. Criscuolo, Le Pergamene dell’archivio della at the Maharaja Man Singh Ii Museum in Collegiata di Maiori: Con un’appendice, Fonti, Jaipur, India (Philadelphia: American

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 20 Philosophical Society, 2003). R. W. H. Erskine and A. Williams, The Story of ISBN: 0871692503 Domesday Book (Chichester: Phillimore, 2003). ISBN: 1860772730 (pb) V. V. Polosin and N. Serikoff, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Christian Arabic Manuscripts Celia Fisher, Flowers in Medieval Manuscripts Preserved in the St Petersburg Branch of the (London: British Library, 2004). £7.95 Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian ISBN: 0-7123-4853-0 (pb) Academy of Sciences (Dudley, MA: Peeters, P. M. Gathercole, The Depiction of Angels and 2004). ISBN: 9042914157 Devils in Medieval French Manuscript Illumination, Studies in French Civilization, 32 Exhibition catalogues (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004). USA ISBN: 0773464239 E. M. Herron, A. Sussmann and R. Peled, The A. J. R. Guerra, Os Diplomas Privados em Dead Sea Scrolls: Catalog of the Exhibition of Portugal dos Séculos IX a XII: Gestos E Scrolls and Artifacts from the Collections of the (Lisbon: Centro de História da Universidade de Israel Antiquities Authority at the Public Lisboa, 2003). ISBN: 9729876657 Museum of Grand Rapids (Grand Rapids, J. C. Gummlich, Bildproduktion und Mich.: Public Museum of Grand Rapids: W.B. kontemplation: Ein Überblick über die Kölner Eerdmans, 2003). ISBN: 0802821227 (pb) Buchmalerei in der Gotik unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kreuzigungsdarstellung Monographs, etc. (Weimar: VDG, 2003). ISBN: 3897393395 J. Alturo i Perucho, Historia del Llibre Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, Manuscrit a Catalunya (Barcelona: Generalitat The Huntington Library: Treasures from Ten de Catalunya, Entitat Autónoma del Diari Centuries (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Oficial i de Publicacions, 2003). Library, 2004). ISBN: 0873282078; ISBN: 8439359942 087328206X (pb) A. I. Beach, Women as Scribes: Book J. Kristjansson, Les Miniatures islandaises: Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth- Sagas, histoire, art (Tournai: La Renaissance Century Bavaria, Cambridge Studies in du livre, 2003). ISBN: 2804608220 Palaeography and Codicology, 10 (Cambridge Gwen John: Letters and Notebooks, edited by and New York: Cambridge University Press, Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan (Tate Publishing, 2004). ISBN: 0521792436 London, in association with the National James P. Carley, The Books of King Henry VIII Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2004) and his Wives (London: British Library, 2004). H. Millet, Le “Livre des Prophéties des Papes” £20. ISBN 0-7123-4791-7 (hb) de la Bibliothèque municipale de Lunel: P. Charron, Le Maître du Champion des Présentation du Codex 7 du fonds Médard Dames, L’art & l’essai (Paris: CTHS, 2004). (Mairie de Lunel, 2004). ISBN: 2-9518994-1-6 ISBN: 2735505561 U. Montag and K. Schneider, Deutsche R. J. Cox, Lester J. Cappon and the Literatur des Mittelalters: Handschriften aus Relationship of History, Archives, and dem Bestand der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek Scholarship in the Golden Age of Archival mit Heinrich Wittenwilers “Ring” als kostbarer Theory, Archival Classics Series (Chicago: Neuerwerbung, Patrimonia, 249 (Munich: Society of American Archivists, 2004). Beyerische Staatsbibliothek, 2003). ISBN: 1931666075 ISBN: 3980770214 (pb) C. de Hamel, Les Rothschild: Collectionneurs J. Olszowy-Schlanger, Les manuscrits hébreux de manuscrits, Conférences Léopold Delisle dans l’Angleterre médievale: Étude historique (Paris: Bibliothèque national de France, 2004). et paléographique, Collection de la Revue des ISBN: 2-7177-2241-6 études Juives, 29 (Paris and Dudley, MA: C. Dondi, The Liturgy of the Canons Regular of Peeters, 2003). ISBN: 9042913231 (Leuven), the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem: A Study and a 2877237257 (France) Catalogue of the Manuscript Sources, Opritsa D. Popa, Bibliophiles and Bibliotheca Victorina, 16 (Turnhout: Brepols, Bibliothieves: The Search for the 2004). ISBN: 2503514227 Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex,

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 21 Cultural Property Studies (Berlin: de Gruyter, in the Age of Wyclif, Cambridge Studies in 2003). ISBN: 3110177307 Medieval Literature, 53 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Sophie Page, Magic in Medieval Manuscripts ISBN: 0521841828 (hb) (London: British Library, 2004). £7.95. ISBN: 0-7123-4813-1 Facsimiles S. Prajapati, A Bibliography of Palaeography and Manuscriptology (Delhi: Bharatiya Kala A Medieval Herbal: A Facsimile of British Prakashan, 2004). ISBN: 8180900088 Library Egerton MS 747 (London: British Library, 2003). ISBN: 0712347895 J. Raeber, Buchmalerei in Freiburg im Breisgau: Ein Zisterzienserbrevier aus dem Claudio Barberi, ed., Salterio di Santa frühen 14. Jahrhundert: Zur Geschichte des Elisabetta: facsimile del ms. CXXXVII del Breviers dnd seiner Illumination (Wiesbaden: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cividale del Reichert, 2003). ISBN: 3895003212 Friuli (2 vols. and CD-ROM, Friuli, 2002) R. H. Rouse and M. A. Rouse, eds., Henry of A. S. G. Edwards, The Life of Edmund, King Kirkstede, Catalogus de libris autenticis et and Martyr [BL, Harley MS 2278] (London: apocrifis, The Corpus of British Medieval British Library, 2004). 264 pp.; 120 colour Library Catalogues, 11 (London: British reproductions. £50 Library, 2004). ISBN: 0-7123-4837-9 Margarita G. Lugotova and James Marrow, H. D. Saffrey, Humanisme et imagerie aux XVe Liber Precum [St. Peterburg, National Library et XVIe siècles: Études iconologiques et of Russia, MS. Lat. O.v.I.203; commentary bibliographiques (Paris: J. Vrin, 2003). volume] (Graz: Akademische Druck-u. ISBN: 2711616681 Verlagsanstalt, 2003). K. A. Smith, Art, Identity, and Devotion in A. Sinclair, The Beauchamp Pageant Fourteenth-Century England: Three Women (Donington: 2003). ISBN: 190028961X and Their Books of Hours (London: British Library and University of Toronto Press, 2003). Composite Works ISBN: 0712348301 (hb), 0712348506 (pb) D. S. Areford and N. Rowe, Excavating the R. M. W. Stammberger, Scriptor und Medieval Image: Manuscripts, Artists, Scriptorium: Das Buch im Spiegel Audiences: Essays in Honor of Sandra mittelalterlicher Handschriften, Lebensbilder Hindman (Aldershot and Burlington, VT: des Mittelalters (Graz: Akademische Druck- Ashgate, 2004). ISBN: 0754631435 und Verlagsanstalt, 2003). ISBN: 3201017973 L. Armstrong, Studies of Renaissance M. Subbioni, La Miniatura Perugina del Miniaturists in Venice (London: Pindar, 2003). Trecento: Contributo alla storia della pittura in ISBN: 189982863X (v. 1), 1904597068 (v. 2), Umbria nel quattordicesimo secolo (Perugia: 0012927694 Guerra, 2003). ISBN: 8877154799 B. Bouckaert and E. Schreurs, The Burgundian- E. Tov, Scribal Practices and Approaches Habsburg Court Complex of Music Reflected in the Texts Found in the Judean Manuscripts (1500–1535) and the Workshop of Desert, Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Petrus Alamire: Colloquium Proceedings: Judah, 54 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004). Leuven, 25–28 November, 1999, Yearbook of ISBN: 9004140018 the Alamire Foundation, 5 (Leuven: Alamire, O. M. Traxel, Language Change, Writing and 2003). ISBN: 9068531565 Textual Interference in Post-Conquest Old Ian Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie, eds., John English Manuscripts: The Evidence of Stow (1526–1605) and the Making of the Cambridge, University Library, Ii.1.33 (New English Past (London: British Library, 2004). York: P. Lang, 2004). ISBN: 0820473472 £30. ISBN: 0-7123-4864-6 P. Visalakshy, The Fundamentals of F. Mütherich, Studies on Carolingian Manuscriptology, Dla Publication, 84 Manuscripts (London: Pindar, 2003). (Thiruvananthapuram: Dravidian Linguistics ISBN: 1899828672 Association, 2003). ISBN: 818569110X J. Crick and A. Walsham, The Uses of Script S. Wenzel, Latin Sermon Collections from and Print, 1300–1700 (Cambridge: Cambridge Later Medieval England: Orthodox Preaching University Press, 2004). ISBN: 0521810639

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 22 M. Desmond and P. Sheingorn, Myth, Montage, Cambridge’ and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Rosamond McKitterick: ‘Takamiya MS 58 and Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan the Transmission of Jerome’s Letter Ep. 106 in Press, 2003). ISBN: 0472113232 the Early Middle Ages’ Christopher de Hamel: ‘Phillipps Fragments in J. K. Elliott, ed., The Collected Biblical Tokyo’ Writings of T. C. Skeat, Supplements to Novum Piero Boitani: ‘A New Dante’ Testamentum, 113 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, Yoko Wada: ‘“Seven Sins” and Indulgences 2004). ISBN: 9004139206 Restored: Towards a Reconstruction of W. S. Hill, New Ways of Looking at Old Texts. London, British Library, MS Harley 913’ III: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Jill Mann: ‘Newly Identified Quotations in Society, 1997–2001, Renaissance English Text Chaucer’s Tale of Melibee and the Parson’s Society Special Publication (Tempe: Arizona Tale’ Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Helen Cooper: ‘Textual Variation and the 2004). ISBN: 0866983139 Alliterative Tradition: Canterbury Tales I. John Haines and Randall Rosenfeld, eds., 2602–2619, the D Group and Takamiya MS 32’ A. S. G. Edwards: ‘Gower in the Delamere Music and Medieval Manuscripts, Chaucer Manuscript’ Paleography and Performance: Essays Dedicated to Andrew Hughes (Aldershot and N. F. Blake: ‘Chaucer, Gamelyn and the Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004). Cook’s Tale’ ISBN: 0-7546-0991-X Derek Pearsall: “The Organisation of the Latin Includes: Apparatus in Gower’s Confessio Amantis: The Albert Derolez, ‘The Script Reform of Scribes and their Problems’ Petrarch: An Illusion?’ M. B. Parkes: ‘Richard Frampton: A Randall Rosenfeld, ‘Tres digiti scribunt: A Commercial Scribe c. 1390–c. 1420’ Typology of Late-Antique and Medieval Pen Ralph Hanna: ‘Takamiya MS 15: Some Grips’ Liminal Observations’ John Haines, ‘Erasures in Thirteenth-Century Michael G. Sargent: ‘The Holland-Takamiya Music’ Manuscript of Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Sherry Reames, ‘Origins and Affiliations of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ’ Pre-Sarum Office for Anne in the Stowe Linda Ehrsam Voigts: ‘Takamiya MS 60 and Breviary’ the Middle English Text of Bernard of David Hiley, ‘Early Cycles of Office Chants for Gordon’s De pronosticis’ the Feast of Mary Magdalene’ Kathleen L. Scott : ‘The Illustrations of the Richard Pfaff, ‘The Kenilworth Missal Takamiya Polychronicon’ (Chichester Cathedral, MS Med. 2)’ Linne R. Mooney and Daniel W. Mosser: ‘Hooked-G Scribes and Takamiya Manuscripts’ David W. Rollason, ed., The Durham Liber Nicolas Barker: ‘Johannes de Caritate, “The Vitae and Its Context, Regions and Privytd of Privyteis”’ Regionalism in History, 1 (Suffolk, UK and P. R. Robinson: ‘A “Prik of concience Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2004). ISBN: cheyned”: The Parish Library of St Margaret’s, 1843830604 (hb) New Fish Street, London, 1472’ Contains 16 essays about London, BL, Cotton Oliver Pickering: ‘Brotherton Collection MS 18 MS Domitian A.vii, including: and its Riddling Middle English Verses’ Colin G. C. Tite, ‘The Durham Liber Vitae and Takami Matsuda: ‘A Pictorial Compendium in Sir Robert Cotton’ British Library MS Additional 37049’ Michael Gullick, ‘The Make-Up of the Liber Julia Boffey: ‘Conflations of the Abbey of the Vitae: The Codicology of the Manuscript’ Holy Ghost and the Charter of the Abbey of the Dieter Geuenich, ‘A Survey of the Early Holy Ghost in Manuscript and Print’ Medieval Confraternity Books from the A. I. Doyle: ‘A Letter Written by Thomas Continent’ Betson, Brother of Syon Abbey’ Simon Keynes, ‘The Liber Vitae of the New John Scahill: ‘The Keio Copy of the Roger of Minster, Winchester’ St Albans Chronicle’ The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Richard Barber: ‘Sir Thomas Malory and the Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya Holy Blood of Hailes’ (Boydell and Brewer, 2004) P. J. C. Field: ‘De Worde and Malory’ Includes: Lotte Hellinga: ‘Compositors’ Practice: Derek Brewer: ‘Toshiyuki Takamiya in Resetting of Texts in Caxton’s Printing-House’ AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 23 Paul Needham: ‘The Canterbury Tales and the Fifteenth-Century England’ Rosary: A Mirror of Caxton’s Devotions?’ Jill C. Havens, ‘A Narrative of Faith: Middle Edward Donald Kennedy: ‘The Chronicle of English Devotional Anthologies and Religious Scotland in a Part and the Chronicle of John Practice’ Harding’ Yolanda Plumley and Anne Stone, ‘Buying Jeremy J. Smith: ‘Marginal Glosses in Sir John Books, Narrating the Past: the Ownership of a Cheke’s Translation of the Bible’ Music MS (Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 564)’ Martha W. Driver: ‘Morgan MS M. 956 and an Edward Wheatley, ‘“Luther’s Pestiferous Important Early Collector’ Virus”: An Angry Jesuit Remaps the Tsuyoshi Mukai: ‘An Appropriation of the Nuremberg Chronicle’ Book of St Albans by the Gentlemans Nota Bene: Academie: Some Bibliographical Daniel W. Mosser, ‘The Scribe of Takamiya Considerations’ MS 32 (formerly the ‘Delamere Chaucer’) and Richard A. Linenthal: ‘“Whole shyppes full of Cambridge University Library MS Gg.1.34 manuscripts”: A Sixteenth-Century Vellum (Part 3)’ Wrapper’ Linne R. Mooney, ‘A New Scribe of Chaucer Richard Beadle: ‘The Manuscripts of James and