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University of St Andrews MS 38938, ff. 55v-56r The Holy Trinity, from 3a Book of Hours in Latin, produced in Rouen in the late 15th century. See report by Julian Luxford, pp. 25-6. © Image courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library. § For a recent acquisition by the National Library of Scotland, see back cover and pp. 22-3.
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CONTENTS AMARC matters 2 New Accessions 18 AMARC meetings 3 Book reviews 26 Projects 4 New Publications 30 Conferences 5 Websites 32 Courses 10 MSS News 34 Exhibitions 11 would considerably decrease the AMARC MEMBERSHIP amount of time spent on Membership can be personal or in- administration. stitutional. Institutional members receive two copies of mailings, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS have triple voting rights, and may Many thanks to all contributors to send staff to meetings at the this issue, including the following members’ rate. Details and whose help or contributions are un- application forms are available attributed: from: www.amarc.org.uk. Claire Breay, Clare Brown, Peter Enquiries about membership should Kidd, Bernard Meehan, Martine be addressed to the Membership Meuwese, Beth Morrison, Stella Secretary: Mr Richard Wragg, Panayotova, Suzanne Paul, Pamela AMARC Membership Secretary, Robinson, Gabriel Sewell and Archivist, The National Gallery Michael Stansfield. Thanks are also Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N due to the Trustees of the National 5DN; e-mail: Library of Scotland, the University [email protected]. of St Andrews Library, and the J. Please do remember to inform the Paul Getty Museum for the use of Membership Secretary of any photographs. change in your e-mail or postal The views expressed herein are address. those of the Editor and other named Annual subscription rates (April– contributors. In addition to contri- March) are: butions from individuals, inform- Personal Membership: £10 ation has been taken from a variety Institutional Membership: £30 of websites, press releases etc., the (For non-sterling cheques, please accuracy of which cannot be guar- add £7 extra to cover bank charges). anteed. You are advised to confirm Please send your payment to: Dr details, especially if travelling to Michael Stansfield, AMARC events or exhibitions. Treasurer, c/o Durham University DEADLINE for publication in Library, Palace Green, Durham Issue no. 67 is 1 September 2016. DH1 3RN. Payment by standing Please send your articles or any order is welcomed. Forms can be news of interest to AMARC obtained from the Membership members to the editor: Dr Ceridwen Secretary or Treasurer. If more Lloyd-Morgan, e-mail: members with UK bank accounts [email protected]. could pay by standing order it
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Images submitted should be the grant being sought; the names delivered via e-mail or file-share. and addresses of two referees; AMARC GRANTS details of the addressee for the cheque. Applications should be AMARC members are reminded submitted to Dr Michael Stansfield, that applications may be made for AMARC Treasurer, c/o Durham projects that bring AMARC and its University Library, Palace Green, activities to a wider audience and Durham DH1 3RN support the stated aim of AMARC:
or [email protected], to promote the accessibility, at any time. They will usually be preservation and archives of all considered at the next Committee periods in libraries and other meeting (held in April and October) research collections in Great Britain and successful applicants will be and Ireland. Typical examples are: informed soon thereafter. contributing to the costs of holding conferences and workshops; Grant recipients will be required to support for small projects such as submit for publication in this the web-publication of unpublished newsletter a brief report (300-500 catalogues of manuscripts; words) of the use to which the grant assistance to scholars in obtaining was put. reproductions or undertaking AMARC SPRING MEETING essential travel as part of projects ‘Within and without the walls: whose aims are in line with those of Sources for the history of later AMARC; the provision of medieval and early modern equipment to facilitate access to London’ manuscripts; assistance with the London Metropolitan Archives necessary purchase of manuscripts Clerkenwell and archives to benefit the AMARC 22 April 2016 community; carrying out As the Newsletter goes to press we conservation work on manuscripts look forward to our Spring meeting. and archives. In addition to an excellent line-up Applicants must be fully paid-up of speakers, it will include an individual or institutional opportunity to see some of the members, of at least one year’s earliest documents held by LMA standing, and should read carefully and to see behind the scenes. the detailed information about After a welcome and introduction applying found at by Bernard Meehan, Chairman of www.amarc.org.uk/grants.htm. AMARC, Caroline Barron (Royal Funding levels may vary from year Holloway) will speak on ‘The to year, but it is anticipated that the earliest Journals of the Court of Committee will make awards of not Common Council and the more than £1000 each, and of not Government of London in the 15th more than £3000 in total each year. Century’, followed by Linne Applications should comprise: a Mooney (University of York) on brief outline of the project, ‘Literary Scribes in the Guildhall’, conference or work; its overall cost; and Elizabeth Scudder (London
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Metropolitan Archives) on ‘LMA, in vernacular Greek and the scope of the collection and how Damaskenos Stoudites, On to access material’. The morning Animals, and descriptions and session concludes with tours and collations of LPL manuscripts. visits to a display of manuscripts Among the most important and archives. After lunch, Charlotte manuscripts is MS 461, containing Berry (Institute for Historical a theological treatise on the Research) will give a talk on procession of the Holy Spirit by ‘Studying the neighbourhood: George Scholarios (later marginal London parishes in the Ecumenical Patriarch of 15th century’, followed by Ian Constantinople Gennadios II), with Archer (Keble College, Oxford) on his autograph signature, notes and ‘Grappling with city administration corrections. in early modern London’, and Thanks to a generous grant from the finally Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck A.G. Leventis Foundation and with College) will discuss ‘The City of the support of LPL and Royal London and the Great Fire’. Holloway, University of London, a Details of forthcoming AMARC full descriptive catalogue of this meetings will be emailed to important collection has now been Members. compiled by Dr Christopher Wright and Ms Maria Argyrou under the PROJECTS supervision of Dr Charalmbod Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts Dendrinos and supported by at Lambeth Palace Library curatorial and academic members The Greek Manuscript Collection at of the Project Board: Lambeth Palace Library (LPL) The online catalogue was launched consists of 55 Greek codices in February 2016. It is in Adobe pdf acquired by the Library since its format and is accessible via the founding in 1610, including those LPL and Hellenic Institute received in 2006 from Sion websites: http://rhul.ac.uk/Hellenic- College. Institute/Research/LPL/Greek- Dated between the 9th and 19th MSS/Catalogue.pdf and centuries, these manuscripts include www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/cont Gospel and Acts and Epistles Books ent/greek . and Lectionaries, an Octateuch with It is hoped that the online catena, patristic and other publication of this catalogue will theological texts including works of shed light on textual, John Chrysostom, Gregory of palaeographical and codicological Nazianzus and John of Damascus, aspects of these important liturgical and hymnographic texts, manuscripts which so far remain classical texts by Aeschylus, largely unexplored. Dionysios Periegetes, Pseudo- The Editorial Board welcomes Aristotle, Plutarch, Lycophron and comments, corrections, criticisms, Demosthenes, chronographic and and/or suggestions, which should e legal texts, post-Byzantine texts emailed to LPL-Greek-MSS- including an anonymous Chronicle
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Catalogue@Hellenic- existing forms to create (or Institute.org.uk. recreate) new art and architecture. The Art of Reasoning: Why did medieval people preserve, Techniques of Scientific conserve, and recycle art and Argumentation in the Medieval materials from a different era? Did Latin West (400-1400) such appropriation go beyond mere Directed by Prof.dr. Mariken economic practicality? Could the Teeuwen, the project will very materiality of an object have investigate annotations, glosses and been the reason for its retention or diagrams written in the margins and reinvention? The two-day on the flyleaves and empty spaces conference is aimed at of books. These paratexts, not postgraduates and early career usually included in scholarly academics from a range of critical editions, are now available disciplines including, but not online digital facsimiles. Exploring limited to history, art history, a core body of texts and following museum studies, archaeology, book the paths of leading medieval studies and literature. For further scholars, the project will reassess details visit: the continuities and changes in the www.regenerate2016.wordpress.co techniques of scientific m, or contact Emily Savage argumentation for the long Middle ([email protected]) or Ioana Ages through the lens of this Coman ([email protected]). marginal material. Thus will allow Unique and Universal: a new understanding of the Challenges for the Manuscript historical roots of the dialectical Librarian. method of reasoning, which still 7th Conference of the CERL serves as the main scientific model European Manuscript Librarians in Western culture. See: Expert Group http://edpop.wp.hum.uu.nl. The Library of Trinity College CONFERENCES Dublin 25–27 May 2016 Re//generate: Materiality and the The primary aims of the CERL Afterlives of Things in the Middle Manuscript Librarians’ Expert Ages, 500-1500 Group are to act as a forum for 6–7 May 2016 curatorial concerns, and to enhance Organised by the University of St understanding and practical Andrews School of Art History in cooperation among curators across collaboration with the St Andrews Europe. The Group’s 7th Institute of Medieval Studies conference, hosted this time by the (SAIMS), this interdisciplinary Library of Trinity College Dublin, conference will focus on reuse and will focus on the following themes: recycling in medieval Europe. Commemorations and The conference will investigate the Anniversaries; Materiality; Post- different ways in which medieval digital issues and concerns. The people used and reused goods, conference will also include private materials, and other elements from visits to libraries and exhibitions.
