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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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 on our website. See, publications will supplement the http://www.amarc.org.uk/meetings. exhibition catalogue (COLOUR: htm The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts, ed. S. Panayotova, Modern Scottish Literary Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2016), Manuscripts whose original print run and reprint National Library of Scotland, sold out during the exhibition. Edinburgh The grant supplied by AMARC 19 April 2018 helped to fund the travel of three As the newsletter goes to press we speakers in a session of the can confirm that the Spring meeting conference. will take place on the above date, coinciding with the National AMARC MEETINGS Library of Scotland’s major Art and Archives: Tracing the art exhibition on Dame Muriel Spark. world through archival sources. A programme of speakers remains British Library, London to be confirmed and further details will be announced in due course 5
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today Insular texts are found in library collections across the PERSONAL NEWS Continent and beyond. Arising from Christopher de Hamel wins the recent research at Trinity College Wolfson Prize for Meeting with Dublin, and marking the retirement Remarkable Manuscripts of its eminent scholar of Insular Christopher de Hamel, chair of manuscripts, Dr Bernard Meehan, AMARC for many years, has been this book examines Irish manuscript awarded this year’s Wolfson culture from a broad range of History Prize for his book Meetings perspectives. with Remarkable Manuscripts For a full list of contents and published in 2016. The Wolfson contributors see, History Prize was established in (http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/boo 1972 and has been awarded ks/2017/insular-odyssey/contents). annually to a work of accessible An Insular Odyssey: Manuscript and scholarly history. In his book, Culture in Early Christian Ireland de Hamel conveys the excitement and Beyond. Rachel Moss, Felicity and fascination of encountering his O’Mahony & Jane Maxwell (eds) ‘Remarkable Manuscripts’ in a (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2017) style which is part travel book, part 352pp., ISBN: 9781846826337 detective story and part conversation with the reader. The Dr A.I. Doyle book has enjoyed great success Dr A.I. Doyle, is now well out of since publication; it featured on the hospital, recuperating at home, and Waterstones Book of the Year contemplating the possible shortlist in 2016 and won the 2016 publication of his life’s work of the Duff Cooper prize for non-fiction. catalogue of the university’s The book has, and will, play an (especially Bishop Cosin’s) important role in engaging the manuscripts. public in manuscripts studies. We wish Christopher de Hamel our MANUSCRIPT AND ARCHIVE warmest congratulations. RELATED NEWS Discovery of new print produced Forthcoming publication to mark by William Caxton retirement of AMARC chair from Trinity College, Dublin A unique example of 15th century printed text by English printer Between the seventh and twelfth William Caxton has been unearthed centuries, a distinctive form of at the University of Reading. script and illumination predominated in the manuscripts The two pages are from the Sarum produced in the milieu of the Irish Ordinal or Sarum Pye, a medieval church. Although associated priest handbook dating back to late principally with Britain and Ireland, 1476 or early 1477, which was Ireland’s reputation for learning and amongst the first books printed in the missionary activity associated England by William Caxton’s with Irish foundations mean that pioneering press. No other copies of the pages, printed either side of a 6
AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 single leaf of paper, are known to John Lewis purchased from an have survived. Only two other antiquarian bookseller in around surviving fragments of the book 1950. exists, consisting of a total of eight For the original press release: double-sided leaves, which are held https://www.reading.ac.uk/news- at the British Library in London. and- The Caxton leaf was found in the events/releases/PR725199.aspx. University of Reading’s Special Collections by Erika Delbecque, Collection of Alan Turing letters Special Collections librarian, while discovered she was cataloguing a collection of A set of correspondence written by ephemera illustrating the history of Alan Turning has been found in a graphic design that had been filing cabinet in a storeroom at the compiled by the late typographer University of Manchester. The John Lewis and his wife Griselda, a letters were found by Professor Jim. writer and book designer. This Miles of the School of Computor collection was acquired by the Science. Professor Miles was University of Reading in 1997. reorganising the storeroom when he The Sarum Ordinal, which is discovered a red paper file which written in Medieval Latin, consisted had the words ‘Alan Turing’ written of around 160 pages. It instructed on it. The correspondence, members of the clergy on how to consisting of 148 individual prioritise religious feast days for documents, was sent between the English saints. The text was years 1949 and 1954. The originally established by St collection includes a letter from Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, in GCHQ, a handwritten draft of a the 11th century. It would have BBC radio programme about been owned by clergymen and Artificial Intelligence and consulted on a regular basis, but fell invitations to lecture from top out of use after the Reformation. American universities. The letters provide a unique glimpse into his We owe the survival of the leaf to every day working life at the time the thriftiness of early modern of these events. More information craftsmen. Rather than using new can be found through the press paper, which was a relatively release issued by the University of expensive commodity, bookbinders Manchester, often recycled leaves from earlier http://www.manchester.ac.uk/disco documents to reinforce new ver/news/lost-turing-letters-give- bindings. Markings on the Caxton unique-insight-into-his-academic- leaf show that it had previously life-prior-to-death/ been pasted into another book for the undignified purpose of Biologists reveal the hidden reinforcing its covers. From there, history of ancient gospels the leaf is thought to have made its In May, a symposium was held at way into the personal collection of the Bodleian Library which brought a Cambridge University librarian in together biologists, librarians, the early nineteenth century, which 7
AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 medievalists and a modern scribe. and half a goat. The team have The focus of this meeting was to conducted similar tests on other explore how new technology can manuscripts with fascinating identify biological clues and reveal results. Much of the DNA hidden aspects of medieval life. The recovered from this analysis came organizers described their aim to from microbes shed by humans. For provide a model for future ‘360- example, one manuscript analysed degree study of any book’. was the York Gospels, which is the The symposium focused upon a only surviving Gospel book to single manuscript; an eleventh copy contain the oaths taken by UK of the Gospels of Luke. Its content, clergymen between the 14th and 16th decoration and style of script centuries, and is still used in suggest that the book was produced ceremonies today. Pages containing by scribes at St Augustine’s Abbey, oaths were read, kissed and handled Canterbury. The manuscript the most, and these pages were contains a glossed text of the particularly rich in microbial DNA Gospels of Luke and retains its from humans, the project reported. original white leather cover in good It is difficult to tell how much of condition. The team aimed to this DNA was contaminated by identify the species of animal used recent handlers. The project are to produce this white leather. Using developing methods to isolate the a method which identifies DNA of the original users. differences in the amino acid This project has received funding sequence of collagen and other from the European Union and book proteins, specialists were able to owners. Project investigators are identify the skins of roe deer in the currently gathering eraser debris leather cover. The team quickly from books all over the world, from realised the possibilities of this the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los technology for identifying the Angeles, California to the Royal species of animal used to make Library in Copenhagen. The parchment, and the nature of animal investigators are aware of the vast husbandry in the medieval period. possibilities for future research, and A new technique, developed by a the impact these techniques will postdoctoral fellow at York, Sarah have on studies of palaeography, Fiddyment, has allowed these tests codicology and book history. to be carried out with minimal Project member, biochemist damage to the parchment itself. Matthew Collins states that This non-destructive technique ‘Medieval manuscripts represent a involves rubbing the parchment relatively untapped store of lightly with polyvinyl chloride biological information. Collins eraser, which pulls tiny fibres off claimes that parchment alone is a the page in curled debris. Further ‘rich palimpsest of molecular data’, analysis on the Gospels of Luke and aims to build a ‘parchment manuscript demonstrated that it was DNA library. comprised of skins from an This is an extremely exciting estimated 8.5 calves, 10.5 sheep development for our field, and we
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AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 look forward to future announced its decision to reduce the developments from this project. opening times for free access to their Archive Service by 21 August British Library acquire the 2017. Free access was restricted to: Mostyn Psalter-Hours 9am-1pm, Tuesday, The British Library have acquired Wednesday and Thursday this 13th century illuminated Psalter-Hours produced in London. 9am-4pm, first Saturday of The manuscript is known as the the month only (April- Mostyn Psalter-Hours and is now October) Additional MS 89250. The book Researchers were also given the includes a calendar, decorated with option of paying £31.50 per hour twenty small miniatures of the for an advance appointment: labours of the months and the signs 10am-1pm and 2pm-4pm, of the Zodiac (two months are Monday and Friday lacking) and a Psalter with eight of 2pm-4pm, Tuesday, the original ten large historiated Wednesday and Thursday initials. An outstanding example of English illumination of the highest 9am-4pm, Monday-Friday quality, the manuscript represents a (personal 1:1 consultations crucial piece of evidence for the only) history of English painting. The announcement triggered Textually, it is an interesting late concern within the research example of a combined Psalter community and an online petition Hours. calling for the county council to The manuscript has been digitised reverse its decision has gained the in full and will shortly be added to support of over 4000 signatures the Digitised Manuscripts Website. (correct as of 5 September 2017). In the coming months it will also be The Archives & Records on display in the Library’s Sir John Association also issued a formal Riblat Treasures Gallery. This letter to the County Council acquisition was made possible challenging the proposal. To view a thanks to the support of the copy, please visit: National Heritage Memorial Fund, http://www.archives.org.uk/news/6 St Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary 82-ara-welcomes-northants- Settlement, the late Bernard decision-to-suspend-service- Breslauer, the Friends of the British changes.html Library and the Friends of the On 4 August 2017 a statement (see: National Libraries. http://www.northants- fhs.org/pdf/PR172004.pdf) was Northamptonshire County issued from Northamptonshire Council Archive Service suspends County Council announcing that it decision to introduce charges for had reviewed its decision to change researchers opening hours at its archives and In July, readers will be aware that heritage service. Free access only Northamptonshire County Council will be maintained and a review of