Gower’ Cobbes of Bury St Edmunds (c. 1602–1685)’ Valerie Edden, ‘Felip Ribot’s Institution of the Kristian Jensen: ‘An Unrecorded London Sale First Monks: Telling Stories About the of the Gutenberg Bible’ Carmelites’ John Thompson: ‘Bishop Thomas Percy’s Richard Moll, ‘Gower’s Cronica tripertita and Contribution to Langland Scholarship: Two the Latin Glosses to Hardyng’s Chronicle’ Annotated Piers Plowman Prints in Belfast’ Bonnie Wheeler: ‘Leaning on Chaucer’ Descriptive Reviews: Patrick Zutshi: ‘Henry Bradshaw and the Book Susan Broomhall, Women and the Book Trade of Deer’ in Sixteenth-Century France, reviewed by David McKitterick: ‘Sir Walter Greg and Alexandra Gillespie Medieval English Manuscripts: A Note’ James G. Clark, The Religious Orders in Pre- Ruth Morse: ‘Lords of the Ring: Tolkien, Reformation England, reviewed by Susan Beowulf, and the Memory of Song’ Powell Isamu Takahashi (with assistance from Ryoko Laurence M. Eldredge and Anne L. Klinck, Nakano): ‘A Bibliography of Toshiyuki eds., The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Takamiya’ reviewed by John Thompson William K. Finley and Joseph Rosenblum, eds., Bodleian Library Record, 18 (2004). Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of Includes: The Canterbury Tales in Pictures, reviewed by Susan Rankin, ‘An Early Eleventh-Century Charlotte C. Morse Missal Fragment Copied by Eadwig Basan: Vincent Gillespie, ed., Syon Abbey, with A.I. Bodleian Library, Ms. Lat. liturg. d. 3, fols. 4– Doyle, ed., The Libraries of the Carthusians, 5’, pp. 220–52 reviewed by Susan Powell P. Clemit, ‘William Godwin’s Papers in the Phillipa Hardman, ed., The Matter of Identity in Abinger Deposit: An Unmapped Country’, pp. Medieval Romance, reviewed by Bryan P. 253–63 Davis M. Rossington, ‘Commemorating the Relic: Simon Horobin, The Language of the Chaucer The Beginnings of the Bodleian Shelley Tradition, reviewed by John Thompson Collections’, pp. 264–75 Kristian Jensen, ed., Incunabula and Their Journal of the Early Book Society for the Readers: Printing, Selling, and Using Books in Study of Manuscripts and Printing History, the Fifteenth Century, reviewed by William 7 (2004). ISBN 0-944473-68-7. $40 Marx Contains: James A. Knapp, Illustrating the Past in Early John B. Friedman, ‘“Monstres qui a ii Modern England: the Representation of History mamelles bloe”: Illuminator’s Instructions in a in Printed Books, reviewed by Jason O’Rourke MS of Thomas of Cantimpré’ David McKitterick, Print, Manuscript and the Larissa Tracy, ‘Torture Narrative: The Search for Order, 1450–1830, reviewed by Imposition of Medieval Method on Early Linne R. Mooney Christian Texts’ Robert R. Raymo and Elaine E. Whitaker, eds., Philippa Hardman, ‘“This litel child, his litel The Mirroure of the Worlde: A Middle English book”: Narratives for Children in Late- Translation of Le Miroir du Monde, reviewed

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 24 by Joyce Boro D. Daolmi, ‘Cantatas for Alto and Continuo: 16 James Simpson, Reform and Cultural Alto Cantatas from the Manuscripts in the Revolution, reviewed by Alexandra Gillespie Bodleian Library, Oxford’, Music and Letters, S. Mutchow Towers, Control of Religious 85 (2004), pp. 505–8. Printing in Early Stuart England, reviewed by O. Diard and V. Gazean, ‘Histoire et chant David Colclough liturgique en Normandie au XIe siècle: Les Larissa Tracy, Women of the Gilte Legende: A offices propres particuliers des diocèses