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For further details including the carry out these pastoral duties. This provisional programme, see: conference seeks to investigate the www.tcd.ie/Library/manuscripts/bl utility and efficacy of pastoralia, og/2016/03/cerl-dublin- and the ways in which the laity manuscripts-conference-25-27- responded to these developments. may-2016/. Registration will open Themes are expected to include: shortly. evidence of manuscript Écrire à l’ombre des cathédrales: transmission: production, pratiques de l’écrit en milieu acquisition, and circulation; cathédral (espace anglo-normand individuals, institutions, and et France de l’Ouest, XIe-XIIIe networks; the transmission of ideas: siècles) from the university to the parish, the cloister to the tavern; translatio Cerisy‐la‐Salle (Manche, France) and its many interpretations: 8–12 June 2016 Noticed in Newsletter no. 65. contemporary translations of Latin This international conference will texts into the vernacular, and vice focus on writing practices in the versa; modern principles of cathedral environment. For further translating and editing texts; details visit teaching: the efficacy of pastoralia www.unicaen.fr/crahm/spip.php?ar as a catechetical tool; how pastoral ticle795&lang=fr, or contact discourse was controlled, [email protected] appropriated, and contested. [email protected]. Keynote speakers: Prof. Ralph Hanna and Prof. John Arnold. For Pastoralia in the Late Middle further information contact: Ages: Teaching, Translation, [email protected]. Transmission The University of Kent, ‘Food, Feast & Famine’ 23rd Canterbury Leeds International Medieval 24–25 June 2016 Congress Pastoralia–the corpora of University of Leeds catechetical, homiletic and pastoral 4–7 July 2016 texts designed to aid in teaching the Noticed in Newsletter no. 65. tenets of Christianity to the laity – Registration is now open and the flourished in the wake of the Fourth conference programme is available, Lateran Council. In England, together with full information, all Pecham’s Lambeth Constitutions on the conference website at (1281) outlined the pastoral http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc syllabus that was to be taught in the 2016.html. For details of sessions province of Canterbury, whilst relating to manuscripts follow the similar legislation was enacted to links from
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AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 manuscripts, including two of the Saint Louis University, Missouri three oldest substantially complete 14–15 October 2016 Bibles, Codex Sinaiticus and Codex The Saint Louis Conference on Alexandrinus, lavishly illuminated Manuscript Studies is the longest Byzantine books and many running annual conference in North important witnesses to classical America devoted exclusively to texts. This collection has been the medieval and Renaissance subject of a long-term digitisation manuscript studies. Organized by project, generously funded by a the Vatican Film Library in range of donors including the conjunction with its journal, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Manuscripta, the two-day program A.G. Leventis Foundation, the each year offers a variety of Sylvia Ioannou Foundation and the sessions addressing the production, Friends of the British Library. distribution, reception, and Almost 1000 Greek manuscripts, transmission of pre-modern ranging from the earliest biblical manuscripts, including such topics codices to 19th-century poetry, are as palaeography, codicology, now freely available to view online illumination, textual transmission, at www.bl.uk/manuscripts. This library history, provenance, collection of digitised Greek cataloguing, and others. This year manuscripts will be augmented by a the Lowrie J. Daly, S.J., Memorial new British Library web resource Lecture on Manuscript Studies will offering articles and videos on key be given by Madeline H. Caviness, themes relating to Greek written Mary Richardson Professor culture, which will be launched in Emeritus, Tufts University, on the summer of 2016. To mark the ‘Medieval German Law and the completion of the whole project, Jews: The Sachsenspiegel Picture- this one-day conference will bring Books’. Further details at together experts in Classical, Late http://lib.slu.edu/special- Antique and Byzantine Studies, collections/programs/conference. Digital Humanities, Art and Book Texts and Contexts Conference History, to discuss the benefits and Ohio State University, Columbus, challenges of, and further Ohio perspectives on, online collections 21–22 October 2016 of digitised manuscripts. The event Call for Papers. will close with a public lecture in The Texts and Contexts conference the evening to highlight the held annually on the campus of the importance of Classical and Ohio State University devoted to Byzantine Greek culture in the Medieval and Renaissance digital era. Further details of the manuscripts, incunables and early conference will be announced printed texts in Latin and the shortly. vernacular languages. The 43rd Annual Saint Louis conference also hosts the Virginia Conference on Manuscript Brown Memorial Lecture, Studies established in memory of the late Vatican Film Library Virginia Brown, who taught
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AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 paleography at the Pontifical and medieval commentaries, Greek Institute of Mediaeval Studies for and Latin textual criticism; Centres some 40 years. of book production in the Byzantine The conference solicits papers in and medieval periods. the general discipline of manuscript Potential speakers should be studies, including palaeography, postgraduate students (from Italian codicology, reception and text and foreign institutions), but early- history. In addition to the general career researchers and papers (of roughly 20 minutes), undergraduates are also encouraged proposals are invited for more to apply. Proposals should be sent focused sessions of two to three by e-mail to papers. Please send abstracts to [email protected] [email protected]. Deadline for by April 30, 2016, following abstracts: 15 August 2016. guidelines at ‘Cupis volitare per auras’: Books, https://classicalstudies.org/scs- Libraries, and Textual news/cfp-%E2%80%9Ccupis- Transmission from the Ancient to volitare-auras%E2%80%9D-books- the Medieval World libraries-and-textual-transmission- Università di Bari, Italy ancient-medieval-world. 27–28 October 2016 ‘Beyond Words: Illuminated Taking its theme from Martial’s Manuscripts from Boston epigram I, 3, where the poet berates Collections’ his book for wanting to fly away Boston: Houghton Library; and become public instead of McMullen Museum of Art, staying home, the first International Boston College; Isabella Stewart Postgraduate Conference organised Gardner Museum by the Prolepsis Association takes 3–5 November 2016 as its theme the production, In conjunction with the major, transmission and circulation of linked exhibitions held from 12 ancient literary and historical texts September 2016 (see below p. 12), from Classical antiquity to the an international conference will be Byzantine and medieval periods. held with one day at each of the The Call for Papers lists the three exhibition venues. Full details following themes: Ancient writing to be announced. materials; Ancient libraries, scribes’ ‘Border States: Marginalia in and scholars’, collections history; North American Manuscripts and Orality and writing in the Greek Incunables’: a special session of archaic age; Books from the the Conference of the Midwest Classical to the Imperial age: Modern Language Association ekdosis and diadosis; Textual St. Louis, Missouri transmission of Jewish and 10–13 November 2016 Christian texts; Indirect Sponsored by the Research Group transmission of ancient texts; Greek on Manuscript Evidence and and Latin texts translated into other organized by Justin Hastings ancient languages; Literary texts on (Department of English, Loyola inscriptions; Ancient, late-antique
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University College, Chicago), this manuscript production. Other session will focus on the marginalia artistic media, including panel, wall present in manuscripts and and glass painting, will also be incunables currently housed within examined. The topics of scientific libraries and collections within papers will range from analytical North America. and conservation techniques to For further details visit: branches of medieval and http://manuscriptevidence.org/wpm Renaissance epistemology and e/marginalia-in-manuscripts-and- natural philosophy, notably theories incunables-in-north-america/ or e- of light, colour, vision and mail [email protected]. perception. Manuscripts in the Making: Art Speakers will include manuscript and Science experts, conservators and Department of Engineering, conservation scientists from major University of Cambridge institutions worldwide. Further 8–10 December 2016 details will be announced in a This international, cross- forthcoming Newsletter. disciplinary conference, organised The conference proceedings will be by the Fitzwilliam Museum and the published by Harvey Miller/Brepols Department of Chemistry, in 2017. University of Cambridge, will For further information visit accompany the Fitzwilliam www.miniare.org/Project.php. Museum’s bicentenary exhibition After Chichele: Intellectual and ‘COLOUR: The Art and Science of Cultural Dynamics of the English Illuminated Manuscripts’ (see Church, 1443 to 1517 below, p. 14). It aims to integrate St. Anne’s College, Oxford recent advances in the art historical 28–30 June 2017 and technical analyses of This international, interdisciplinary illuminated manuscripts with conference organised by the Faculty insights offered by conservation of English, University of Oxford, and contextual research anchored in follows the successful 2009 Oxford the historic realities and specific conference, After Arundel: circumstances of production, Religious Writing in Fifteenth- bringing together art historians, Century England, which resulted in manuscript scholars, curators, a book of essays (ed. by Vincent conservators and scientists, Gillespie and Kantik Ghosh) that encouraging exchange of ideas and vigorously interrogated the nature stimulating exploration of new of religious and intellectual culture approaches. The conference will in England in the long 15th century. also address intellectual history as After Chichele adopts a similar well as painting and illumination in investigative and interdisciplinary non-Western traditions. approach. The period has been The main focus will be on Western chosen precisely because the inner illuminated manuscripts, but the workings of English intellectual and conference will also include papers religious life during these years on Byzantine and Islamic have proved challengingly resistant
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AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 to the formation of grand critical The annual London International narratives. Plenary speakers: David Palaeography Summer School, Carlson, Mary Erler, Sheila hosted by the Institute of English Lindenbaum, Julian Luxford, David Studies, University of London, is Rundle, Cathy Shrank. now accepting applications for its Proposals for papers are now summer programme. invited from historians, literary These half-, one-, and two-day scholars, and scholars working on courses this year include Anglo- the theology, ecclesiastical history, Saxon, English, German, Greek, music and art of the period, and it is Latin, and Welsh palaeography; the expected that a wide range of study of illuminated manuscripts, literary and cultural artefacts will be the history of scripts from Antiquity considered, from single-authored to Humanist, as well as seminars in works to manuscript compilations, codicology, cataloguing, from translations to original works, manuscript editing, and liturgical and from liturgy to art and and devotional manuscripts and architecture. It is intended that the even a practical course in painting a conference should generate a medieval miniature. The Summer volume of essays similar to After School is hosted by the Centre for Arundel in scope, ambition and Manuscript and Print Studies with quality. the co-operation of the British Themes may include: religious Library, the Institute of Historical writing and the English Church; the Research, Senate House Library, emergence of humanism and the the Warburg Institute, University fate of scholasticism; literature and College, King's College London the law; cultural and ecclesiastical and the Victoria and Albert patronage; developments in art and Museum. architecture; the liturgical life of the Discounts on course fees are Church; the impact of the available to full-time students, international book trade and of worldwide. print; palaeography and codicology; For full details and to apply online, the Church’s role in education, visit www.ies.sas.ac.uk/london- colleges and chantries; the impact palaeography-summer-school. of travel and pilgrimage. London Rare Books School 500-word abstracts (for proposed Senate House, WC1E 7HU 20-minute papers) should be sent by 20–24 June, 27 June–1 July 2016 12 August 2016 to Vincent The LRBS is a series of five-day, Gillespie, Lady Margaret Hall, intensive courses on a variety of Oxford OX2 6QA, e-mail: book-related subjects to be taught in [email protected]. and around Senate House, which is COURSES the centre of the University of London International London's federal system. The Palaeography Summer School courses are taught by Senate House, University of internationally renowned scholars London WC1E 7HU using the unrivalled library and 13–17 June 2016 museum resources of London,