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AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 the service, including a consultation The most absorbing of the seven around any proposed changes, will volume is that which details felony be conducted ahead of the next trials overseen by John Scott on the financial year. assize circuit, including murders, highway robberies, and thefts. With Trinity College, Dublin acquire its accounts of events and witness literary archives of playwright testimonies these records of trials Tom Murphy give a vivid impression of life in Trinity College Dublin is home to eighteenth century Ireland. the archives of the playwright Tom Murphy (b.1935). He was recently PROJECTS awarded the highest cultural Models of authority: Scottish accolade available in Ireland, the charters and the emergence of title of Saoi in Aosdána, the government affiliation of the creative arts. This summer saw the launch of the Murphy is known for his work on website for an AHRC funded Irish emigration and the male use of project entitled, ‘Models of violence to communicate. This year Authority: Scottish Charters and the saw the arrival of a second large Emergence of Government’. The tranche of his literary archives just project is a collaboration between in time for the launch of a soon-to- scholars from the Universities of be published study of Murphy by Glasgow, Cambridge and King’s Trinity professor emeritus Nicholas College London, and has been on- Grene. An online exhibition will going since 2014. The project appear later in the year on acknowledges that charters are https://www.tcd.ie/library/exhibitio central to modern understanding of ns/. Murphy is one among a number the development of government as a of major living literary figures, form of public authority functioning including Jennifer Johnston and continuously and impersonally. The John Banville, who add lustre to ‘Models of Authority’ project Trinity’s literary archives focuses on analysing distinctive collection. features of charters, such as the Another significant acquisition this appearance of the handwriting and year were the court notebooks of formulaic aspects of their prose, in John Scott, the first Earl of order to reach a new perspective on Clonmell, who held a series of the origins of government in its senior judicial positions in the late modern western European form. eighteenth century. During the Research outputs form this project destruction of the public records in have been presented at free public Ireland in the War of Independence exhibitions at The National in 1922 one of the principal series Archives and the National Records of records lost forever were the of Scotland which were open in records of the judiciary to the great early 2017. A colloquium and a detriment of the national memory. public conference held at the Private records such as Clonmell’s University of Glasgow in April give a glimpse of what was lost.
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2017 also facilitated discussion of The Insular Manuscripts project key issues and public engagement. establishes an international research The website launched in summer network to advance understanding 2017 will act in many ways as the of knowledge exchange in early legacy of the project. It acts as a medieval Europe through analysis web-based resource which contains of Insular manuscripts. Partners more than 600 charters drawn from include the University of Leicester, material held at Durham Cathedral the British Library, the Muniments, the National Records Bibliothèque nationale de France, of Scotland, the National Library of Österreichische Akademie Der Scotland, the British Library and Wissenschaften, National The National Archives at Kew. The University of Ireland, Galway, and searchable database also includes a Trinity College, Dublin. list of manuscripts used in the In the period between c. AD650 and project. Users of the website are c. AD850 manuscripts made in able to search the database by date, Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England, document type, repository city or and in monasteries on the Continent the repository institution. The user founded by English or Irish then has access to a description of missionaries, used ‘Insular’ styles the document and catalogue of script, decoration, and methods information. Many entries in the of making that are distinctive and database are accompanied by diagnostic. There are about 500 manuscript images and information extant Insular manuscripts, of about the hands featured in the which 75% are in libraries on the document. The viewer clearly European continent (including 42% identifies different allographs in the in Germany, 9% in France), a document, and allows for easy further 24% are in Ireland or the comparison of different hands. UK, and 3% are in Russia or the Users of the website can also access USA. Among those in European several articles discussing the key libraries are books that were written areas of the project. These articles in England or Ireland and exported would be an important resource for not long after they were made, as anyone working on the diplomatic well as books that were copied on and palaeography of early Scottish the Continent in Insular style. charters. The website’s blog would Some individual books are very also be informative for those well known and have been studied interested in news regarding the in great detail, often as development of the website, and extraordinary treasures; but there is any future events organised by the no synthetic or detailed analysis of project team. what these books reveal en masse The website can be accessed via, about networks of knowledge, http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk movement of people, ideas and technology in the post-Roman Insular Manuscripts AD 650-850: West. As a group these manuscripts Networks of Knowledge reveal the deep and extensive contribution of the islands of
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Britain and Ireland to medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital European culture. Age: Intertwined Worlds This project enables a step-change Free Library of Philadephia, in scholarship on cultural networks Parkway Central Library in medieval Europe by facilitating 2 November 2017 research with academics, curators, Kislak Center of Special and digital specialists, exploring Collections, Rare Books, and how new research tools (print and Manuscripts at the University of digital) can help us challenge Pennsylvania Libraries assumptions, map our data, and change the way that investigate our 3-4 November 2017 material. It aims to develop a new This symposium, a partnership research agenda by bringing between the Rare Book Department together scholars of early medieval of the Free Library of Philadelphia history and manuscript studies, with and the Schoenberg Institute of practitioner’s expert in network Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the analysis and digital technologies, as University of Pennsylvania well as collection curators. Libraries, will highlight the confluence of expressions of belief, LECTURES ritual, and social engagement Cromwell and Communications emerging in technologies and traditions of the worlds manuscript The National Archives cultures, often beyond a single 22 November 2017, 2-4pm religious context. It will consider Nick Barratt and Marianne Wilson common themes and practices of will be leading a worship exploring textual, artistic, literary, and new interpretations of key iconographic production in documents relating to Thomas religious life across time and Cromwell, communications and the geography, from ancient precedents Reformation period. This will to modern reception and provide an exciting opportunity to dissemination in the digital age. consider key themes such as what The program will commence at was lost from medieval culture with 5pm on 2 November 2017 at the the changes in government and Free Library of Philadelphia, with a communications, and what was keynote lecture by Phyllis Granoff, gained moving forward. Yale University. The symposium Those interested in attending are will continue 3-4 November at the encouraged to register via Kislak Center of Special Eventbrite, Collections, Rare Books, and https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cro Manuscripts. mwell-and-communications-tickets- For information or to register, visit: 36653657075 http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhib its/lectures/ljs_symposium10.html CONFERENCES 10th Annual Lawrence J. Reformation on the record Schoenberg Symposium on The National Archives, Kew
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3-4 November 2017 events/2017/nov/italian- 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of manuscripts For information the beginning of the Protestant contact Janet Walwyn Reformation with the promulgation ([email protected]). of Martin Luther King’s 95 theses. The Book in Transition, the East The National Archives are running and West a two-day conference which brings G-Lab (6-7th floors), East together research using original Research Building, Mita Campus, records of Church and State from Keio University, Tokyo their collection to explore this period of religious, social and 9 December 2017 economic turmoil. Those who Guest speakers: Dr Paul Needham attend will have the opportunity to (Scheide Librarian, Princeton participate in workshops involving University) & Professor Takahiro original records and hear a keynote Sasaki (Institute of Oriental lecture by Professor Richard Rex. Classics, Keio University). This Those interested should book conference examines the impact of tickets via the Eventbrite website: shifts and developments in the https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/refo production and study of books in rmation-on-the-record-tickets- the early modern period. A prime 36436690121?aff=newsstory example is the introduction of typography, whose impact in Two Hundred Years of Italian Europe is all too well known, but Manuscripts in Oxford: which also brought complex issues Exploring the Canonici Collection and reactions in East Asia, the Oxford, Bodleian Libraries & region that precedes Europe in its Lincoln College evidenced use of typography by 24-25 November 2017 more than a century but did not see This two-day conference celebrates it thoroughly established until much the arrival of manuscripts from the later. Abstracts for papers were collection of Jesuit Matteo Luigi invited in English and Japanese Canonici in Venice. In order to from all disciplines and the stimulate interdisciplinary research, symposium will be hosted by the various topics will be discussed by bibliographers and book historians international scholars in provenance of Keio University. For and history of libraries, music, information, visit: liturgy, Italian and humanistic https://sites.google.com/keio.jp/boo literature, medical texts, Greek, ktrans/cfp?authuser=0 or email Hebrew and French manuscripts, [email protected] palaeography and manuscript Writings and Monastic illustration. Dependencies, II: Transfers of Registration is open until 31 archives, 9th – 15th Century October 2017: German Historical Institute / http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whats Paris Sorbonne University on/whats-on/upcoming- 1-2 February 2018
