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3 4B 4BNewsletter no. 69 October 2017 Newsletter of the Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections www.amarc.org.uk STATE AND CITY LIBRARY OF AUGSBURG CELEBRATE 480TH ANNIVERSAIRY State and City Library of Augsburg, Cim 66, ff.5v-6r The arms of the ancestors of Philipp Hainhofer and Regina Waiblinger on a peacock’s fan, miniature from Philipp Hainhofer’s Stammens-Beschreibung, Augsburg, 1626. © By kind permission of the State and City Library of Augsburg. After ten years as the Editor, Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan has handed over responsibility for the AMARC Newsletter to Becky Lawton at the British Library, assisted by Rachael Merrison, archivist at Cheltenham College. The Chairman and committee of AMARC are deeply appreciative of Ceridwen’s labours and of the high quality of the Newsletter and trust that we shall continue to see her at meetings. ISSN 1750-9874 AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 A unique example of 15th century printed text by English printer William Caxton, discovered in University of Reading Special Collections © By kind permission of the University of Reading Special Collections CONTENTS AMARC matters 2 Grants & Scholarships 16 AMARC meetings 5 Courses 18 Personal 6 Exhibitions 20 MSS News 6 New Accessions 25 Projects 10 Book reviews 29 Lectures 12 New Publications 33 Conferences & Call for 12 Websites 34 Papers AMARC Membership Secretary, AMARC MEMBERSHIP Archivist, The National Gallery Membership can be personal or in- stitutional. Institutional members Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N receive two copies of mailings, 5DN; email: Richard.Wragg@ng- have triple voting rights, and may london.org.uk. send staff to meetings at the Please do remember to inform the members’ rate. Details and Membership Secretary of any application forms are available change in your email or postal from: www.amarc.org.uk. address. Enquiries about membership should Annual subscription rates (April– be addressed to the Membership March) are: Secretary: Dr Richard Wragg, Personal Membership: £10 2 AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 Institutional Membership: £30 members to the editors: Rebecca (For non-sterling cheques, please Lawton ([email protected]) add £7 extra to cover bank charges). and Rachael Merrison Please send your payment to: Dr ([email protected] Michael Stansfield, AMARC ). Images submitted should be Treasurer, c/o Durham University delivered via e-mail or file-share. Library, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RN. Payment by standing AMARC GRANTS order is welcomed. Forms can be AMARC members are reminded obtained from the Membership that applications may be made for Secretary or Treasurer. If more projects that bring AMARC and its members with UK bank accounts activities to a wider audience and could pay by standing order it support the stated aim of AMARC: would considerably decrease the to promote the accessibility, amount of time spent on preservation and archives of all administration. periods in libraries and other research collections in Great Britain ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and Ireland. Typical examples are: Many thanks to all contributors to contributing to the costs of holding this issue, including the following conferences and workshops; whose help or contributions are un- support for small projects such as attributed: the web-publication of unpublished Maredudd ap Huw, Claire Breay, catalogues of manuscripts; Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, Bernard assistance to scholars in obtaining Meehan, Pamela Robinson, Julian reproductions or undertaking Harrison. Thanks are also due to the essential travel as part of projects British Library, National Library of whose aims are in line with those of Wales, University of Reading AMARC; the provision of Special Collections, and the State equipment to facilitate access to and City Library of Augsburg for manuscripts; assistance with the the use of photographs. necessary purchase of manuscripts The views expressed herein are and archives to benefit the AMARC those of the Editor and other named community; carrying out contributors. In addition to contri- conservation work on manuscripts butions from individuals, inform- and archives. ation has been taken from a variety Applicants must be fully paid-up of websites, press releases etc., the individual or institutional members, accuracy of which cannot be of at least one year’s standing, and guaranteed. You are advised to should read carefully the detailed confirm details, especially if information about applying found at travelling to events or exhibitions. www.amarc.org.uk/grants.htm. DEADLINE for publication in Funding levels may vary from year to year, but it is anticipated that the Issue no. 70 is 1 April 2018. Committee will make