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AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 including the Victoria and Albert Fardd and Gerallt Lloyd Owen are Museum, Senate House Libraries, shown alongside the narrative and many more. testimonies of contemporary and These intensive courses are held in later chroniclers. small groups of no more than 12 Artists in the Archives: 60 Years students in order to ensure that of 56 Group Wales everyone has plenty of opportunity 16 April–10 September 2016 to talk to the teachers and to get Based on the Library’s archival and very close to the books. Each picture collections, this course consists of 13 seminars retrospective exhibition looks at the amounting to 20 hours of teaching sixty-year history of one of Wales’s time spread between Monday most prominent groups of lunchtime and Friday afternoon. All professional artists. 56 Group courses stress the materiality of the Wales was founded in Cardiff in book so you can expect to have 1956 by Eric Malthouse, David close encounters with remarkable Tinker and Michael Edmonds, and books and other artefacts from was chaired for nearly four decades some of the world's greatest by Arthur Giardelli. It was strongly collections. For information and influenced by international registration visit: movements in art, and despite www.ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare- fluctuating fortunes, critical books-school. responses and changes in character, still exhibits today. EXHIBITIONS Girlguiding Cymru: Pushing Information has been drawn from Boundaries press-releases and websites as well 23 April–3 September 2016 as contributions from our members For over 100 years Girlguiding and colleagues. Please check Cymru has been empowering girls opening dates and times and other and young women across Wales to details before travelling as these push boundaries and to challenge may vary from those given here. perceptions, from pushing carts to ABERYSTWYTH, NATIONAL pulling planes, and from digging LIBRARY OF WALES ditches to digital communications. Words of War: conflict in Welsh Based on the Library’s Girlguiding literature Cymru Archive, and other 23 January–18 June 2016 collections, this exhibition traces For centuries, Welsh poets and the dynamic history of the prose writers have depicted the movement from its establishment in experience of war, of victories and 1910 to the present day. defeat. This exhibition focuses on Mametz: Aled Rhys Hughes & four historic conflicts - from the David Jones sixth to the seventeenth centuries - 2 July–3 December 2016 both battles and skirmishes. An exhibition of photographs of Poignant eyewitness accounts and Mametz Wood, the objective of the later reactions by artists such as 38th (Welsh) Division during the Aneirin and David Jones, Bleddyn
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First Battle of the Somme in 1916. Professor of Art History and Inspired by David Jones’ famous Director of the McMullen Museum poem, In Parenthesis, new of Art, Boston College; Dr. Lisa photographs by Aled Rhys Hughes Fagin Davis, Executive Director of are shown alongside items from the the Medieval Academy of America, Library’s David Jones Archive, and co-author of the Directory of raising interesting notions of Collections in the United States and landscape and memory. Canada (2015, an update to BOSTON, MASS., USA Seymour De Ricci’s Census); and Beyond Words: Illuminated Dr. Anne-Marie Eze, formerly Manuscripts from Boston Associate Curator of the Isabella Collections: Stewart Gardner Museum. Church & Cloister (Houghton 260 outstanding manuscripts and Library, 12 Sept.–10 Dec. 2016); printed books dating from the 9th to Pleasure & Piety (McMullen 17th centuries have been selected, Museum of Art, Boston College: including numerous masterpieces 12 Sept.–11 Dec. 2016); by well-known artists, such as Italian Renaissance Books Lippo Vanni, Benedetto Bordon, (Isabella Stewart Gardner Jean Poyer, Jean Bourdichon, Museum: 22 Sept. 2016– Jan. 16, Simon Bening, and the Boucicaut 2017). and Rohan masters. Identifiable These three linked exhibitions were patrons include Charles V of conceived by Professor Jeffrey F. France, Jean, duc de Berry, Pope Hamburger of Harvard University, Sixtus IV, Borso d’Este, and and organized with the Isabella d’Este. Volumes will be collaboration of a team of local loaned by eighteen local manuscript experts: institutions: the Armenian Museum and Library of America; The The collections in the Boston area Boston Athenaeum; Burns Library, constitute one of the most important Boston College; School of ensembles of illuminated Theology Library, Boston College; manuscript material anywhere in Boston University; The Museum of North America, yet they remain, in Fine Arts, Boston; The Boston large measure, virtually unknown to Public Library, Brandeis scholars and the wider public. University, Harvard University Law Beyond Words will be the first School; the Countway Library, exhibition to showcase highlights of Harvard Medical School; the medieval and Renaissance Houghton Rare Book and illumination in the Boston area. Manuscript Library, Harvard The ambitious and wide-ranging University; the Harvard Divinity exhibition will be curated by a team School—Andover-Harvard of five manuscripts scholars Jeffrey Theological Library of the Harvard F. Hamburger, Dr. William P. University Divinity School; the Stoneman, Curator of Early Books Baker Library, Harvard Business and Manuscripts of the Harvard’s School; the Isabella Stewart Houghton Library, Nancy Netzer, Gardner Museum, the
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Massachusetts Institute of well as by private donors. For Technology; Northeastern further information visit: University; Tufts University, and www.themedievalacademyblog.org/ Wellesley College. These beyond-words-illuminated- institutions are also contributing the manuscripts-from-boston- time and expertise of their in-house collections/. conservators and photographers, for For details of the linked preparation and digitization of the international conference see p. 8. manuscripts, many of which have CAMBRIDGE, FITZWILLIAM never been exhibited to the public MUSEUM or previously reproduced. COLOUR: The Art and Science Each of the three venues will of Illuminated Manuscripts highlight one of the three principal 30 July–30 Dec. 2016 contexts for the production of books This exhibition celebrates the in the Middle Ages and the Fitzwilliam’s 2016 bicentenary with Renaissance, and related a stunning display of 150 developments in design, script and illuminated manuscripts from its decoration. The volumes will be rich collections. They range from presented to the public as the the prayer books of European idealized libraries of three royalty and merchants to British readers—the monk at the treasures like the Macclesfield Houghton, lay person at Boston Psalter, from an alchemical scroll College and humanist prince at the and a duchess’s wedding gift to the Gardner Museum—contextualising ABC of a five-year old princess. books produced for the communal Manuscripts, many of them use of religious institutions; displayed here for the first time collections that served the were at the heart of Viscount educational, professional, and Fitzwilliam’s collection with which spiritual needs of individuals; and the Museum was established in the magnificent libraries that 1816. They can be seen only at the proclaimed the power and Museum due to a clause in cultivation of Renaissance rulers. Fitzwilliam’s bequest which The exhibition will be accompanied prevents them from leaving the by a scholarly catalogue with building and reveals the anxieties of contributions by 85 American and the Founder, who had assembled European scholars, including his treasures in the aftermath of the François Avril, Susan L’Engle, French Revolution. James Marrow, Scot Mckendrick, The hundreds of images sheltered in Lillian Armstrong, Federica volumes that were cherished in Toniolo and Maria Thiesen. It will princely and religious libraries for be edited by the curatorial team and centuries constitute the largest and published by Boston College. best preserved repositories of The exhibition is supported by a medieval and Renaissance painting. generous grant from the National With most panel and wall paintings Endowment for the Humanities as destroyed by war, greed, puritanical zeal or time, illuminated
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AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 manuscripts are the richest life here on earth and our place resources for the study of European among the stars. painting between the sixth and the The exhibition opens with a display sixteenth century – the main focus of items relating to the earliest of this exhibition. origins of the library, including a Highlights of Byzantine, Armenian, book-storage chest. The six Lines of Persian and Sanskrit manuscripts Thought featured in the exhibition are also included, but exhibits range are: From clay tablets to Twitter from 8th-century Northumbria to feed (Revolutions in human 17th-century Nepal via Oxford, communication); The evolution of Paris, Bruges, Cologne, Florence, genetics (From Darwin to DNA); Venice, Constantinople, Jerusalem Beginning with the word and Kashmir, while cutting-edge (Communicating faith); On the technologies reveal about their shoulders of giants (Understanding painting materials, and the images’ gravity); Eternal lines (Telling the meaning and value to their owners. story of history) and Illustrating COLOUR showcases advanced anatomy (Understanding the body). research undertaken by the Items on display include Isaac Fitzwilliam’s curators and Newton’s own copy of the first conservators involved in the edition of Principia Mathematica Cambridge Illuminations and Darwin’s first pencil sketch of MINIARE projects. species theory and his primate tree; An illustrated catalogue will be the Nash papyrus, a copy of the Ten published by Harvey Miller / Commandments dating to the 2nd Brepols. For further details see: century BCE; copies of the www.miniare.org/exhibition_colour Gutenberg Bible and the First Folio .php. For details of the related of Shakespeare, and the oldest conference, see p. 9 above. surviving catalogue of the library, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY dating from 1424. LIBRARY Among the medieval manuscripts Lines of Thought on display are two early biblical manuscripts, the 5th-century Codex Until 30 September 2016 Marking the 600th anniversary of Bezae and the palimpsest Codex Cambridge University Library, this Zacynthius, as well as the 9th- major public exhibition century Book of Deer, believed to encompasses 4000 years of be the oldest extant book produced recorded thought from some of the in Scotland. A virtual exhibition library’s oldest written objects, clay includes high resolution images of tablets and oracle bones, to the all the objects on display plus 21st-century decoding of the human additional items. genome. It investigates, through six For further details visit distinct themes, how Cambridge https://exhibitions.lib.cam.ac.uk/lin University Library’s millions of esofthought or the blogpost at books and manuscripts have https://specialcollections.blog.lib.ca transformed our understanding of m.ac.uk/?p=12210.