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The German Historical Institute in proposals (deadline 15 November Paris, the University of paris- 2017), view : Sorbonne and the University of http://marco.utk.edu/manuscript- CRULH Lorraine have organised a workshop-2018/ symposium on Writings and Monastic Dependencies, II: New College Conference on Transfers of archives from the 9th to Medieval and Renaissance the 15th Century. A programme is Studies due to be announced on the project Sudakoff Conference Centre, website in due course. See, New College of Florida, Sarasota, https://drd.hypotheses.org/ Florida 8-10 March 2018 13th Annual Macro Manuscript st Workshop The 21 Biennial New College Conference issued a call for papers University of Tennessee, (which closed 15 September 2017) Knoxville inviting proposals on topics in 2-3 February 2018 European and Mediterranean This year the organisers of the 13th history, literature, art, music and Annual Macro Manuscript religion from the 4th to the 17th Workshop, Professors Maura K. century. For the 2018 programme Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. and information on how to register, Liuzza (English), invite papers for visit: that explore the idea of http://sites.google.com/a/newcolleg ‘Transmission’. Few texts are econference.org/home/home?/overri preserved in their author’s own demobile=true hand; most surviving manuscripts are copies of copies, each hand- Documents and Manuscripts in made, and each differing to a the Arab-Islamic World: The greater or lesser degree, by design Seventh International Society for or accident, from the copy before it. Arabic Papyrology Conference Whatever hidden chances may have (ISAP VIII) led to their survival, every Berlin, 20-23 March 2018 manuscript has a story to tell about This conference aims to highlight its origins, its readers, and its place the significant contribution of as a link in the chain of Arabic papyrology to Arabic and transmission. How do we Islamic studies in recent years and reconstruct these stories? Do the will both provide a platform to traditional tools of textual criticism show the state of the art, and a reflect the reality of textual purview of the many kinds, genres transmissions? What can a text tell and languages of Early Islamic us about its own history? documents (including Arabic, Presentations on any aspect of this Coptic, and Greek papyri, topic, broadly imagined, are inscriptions and coins) within the welcomed. wider historical context of the For further information on the time’s manuscript production. The workshop and the submission of call for papers was due to close on
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1 October 2017. For information, gathering of around 3,000 scholars visit: http://www.naher- interested in medieval studies. The osten.lmu.de/isap_vii Please send a congress features more than 550 notice of intent to participate to sessions of papers, panel Andreas Kaplony discussions, roundtables, ([email protected]) no later workshops and performances, and than 1 January 2018. two special plenary lectures given by Sara Ritchey (University of CALL FOR PAPERS Tennessee, Knoxville) and William CFP - Printing and Misprinting: Chester Jordan (Princeton Typographical Mistakes and University). Publishers Corrections (1450- A call for papers has been issued 1600) for all Sponsored and Special Lincoln College, Oxford Sessions approved by the Congress 20 April 2018 Committee. Sponsored sessions are organised by learned societies, A call for papers has been issued associations, institutions and for a one-day symposium which research projects, with aims to explore the notions of typos predetermined topics usually and manuscript or stop-press reflecting the considered aims and emendations in early modern print interests of the organising group. shops. With a keynote lecture by Special Sessions are organised by Anthony Grafton (Princeton) individual scholars and ad hoc scholars are invited to build on his groups, often with narrowly focused seminal work and present new predetermined topics. For evidence on what we can learn information on paper submission from misprints in relation to and a full list of approved Sessions, publishers’ practise, printing and view: pre-publication procedures, and https://wmich.edu/medievalcongres editorial strategies between 1450 s/events The deadline for and 1600. For more information, submissions is 1 November 2017. including topics which will be particularly welcomed, view: CFP - Manuscripts in Anglo- http://www.rsa.org/news/349984/Cf Saxon England P-Printing-and-Misprinting- British Library, London Typographical-Mistakes-and- 15 December 2018 Publishers-Corrections- 14501600.htm A call for papers for a postgraduate and early career researcher CFP - 53rd International symposium on Manuscripts in Congress on Medieval Studies Anglo-Saxon England has been Medieval Institute at Western announced. Proposals for papers are Michigan University encouraged from a variety of 10-13 May 2018 institutions and the symposium is intended to foster discussion about The International Congress on books, documents, the uses of Medieval Studies is an annual writing, the transmission of ideas,
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AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 the survival of evidence, and Please send any inquiries and intellectual contact within and abstracts to Rebecca and Abigail at beyond Anglo-Saxon England. [email protected] The symposium follows an m by Friday 23rd September 2018. international conference taking For more information and updates, place on 13 and 14 December 2018. please see the Reimagining Records The deadline for submissions is 1 twitter feed, December 2017. For information or https://twitter.com/Reimagining_Re to submit a proposal, visit c?lang=en http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscri pts/2017/08/call-for-papers- GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS manuscripts-in-anglo-saxon- OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHICAL england.html SOCIETY GRANTS The Oxford Bibliographical Society CFP – Reimagining Records offers an annual series of grants to The National Archives, Kew help in defraying the costs of 28-29 June holding conferences, exhibitions Held in collaboration with the and workshops; to support small National Archives and the projects such as the web- Universities of York and Lincoln, publication of unpublished Rebecca Searby and Abigail Dorr catalogues of manuscripts and are delighted to announce a two-day printed books; and to provide event, Reimagining Records, which assistance to scholars in obtaining will combine a day of professional reproductions or undertaking postgraduate development a essential travel as part of projects consecutive academic conference. whose aims are in line with those of The symposium hopes to promote the Oxford Bibliographical Society. discourse on new, innovative Applications should comprise: a approaches to medieval record brief outline of the project, collections. Professor John Arnold, conference or work (no more than University of Cambridge, is to be 200 words); its overall cost with a the keynote speaker. The break-down of how the grant would conference hopes to bring together be used; the name, address and e- a range of papers by postgraduates, mail address of one referee; and the ECR’s and established academics, applicant’s contact details and welcome proposals for 20 (including a postal address). minute papers that Applications should be submitted to address/contribute to these the Secretary by 31 March in each discussions. Topics could include, year and will be evaluated by but are not limited to: new Council at its Spring Meeting. approaches to official material; how Applications received after 31 records serve historians beyond March will be considered in the their intended function; and the following year’s round of grants. problems and possibilities of using Successful applicants will be records to construct past events. informed as soon as possible after the spring meeting and the results
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AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 announced at the Society’s AGM We usually contribute part of the and on its website. cost of an acquisition, with the The applicant need not be a remainder coming from your own member of the Society. or other sources. We can also Applications need not relate to respond to applications where no Oxford, however Oxford-based or other money is available, so long as Oxford-related submissions may be you have thoroughly explored all prioritised. Funding levels may vary other possible sources of support. from year to year, but it is Our grants tend to be in the range of anticipated that Council will make £1,000 to £20,000, with most grants awards of not more than £1,500 in being between £2k and total in each year. £10k. Receiving a grant from the Successful applicants will be FNL often helps unlock other required to mention the contribution sources of funding. of the Society in any written, To apply please write a letter of printed, on-line or other visual application and email it to Dr material relating to the event, work Frances Harris, Honorary Secretary or research, and to submit for ([email protected]). There publication via the website and are no application deadlines and for other appropriate means a brief further information, visit: report (300–500 words) on the use http://www.friendsofnationallibrarie to which the grant was put. s.org.uk/applying-grants/faq Contact: The Honorary Secretary, The National Manuscripts Oxford Bibliographical Society, Conservation Trust [email protected]. Application Deadline: 1 April The Friends of the National 2018 Libraries Grant The National Manuscripts Application Deadline: rolling Conservation Trust offers grants for The Friends of the National the conservation and preservation Libraries (FNL) helps university of manuscripts and archives. Since libraries, national libraries, the NMCT was founded in 1990 it museums, art galleries and record has awarded grants of over £3 offices acquire books, manuscripts million, ensuring that important and archives that you would not collections can once more be made otherwise have resources to accessible to the public and purchase. We help the nation’s researchers. libraries not just national libraries We welcome grant applications and our two main criteria when from non-national institutions such awarding grants are the historical, as county record offices, museums, literary and other qualities of the university archives/special propose acquisition and its collections, cathedral archives and significance to your collection. We libraries, as well as owners of also take into account price, manuscripts that are exempt from condition and provenance. capital taxation or owned by a charitable trust.