Selection of Middle English Saints Lives, d’Evreux et de Rouen’, Annales de Normandie, reviewed by Oliver Pickering 53 (2003), pp. 195–223. Notes on Libraries and Collections: A. S. G. Edwards, ‘Manuscripts of the Verse of Keith Alderson: Thuringer Universitats- und Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey’, Huntington Landesbibliothek, Jena: Hanschriften and Library Quarterly, 67 (2004), pp. 283–94. Sondersammlungen Steven Dawson: The University Club General P. R. Green, ‘A Method for Undertaking a Full Theological Seminary Conservation Audit of Special Collections of Books and Manuscripts’, Collection Medium Ævum, 73 (2004) Management, 28 (2003), pp. 23–42. Includes: A. Wiggins, ‘Are Auchinleck Manuscript D. M. Grim and J. Allison, ‘Laser Desorption Scribes 1 and 6 the Same Scribe? The Mass Spectrometry as a Tool for the Analysis Advantages of Whole-Data Analysis and of Colorants: The Identification of Pigments Electronic Texts’, pp. 10–26 Used in Illuminated Manuscripts’, C. B. Hieatt, ‘The Third Fifteenth-Century Archaeometry, 46 (2004), pp. 283–299. Cookery Book: A Newly Identified Group N. Guicciardini, ‘Isaac Newton and the within a Family’, pp. 27–42 Publication of His Mathematical Manuscripts’, F. Curta, ‘Colour Perception, Dyestuffs, and Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Colour Terms in Twelfth-Century French 35 (2004), pp. 455–70. Literature’, pp. 43–65 D. P. Capin, ‘Le conservatisme de la langue, O. Hahn, W. Malzer, B. Kanngiesser and B. gage du caractere litteraire du texte et temoin Beckhoff, ‘Characterization of Iron-Gall Inks in d’une nouvelle conception de l’acte d’ecriture: Historical Manuscripts and Music le cas d’Ysaye le Triste’, pp. 66–92 Compositions Using X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry’, X Ray Spectrometry, 33 (2004), Reviews: pp. 234–239. Kristian Jensen, ed., Incunabula and their Readers, reviewed by A. I. Doyle, p. 110 Fréderique Johan, ‘Les Croniques et conquestes Rodney Thompson, The Bury Bible, reviewed de Charlemagne [Brussels, BR, ms. 9066]’, Art by A. J. Piper, pp. 113–114 de l’enluminure, no. 10 (Sept. –Nov. 2004). Mary C. Erler, Women, Reading, and Piety in F. Le Bourgeois and H. Kaileh, ‘Automatic Late Medieval England, reviewed by D. Metadata Retrieval from Ancient Manuscripts’, Renevey, p. 119 Lecture Notes in Computer Science, no. 3163 (2004), pp. 75–89. Individual Articles / Chapters K. Nichols, ‘An Alternative Approach to Loss D. Bentley-Cranch, ‘Catherine De Medicis and Compensation in Palm Leaf Manuscripts’, Her Two Spanish Granddaughters: Paper Conservator, 28 (2004), pp. 105–10. Iconographical Additions from a French N. Pickwoad, ‘The Condition Survey of the Sixteenth-Century Book of Hours’, Gazette de Manuscripts in the Monastery of Saint Beaux Arts, 140 (2002), pp. 307–18. Catherine on Mount Sinai’, Paper Conservator, E. Kennedy, ‘The Relationship between Text 28 (2004), pp. 33–62. and Image in Three Manuscripts of the Estoire S. Semple, ‘Illustrations of Damnation in Late del Saint Graal (Lancelot-Grail Cycle)’, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts’, Anglo-Saxon Arthurian Studies, 57 (2004), pp. 93–100. England, 32 (2003), pp. 231–46. R. S. Kohn, ‘A Treasured Legacy: Hebrew Wilson-Chevalier, ‘Art Patronage and Women Manuscripts at the Bodleiana’, Library History, (Including Habsburg) in the Orbit of King 20 (2004), pp. 95–116. Francis I’, Renaissance Studies, 16 (2002), pp. 474–524.