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DURHAM You are Here UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 22 July 2016 – 31 March 2017 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS What is a map? The summer The Somme 1916: From Durham exhibition asks that question, taking the visitor on a cartographic journey to the Western Front Until 2 October 2016 from the Library’s main building on 100 years on, this commemorative George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, to exhibition explores the reality of the the ends of the Earth. A map says Battle of the Somme through the ‘You are Here’ in a street, a town, eyes of the people from County an exact place in the world. Maps Durham who were there. It tells the feature on phones, tablets, satnav, stories of the people from County and even paper. They are Durham caught up in the battle: the everywhere; in pockets and screens, men who fought and died on the in advertising and merchandising. battlefield; the women who nursed LEEDS the wounded and comforted the BROTHERTON LIBRARY dying; and the workers who toiled Treasures of the Brotherton Library in factories, mines and shipyards at the University of Leeds can now across the county to support the war be seen by the public in a new, effort. The university has worked in permanent exhibition at the partnership with Durham County Brotherton Gallery, which displays Council on this exhibition, which many items from the important showcases items from the Durham Special Collections, recognised as Light Infantry Museum and nationally and internationally Archive collections. significant. They comprise the English Literature Collection, EDINBURGH, NATIONAL Cookery Collection, Romany LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND Collection, Leeds Russian Archive and the Liddle Collection. Plagues: A cultural history of contagious diseases in Scotland Among notable items are a rare Until 31 May 2016 copy of the first folio edition of the The winter exhibition explores the plays of William Shakespeare, a major contagious diseases which cookery book printed in the reign of afflicted Scotland until the mid- Elizabeth I, and a map and compass 20th century, and the various used by the first prisoner to escape responses to these epidemics. back to Britain from Germany in The diseases to be covered will the First World War. The history of include pestilence, cholera, typhus, the written word from manuscript to influenza, TB, smallpox, and print is traced from medieval leprosy. The responses to be illuminated manuscripts to books explored will include the following: from William Morris’s Kelmscott historical accounts, medical/ Press, while featured authors scientific attitudes, folklore/folk include the Brontës and Oscar medicine, literature, religion, Wilde and several contemporary government/official/public health. writers. Major figures in political,
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AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 medical and social history are Night starring Mark Rylance – also represented by notebooks, feature. pamphlets and posters. For further Shakespeare in Ten Acts showcases details visit over 200 unique and rare items such https://library.leeds.ac.uk/treasures- as the only surviving play-script in main-exhibition. Shakespeare’s hand, an authentic The Brotherton Library’s online Shakespeare signature, the earliest exhibitions printed edition of Hamlet from (https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special- 1603 and Shakespeare’s First Folio. collections-online-exhibitions), For further details including include a Medieval Illuminated particulars of related events visit: Manuscripts Digital Resource www.bl.uk/events/shakespeare-in- (https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special- ten-acts. collections-illuminated-medieval- Sir John Ritblat Treasures manuscripts). Also featured are war Gallery: propaganda posters, various modern ‘Visions of Utopia’ literary archives, and early printed 24 May–2 October 2016 books including a late 15th century This special display will mark the three-volume edition of the works 500th anniversary of the publication of Ovid (Parma, 1477). of Thomas More’s Utopia (De LONDON optimo rei publicae statu, deque BRITISH LIBRARY nova insula Utopia). Shakespeare in Ten Acts LONDON, COURTAULD 15 April–6 Sept. 2016 GALLERY This landmark exhibition marking Botticelli and Treasures from the Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary Hamilton Collection focuses on performances, charting 18 February–15 May 2016 Shakespeare’s constant reinvention This major exhibition, featuring 30 across the centuries. From the first of Botticelli’s drawings for Dante’s productions of Hamlet and The Divine Comedy, also includes a Tempest onwards, it explores how selection of outstanding Shakespeare’s plays have been Renaissance illuminated transformed for new generations of manuscripts which were sold to theatre-goers. Key moments include Berlin in 1882 by the 12th Duke of the first stage appearance by a Hamilton. They include the female actor in 1660 and the first monumental Hamilton Bible, which British performance of Othello by a is depicted in Raphael’s portrait of black actor in 1825. Costumes and Pope Leo X (Florence, Uffizi props – Vivien Leigh’s Lady Gallery) and has never returned to Macbeth costume, the surprising the United Kingdom since its sale circus prop from Peter Brook’s in 1882. Further information at: radical 1970s A Midsummer Night’s http://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/what- Dream, and the Globe’s award- on/exhibitions-displays/botticelli- winning costumes from Twelfth and-treasures-from-the-hamilton- collection.
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LONDON, ROYAL COLLEGE LOS ANGELES OF PHYSICIANS J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM The Lost Library of John Dee Things Unseen: Vision, Belief, Until 29 July 2016 and Experience in Illuminated Mathematician, magician, Manuscripts astronomer, astrologer, imperialist, 12 July–25 Sept. 2016 alchemist and spy, John Dee (1527– Drawn from the Getty’s permanent 1609) was one of Tudor England’s collection of manuscripts, this most extraordinary and enigmatic exhibition explores the visual figures – a Renaissance polymath, challenges artists faced as they with interests in almost all branches sought to render miraculous of learning. He served Elizabeth I at encounters with the divine, grand court, advised navigators on trade visions of the end of time, the routes to the ‘New World’, intricacies of belief, and the travelled throughout Europe and intimate communications of prayer. studied ancient history, astronomy, These ‘unseen’ spiritual cryptography and mathematics. He experiences, recorded by Jewish is also known for his passion for and Christian authors in antiquity, mystical subjects, including were translated in new ways by the astrology, alchemy and the world of illuminators of Medieval and angels. Renaissance manuscripts. The This exhibition explores Dee innovative images on view in through his personal library. The Things Unseen do not simply library of the Royal College of narrate otherworldly events, but Physicians holds more than 100 offer visual entry points to volumes stolen from John Dee unseeable, ineffable, and divine during his lifetime, now the largest experience. single collection of Dee’s books in Alchemy of Color in Medieval the world. Manuscripts On display for the first time are 11 Oct. 2016–8 Jan. 2017 Dee’s mathematical, astronomical Appreciated today for its aesthetic and alchemical texts, many qualities, colour was understood for elaborately annotated and illustrated its material and scientific properties in Dee’s own hand. Also on display during the Middle Ages and the are items on loan from the Science Renaissance. The manufacture of Museum, the British Museum and pigments and coloured inks used for the Wellcome Collection, and painting and writing manuscripts include Dee’s mirror and crystal was part of the science of alchemy. ball, together with a specially Concerned with the transformation commissioned film by acclaimed of matter, medieval alchemy was artist Jeremy Millar. Opening times closely tied to artistic practice. This can vary: visitors are urged to check exhibition explores alchemy as the beforehand at early forerunner to modern www.rcplondon.ac.uk/events/schola chemistry, and features the r-courtier-magician-lost-library- ‘alchemical rainbow’ of colorants, john-dee. made from plants, minerals, and
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AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 metals as well as medieval recipes ABERYSTWYTH, NATIONAL for pigments and imitation gold in a LIBRARY OF WALES presentation that highlights the Submitted by Maredudd ap Huw, Getty’s ongoing research into the Manuscripts Librarian. materials used by book A narrative history of successive illuminators. Earls of Pembroke from Gilbert fitz The Shimmer of Gold: Giovanni Gilbert (d. 1148) to William di Paolo in Renaissance Siena - Herbert (1580-1630), written in The Branchini Altarpiece 1624 or soon after by George Owen 11 Oct. 2016–Jan. 2017 (c. 1598-1665), the Pembrokeshire- Giovanni di Paolo (c. 1399–1482) born herald. The manuscript, which was one of the most distinctive and also contains a coloured armorial, imaginative artists, who worked as and genealogical tables, seems to a manuscript illuminator and panel have been presented to the 3rd Earl painter in Renaissance Siena. in an attempt to gain patronage Giovanni received prestigious (Christie’s, London, 1 December commissions over the course of his 2015, lot 29) (NLW MS 24076B). lengthy career, including the Rent roll of the Manor of Neath important Branchini Altarpiece of Ultra, dated 8 November 1540 1427. Presented together, probably (NLW MS 24078G), together with for the first time since its dispersal, two further rent rolls of the Manor, the altarpiece will be displayed dated 1666 (NLW MS 24074G). alongside works on panel and on A manuscript tune book from parchment by Giovanni and his Cardiganshire, written at the end of close collaborators and the 18th and the beginning of the contemporaries. The exhibition also 19th centuries, containing psalm offers insights into his technique of and hymn tunes, together with some working with and on gold to create Welsh carols and poems taken from masterful luminous effects. published sources (NLW MS UTRECHT 24089A). CATHARIJNECONVENT Two medical manuscripts from the Heilig Schrift: Tanach, Bible and collection of psychiatrist and Welsh Koran medical historian Dr John Cule 7 Oct. 2016–8 Jan. 2017 (1920-2015): the first volume, The 9th century Utrecht Psalter 1823-59, attributed to Henry Jones (Utrecht University Library, MS (1799-1886) of Pen-rhôs, 32) will be among the items on Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, display in this exhibition focusing contains medical recipes of a on Scripture. traditional nature (NLW MS NEW ARRIVALS 24087A), whilst the second, of the late 19th century, contains Librarians, archivists and users are professional notes on midwifery invited to inform the Editor of any and clinical surgery, written in an notable new accessions to unknown hand (NLW MS 24088A). institutional collections.