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Our grants can cover conservation, Organiser: +44(0)1243818219 or binding and other preservation [email protected] measures, including digitisation (providing it is part of a wider Damaged books and bound conservation project). The archives significance of the collection or British Library, London items to be conserved, as well as 6 March 2018 the proposed conservation Priced at £140 treatment, are carefully reviewed by This training day is aimed at Trustees when making decisions. librarians and archivists. It provides NMCT is the only grant giver an overview of how books and solely focused on manuscript bound archives become damaged, conservation and we are keen to considers actions to minimise spread the benefit of the funding damage, and describes first steps to that we have available, so do address common forms of damage. consider applying. The training day is led by Caroline Applications must be submitted via Bendix ACR (Independent the application form, which may be Conservator). Please ensure that downloaded from the NMCT you bring with you on the day: one website: paperback book height of 20cm x www.nmct.co.uk/applying-us width of 13cm x thickness of 2- If you have any queries please 3cm, and one hardback book contact Mrs Nell Hoare, Secretary: standard octavo size 22cm. For [email protected] further information about the course please contact the Course COURSES Organiser: +44(0)1243818219 or [email protected] Leather species identification British Library, London International Technical 20 February 2018 Internship of Archives. Priced at £140 Paris This training day is aimed at leather 26 March -27 April 2018 conservators and other museum and Deadline for applications: 15th library professionals who wish to December 2017 develop an understanding of species This five-week internship is aimed identification. It provides a practical at French and francophone foreign guide to the identification of animal archivists working in national or species commonly used in leather local archives. The selected trainees and a very brief overview of must take a distance-learning tannages. It is led by Yvette course before participating in the Fletcher ACR, Head of internship. The online courses are Conservation, The Leather created in partnership with the Conservation Centre, Northampton. University of Paris and the For further information about the Archives Nationales. The internship course please contact the Course programme will alternate
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AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 theoretical approaches and practical Priced from £325 to £399. workshops, and will allow trainees During the Middle Ages, books to broaden their knowledge and to written by hand, illuminated with compare their experiences with gold and painted with costly those of their colleagues from all pigments, were prized by over the world. Trainees will obtain ecclesiastical and lay patrons as the a co-certification of the French most desirable of possessions. This National Archives and University course will explore various aspects of Paris after their participation in of medieval illuminated the classroom and distance learning. manuscripts up to the advent of Registration can be done online, printing. It offers students the before 17th December 2017 here, opportunity to see, first-hand, items https://fi-m-culture.fr/ from the V&A’s extensive Dust and Dirt: Strategies for medieval collection that are not prevention and management usually on view to the public. British Library, London The course will be led by Dr Sally Dormer, a specialist medieval art 24 April 2018 historian, Dr Catherine Yvard, £140 Curator of the National Art Library This training day will focus on Collections, Timothy Noad, understanding the nature of dust calligrapher, illuminator and and the threat it poses, as well as designer of coins and medals, means by which dust can be College of Arms. This course runs cleaned and how collections may be for 8 weeks and each session is held protected from it. At the end of the on a Tuesday from 10.30am to day delegates will have: A clear 13.00 pm. For more details see, understanding of how dust forms https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/9VgA and from what it is made, practical g0EX/medieval-illuminated- knowledge of cleaning collections, manuscripts-2018 awareness of health and safety issues, the ability to identify pest Preserving Historic Photographs and mould damage, details of British Library, London various methods of protecting 17 May 2018 against dust, the ability to set up a Priced at £140 housekeeping programme, an This one-day training session is led understanding of using volunteers by Susie Clark, accredited to help clean collections. For photographic conservator. It is further information about the course aimed at those with responsibility please contact the course organiser: for the care of photographic +44(0)1243818219 or collections regardless of [email protected] institutional context. The day Medieval Illuminated provides an introduction to Manuscripts understanding and identifying V & A, London photographic processes and their vulnerability, information on 24 April – 19 June 2018
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AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 common conservation problems and treasures, from the enigmatic solutions, and the preservation warrior’s earliest appearances in measures that can be taken to Welsh literature to his kingly prolong the life and accessibility of ‘conquests’ of an European stage by photographic collections. Contact means of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s with real examples of different twelfth-century History of the Kings photographic processes is an of Britain. Presenting materials in important feature of this training Welsh, Latin, French, Cornish and session which is therefore limited to English, this exhibition only 16 places. At the end of the demonstrates how a character of day participants will be able to: humble origins captured the identify historic photographic imaginations of a continent, and processes, explain how damage is became the most famous of all caused, implement appropriate kings. preservation measures, commission conservation work. For further Humphrey Llwyd - Inventor of information about the course, please Britain contact the course organiser: From 13 January to 24 March +44(0)1243818219 or 2018 [email protected] An exhibition to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the death of EXHIBITIONS one of the most important figures of Information has been drawn from the Welsh Renaissance. Humphrey press-releases and websites as well Llwyd is credited with coining the as contributions from our members term 'British empire' and through and colleagues. Please check his writings and maps he helped to opening dates and times and other shape our understanding of Welsh details before travelling as these history and identity. Llwyd was may vary from those given here. also involved in securing the passage of the Act of Parliament ABERYSTWYTH, which allowed the translation of the NATIONAL LIBRARY OF New Testament into Welsh by WALES William Salesbury, in 1567, the Arthur and Welsh Mythology 450th anniversary of which is Until 16 December 2017 celebrated this year. This exhibition forms part of the AHRC funded The Arthurian Legend is arguably project, ‘Inventor of Britain: The Wales’ most successful Complete Works of Humphrey international export. The National Llwyd’. Library of Wales has long been a thriving centre for Arthurian What’s New? Recent Accessions studies, based on its unrivalled From 16 September to 16 collections of source materials - December 2017 both manuscript and printed - from An opportunity to see some of the the medieval period to the present. recent additions to the Library’s This exhibition show-cases some of collections. Highlights include a the Library’s greatest Arthurian
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AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 large selection of contemporary art the world. The exhibition will from a generous donation, a display cultural artefacts of selection of letters added to the international importance ranging William Condry papers, and from works by Holbein the younger sermons by Griffith Jones of to Hokusai. The exhibition will also Llanddowror. feature autograph letters by Martin Luther, Constanze Mozart and Kyffin: Behind the Frame Emperor Napoleon III. Early in 2018, the National Library The exhibition will be open from of Wales will be commemorating Wednesdays to Fridays, 11am – the centenary of the birth of Kyffin 4pm. For more information see, Williams (1918-2006), the https://www.sustb- Llangefni-born painter who is augsburg.de/index.php?id=212#c10 regarded as one of the defining 18 Welsh artists of the 20th century. The exhibition will include a BANGOR, UNIVERSITY selection of the vast collection of ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL paintings, drawings, prints and COLLECTIONS archival material held at the Commemorating the centenary of Library, including some hitherto the death of Hedd Wyn ‘unseen’ works bequeathed by the Until 15 December 2017 artist himself. Hedd Wyn was a poet and soldier AUGSBURG, STATE AND who died on the first day of the CITY LIBRARY OF Battle of Passchendaele on 31st July AUGSBURG 2017. The exhibition celebrates his ‘Gold and books is what I love’ life and legacy, and will display 480 years of the State and City early drafts of his poetry and Library Augsburg personal letters in which he From 19 October to 15 December describes ‘life behind the lines’. 2017 DUBLIN, TRINITY COLLEGE The State and City Library of Frank Stephens (1884-1948): A Augsburg is a state-funded regional Life in Photographs library of Bavaria, world famous of Until 3 October 2017 its rich heritage of rare books and special collections. The library was The Frank Stephens photographic founded in 1537 and will celebrate collection comprises 2000 lantern its 480th anniversary with a slides generously donated to the commemorative exhibition opening Trinity College Dublin by the on 19th October 2017. The library Stephen’s family. It is the subject of has an exceptionally rich collection an exhibition in the long Room and of medieval and renaissance a forthcoming online exhibition manuscripts from Europe, the https://www.tcd.ie/library/exhibitio Orient and India, as well as ns/ historical prints, woodcuts and Francis Edmund (Frank) Stephens printing equipment from all over was born in Rathgar, Dublin in