awards of not Please send your articles or any more than £1000 each, and of not news of interest to AMARC more than £3000 in total each year. 3 AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 Applications should comprise: a on display between 5th June and the brief outline of the project, 15th of December 2017. conference or work; its overall cost; the grant being sought; the names Grant to Fitzwilliam Museum's and addresses of two referees; Department of Manuscripts and details of the addressee for the Print Books / Stella Panayotova cheque. Applications should be Supported by AMARC and the submitted to Dr Michael Stansfield, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, an AMARC Treasurer, c/o Durham international conference University Library, Palace Green, 'Manuscripts in the Making: Art Durham DH1 3RN or and Science' (8-10 December 2016) was organised by the Fitzwilliam [email protected], at any time. They will usually be Museum’s Department of considered at the next Committee Manuscripts and Printed Books meeting (held in April and (www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/colou November) and successful r/conference). It accompanied the applicants will be informed soon Museum’s bicentenary exhibition thereafter. COLOUR: The Art and Science of Grant recipients will be required to Illuminated Manuscripts (30 July submit for publication in this 2016 – 2 January 2017), extending Newsletter a brief report (300-500 its disciplinary, thematic, words) of the use to which the grant chronological and geographical was put. span. Over the three days, forty-two papers were presented within Grant to the Archives and Special thirteen sessions by sixty-two Collections at Bangor University speakers, many collaborating within The recent grant awarded by cross-disciplinary teams. In AMARC to the Archives and addition to Western illumination, Special Collections of Bangor the sessions included papers on University has enabled the service Byzantine, Islamic and to improve the provision of Mesoamerican manuscripts as well equipment in the reading room and as panel paintings, frescos, textiles, education room. The purchase of ceramics and architecture. Many various supports, cushions, cushion papers combined recent art- covers, snakes and leather weights historical and scientific discoveries has been able assist staff and with insights offered by historical readers in the care and handling of research on the production and documents. This has already proven trade of materials, the development useful for UCAS open days and for of medieval optics or the social and those participating in seminars in economic circumstances in which our education room. Some the original works were created. equipment purchased will also be The two biggest lecture theatres of used in their 2017 exhibition “Hedd Cambridge University’s Chemistry Wyn” to support fragile items or Department welcomed over 230 improve the presentation of delegates, including leading experts documents. The exhibition will be in a wide range of fields and a large 4 AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 number of students. The conference 6 November 2017 created a forum for the exchange of As the newsletter goes to press, we ideas, the questioning of look forward to our autumn methodologies and the exploration meeting. The program offers an of innovative approaches to cross- excellent line up of speakers, who disciplinary research as well as all approach to the art world from opportunities to forge new different archival contexts. Barbara collaborations. The posters session Pezzini will begin the day by allowed students and young discussing ‘The archival sources of scholars to present their work-in- Raphael’s Ansidei Madonna’, progress and engage in discussions. followed by Mark Pomeroy The overwhelmingly positive presenting on ‘The Schools of the feedback reflects the considerable Royal Academy’ and Susanna value of new encounters between Avery-Quash speaking on ‘Charles experts in vastly different fields. Eastlake’s travel notebooks as a The conference is described as ‘a source for the history of art and the triumph of collaboration between history of Britain’s national the hard and soft sciences’ and ‘a collection’. Following lunch and the true trail-blazer in cross- AMARC AGM , Richard Wragg disciplinary research.’ will present on the ‘history of The papers are now being edited by recordkeeping at the National Stella Panayotova and Paola Gallery: Curatorial and archival Ricciardi for publication in two approaches’ and Cathy Courtney volumes by Harvey Miller/Brepols, will speak on ‘The artists’ Lives due to appear in November 2017 oral history project at the British and February 2018. Many of the Library’. posters will be published in the Further information will be emailed open-access journal Heritage to members and details will be Science by the end of 2017. These announced