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A collection of signatures, from the United States. The letter addresses and printed photographs, was written less than five months 1902, of members of the Bethesda before Thomas’s death in New Quarrymen’s Prize Choir, made York (NLW MS 24091D). during their fundraising tour of Further papers, 1915-1993, of England to alleviate hardships Ceredigion musician William during the Penrhyn Quarry Strike of Llewelyn Edwards (1908-2000), 1900-03 (NLW MS 24090D). including a draft of his first Thomas Edward Ellis’s interleaved published collection of hymn-tunes, copy of Llyfr y Tri Aderyn gan entitled Clychau’r Maes (1976), Morgan Llwyd o Wynedd and scrapbooks containing his (Liverpool, 1893), containing award-winning tunes and details of copious notes and annotations made their broadcasting by the BBC by Ellis in preparation for his (NLW ex 2928). projected new edition of the works Papers of Tredegar-born journalist of Morgan Llwyd. Ellis died in Geoffrey Downing Woolley (1915- 1899, before the publication of the 2010), Letters Editor of The Times first volume of his Gweithiau between 1953 and 1982. The papers Morgan Llwyd o Wynedd (NLW include materials relating to MS 24073B). Woolley’s own wartime A collection of letters from poets experiences and literary forays, in and other prominent English addition to a valuable collection of literary figures, mainly 1922-3, letters by 20th-century literary addressed to Amabel Williams-Ellis figures, such as poet Edward (née Strachey, 1894-1984) as Thomas, accumulated by Woolley literary editor of The Spectator (Geoffrey Woolley Papers). magazine (Christie’s, London, 1 Additional papers of Irwyn Ranald December 2015, lot 39) (NLW MS Walters (1902-92), musician and 24077D). administrator, including concert Papers accumulated by Morfydd programmes of the Franco-Welsh Peregrine, one-time lover of poet Orchestra, the Welsh Philharmonic Idris Davies (1905-53), including Orchestra and the London the poet’s diary, Oct.-Dec. 1946, Symphony Orchestra, all conducted four holograph poems and a further by Walters, and papers relating to two poems by Davies, written in the pioneering National Youth Morfydd’s hand, 1943-52, together Orchestra of Wales, 1946-57, which with newspaper cuttings, 1943-87, he founded in 1945 (added to NLW relating to Davies (NLW MS ex 2091). 24075D). Some 53 letters and cards, 1936-42, A holograph letter, dated 16 June addressed to the poet Clifford 1953, from Dylan Thomas (1914- Dyment (1914-71), relating mainly 53) at the Boat House, Laugharne, to his literary work, his attempts to to his lover Elizabeth Reitell (1920- find work in television, acting and 2001), New York, written by the journalism, and his war-work with poet shortly after arriving home the Films Division of the Ministry
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AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 of Information (NLW MS 24072D). series of political diaries, 1970-96, Also purchased recently were compiled by Conservative Minister further literary manuscripts, 1930- of State Baron Roberts of Conwy 69, of Clifford Dyment, including (1930-2013), with inserted letters, autograph and amended typescript newspaper cuttings and pictures drafts of poems, 1930-69, a (Wyn Roberts Papers). corrected typescript of the poetry The third donation of materials, volume Fur, feather and fin, co- 1997-2016, by Welsh-born written with his wife Marcella, and composer Hilary Tann (1947- ), fragments of various prose works, John Howard Payne Professor of drafts of plays and scripts, written Music at Union College, New York 1948-69 (NLW MSS 24079-86). (added to Hilary Tann Papers), Additional correspondence and together with two additional parcels papers, 1948-2005, of naturalist and of music manuscripts of the writer William Moreton (‘Bill’) composer Mansel Thomas (1909- Condry (1918-98), including a file 86), including arrangements for of letters, 1968-98, from poet R.S. solo voice, music for mixed voices Thomas (1913-2000) and his wife, and male voices, Christmas music, the artist Mildred ‘Elsi’ Eldridge orchestral music, and orchestrations (added to William Condry Papers). of music by other composers (added Personal papers, 1938-98, of to Mansel Thomas Music theologian and nationalist Robert Manuscripts). Tudur Jones (1921-98), Principal of The first tranche of papers by Bala-Bangor Theological College. Welsh novelist Mihangel Morgan The papers include diaries, (1955- ), including completed sermons, administrative papers and works, unpublished tales, drafts and correspondence illustrative of correspondence, together with notes political and religious aspects of prepared for his 1996 doctoral public life in Wales during the thesis on the works of playwright, second half of the twentieth century John Gwilym Jones (Papurau (Papurau R. Tudur Jones). Mihangel Morgan). Papers added to political collections The extensive archive of Shelter already held at the Library include Cymru, a charity providing support additional papers, 1968-2015, of for those with housing problems in Baron Morris of Aberavon (added Wales. The papers, 1986-2015, to John Morris Papers), further reflect campaigning, research, and papers, 1964-2015, of Baron Hain advocacy activities relating to (added to Peter Hain Papers), and homelessness and housing (Shelter correspondence added to the papers Cymru Archive). of Lord Temple-Morris. Additional papers, 1981-2014, of Recent major political donations the pressure group Christians include the political papers of Against Torture (CAT), including Labour politician Baron Prys- minutes of the working group and Davies (1923- ) (Gwilym Prys- steering group, 1983-2014, papers Davies Papers), and a valuable relating to conferences, 1981-2006, 20
AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 and materials relating to public New scholarly editions of campaigns, 1991-8 (added to Shakespeare by Edward Capell and Christians Against Torture Papers). George Steevens had brought the Papers, 2006-11, relating to the question of exactly what campaign to establish a new top- Shakespeare originally wrote into level domain dot CYM (later public debate, and the search dotCYMRU) for Wales and the intensified for original documents. Welsh community world-wide. In 1795 the writer Samuel Ireland (Archif dotCYMRU). announced the magnificent discovery of a chest of papers CAMBRIDGE, TRINITY including letters in Shakespeare’s COLLEGE LIBRARY hand and draft manuscripts of Vortigern: A New Shakespeare several of his plays. Many visitors Play Discovered paid to view the priceless relics at Nicolas Bell, Librarian of Trinity his house, some spending four College, Cambridge, reports. guineas on a luxurious printed The Wren Library at Trinity volume of facsimiles. It was only College Cambridge was recently several months later that the presented with a fascinating volume Shakespearean scholar Edmund of documents of Shakespeare and Malone provided categorical proof his contemporaries, including the that they were forgeries by Ireland’s signed manuscript of his little- son. William Henry Ireland became known play Vortigern. Only a famous as ‘the Shakespeare forger’, handful of examples of later publishing his confessions in a Shakespeare’s handwriting are combined attempt to salvage his known to survive, and this new reputation and to recover some of discovery plays a fascinating role in his costs. the history of Shakespearean The manuscript of Shakespeare’s authorship. ‘lost’ play Vortigern generated The manuscript is in fact one of the enormous interest when it was most notorious forgeries in English ‘discovered’, and it was quickly history, but this original copy of the accepted by Sheridan for a fraudulent play has been completely production at Drury Lane. When unknown until now, and appears in the fraud was discovered, the a volume alongside a genuine company planned to move the first document signed by Queen night to April Fools’ Day, but in the Elizabeth I. end it was performed on 2 April Nowadays any new discovery of a 1796, to universal derision. Ireland Shakespearean manuscript will be later published the play under his welcomed with careful forensic own name, but the original analysis to ensure its authenticity, manuscript remained unknown. but it was not always so. The quest to discover the original texts of The handsomely bound volume Shakespeare’s plays has been a which has been presented to Trinity perennial fascination, but reached College seems to have been one of fever pitch in the late 18th century. the forger’s most treasured possessions. It contains printed
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AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 copies of his Shakespearean The newly discovered volume is on editions and confessions, display in the Wren Library, Trinity interleaved with the original College Cambridge until 30 forgeries and artworks including an September, open to the public, engraving by James Gillray and an Monday-Friday, 12-2pm. Entry is original pastel portrait of his father free but will be restricted at busy by the Irish artist Hugh Douglas times. Hamilton. In 1812 he pawned the EDINBURGH, NATIONAL volume to the actor Charles LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND Mathews for the princely sum of Significant accessions for the £25 in order to raise funds on being period September 2015–March released from the debtors’ gaol in 2016, selected by Kenneth Dunn, York Castle. Manuscript & Archive Collections In his published confessions, Manager. Ireland explained how he had Sweetheart Abbey Breviary, forged a letter from Queen early-mid 14th century Elizabeth I by copying her signature (NLS MS 40000) from an original document which Illustrated on back cover. his father owned. The newly- The National Library of Scotland is discovered volume includes the pleased to announce the acquisition original document, a commendation of the Sweetheart Breviary, an of the sergeant-at-law Nicholas early-mid 14th century manuscript Barham from 1577, which seems to from Sweetheart Abbey, be completely authentic and Kirkcudbrightshire. The abbey, a hitherto unknown. Cistercian house, was founded c. Ireland invented a letter from the 1273 by Dervorgilla de Balliol, Queen commending Shakespeare’s mother of the Scottish king John ‘prettye Verses’ and asking him to Balliol. The foundation was made stage a play before her at Hampton in memory of her husband John de Court. The letter makes it clear Balliol, whose embalmed heart was quite how bad a forger he was, as it buried together with her in the lacks all the elegance of the royal abbey when she died in 1290. hand. The generally poor quality of the The breviary is a rare example of a forgeries makes it all the more mediaeval liturgical manuscript for surprising that so many were taken a Scottish monastic community; it in by them at the time. The choice was possibly even compiled at of paper and ink, language and Sweetheart. Written between 1300 spelling are all too obviously and 1350, it is in portable format. It anachronistic to the modern eye. comprises 200 vellum leaves The reappearance of this volume at containing the text for around half the time of the Shakespeare of the liturgical year as observed at quatercentenary allows a new the abbey. Although comparatively assessment of this notorious modest in decoration, it is a very forger’s motivations. attractive volume written in a clear textualis hand with rubrication,
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AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 decorated initials and large Ralph Thoresby. For 300 years its flourishes in blue and red. The whereabouts were unknown, and leaves are in uncommonly good, there was no certainty even of its clean condition. The presence of the survival. Its recent appearance on Scottish saints in the calendar the market presented an opportunity confirms the Scottish locality of the to acquire for the Scottish nation a breviary. The Cistercian elements in volume of major cultural, liturgical the liturgy are also in keeping with and historical importance. its origins and use at Sweetheart. The National Library of Scotland The first leaf of the manuscript acknowledges the generous bears a large inscription in a assistance of, and contributions contemporary mediaeval hand: from, the Friends of the National ‘Liber sanctae Mariae de dulci Libraries, the Soutar Trust, the corde’. Only three other National Library of Scotland manuscripts survive from this Foundation, and the B.H. Breslauer monastery, each bearing similar Foundation in the purchase of this inscriptions, but none of these was manuscript. apparently written in Scotland. Other recent accessions The breviary is a rare survival of Letter, 1665, to Lord Bellenden. the Scottish Reformation, the (NLS Acc. 13708). iconoclasm of which was so Letters, 1784-1808, of George Rose effective that of the extant liturgical to Sir John Orde concerning the manuscripts many survive only as Island of Dominica during Orde’s fragments. For example, a set of governorship. (NLS Acc. 13685). leaves from a late-12th-century Family, estate and business papers, missal written on Iona were found 1797-1864 & n.d., of the family of in the bindings of later manuscripts Borthwick of Crookston. (NLS in the collections of the National Acc. 13699). Library of Scotland. Scholars argue Diaries, 1825-86, of Catherine that about one per cent of all Mure, and other Mure of Caldwell Scottish mediaeval liturgical family papers. (NLS Acc. 13678). manuscripts survived the Letter of Walter Scott, 1830, to Reformation. This is based on the John Richardson, concerning a overall number of texts which the Court of Session matter. (NLS Acc. clergy and monastic order of 13704). mediaeval Scotland would have Travel journal, 1830, of a needed to celebrate Mass and to continental tour by Andrew recite and sing the liturgical hours. MacInnes. (NLS Acc. 13701). The significance of the breviary and Travel journal, 1839, of Robert its value for research can hardly be William Mylne. (NLS Acc. 13689). overstated. Archives, 1891-1970s, of An The breviary’s history is intriguing. Comunn Gàidhealach. (NLS Acc. It was last traced in 1715, when it 13695). was described in the printed library Travel journal, 1893, of a tour of catalogue of the English antiquary Scotland by Madeline Halkett. (NLS Acc. 13707).