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November 1884, a nephew of the the men of the Endurance and their playwright John Millington Synge, story. This exhibition showcases who introduced the young Frank to Hurley’s images alongside items photography. Stephens’ from the Library’s collections photographs cast a non-partisan eye relating to polar exploration and to on life in Ireland at a time of James Wordie, a Scottish geologist seismic political and cultural on the expedition, to tell the change. His images capture fascinating story of the expedition. traditional aspects of life and The exhibition was researched, landscape that were rapidly written and curated for the Royal disappearing. But it is not a purely Geographical Society (with IBG) sentimental or nostalgic view. by Antarctic expert and historian Frank deployed his hand-held box Meredith Hooper. camera to record antiquaries, architecture and street scenes and, The International Style of Muriel perhaps most effectively, the often spark strenuous reality of life on Aran 8 December 2017 – 13 May 2018 Islands and the west of Ireland. This exhibition will celebrate Spark Further information can be found in the city in which she set her most on Trinity College’s blog, famous novel, The Prime of Miss http://www.tcd.ie/library/manuscrip Jean Brodie, on the centenary of ts/blog/2017/09/frank-stephens-a- her birth. life-in-photographs/ Using the Library’s Spark archive, the exhibition illuminates Spark’s literary style, her personal style and EDINBURGH, NATIONAL love of fashion, the importance of LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND the various international locations Enduring Eye: the Antartic she called home, and the amazing legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton correspondence she maintained and Frank Hurley with international stars and literary Until 12 November 2017 royalty. The acquisition of the archive by the Library is presented ‘Enduring Eye’ honours the as a metaphorical homecoming for achievements of Sir Ernest a Scottish writer of international Shackleton and the men of the stature and unique style. Endurance expedition of 1914-17, by showcasing one of the greatest Creative Lives: the Duval and ever photographic records of human Hamilton partnership survival. Until 15 October 2017 Following the loss of the polar This display celebrates the exploration ship Endurance in the contribution of Kulgin Duval and autumn of 1915, Shackleton’s Colin Hamilton to Scottish life and official photographer Frank Hurley letters over five decades. From an saved as many of his fragile early beginning dealing in rare photographic negatives as he could books and manuscripts, their carry to provide a lasting record of partnership became the centrepoint
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AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 of many literary and creative This is a landmark exhibition, and friendships, including Hugh the centerpiece of the 20th- MacDiarmid and George Mackay anniversary celebrations of Harry Brown. Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. ‘The Reformation: what was it all Journey to where magic and myth about?’ began – British Library Members go free. For further information see, 19 October – 10 December 2017 https://www.bl.uk/events/harry- On 31 October 1517 Martin Luther potter-a-history-of-magic nailed a sheet with 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg, NEW HAVEN, setting developments in motion BEINECKE LIBRARY, YALE whose effects are still noticeable UNIVERSITY today. To commemorate this 500th Making the Medieval English anniversary, a display of material Manuscript: The Takamiya dating from the Reformation will Collection in the Beinecke chart the events which led to the Library split of Western Christianity into From 1 September 2017 to the Catholic and the Protestant 10bDecember 2018. churches. The most impressive collection of LONDON, BRITISH LIBRARY medieval English manuscripts that Harry Potter: A History of Magic had been in private hands will be on From 20 October 2017 to 28 exhibition for the first time in the February 2018 United States at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Four This autumn, the British Library unique Chaucer manuscripts, hosts a major new exhibition, numerous devotional rolls, and marking the 20th anniversary of the works as varied as publication of Harry Potter and the Boethius’ Consolation of Philosopher’s Stone. Featuring Philosophy, Langland’s Piers the medieval manuscripts and early Plowman and a Middle English printed books from the Library’s medical manuscript—all from the collections, alongside unique collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, a artefacts from J.K. Rowling’s generous scholar and collector — personal archive, the exhibition will be shown in the context of the explores the history and mythology Beinecke Library’s own rich behind the stories in the Harry holdings of English and Continental Potter books. It is structured around manuscripts. some of the subjects studied at Hogwarts, such as Astronomy, With a rare combination of Herbology and Potions, and scholarly and antiquarian expertise, features everything from unicorns Professor Emeritus Takamiya of to cauldrons and dragons to Keio University in Tokyo broomsticks (and even a real-life assembled an unrivalled collection mermaid!). of medieval manuscripts over four decades. Held privately in Japan,
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AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 the collection had been relatively see, unstudied in the West, and http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitio Professor Takamiya’s generous ns/imaginingthedivine/ deposit of these manuscripts at the Beinecke Library in 2013 made a READING, UNIVERSITY OF significant contribution to medieval READING SPECIAL scholarship at Yale University and COLLECTIONS internationally. From Italy to Britain: The fall 2017 exhibition celebrates Wincklemann and the spread of and showcases these medieval neoclassical taste manuscripts, now permanently part From 15 September to 15 of the Beinecke collections, and December 2017 demonstrates how they combine The writings of German art with the library’s existing holdings historian and archaeologist Johann to make the Beinecke Library a Joachim Wincklemann (1717-1768) vital center for scholars, students, laid the foundation for the spread of and the public to engage medieval neoclassical taste in the 18th English literature, history, and century. Through rare books from manuscript culture. Special Collections, works from the For further details go to, University Art Collection and http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhi objects from the Ure Museum of bitions/making-english-book Greek Archaeology, this exhibition will explore the development of OXFORD, ASHMOLEAN Neoclassicism in Britain. MUSEUM OF ART AND For further information see, ARCHAEOLOGY https://www.reading.ac.uk/special- Imaging the Divine: Art and the collections/ Rise of World Religions From 19 October 2017 to 18 VIENNA, AUSTRIAN February 2018 NATIONAL LIBRARY Exploring Buddhism, Christianity, Manuscripts and Papyri: the Hinduism, Islam and Judaism, this routes of knowledge. major exhibition will be the first to Until 1 January 2018 look at the art of the five world The new special exhibition at the religions as they spread across Papyrus Museum at the Austrian continents in the first millennium National Library tells of the long AD. On display will be remarkable journeys made by objects created when iconography knowledge: antique papyri and of each religion was still being mediaeval manuscripts document developed. Art and imagery were the often arduous but exciting central to the spread of these routes that texts have travelled over systems of belief, and the visual many centuries. identity of each religion was formed The exhibits paint an impressive by encounters and interactions picture of how knowledge was between different faiths and other recorded, conveyed and shared traditions. For more information 24
AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 before the invention of printing. addressed to Sir Edward Pryce Passed on and preserved across Lloyd (1768-1854). 1st Baron linguistic and religious borders, (Forum Auctions, London, 30 some of these ancient texts March 2017, lots 307 & 317) (NLW ultimately became integral parts of MS 24107). our own educational canon so that Four lots were purchased in the they are still very relevant today. Glyn Cywarch sale at Bonhams, For further information see, London, on 29 March 2017: three https://www.onb.ac.at/en/museums/ of Lord Harlech's Game Books, papyrus-museum/special- 1882-1925 (lot 376); manuscript exhibitions/manuscripts-and- catalogue of the library at papyri-the-routes-of-knowledge/ Brogyntyn [1809] (lot 386); two manuscript catalogues of plays at NEW ARRIVALS Brogyntyn, 1815 and [early 19th Librarians, archivists and users are cent.] (lot 387) and a journal kept invited to inform the Editor of any by W.R. Ormsby Gore of the 13th notable new accessions to Light Dragoons, 10 May to 1 institutional collections. September 1854 (lot 392) (added to Brogyntyn Estate and Family ABERYSTWYTH, NATIONAL Records). LIBRARY OF WALES Holograph letter, dated 30 August Submitted by Maredudd ap Huw, 1916, from the Irish nationalist Curator of Manuscripts. Seán Hales (1880-1922), describing Pedigree of Gawen Goodman conditions during his incarceration (1526-1604) of Ruthin, based on at Frongoch internment camp, the work of Simwnt Fychan, and North Wales (added to NLW MS drawn on parchment by Richard 24044D). Thomlyns of Denbigh in 1584 Trench diary, 1916, of Corporal (Purchased with the assistance of Howard L. Roberts of Borth, the Friends of the National Ceredigion, who served with the Libraries) (NLW MS 24106G). RAMC’s 129th Field Ambulance An archive of diaries and Unit at the Battle of the Somme photographs relating to Henry (NLW MS 24093A). Watkin Lewis (d. 1897) of Merthyr A series of diaries in twelve Tydfil, engineer and founder of the volumes, 1921-1948, kept by Treherbert Engineering Works, Ronald M. Lockley (1903-2000), including a journal detailing his the ornithologist and naturalist observations during a tour of the (Ronald Lockley Diaries). USA in 1887 (Forum Auctions, London, 30 March 2017, lot 340) A collection of letters, documents (NLW ex 2974). and photographs from the estate of Jennifer Longford (1929-2012), Papers, 1776-1843, deriving from a alleged daughter of Prime Minister cadet branch of the family of David Lloyd George by his long- Mostyn of Mostyn, Flintshire, time mistress Frances Stevenson. including a song, [1802], by Hester The papers include cards and letters Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821)
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AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 exchanged by David Lloyd George (1895-1974) and the battle of and Jennifer Longford as a child Mametz. Hughes visited David (Bloomsbury Auctions, London, 23 Jones on numerous occasions to March 2017, lots 297-301 & 305) discuss elements of the attacks on (added to Frances Stevenson Mametz Wood by the Welsh Family Papers). battalions in July 1916 during the A collection of papers, 1920s- Battle of the Somme (Colin Hughes 1950s, relating to composer and Papers). actor Ivor Novello (1893-1951) and A holograph poem entitled ‘A, a, a, his mother, singer Clara Novello Domine Deus’ by David Jones, Davies (1861-1943). The papers dated 1938 and 1966 (added to were accumulated by singer NLW MS 24044D). Theresa Freebairn Smith, a member Holograph poem, entitled ‘Birds in of Clara’s Royal Welsh Ladies Winter’, by author Berta Ruck Choir, and include telegraphs (1878-1978), illustrated by the poet between Ivor and his mother, dated with a watercolour illustration of an 1924, during a choir tour of the airman (Cheffins Fine Art USA (Catherine Southon Auctioneers, Cambridge, 6 July Auctioneers & Valuers Ltd., Surrey, 2017, lot 160) (added to NLW MS 7 June 2017, lot 454) (NLW ex 24044D). 2980). Further holograph drafts of literary A collection of papers, photographs works, [1960-1990], by writer and memorabilia accumulated by Dyddgu Owen (1906-92) (added to Captain Edward Lees (1921-1985) Papurau Dyddgu Owen). whilst acting as intelligence officer Thirty letters, 1977-1984, from and interpreter at Special Camp 11 novelist and playwright James (Island Farm, POW Camp), Hanley (1897-1985) to the author Bridgend. Some of the papers relate Lawrence Millman (1948- ) of to testimonies given by Field Cambridge, Massachusetts (NLW Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt (1875- ex 2967). 1953) (C&T Auctioneers and Valuers, Ashford, 15 March 2017, Papers of David Daniel Bartlett lot 109) (NLW MS 24094). (1900-1977), Bishop of St Asaph between 1950 and 1971 (added to A further group of papers Diocese of St. Asaph records). accumulated by Gordon Macdonald (first Baron Macdonald of Three letters, dated 1993, to Beata Gwaenysgor, 1888-1966), including Brookes MEP from Prime Minister diaries, speeches, letters, documents John Major (Rogers Jones & Co., and photographs relating to his time Colwyn Bay, 23 May 2017, lot 316) as British Governor of (added to Beata Brookes Papers). Newfoundland, 1946-1949 (added Original compositions, 1952-1978, to Lord Macdonald of Gwaenysgor by composer David Harries (1933- Papers). 2003), formerly senior lecturer at Papers accumulated by Colin the Royal Welsh College of Music Hughes relating to David Jones and Drama in Cardiff (David Harries Music Manuscripts).
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Twelve files of papers, 1987-2016, Forbes of Fettercairn & Pitsligo. relating to the Wales Deaf (NLS Acc.13827) Broadcasting Council, including Sermons, 1703-33, of the Rev. minutes, correspondence and Archibald Lundie, Minister of treasurer's papers (Wales Deaf Saltoun. (NLS Acc.13799) Broadcasting Council Papers). Letter, 1786, of Robert Burns to The first tranche of papers relating William Niven, on his proposed to the early years of the National emigration and the recent edition of Assembly for Wales (National his poems. (NLS Acc.13839) Assembly for Wales Archive). MS leaf, ca. 1820, of Walter Scott’s DURHAM UNIVERSITY The Abbot with holograph LIBRARY, ARCHIVES & corrections. (NLS Acc.13829) SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Journal, 1857, of a continental tour Submitted by Michael Stansfield, by Lady Mary Christopher Nisbet Deputy Head of Archives & Special Hamilton, née Bruce. (NLS Collections. Acc.13811) Antonio Guevara’s Institutione del Papers, ca. 1895-2013, of Sir John Principe Christiano (Venice 1543), Adam Thomson, Diplomat, and of bound in a leaf from a 14th century his father, George Paget Thomson. Italian choirbook (SB 2532) (NLS Acc.13791) Cicero’s Ad Q[uintum] Fratrem, Manuscript, ?1935, of “Christmas Dialogi Tres de Oratore part II, for Agnes,” a short story by A.J. (Lyons 1588) in a magnificent Cronin, with letter. (NLS contemporary French gilt tooled Acc.13835) mosaic binding (SB 2535) Literary, personal and political An 1835 map of Arabia and Sudan papers, ca.1943-78, of Robert by Ehrenberg and Rüppell (PamSC Bonnar, with minutes and papers, 02411) 1917-78, of the National Union of 2 bifolia from a French gradual of Railwaymen. (NLS Acc.13810) the later 12th century (Add Ms Personal and political papers, 1950/10), which has already used 1950s-80s, of William Wolfe, for a display for a group of college Scottish politician. (NLS alumni, one of whom was able to Acc.13808) sing it. Papers, ca. 1950 – 1990s, of Robert Lowe McLaughlan (1935-99), EDINBURGH, NATIONAL journalist, academic and historian. LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND (NLS Acc.13828) Significant accessions for the Papers, ca. 1950s – ca. 2006, of period September 2016–March Major General James Johnston 2017, selected by Kenneth Dunn, (1939-2006) relating to his Manuscript & Archive Collections regimental and staff career in the Manager. Army, and personal papers. (NLS Further papers, 15th – 20th centuries, Acc.13818) of the family of Forbes and Stuart
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Letters, ca. 1958-86, of W.S. Andrew Motion papers, [1966- Graham to Ronnie Duncan, with 2015] Add. MS 89245 poetry manuscripts, typescripts and George Bernard Shaw drawings, and related correspondence with Tita Brant and correspondence. (NLS Acc.13815) Marie Brema, [1892-1937] Add. Letters, 1970-95, of George MS 89246 Mackay Brown to Moira Burgess. John Flavell, ‘An Exposition of the (NLS Acc.13792) Assemblies Catachism with Personal, political, and scholarly practical inferences from each papers, ca.1980-2015, of Professor Question, as it was carried on in the Christopher Harvie. (NLS Lords days Exercises in Dartmouth, Acc.13797) in the first year of liberty 1688’, [c.1688-c.1692] Add. MS 89247 LONDON, BRITISH LIBRARY 17th century commonplace book of Submitted by Michael St. John religious writings, [17th century] McAlister, Western Manuscripts Add. MS 89248 Cataloguing Manager. Autograph drafts by Algernon Mostyn Psalter-Hours: a new th Charles Swinburne, [1869-c.1900] acquisition, [13 century] Add. Add. MS 89249 82950. The Mostyn Psalter-Hours, [c.1275- Lee Laurie/Val French Blake c.1325] Add. MS 89250 correspondence, [1944-1946] Add. MS 89238 Draft of ‘The Fourth Wall’ by A.A. Milne, [1920s] Add. MS 89251 Lee Harwood/David Miller Correspondence, [1992-1997] Add. Autograph spiritual notebook of MS 89239 William Jemmat, [c.1615] Add. MS 89252 ‘Phantasmagoria’, or ‘Ready st Reckoning by Rumour Run Riot’, Sir John Perceval, 1 Earl of by Silvigi, [c.1934] Add. MS 89240 Egmont. Autogrpah letter about Irish affairs to ‘JP’, John Pigott, Letters from Havelock Ellis to [1685] Add. 89253 Kathleen Rosemary Corry Hodgson, [1932-1971] Add. MS Edward Lear, Letters to Lady 89241 Arabella Montagu Wyatt, [1869- 1874] Add. MS 89254 George Bernard Shaw papers relating to a 1935 wireless G. K. Chesterton, corrected original interview with Maurice Webb in typescript of ‘A Short History of Durban, South Africa, [1935-1950] England’, [1917] Add MS. 89255 Add. MS 89242 Travel journals of Mary Cecelia Correspondence between George Blencowe, [1870-1872] Add. MS Bernard Shaw and Herbert 89256 Marshall, [1940-1948] Add. MS Autograph manuscript of No Truce 89243 with Time and first editions of No Angelique Rockas archive, [1978- Truce with Time, The Mule on the 2016] Add. MS 89233 Minaret and Guy Renton, by Alec