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 25 F. Zinelli, ‘D’une collection de tables de Peter Kidd in the Times Literary Supplement, 4 Chansonniers Romans (avec quelques June 2004, p. 24. remarques sur le Chansonnier Estense)’, Carol Steyn, ed., The Medieval and Romania, 122 (2004), pp. 46–110. Renaissance Manuscripts in the Grey Collection of the National Library of South Book Reviews Africa, Cape Town, reviewed by L. Ransom in Michelle P. Brown, The Lindisfarne Gospels: Speculum, 79 (2004), pp. 842–3. Society, Spirituality and the Scribe and Painted Thomas Hoccleve: A Facsimile of the Labyrinth: The World of the Lindisfarne Autograph Verse Manuscripts, reviewed by Gospels, reviewed by David Ganz in The Vincent Gillespie in Review of English Studies, Library, 5 (2004), pp. 202–3. 55 (2004), pp. 452–3. Keith Busby, Codes and Context: Reading Old French Verse Narrative in Manuscript; and Auction Catalogues Andrew Taylor, Textual Situations: Three 2 June, 2004, London. Christie’s , Valuable Medieval Manuscripts and Their Readers, Printed Books and Manuscripts including reviewed by S. Huot in Poetica, 36 (2004), pp. Natural History. Includes 30 medieval and/or 221–5. illuminated items, of which five failed to sell, Justin Clegg, The Medieval Church in including the top lot of the sale, a newly Manuscripts, reviewed by F. A. Feyerherm in discovered Book of Hours written by Nicolas Anglican Theological Review, 86 (2004), pp. Spierinc (lot 14). Other items include a missing 507–9. leaf with a miniature by Simon Marmion from the Donne Hours (formerly mistakenly known Albert Derolez, The Palaeography of Gothic as the Louthe Hours; lot 7), and a 13th-century Manuscript Books from the Twelfth to the Early Bible with unusual historiated initials (lot 10). Sixteenth Century, reviewed by Rebecca Rushforth in The Library, 5 (2004), pp. 204–5. 22 June 2004, London. Sotheby’s, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures. Includes 85 lots, A. S. G. Edwards, ed., Decoration and of which a dozen were the property of Illustration in Medieval English Manuscripts, Sotheby’s (but not identified as such in the reviewed by Ralph Hanna in Review of English catalogue), and 14 were unsold. The highest Studies, 55 (2004), pp. 450–1. price was not for a manuscript, but for an ivory Peter Kidd, Medieval Manuscripts from the Consular diptych, which was bought by the Collection of T. R. Buchanan in the Bodleian Ministry of Culture, Spain (£680,000, lot 48); Library, Oxford (Oxford, 2001), reviewed by the item of the greatest English interest was the Stella Panayotova in The Book Collector, 53 statutes of the Colvile Family chantry chapel at (2004), pp. 311–2, and by Cristina Dondi in Newton, in a medieval chemise binding The Library, 5 (2004), pp. 317–8. (£97,000 to Fogg against Quaritch; lot 55). Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Manuscripts in 22 June 2004, London. Sotheby’s, The Library Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth of the Earls of Macclesfield Removed from Centuries, reviewed by Richard Gameson in Shirburn Castle, Part Three: Western Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 55 (2004), Manuscripts. Includes 9 lots, numbered 582– pp. 365–366. 590, mostly late medieval scientific and Nicholas Orchard, ed., The Leofric Missal, mathematical codices, but also the newly- reviewed by P. A. Hayward in Speculum, 79 discovered Macclesfield Psalter (on which see (2004), pp. 817–8. under News, above). All sold above their estimates – the scientific lots often going for Robert B. Patterson, The Scriptorium of very surprising multiplies of the estimates: for Margam Abbey and the Scribes of Early example, lot 588, Dietrich von Freiberg, De Angevin Glamorgan: Secretarial iride, was estimated at a reasonable £12,000– Administration in a Welsh Marcher Barony, c. 18,000 but two money-no-object bidders 1150–c. 1225, reviewed by J. B. Smith in pushed the price up to £125,000. Speculum, 79 (2004), pp. 821–2. Pamela Robinson, Catalogue of Dated and Dealer Catalogues Datable Manuscripts c. 888–1600 in London Dr. Jörn Günther Antiquariat, A Selection of Libraries, 2 vols (London, 2003), reviewed by Manuscripts and Miniatures [Brochure 7]

AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 26 (Hamburg, 2003): includes 57 items, ranging Franciscan Henricus de Carreto’s De rotis from the 12th to the 18th century, of which 27 Ezechielis, attributed to Avignon, c. 1320 (front are leaves/cuttings. Among the most interesting cover); a lavishly illuminated copy of the Life are two full-page miniatures from the Hours of of St. Anthony and The Invention and Louis XII, illuminated by Jean Bourdichon, the Translation of his body, attributed to the first depicting Louis XII with patron saints Bolognese Master of 1328 (no. 5); the Austrian (illustrated on the front cover; now at the Getty Hours from the library of the Comtes Henri and Museum), and the other depicting the François Chandon de Briailles, mentioned in Adoration of the Magi (no. 53; now at the V&A AMARC Newsletter no. 42 (no. 10); a Missal Museum); the English Hours of Beatrice executed for the Franciscan convent of Corbet—as identified by Ann Payne Montone, near Perugia, with a colophon by its (mentioned in AMARC Newsletter no. 40, German scribe, dated 1469 (no. 12); one of having been sold at an auction at very few copies of Boccaccio’s Fiammetta, Fontainebleau; no. 6); the first half of a with fine humanistic script and decoration charming little two-volume Psalter, the other incorporating the Trivulzio arms (no. 15); the half of which is in the Museum of Fine Arts, calendar leaf for December with a full-page Boston (formerly Christie’s, 9 July 2001, lot miniature on the verso, from the Arenburg 18); a very fine Nuremberg prayerbook Hours (see above, Bernard Breslauer obituary) consisting of 21 full-page miniatures, with texts (no. 26); a vast Beatus leaf from a Florentine on the reverse (illustrated on the back cover; Psalter of c. 1500, also formerly in the formerly Christie’s, 11 July 2002, lot 42); and a Breslauer collection (no. 43); and a large Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Simon Bening, parchment on panel Crucifixion by Jean formerly in the Breslauer collection (inside Bourdichon, recently sold almost unnoticed in a front cover; Breslauer catalogue no. 27). Christie’s drawings sale (no. 44). Dr. Jörn Günther Antiquariat, Eight Bernard Quaritch Ltd., Early Books and Centuries of Manuscript Illumination, Brochure Manuscripts (Summer 2004). Includes (item 8 (Hamburg: 2004): includes 47 items, ranging 50) a Breviary of Abbotsbury Abbey, Dorset, c. from the 11th to the 18th century, of which 23 1400, with illuminated initials depicting are leaves/cuttings. Among the most unusual Catherine wheels; recently acquired by and interesting items are a large full-page Lambeth Palace Library (see Recent diagram-miniature from Paris, BNF, ms. lat. Accessions, above). 503, one of only two known copies of the

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AMARC Newsletter no. 43, October 2004 Page 28 Websites Austria Printed Catalogues and Unpublished Inventories of Extant Collections (Munich: Graz MGH, 2003) is now online at: Descriptions and images of the manuscripts of http://141.84.81.24/cgi-bin/html/hssrezhy.htm the University Library, Graz, are available at: www.literature.at/webinterface/library/ Italy COLLECTION_V01?objid=1081 Bologna Czech Republic Descriptions and images of the manuscripts of the Collegio di Spagna, Bologna: Low-resolution images of over 1000 www.cirfid.unibo.it/irnerio/ manuscripts, in dozens of Czech libraries, can be browsed for free—and high-resolution Sweden images on payment of a licence fee—at: www.memoria.cz/site_en/index.asp Lund Descriptions and images of a selection of the The manuscripts of the University Library, manuscripts of Strahov Monastery are available Lund, have been digitized, and are now on the at: www.strahovskyklaster.cz/index2. web. A new descriptive catalogue, in English, can also be downloaded as a single PDF file. asp?zobraz=knihovna&stranka=6&lang=2 See: http://laurentius.lub.lu.se/ Germany The full text of a number of works published in Germany, including P. O. Kristeller, Latin Manuscript Books before 1600: A List of the

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