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3 4B 4B Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 Newsletter of the Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections www.amarc.org.uk NEW ARRIVALS IN SCOTTISH COLLECTIONS 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. ISSN 1750-9874 AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 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 2 AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 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 3 AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 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 4 AMARC Newsletter no. 66 May 2016 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
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