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Waugh, [1939-1965] Add. MS Rhodes James devised a way of 89257 cataloguing that allowed regular Grimadli family correspondence, production of catalogues of [1805-1839] Add. MS 89258 manuscripts in Cambridge colleges. Papers of John Fisher, Bishop of The catalogue of manuscripts in Salisbury, canon of St George’s Balliol College, Oxford, by R.A.B. Chapel Windsor, and Mynors (1963) set a standard superindentent of the education of adopted by Neil Ker in his Princess Charlotte, [1758-1849] monumental Medieval Manuscripts Add. MS 89259 in British Libraries from 1969 onwards. These were scholars who Papers regarding the compensation included nothing extraneous: when claims of Thomas Breakenridge, there is detail, the user knows that it late owner of the Philips Valley answers a question in the mind of Estate, Port Royal, Jamaica, lodged scholars who saw their work against under the West India Compensation the background of a wider history Account, [1822-1841] Add. MS of book production and the 89260 intellectual history of the middle Hard drive containing a complete ages and its aftermath. Since 1969, collection of digitised media of course, information about interviews, print articles and manuscripts, their physical nature, documentary films by John Pilger their images, texts and ornament along with boxes of notes, [20th-2st has not only been vastly extended cent.] Add. MS 89261 but also made available in Macmillan archive [1890-1969] electronic as well as printed form. Add. MS 89262 (The Queen’s College library Manucsript playscripts for The website includes images from Nightingale and School, by T. W. manuscripts described by this Robertson, [1868-1869] Add. MS catalogue). 89263 Kidd’s account of medieval manuscripts in Queen’s College BOOK REVIEWS joins catalogues of college collections by A.G. Watson, R.M. P. Kidd, A Descriptive Catalogue Thomson and others which have of the Medieval Manuscripts of the developed principles laid down by Queen’s College, Oxford, (Oxford, Mynors and Ker. Like them, he The Oxford Bibliogrpahical assumes a medieval manuscript to Society, 2016). 302 pp, b/w, 48 col. be a book-like object written before Plates. £90. 1500. Kidd has provided a Reviewed by Rowan Watson magnificent catalogue, with works Medieval manuscripts in the analysed in impressive detail. Some colleges of Oxford and Cambridge 60 works are described, along with universities have perhaps had a two guardbooks containing special influence on the way miscellaneous leaves and manuscript catalogues have fragments, so that the collection is developed in Britain. Montagu not of a kind that provides a source
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AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 for the intellectual history of the discussion of text from that of College and university (John physical and other features, or, for Magrath’s 1921 history of the example, a literalness in describing Queen’s College is referred to for a a Bible where the repetition of the wider context). Kidd brings word ‘Stegmüller R.B.’ for each of together information about the the Bible prologues appears 75 library’s early contents from other times on one page, where other sources, beginning with an catalogues give merely a list of the indenture of 1378 that records 24 Stegmüller numbers (as volumes stolen and then recovered Stegmüller’s repertory goes on-line, by the College, up to references in there is an argument for omitting the Index Britanniae scriptorum of the actual incipits). John Bale (d.1563) and beyond; the Earlier catalogues were powerful in history of shelfmarking is given in their brevity, information provided some detail, with some 22 almost in schematic form with manuscripts described and avoidance of lengthy descriptive numbered by Gerard Langbaine prose. Today, the way to present (1609-1658) being in the College information in a concise fashion on library today. Oddities like books of illumination, secondary ornament, hours were among post-medieval binding, codicology and other gifts by the likes of Thomas subjects can be a challenge for the Wilbram (perhaps 1607) and Hugh cataloguer. Descriptions of Todd (before 1723), doubtless as manuscripts in recent catalogues objects of antiquarian curiosity. range from a series of mini-essays Among the advantages of the hard- under a number of headings to a copy catalogue over an electronic kind of finding-aid which allows one is the ability to browse and users to identify easily the cross-reference with ease, information which corresponds to typography and page design his or her interest. Perhaps there is a allowing rapid and easy access to correlation between the acceptance different classes of information, and of ‘Manuscript Studies’ as a subject above all preventing what has been in itself and the assumption that a called ‘information over-load’. The catalogue description only makes format of Kidd’s catalogue and the sense if read as a whole. Kidd’s headings under which information approach finds a middle position; is provided will be familiar to there is very rich information in this students of manuscript studies; catalogue but on occasion the there are of course all sorts of category in which it is given means constraints here as text has to be that the whole entry has to be read squeezed into a given number of to extract the detail the user may be pages to make a volume after. publishable. Perhaps only the eye A point where one might take issue of the pedant will be disturbed by with Kidd’s method concerns features such as the lavish use of illustration. Anyone using a round brackets, the difference in Flemish book of hours of c.1500 font size for distinguishing (MS 349) will want an account of
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AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 the subject and positioning of the researchers off and is only owned miniatures, but to load this with by the hyper-specialist. Hugh recent identifications of the Houghton shows us how to illuminators (‘The Master of untangle the convoluted history of Queen’s 349’ and ‘The Master of the Latin New Testament, and he the Prayer Books of about 1500’) is does so by going through the to include information of quite a various phases of its history in a different order, an art-historical clear and clarifying manner. This argument where attributions and handbook, as the author rightly names can change, even for styles calls it in the introduction, is as distinctive as that of the ‘Masters organized along two axes. The first of Otto van Moerdrecht’ (MS 210). surveys the evidence and Kidd’s format allows no general chronological development of the consideration of each work where text from its origins in the second its significance for art history or century to ‘the tenth century and book history in general can be onwards’. This latter heading suggested – one misses the personal already suggests that Houghton’s discourse which makes some survey loses interest in the many catalogues attractive reading. The things that are happening in the user will consult this catalogue with second millennium, though some gratitude, impressed with its remarks are offered relating to thoroughness, its precision of issues into the 16th century. But description in matters such as then, the book promises to offer the binding, its indices, but perhaps reader a guide to the early history consider with sympathy Ralph and that is what it does. The second Hanna’s recent suggestion axis describes the features of the (‘Manuscript catalogues and book early text and of its manuscripts. It history’, The Library, 7th series, gives an overview of the vol.18, no.1, March 2017) that manuscripts and abbreviations used ‘formulaic presentation’ in recent in their text, of the tools available catalogues does not serve book for its study, and of the textual history as it might. character of the tradition. Included here is a 70+ page catalogue of all Houghton, H.A.G. The Latin New the witnesses cited in the various Testament: A Guide to its Early editions of the Latin New History, Texts and Manuscripts, Testament. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016) 400 pp. ISBN: Throughout this work Houghton 9780198744733. £25 takes care to offer the material in such a way that this guide is Reviewed by Dirk Jongkind, compatible with all the major Deputy Senior Tutor, St Edmonds citation systems that are found in College, Cambridge. the field of Latin textual studies, Every ancient text has its history, including providing the and such textual history can become abbreviations for any Latin author quite quickly a complex and tangled and their writings as used in the set of issues that puts most Repertorium of the Vetus Latina.
