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Newsletter39 No.39: October 2002 ISSN 0263-3442 AMARC NEWSLETTER Newsletter of the Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections AMARC meeting in Oxford AMARC meeting in Dublin Manuscripts in the Time of Sir Thomas From Codex To Copyright: Literary Bodley Manuscripts And Archives 1 July, Oxford Trinity College, Dublin, 20-21 September 2002 Since the May newsletter, AMARC has organized The cheerful gathering on a mild and sunny early two conferences. The first, hosted by Merton College, Autumn weekend in Dublin was tempered only by the Oxford, celebrated the four-hundredth anniversary of recollection that the conference had been postponed the re-opening on 8 November 1602 of the Bodleian from the previous September because of the Library, with a series of papers concerning melancholy events of September 11th. Dr Bernard manuscripts in the time of Sir Thomas Bodley, who Meehan and his staff had arranged a short but well- had been a fellow of Merton. After an admirably packed programme of lectures and visits seasoned brisk Annual General Meeting, papers began in the with excellent refreshments, and opportunities to get College ante-chapel with a memorable talk by David out and about in the city of Dublin and the Vaisey, Bodley’s Librarian Emeritus, under the nose surrounding countryside. The courtesy and efficiency of Sir Thomas himself, as portrayed in his fine of the accommodations staff at TCD - as well as the funerary monument. famous charm of the people of Dublin - also contributed to a memorable event. Exchanging atmosphere for comfort, we then moved to the senior common room for the remaining papers, The programme of lectures began early on Friday the subjects of which included the collecting of afternoon, while I was still struggling through the Hebrew and Greek manuscripts and the cataloguing packed streets of Dublin city centre en route from the and storage of manuscripts in the time of Bodley. The airport bus stop, and ranged from Prof. John day’s speakers, David Vaisey, Peter Pormann, Nigel Scattergood on the Middle English MSS at TCD to Wilson, David Rundle, James Clark, and Clare the novelist John Banville speaking about his work Sargent, deserve special thanks for their and working methods. In between, Christopher contributions. Coffee, a fine lunch, and tea in Hall Fletcher from the Department of Manuscripts at the kept energy levels up for what was a fairly long day, British Library spoke on collecting the papers of extending as it did from the papers, to an exhibition living authors; Jude Dicken (Assistant Archivist at St specially put on for us in Merton Old Library, a George’s Chapel, Windsor) talked about the papers of chance to see some of the College archives in the Alasdair Gray and Muriel Spark; and I spoke on medieval Muniment Tower, then on to another access and copyright problems in modern drama exhibition in the Old Schools Quadrangle, and drinks collections. David Sutton, the UK Director of the in the ever-breathtaking splendour of the Divinity WATCH (Writers and Their Copyright Holders) School, the last two courtesy of the Bodleian. Thanks project, entranced the gathering with an entertaining also go to the organisers, especially Julia Walworth, and thought-provoking update on the progress of the Merton’s Fellow Librarian, Michael Stansfield, WATCH project and the Location Register of English College Archivist, and Claire Breay, AMARC literary manuscripts. The evening’s official business meetings secretary (making a welcome re-appearance ended with a reception in the atmospheric from maternity leave, with well-behaved infant in surroundings of the Long Room, with not only an tow). exhibition of literary MSS in the library itself, but the opportunity to see the Book of Kells and the AMARC Newsletter no.39, October 2002 Page 1 exhibition ‘Turning darkness into light’ in the gallery library, delegates enjoyed a tour of the Library itself, on the lower floor. with its award-winning exhibition. On Saturday, conference delegates visited Thanks are due to Dr Meehan and his hard-working Archbishop Marsh’s Library, introduced with great and efficient staff for arranging such a vivid and spirit by the Librarian, Muriel McCarthy, and fulfilling programme - thanks particularly for leaving delegates who have had the pleasure of monitoring just the right amount of time for delegates to meet readers with rare books and manuscripts sighed over and greet old friends, and to discuss the issues raised the neat locked cages which the good Archbishop had by the lectures. built for the use of early readers who might be tempted to abscond with smaller volumes. The Kathryn Johnson conference drew to a close at the Chester Beatty Department of Manuscripts, British Library Library, where after a convivial lunch in the reference crash palace" Personal Clare Brown (formerly of the Bodleian Library), was Ian Mowat, formerly Chief Librarian of the appointed Assistant Archivist of Lambeth Palace in University of Edinburgh Library, died in a hill- July, and Susannah Rayner (formerly of Westminster walking accident in September. A memorial fund has City Archives), was appointed Deputy Librarian & been established in his memory. For more Archivist of Lambeth Palace in September. information, see www.lib.ed.ac.uk/news/ian_mowat4.shtml. Kathleen Cann retired from the staff of Cambridge University Library’s Manuscripts Department on 31 Michael Stansfield (formerly Archivist at Merton May. College, Oxford) has been appointed Assistant Keeper in the Archives and Special Collections Mary Clapinson, Keeper of Special Collections and Department of the University Library in Durham. Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian, is taking early retirement at the end of the year, after 34 years at the Liz Teviotdale (formerly of the Department of library, 16 of them as Keeper. Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum) has been appointed Assistant Director of the Medieval Institute Tim Graham (formerly of the Western Michigan at Western Michigan University. University) has been appointed Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of John Tuck (formerly at the Bodleian Library) has New Mexico. been appointed the head of British Collections at the British Library. John Lowden was awarded the Grundler prize for The Making of the Bibles Moralisées: 1. The Manuscripts, Helen Young has retired as Palaeography Librarian of 2. The Book of Ruth (Pennsylvania State University the Palaeography Room, University of London Press, 2000). Library. [www.wmich.edu/~medinst/grundler.htm] AMARC Newsletter no.39, October 2002 Page 2 News Bodleian acquires newly-discovered The manuscript, which is in a fragile state, was on special temporary display from 1-8 July 2002 as part medieval Arabic manuscript of the Bodleian 400th anniversary exhibition The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford has ‘Wonderful things from 400 years of collecting: the purchased a remarkable medieval Arabic manuscript, Bodleian Library, 1602-2002’, before being removed ‘The Book of curiosities’, from Sam Fogg, the to enable essential conservation work to be planned. London dealer in rare books and manuscripts, thanks It is hoped that a working surrogate and a preliminary to generous grants and donations from the Heritage web-site will be available early in 2003. Lottery Fund, the National Art Collections Fund, the Friends of the Bodleian Library, a number of Oxford This is not only an Islamic scientific manuscript of colleges, and individual firms and supporters. the first importance for scholarship, but its acquisition by the Bodleian, most fittingly in the year of the This unique Arabic manuscript contains an important th Library’s 400 anniversary, also provides a and hitherto unknown series of early and colourful magnificent opportunity to increase public awareness maps, including two world maps, and astronomical of the Islamic contribution to our common heritage. diagrams, most of which are unparalleled in any other Additionally the manuscript is of enormous Greek, Latin, or Arabic material known to be importance for the Bodleian’s collections. The preserved today. The treatise is made up of two Bodleian has one of the few significant collections of books, the first on celestial matters and the second on medieval Islamic cartographic manuscripts in Europe, terrestrial matters, and consists of 48 folios (96 including two of the six other [later] known copies of pages), with folios 49 and 50 missing from this copy. the famous al-Idrisi map, which is also included in The author is unnamed and has not so far been this medieval atlas. identified. Internal evidence regarding the sources used by the author (largely of the 9th or 10th Lesley Forbes centuries), the dates mentioned in the text, and Keeper of Oriental Collections, Bodleian Library acknowledgement of the Fatimid imams, who ruled at Cairo from 969-1171, enable us to suggest that the treatise was composed in the late 11th or early 12th An On-line Catalogue of Medieval century, and that this copy was probably made in the Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library late 12th or 13th century in Egypt or Syria. The Bodleian Library is working towards the creation of an electronic catalogue of all its medieval and In addition to meeting the balance of the purchase Renaissance manuscripts. The new catalogue will price of the manuscript, the grant from the Heritage make available information which has existed until Lottery Fund (HLF) will enable the manuscript to be now either in a variety of printed catalogues (some of conserved so that it can be displayed to the public and which are no longer easily found) or only in made available for study. The HLF grant will also unpublished form within the Library. The work is allow a web-site devoted to the manuscript and being carried out as part of a project (funded by the interpreting it to be created, and an outreach Getty Grant Program) which for each manuscript programme to be developed, so that this important aims to provide a very brief new searchable scientific manuscript can be made available to the description, an image of the relevant description from widest possible audience.
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