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Account book, scripts and theatrical Barry Miles archive, 1960-2013 memorabilia, 1949-75, of Lex (Add. MS 89160). McLean (1907-75), Scottish Joan Bakewell papers, 1930s-2015 comedian. (NLS Acc.13700). (Add. MS 89161). Manuscripts and typescripts, c. Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial 1954-97, of novels of Mary Fund papers, 1997-2012 (Add. MS Stewart. (NLS Acc.13680). 89162). Notebooks, 1957-2013 & undated, Draft and fair copy lyrics of Elton of Neal Ascherson. (NLS John’s Candle in the Wind, and Acc.13676). related items re the Diana, Princess Literary papers, 1958-80, of Robert of Wales Memorial Fund, 1997 Garioch Sutherland. (NLS Acc. (Add. MS 89163). 13677). Joan Littlewood archive, 1935-2006 22 letters, 1958-98, from Patrick (Add. MS 89164). Leigh Fermor to Lyndall Passerini Letterbook of Lascelles and and others. (NLS Acc.13664). Maxwell, 1743-5 (Add. MS 89165). Political papers, c. 1960-2004, of Grant of Arms, 1552 (Add. MS Gordon Wilson. (NLS Acc.13687). 89166). Political papers, 1996-2007, of Sam Chantry roll, 1548 (Add. MS Ghibaldan, Special Adviser to Jim 89167). Wallace, Deputy First Minister of Combermere Abbey register, 1524- Scotland. (NLS Acc.13669). 9 (Add. MS 89168). LONDON, BRITISH LIBRARY LOS ANGELES, J. PAUL Submitted by Michael St. John GETTY MUSEUM McAlister, Western Manuscripts Report by Beth Morrison, Senior Cataloguing Manager. Curator of Manuscripts Miniature prayer book, c. 1600 The J. Paul Getty Museum recently (Add. MS 89144). acquired a magnificent late Flemish Papers of William Ross Ashby, copy of The Book of the Deeds of 1928-73 (Add. MS 89153). Jacques de Lalaing (now MS 114). Archive of Shiva Naipaul, 1945-85 This biographical account of the (Add. MS 89154). adventurous life of Jacques de Lee Harwood: Letters to Victor Lalaing (1421-53), a celebrated Bockris, and other material, 1965- knight of the Order of the Golden 73 (Add. MS 89155). Fleece and perhaps the most famed Sir John Goodricke, 5th Bart., tournament fighter of the Middle diplomatic papers, 18th cent. (Add. Ages, contains a monumental MS 89156). frontispiece by Simon Bening Spencer Perceval papers, 18th cent. (illustrated on p. 35). Seventeen (Add. MS 89157). additional lively miniatures spread Archive of Prof Marilyn Monk, through the manuscript by an artist 1960-2011 (Add. MS 89158). in the circle of the Master of Alan Gradon Thomas papers, 20th Charles V largely concentrate on cent. (Add. MS 89159). Jacques’ unparalleled feats of arms across Europe. The manuscript was
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AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 commissioned by a member of Walburga). Then come several Jacques de Lalaing’s own family sequences of prayers, many of approximately 80 years after his which are presented in rhyming death and passed directly through couplets. One sequence concludes branches of the Lalaing family for ‘Merct u nouwe ene hoedt u wel [/] the next 500 years until the Getty’s Dic tijt es cort die doot is snel’ (f. acquisition. 115v): food for thought, no less for ST ANDREWS the modern reader than the UNIVERSITY LIBRARY historical one! There is no obvious Julian Luxford reports on two indication of original provenance, books of hours. but the first and last leaves have the The University of St Andrews has name of William Latton, ‘Collegi recently acquired two small books Wadham apud Oxonienses’. The of hours, both now held in its binding is Latton’s, too, as it bears Special Collections department. his devices and the inscription ‘sigil The earlier of these manuscripts, justi de latton’. This man was a made c. 1430-50, and now St sometime fellow and librarian to Andrews University Library, MS Wadham, who went up to Oxford in 38988, is from the northern 1670 and died in 1732. Netherlands and of Standard use. It The second manuscript, St Andrews has 162 parchment leaves and a University Library, MS 38938, a number of full and three-quarter Rouennaise product of Roman use borders, several of which are richly made in the late 15th century, is all designed, with thick gold bars and in Latin except for the calendar and stylised flowers. There is no figure- some prayer rubrics in French. It work. The most interesting thing has 178 parchment leaves. The texts about this manuscript is its division are normal in type and arrangement: into halves written in Latin and the after the calendar come the gospel vernacular (‘in dietsce’ as the scribe sequences and prayers, hours of the has it on f. 94). With the exception Virgin with various suffrages of the penitential psalms and litany, between lauds and prime, the the texts are not duplicated, so penitential psalms, litany, short Latin-learning seems to be ruled out hours of the Cross and office of the as a motive for the arrangement. dead. In this case there are large The opening calendar is in Dutch, miniatures at the divisions in the ungraded but with many feasts in little office (Annunciation, red. After this come the usual Visitation, Nativity, Annunciation prayers and gospel sequences, the to the Shepherds, Adoration of the short hours of the Cross, the hours Magi, Presentation in the Temple, of the Virgin, penitential psalms Flight in Egypt and Coronation of and the litany, all in Latin (there is the Virgin). The suffrages also have no office of the dead). The texts in miniatures (e.g. the Holy Trinity on Dutch begin with the penitential f. 56, see front cover), as do matins psalms and a litany that contains of the Cross and the office of the several saints not present in the dead: there are 24 miniatures Latin litany (e.g. Aldegonde, altogether. Again, there is no frank
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AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 indication of provenance, but the of Chaucer to Henry VIII, of which scribe intruded the name of St she is also the general editor. Ursinus in the litany between the Recognizing the immensity of the invocations of the apostles and undertaking, Scott and her martyrs (f. 108v). Ursinus was by collaborators decided from the reputation the first bishop of outset to aim not at one enormous Bourges, and the prominence given volume but at a series of fascicles him here suggests a special interest organized by library and collection. on someone’s part. It is possible the Previous fascicles have covered the manuscript was made for someone Bodleian Library in Oxford, the in the diocese of Bourges: this may Fitzwilliam Museum and some of also have been the case with BL, the colleges in Cambridge, the Add. MS 39761, made for a Pierpont Morgan Library and other Scottish woman named Mary living collections in New York, and in France in the first half of the 15th Welsh manuscripts and English century. manuscripts in Wales. BOOK REVIEWS This fascicle covers the sequence of Additional manuscripts in the Kathleen L. Scott, An Index of British Library, which began in Images in English manuscripts 1756, and the Egerton manuscripts, from the time of Chaucer to Henry beginning with those bequeathed in VIII c. 1380 – c. 1509. British 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Library, I: MSS Additional and Earl of Bridgewater (and including Egerton (London/Turnhout: Harvey manuscripts subsequently Miller Publishers, 2014). 360pp. 37 purchased with funds from the gift), b&w illustr. ISBN 978 1 905375 63 which have traditionally been 9. €115. catalogued with the Additionals. Reviewed by Martin Kauffmann, Scott describes 369 manuscripts Department of Special Collections, included in catalogues up to 2003. Bodleian Library, Oxford. They include famous textual Over the last forty years or more the manuscripts such as the Simeon publisher Harvey Miller, now manuscript, the Old Hall operating as an imprint of Brepols, manuscript, and the Book of has transformed the study of British Margery Kempe, as well as medieval manuscripts. The Survey manuscripts famous for their of manuscript illumination in the illumination, such as the Bedford British Isles (1975-96) made the Hours and Psalter, the Carmelite landscape of British illumination Missal, and the Hours of Elizabeth more immediately accessible than the Queen. (The Sherborne Missal, that of any other European country. however, is excluded – it would Now the author of the final volume require almost a fascicle to itself.) in that series, Kathleen Scott, has But many of the exceptionally produced the seventh fascicle of illustrated manuscripts are less well another ambitious Harvey Miller known, such as the Register of the project, An Index of images in abbey of Bury St. Edmunds (Add. English manuscripts from the time MS 7096), the Mortuary Roll of
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John Saresson/Wygenhale (Add. earlier volume of the series, ‘Many MS 46411), and a copy of the De fine manuscripts had to be left natura legis naturae and De unnoticed for want of a single laudibus legum Angliae of Sir John grotesque or profile head’. For Fortescue (Add. MS 48598). Unlike earlier centuries one might argue the Survey volumes where religious that the meaning of manuscript art and liturgical manuscripts prevail, was invested as much in the here the historical texts and decorative as in the representational materials outnumber the other elements; the absence is less genres, followed by literary texts. significant in this later period, when Smaller numbers of manuscripts are more of the flower and plant motifs found in the genres of law, can be individually identified and heraldry, medicine, science and are thus included. The Index is astronomy, music, alchemy, and designed as a starting point for grammar. It may also come as a research: for instance on the details surprise that historiated initials and of such features as architecture, marginal illustrations outnumber costume, furniture, and weapons, or the miniatures, and that added on the frequency with which images occur in almost a third of narrative scenes occur, and on their the manuscripts surveyed, evolution and variation. Such emphasizing that books were a detailed description necessarily dynamic pictorial, no less than breaks art down into its constituent textual, space. parts or motifs; the Index acts as an The scope of the Index differs from invitation for others to come and re- that of an ordinary catalogue of assemble them. illuminated manuscripts. On the one For each manuscript included, the hand its coverage is more extensive, Index gives the shelfmark, author(s) since it goes beyond the usual and textual contents, date, and the categories of miniatures, initials, listing of pictorial elements. No and borders, to include images attempt is made to link the textual within or accompanying titles, and pictorial contents, and no ascenders and descenders, comment is made about place of catchwords, flourished initials, nota production, or scribes, or artists, or bene signs, and other minor aspects style, or iconography: as Scott puts of decoration. The Index sets out to it, the Index ‘does not state the reveal the wealth of imagery (much significance of an image but states of it scribal) across the whole range its existence’ (p. 13). The catalogue of manuscripts which lies behind of manuscripts is designed to be the smaller selection of outstanding used in conjunction with the index books included in the Survey. On of pictorial subjects, which is about the other hand, manuscripts that the same length as the catalogue contain non-representational itself. Both are informed by the decorative work (such as glossary of subjects and terms – an conventional foliate borders) have education in itself, if (like me) you not been included: as the author need to be told the difference somewhat wistfully remarked in an between a cross fitchy, a cross