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Furthermore, besides the extensive sections remained part of the bibliography, Houghton gives us manuscript tradition, including all four different indices, underlying sorts of mixtures. Houghton makes his concern for easy access. The special mention of Cassiodorus, a reader will be delighted to learn that sixth-century Roman statesman, the full edition of this guide is also who is often see as responsible for available through Open Access. introducing the big pandects The Latin New Testament is, of containing the whole Latin bible. course, a translation made directly Though their beginning may date from the Greek. Our first from before the sixth century, they knowledge of this translation is postdate the similar, but short- only indirect and comes from the lasting, use of the whole-bible court proceedings of the Scillitan codex in the Greek tradition. Martyrs (AD 180; in Latin) in The situation in subsequent which ‘books and letters of Paul’ centuries becomes more complex, are mentioned. From there on we with Irish and British manuscript learn about the Latin text through production becoming influential, citations and commentaries of with several attempts at revision church fathers such as Tertullian and standardization of the text and Cyprian. Though Tertullian (Alcuin, Theodulf), and with the coined many a Christian term, it is emergence of additional localised an overstatement to talk about a texts (e.g. the Spanish family of Christian form of Latin in these texts). Houghton’s chapter divisions days. The oldest Latin manuscript, of the various time frames work Codex Bobiensis, comes from the well, as long as one takes these as fourth century. By the time of indicative, as is already suggested Jerome and Augustine there are in the deliberately vague chapter multiple indications that the Latin titles. So are the Echternach text had developed into a variety of Gospels (end of 7th century) treated different forms. This situation led to in the chapter on the 8th and 9th Jerome’s revision of existing Latin century, and there are other texts into what became known as examples like this. the Vulgate (first occurrence of the The second part of the book gives a term in the council of Trent; mid- careful introduction to the actual 16th century). By this time Greek manuscripts and to the text. Here had virtually disappeared as a this guide’s interest in the Latin current language in the ecclesial tradition is, at times, coloured by West. From the fifth century, a the aim to use the Latin to learn number of bilingual Greek-Latin about the Greek source language (a witnesses survive. Jerome’s feature that has always driven some translation was influential and scholars in the field). Houghton spread quickly, yet this did not reviews the various editions, the mean that the older text-forms tools available, and discusses for disappeared immediately and each of the sections of the New completely. For centuries Testament what ancient and modern afterwards pre-Vulgate readings or resources are available. It is
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AMARC Newsletter no. 69 October 2017 particularly in this section that Bibliographical details are as given Houghton’s expertise as a by contributors, press releases or practitioner shines through: he has websites and the amount of used most of this material himself information is variable. for some time. Archives: Principles and Practice, All in all The Latin New Testament Laura A. Millar, 2nd ed. (London: is a rich resource that serves a Facet Publishing, 2017) 352pp. number of different audiences. ISBN: 978 17833 02062. £49.95; Perhaps the only weaker point of CILIP members £39.95. this book is the discussion of Latin palaeography. On p.73 ‘uncial Clavis Litterarum Hibernensium. script’ and ‘Insular majuscules’ are Medieval Irish Books & Texts (c. distinguished, which might lead 400–c. 1600), Donnchadh Ó someone to the index for the term Corráin, 3 vols, Corpus ‘Insular majuscule’. There is only Christianorum Claves (Turnhout: mention of ‘script, Insular’, and the Brepols, June 2017). 2000+ pp. first reference is on p.54, which ISBN 978-2-503-54857-9. mentions an ‘Irish, semi-uncial Introductory price €560 (€450 for script’ (which does not help much series subscribers) until 31 October to understand the distinction made 2017, thereafter €875 (subscribers on p.73). Of course the place to go €695). to is in the ‘Features’ section (p.190), which helpfully tells us that Directory of Rare Books and ‘majuscule’ is simple a generic term Special Collections in the United for a capital letters, but that there is Kingdom and the Republic of such a thing as Irish or Anglo- Ireland, Karen Attar, 3rd ed. Saxon half-uncial and also a ‘script (London: Facet Publishing, 2016) developed for the great 608pp. ISBN: 978 178330 0167. Northumbrian manuscripts’. The £175; CILIP members £140. reader should note, though, that this Editing and Interpretation of reviewer had to work hard to find Middle English Texts: Essays in something to complain about. Hugh Honour of William Marx, Connolly, Houghton has produced a thorough, M. And Radulescu, R. [12th near-complete, and insightful volume in the series ‘Texts and introduction to the early history of Translations’. (Turnhout, Brepols, the Latin New Testament and to its 2017) 350pp. ISBN: scholarly study. Textual scholars 9782503568478. will find a comprehensive overview and access to further material, Brought to book: Print in Ireland, historians will find a technically 1680-1784, Barnard, T. (Dublin: responsible, yet accessible, history Four Courts Press Ltd, 2017) of transmission. 400pp. ISBN: 9781846826290. €45. SOME RECENT Graphic Devices and the Early PUBLICATIONS decorated book, ed. Michelle P. Brown, Idar H. Garipzanov & 33
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Benjamin C. Tilghman (Boydell K.S. (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, Press, October 2016), 352pp., 9 col. 2017) illustr., 83 b/w illustr. ISBN: 9778 1 78327 226 6. £60/$99. The Ormesby Psalter: Patrons and Artists in Medieval East Anglia, Henry Bradshaw and the Frederica C.E. Law-Turner (The Foundations of Codicology. The Bodleian Library, 2017), pp., ilustr, Sandars Lectures 2015, Richard ISBN: 9781851243105. Copies are Beadle (Cambridge, 2015), 99 pp., available from The Bodleian 42 col. & b/w illustr., p/b. ISBN Library Shop: £30.00. 978-1-5272-0907-7. Copies are available from: Richard Beadle, St Tudor Monarchs: Lives in Letters, John’s College, Cambridge A. Clarke (The British Library CB21TP
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NEW ACQUISITION AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS 24106G The Pedigree of Gawen Goodman of Ruthin, 1584, recently purchased by the National Library of Wales with the assistance of the Friends of the National Libraries. © Trwy garedigrwydd Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/By kind permission of the National Library of Wales.
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HARRY POTTER – A HISTORY OF MAGIC AT THE BRITISH LIRBARY
London, British Library, Harley MS 4751 Miniature of a phoenix biting a branch, and below, burning, illustrating the text that when it felt that it was growing old, it would make its own funeral pyre, and allow itself to be consumed in the flames, which it fanned with its wings, and that it would rise again from the ashes. The manuscript is a thirteenth century bestiary, which is heavily illustrated with mythical and exotic animals. © By kind permission of the British Library.
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