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AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 patonce, and a cross raguly. There the notion of the insular world, with are only 37 plates in the fascicle, so its multicultural and multilingual the next step involves tracking complexity, and the idea of the down the manuscript itself, or an manuscript miscellany, a image of the relevant page, not least notoriously difficult category to by consulting the British Library’s define. Although the main focus is own online catalogue of illuminated on exploring the idea of the manuscripts. Others might have miscellany, contributors’ conceived the project differently; engagement with the geographical but no-one could claim, here or scope of the volume – the notion of elsewhere in the series, that the ‘insular books’ – produces some Index fails to make clear what it particularly stimulating work. does and does not set out to do, In Insular Books, miscellanies since the meticulous users’ manual provide a window onto processes of is printed in each fascicle. Indeed it manuscript production that are would be hard to find another often communal, rather than catalogue with an apparatus as individual, and which express a complete, or as transparent and wide range of linguistic, political, well-explained, as this one. There personal and ideological are indexes of authors and texts, of connections. The essays focus on incipits of texts of unknown or manuscripts produced in Britain in uncertain authorship, of the fourteenth, fifteenth and manuscripts with coats of arms, of sixteenth centuries. Margaret spaces left blank for images and Connolly and Raluca Radulescu’s coats of arms, and of manuscripts introduction does a good deal of the examined but not included. What volume’s conceptual heavy lifting. there is not – as yet – is a combined It provides an illuminating pictorial index of all the fascicles, overview of terminological and perhaps ideally online, without definitional debates around the idea which the monumental achievement of the miscellany and emphasizes of the series is perhaps in danger of the cultural significance of becoming less than the sum of its manuscripts of this sort. These parts. issues are revisited at greater or Margaret Connolly & Raluca lesser length by most of the Radulescu (eds), Insular Books: volume’s contributors, particularly Vernacular Manuscript in the detailed overview of Middle Miscellanies in Late Medieval English manuscripts offered by Britain, Proceedings of the British Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards. Academy 201 (Oxford: Oxford Several papers reconsider well- University Press, 2015), xviii + known manuscripts and scribes. 330pp. 16 b/w illustr. ISBN: 978-0- Susanna Fein treats the scribe of 19-726583-3. £70. British Library MS Harley 2253 Reviewed by Aisling Byrne, and Robert Thornton, analyzing University of Reading. how far they can be described as The title of this book opens two ‘literary scribes’ whose activities challenging avenues of exploration:
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AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 blur the line between author and The volume’s insular scope copyist. Andrew Taylor considers prompts some illuminating cross- another celebrated codex, John cultural comparisons. Tasked not Paston’s ‘Grete Booke’, arguing only with exploring the notion of that Paston ‘had a distinct plan for the miscellany, but also with the miscellany he commissioned, defining a distinctively ‘insular’ even if that plan is no longer manuscript culture, contributors entirely apparent’ (p. 156). As part often treat British manuscripts in a of her wide-ranging overview of comparative perspective. In the Scottish literary manuscript paper that opens the volume, miscellanies, Emily Wingfield Marianne Ailes and Phillipa offers an excellent case study of the Hardman focus on the material complex Older Scots manuscript, contexts of Middle English and Cambridge University Library MS insular French Charlemagne Kk. 1. 5. There are also some narratives. Their paper explores interesting studies of regional how manuscript contexts for the contexts for manuscript production. Matter of France in England differ Wendy Scase sheds new light on substantially from those in France, John Northwood’s devotional while also stressing how the miscellany, British Library MS English claim to the French throne Additional 37787, and places it made this anything but ‘foreign’ within the context of West narrative material. In an Midlands book production. illuminating contribution, Keith Deborah Youngs stresses the Busby examines the output of communal, rather than the Harley scribe and places the individual, nature of the multilingual dimension of his work compilation of Bodleian MS within a wider European context. Rawlinson C. 813 in the sixteenth Ardis Butterfield’s afterword picks century and suggests that it up on this strand of the volume, witnesses a process of exchange offering a bracing account of the between ‘cultural networks that new insights that comparison with criss-crossed the Midlands and continental material can bring. connected to the royal court’ (p. The insular scope of this volume 246). Some of the most interesting also allows the editors and contributions to Insular Books contributors to query disciplinary probe the multilingual dimension of realities that are too often taken for manuscript miscellanies. Ad Putter granted. At the very start of the offers a thought-provoking analysis volume, Connolly and Radulescu of the tendency of Middle English highlight the obstacle presented by lyric, but not Middle English the ‘relative isolation of studies on romance, to appear in multilingual Welsh and Irish manuscripts, and miscellanies and Ceridwen Lloyd- the dominance of scholarship on Morgan’s paper stresses how Middle English miscellanies’ (p. 2). ‘content regularly trumps linguistic It is a pity that it was not possible to consistency’ (p. 191) for compilers explore Gaelic manuscript culture of manuscripts in Wales. from Scotland or Ireland in Insular
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Books, but Welsh manuscript pp. Nearly 150 col. illustr. ISBN: culture features prominently. 9781605830612. $95. Lloyd-Morgan, William Marx and Cahiers de recherches médiévales Dafydd Johnston produce a et humanistes / Journal of Medieval triumvirate of excellent papers on and Humanistic Studies, no. 30 manuscript culture in Wales and (2015-2), includes several essays on along the Anglo-Welsh border. MSS of the Ovide Moralisé illustré. These three scholars connect their papers particularly well with other The Cambridge Companion to the contributions by emphasizing the History of the Book, Leslie evidence of cross-cultural exchange Howsam (Cambridge University and of multilingual reception Press, 2014), p/b. 300pp. ISBN: 978 contexts provided by codices from 1 107 62509 9. £19.99. Wales. It would have been Les Centres de production des interesting to see more such manuscrits vernaculaires au Moyen comparison of manuscript cultures Âge, ed. Gabriele Giannini & within the insular world – with the Francis Gingras (Paris: Classiques exception of Busby’s paper, other Garnier, 2016), 252pp. ISBN: 978- contributions tend to stress 2-8124-4750-1. €29. Essays on connections and comparisons production of fabliau manuscripts between England and France rather inside and outside France, including than within Britain. illumination. The volume is attractively produced Christine de Pizan in Bruges. Le and features a range of very clear Livre de la Cité des Dames as Het black and white images. There is no Bouc van de Stede der Vrauwen bibliography, but a helpful (London, British Library, Add. manuscript index supplements the 20698), Orlanda S.H. Lie, Martine general index. The vernacular Meuwese , Mark Aussems & manuscript miscellany is well-worn Hermina Joldersma (Hilversum: territory in medieval studies, but Verloren, 2015), 128 pp., col. this stimulating and coherent illustr. ISBN: 9789087045395. €20. volume still manages to offer a The Cinderella of the Arts: A Short range of new insights and History of Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a considerable food for thought. London Bookbinding Firm SOME RECENT Established in 1901, Rob Shepherd PUBLICATIONS (London: Shepherds, 2015). 208pp. Bibliographical details are as given ISBN 978-0-9541072-1-5. £38. by contributors, press releases or The Irish Hand, Timothy O’Neill websites and the amount of (Cork University Press, 2014), 148 information is variable. pp. col. illustr. ISBN: 978 1 78205 Aldus Manutius: A Legacy More 092 6. £40/€39. Revised and Lasting than Bronze, G. Scott expanded edition of this survey of Clemons & H. George Fletcher Irish MSS from 6th-21st century. (New York: Grolier Club, 2015), Journal of the Early Book Society edition limited to 500 copies. 351 18 (2016) includes the following: 30
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‘Making Miscellaneous Martin K. Foys, ‘Medieval Manuscripts in Fifteenth-Century manuscripts: media archaeology England: The Case of Sloane 225’, and the digital incunable’; Ralph Hanna (pp. 1-28); ‘The Sizes Pascale Bourgain, ‘The circulation of Middle English Books, ca. 1390- of texts in manuscript culture’; 1430’, Ralph Hanna (pp.180-91); Lucie Doležalová, ‘Multilingualism ‘Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS and late medieval manuscript Laud Misc. 740 and New York culture’; Public Library, MS Spencer 19: A Arthur Bahr, ‘Miscellaneity and Commin History’, Kathryn Walls variance in the medieval book’; (pp. 192-206); ‘Tracing Andrew Taylor, ‘Vernacular Neurological Disorders in the authorship and the control of Handwriting of Medieval Scribes: manuscript production’; Using the Past to inform the future’, Keith Busby & Christopher Deborah Thorpe (pp. 241-8). Kleinhenz, ‘Medieval French and Manuscripts and Medieval Song Italian literature: towards a Inscription, Performance, Context, manuscript history’; Helen Deeming, Elizabeth Eva Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, ‘Afterword: Leach (Cambridge University social history of the book and Press, 2015). 348pp. 7 b/w illustr. beyond’. 27 tables, 25 music examples. Palimpsest. A history of the written ISBN: 9781107062634. £64.99. word, Matthew Battles (New York: The Medieval Manuscript Book: Norton, 2015), 272 pp. ISBN: Cultural Approaches, edited by 9780393058857. $26.95. Michael Johnston and Michael Van The Pepys Library and the historic Dussen (Cambridge University collections of Magdalene College, Press, 2015). 318pp. 26 b/w illustr. Cambridge, M.E.J. Hughes ISBN: 9781107066199. £64.99. (London: Scala, 2015) 88pp. ISBN: Contents include: 978 1 85759 953 4. £14.95/$22.50. Seth Lerer, ‘Bibliographical theory ‘Schrift als Ausdruck von and the textuality of the codex: Mentalität und die Gründe ihres towards a history of the pre-modern Wandels’, M. Mostert, in Peter book’; Dinzelbacher & Friedrich Harrer Stephen G. Nichols, ‘What is a (eds), Wandlungsprozesse der manuscript culture? Technologies Mentalitätsgeschichte (Baden- of the manuscript matrix’; Baden: Deutscher Wissenschafts- Erik Kwakkel, ‘Decoding the Verlag, 2015), pp. 93-120. material book: cultural residue in medieval manuscripts’; Writing Europe, 500-1450. Texts Jeffrey Todd Knight, ‘Organizing and contexts, ed. Aidan Conti, manuscript and print: from Orietta da Rold & Philip Shaw Compilatio to compilation’; (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2015). Siân Echard, ‘Containing the book: 216pp. ISBN: 9781843844150. the institutional afterlives of £30. medieval manuscripts’;
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Recent theses was brought to the Abbey of Evina Steinova, ‘“Notam Aldeneik by Saint Willibrord superponere studui”: The use of himself. There it was preserved and technical signs in the early Middle worshipped in the context of the Ages’ (Utrecht University, 2016). cult of Saints Harlindis and Steinova participated in the Utrecht Relindis. In 1571 the Codex research project, ‘Marginal Eyckensis was moved from the Scholarship. The Practice of Abbey of Aldeneik to the crypt of Learning in the Early Middle Ages Saint Catherine’s church in (c. 800-1000)’, focusing on the Maaseik, where it has been annotation practices in the Early remained ever since. Middle Ages. Under the leadership of Professor Eliane Frankhauser, ‘Late medieval Lieve Watteeuw and in cooperation court culture in the northern Low with the KU Leuven Imaging Lab Countries: Visualizing, interpreting, and with the KU Leuven Illuminare and contextualizing music - Centre for the study of Medieval fragments’ (Utrecht University, Art, the Codex Eyckensis has been 2015). Explores fragments (c. 1350- digitised at very high resolution. A 1420) from the university libraries mobile digitisation lab was set up in of Amsterdam, Leiden, and Utrecht. the church treasury to enable the WEBSITES & ONLINE manuscript to be examined and photographed safely on site. RESOURCES Online access is via the Mirador The Codex Eyckensis online Viewer, which allows digital http://depot.lias.be/delivery/Deliver images to be displayed at very high yManagerServlet?change_lng=en& resolution and facilitates dps_custom_att_1=staff&dps_pid=I comparison between different E5258806&mirador=true. images. In the interest of long-term The Codex Eyckensis, an preservation of the digital images, illuminated 8th century Gospel and thanks to the skills and Book, is held by Saint Catherine’s experience of LIBIS (KU Leuven), church, Maaseik, in north-east the data were uploaded to the Belgium. This manuscript is the Rosetta System, which ensures oldest illuminated manuscript of the proper and effective archiving, Low Countries, and its digitisation preservation and access to the files. forms part of a wider project to Access is provided via the portals publicise the town’s greatest of Europeana and Erfgoedplus, and treasure. This early Carolingian through www.museamaaseik.be. codex was produced around c. 760, when the culture of writing was The Maaseik Museums also hold brought to the continent by Irish another, lesser-known 10th-century and English missionaries as part of Gospel Book. This manuscript too the process of Christianisation. has been digitised and can be viewed at: The Gospel Book is thought to have http://depot.lias.be/delivery/Deliver been written in the scriptorium of yManagerServlet?change_lng=en& the Abbey of Echternach and that it
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AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 dps_custom_att_1=staff&dps_pid=I temporary storage in No.5 the E5356092&mirador=true. College as work on our Open The Moore Bede online Treasure project continues. Cambridge University Library has During this time, the arrangement released a full digital facsimile of will continue with Durham the Moore Bede (CUL MS Kk.5.16) University’s Palace Green Library thought to be the earliest copy of to store and provide access to the Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Cathedral’s Priory Library Anglorum, made not long after manuscript and incunable Bede’s death in 735. The facsimile collections. These collections will can be viewed at: return to the Cathedral Library in http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS- time for the new academic year in KK-00005-00016/1. October 2016, when they will be available to study in the newly Changed Utterly - Ireland and refurbished Reading Room, located the Easter Rising. off the Cloister. http://www.tcd.ie/Library/1916/ The early printed book collection in The Library of Trinity College the Refectory, and the music and Dublin has launched a year-long antiquaries collections have blog project as part of the national returned to the Cathedral Library commemoration of the 1916 Easter and may be viewed by appointment. Rising. Items from the Library’s It is anticipated that the Sharp research collections will be modern theological lending library, featured in text and image, through and the Cathedral’s Chapter Library a regular series of blog posts. Each will re-open during summer 2016. post will focus on one extraordinary item or collection Beinecke acquires Otto Ege MSS each week and will include diaries, The Beinecke Library at Yale letters, pamphlets, photographs, University announced in November objects and even items of clothing. 2015 that it had acquired the The Easter Rising is also the medieval manuscripts and subject of a Google exhibition, fragments from the collection of featuring archival material with an Otto F. Ege (d. 1951), the audio commentary: controversial scholar and book https://dublinrising.withgoogle.co dealer, best known for his practice m/welcome/. of dismantling medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and MSS & ARCHIVES NEWS selling individual leaves for profit Durham Cathedral Library and during the first half of the 20th Collections century. Ege left his collection to Durham Cathedral Library is his family. It comprises dozens of currently closed to readers whilst manuscript fragments and more collections are being moved, re- than 50 complete manuscripts. ordered, and spaces prepared within Further details at: their permanent home in the http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/abo Cloister Library. This follows their ut/news/beinecke-library-acquires- %E2%80%98treasure-
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AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 trove%E2%80%99-medieval- exhibition opening in October (see manuscripts-otto-ege. p. 18), and can also be viewed Changes at the NLW online at www.utrechtspsalter.nl. Following the retirement of Dr Aled At Radboud University, pages and Gruffydd Jones in August 2015, decorations from the Prayer Book Linda Tomos, formerly director of of Mary of Guelders are gradually MALD (Museums, Archives and being digitised. Visit: Libraries Division), Welsh www.ru.nl/maryofguelders. Government, was appointed interim In Brussels the Koninklijke Chief Executive and Librarian of Bibliotheek van België/ the National Library of Wales. It is Bibliothèque royale de Belgique understood that she will serve in her has embarked on a conservation and new role until 2017. digitisation project of the oldest and Meanwhile, the Royal Commission most exuberantly illuminated on the Ancient and Historical manuscript of Jacob van Maerlant’s Monuments of Wales, one of Rijmbijbel, an adaptation of Peter Wales’ oldest heritage Comestor’s Historia Scholastica organisations, will be moving as and Flavius Josephus’s De bello tenants to new offices at the Judaico. For full details see: National Library of Wales in the www.kbr.be/actualites/projets/rijmb summer of 2016. One wing of the ijbel/fr.html. building is being refurbished to accommodate some 30 members of Competition on the Classification Commission staff and the NLW’s of Medieval Handwritings in former Manuscripts Room will also Latin Script be converted into a new public As part of the 15th International search room and library for the Conference on Frontiers in Commission’s National Monuments Handwriting Recognition, a Record of Wales. The competition has been announced, Commission’s extensive collection challenging computer scientists to of photographs, maps and records identify correctly the main (Latin) will be kept in controlled medieval script types (e.g. uncial, environmental conditions on two caroline, textualis, humanistic). floors of a new archive store that is Deadline 20 May 2016. Details at: currently being constructed at the http://oriflamms.hypotheses.org/13 Library. 88. Dutch & Flemish MSS News Animate those manuscripts! Utrecht University Library’s 700- Raven Animation Paris is seeking odd manuscripts will be digitised crowdfunding to continue its work this year. Meanwhile, the 9th- creating animations from miniatures century Utrecht Psalter, Utrecht in illuminated manuscripts. For a University Library MS 32, has been sample animation visit: added to the UNESCO Memory of https://youtu.be/6afGw3AvLso. the World Register. It will also Contact: Khereddin Ennouri feature in the ‘Heilig Schrift’ ([email protected]).
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THE ADVENTUROUS LIFE OF JACQUES DE LALAING (1421-53)
J. Paul Getty Museum, MS 114
Portrait frontispiece (detail) by Simon Bening from the recently- acquired 16th-century copy of The Book of the Deeds of Jacques de Lalaing, discussed by Beth Morrison on p. 24. © By kind permission of the J. Paul Getty Museum
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THE SWEETHEART ABBEY BREVIARY
National Library of Scotland, NLS MS 40000, ff. 77v-78r. This 14th century breviary from the Cistercian Sweetheart Abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire, was recently acquired by the National Library of Scotland. See report by Kenneth Dunn, pp. 22-3.
© By kind permission of the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland.
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