No. 40: May 2003 ISSN 0263-3442 AMARC NEWSLETTER Newsletter of the Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections

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Recent AMARC Meetings production. Before the scribe or illuminator had even picked up their tools, the ruling indicated

what sort of book was envisioned. 13 Dec. Warburg Institute, London In Honour of the Late A. C. (Tilly) de la Mare David Rundle, who has in many ways assumed Because she wrote her PhD on the Florentine Tilly’s mantle in the field of English humanistic bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci at the Warburg books—particularly those made and owned in the Institute, it was particularly appropriate that an circle of Duke Humfrey—spoke on ‘Humanistic AMARC meeting in honour of Tilly de la Mare manuscripts owned by John Tiptoft’, showing how should be held there. observations and hypotheses offered by Tilly and Richard Hunt decades ago have been borne out by Christopher de Hamel spoke first, on ‘The study of later research, and continue to bear fruit. Italian Humanistic manuscripts in England from Cockerell to de la Mare’, charting the development Finally, Anne Rycraft, in ‘“Often scruffy of what he showed to be a peculiarly English field documents”: looking for English humanistic of study, from Sydney Cockerell around the start script’, examined the adoption of humanistic script of the 20th century, through a series of amateur in England, by tracing its appearance in enthusiasts—often practising calligraphers, private documentary sources such as university registers. collectors, or private-press printers—through the In this way she is able to not only provide professionalisation of the subject, notably with the precisely dated occurrences of the script in precise encouragement of Richard Hunt at the Bodleian, locations, usually by named scribes, but also and finally to a more widespread international vividly to sketch the way in which the script might interest in humanistic script and manuscripts, for appear and disappear, not only from year to year, which Tilly is in large part responsible. but also from page to page or line to line. Nicholas Mann spoke next, on ‘Petrarch’s English With the end of the formal papers, mince pies and journey: the medieval discovery of renaissance wine were served, accompanied by a practical man’, showing how Petrarch’s influence and demonstration of various scripts being written by writings can be seen infiltrating the work of calligrapher Paul Antonio. More than 60 AMARC authors such as Chaucer, despite the fact that members and other participants attended the Petrarch’s vernacular writings would not have meeting; Consuelo Dutschke and Barbara Shailor, been much read outside Italy, except through the unable to be present in person, sent a flower intermediary of translations into other vernaculars arrangement in Tilly’s memory. or Latin. (Incidentally, it was a pleasure to have heard Tilly recount, 20 years after the event—but 4 Apr., Society of Antiquaries, London with undiminished and infectious excitement— Picturing Places: Collecting and Interpreting how, in her words, she “came face to face with Topographical Drawings Petrarch in the Bodleian stacks” when she chanced Michael St John writes: upon a manuscript with his annotations). The splendid surroundings for the spring meeting Tilly described herself simply as a palaeographer, were matched by a fine sequence of papers. but for her this term encompassed quiet mastery of Bernard Nurse, our hosts’ librarian, opened numerous fields: art history, textual criticism, proceedings with a survey of the Society’s role as liturgy, heraldry, and many others, including both patron and collector of topographical codicology. Albert Derolez’s paper examined one materials. Although the former of these roles was aspect of codicology: ‘Ruling in quattrocento hamstrung in the early days by a lack of good manuscripts: types and techniques’, showed how a draughtsmen, having directors and secretaries, close examination of page-rulings can provide us such as Stukely and Gough, who were enthusiasts with a clearer picture of some of the most of topographical materials, ensured that the role fundamental details of humanistic book- was maintained. Such enthusiasm also helped the Society to build up the third largest collection of Brett Dolman (Historic Royal Palaces) spoke topographical drawings in the country. Bernard about a NOF project he undertook whilst a Curator closed by looking at current developments such as in the Department of Manuscripts of the British the role of the New Opportunities Fund (NOF) in Library. He used the drawings of S.H. Grimm and digitisation projects, the work of Re-source, and the notebooks of Grimm’s patron, Sir Richard the increasing interest in local history as pointing Kay, rector of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, to show how to a bright future for topographical collections. the combination of topographical material and the written record can be used to portray the life of a John Farrant (Universitas Higher Education town or village. So the state of the rural poor, the Management Consultants) described the trials and changing nature of the landscape, the religious tribulations inherent in compiling an inventory of proclivities of the town’s inhabitants, and other topographical drawings of Sussex. The dispersal of snapshots of life in a pre-industrial collections of drawings on the artist’s death, and Nottinghamshire village were all richly illustrated the fact that many ‘one-off’ drawings were bought by Grimm’s drawings and Kay’s words. and sold amongst private individuals ensured that drawings of Sussex might be found all over the Proceedings were rounded off by Sarah Wickham world. Wide variations in cataloguing standards, (Archivist, Royal Northern College of Music) archivists’ attitudes towards digital cameras in who, whilst at Lambeth Palace Library worked on reading rooms, and differing attitudes to access a NOF project to digitise 12,600 plans and and reproductions all conspired to hinder John’s drawings of the Incorporated Church Building work yet he has managed to locate 8000 items. Society. Sarah detailed the stages of the project beginning with an initial catalogue database which Paul Harvey (Emeritus Professor of Medieval itself increased interest in the collection making a History, University of Durham) then gave a bid for funding to digitise even stronger. The fascinating talk on the history of the tourist picture funding process took two years but this enabled book up to the late 1890s when the advent of the the team to be ready to start the minute the funding picture postcard spelled the beginning of the end was approved. An in-house scanning programme for the books. The move from picture books being was instigated, the standards and nature of the produced specifically with tourists in mind meta-data of which Sarah carefully talked us coincided with the rise of the railways. While the through. As with all large projects, lessons were title page or front cover might claim that the book learned and Sarah spoke of the complex nature of was published locally to give an air of authenticity, obtaining copyright clearance and of the technical they were often produced by a national firm in intricacies of such a project. The success of this Edinburgh or London. Later technical project in both meeting demand and stimulating developments such as attempting to produce full further demand, and increasing awareness of the colour books using only beige, blue, and purple distributed national heritage makes these lessons did not always work successfully, with some worthwhile. amusing results. Paul summed up by saying that the books were really the precursor to the holiday The meeting closed with a look at some snaps slide show: this is the railway station we topographical items from the Society’s own arrived at, this is the hotel we stayed in, and so on. collection, on display in the Library. After tea, Elizabeth Williamson (Architectural Editor, Victoria County History) showed how the Forthcoming AMARC Meetings VCH has used topographical drawings to show AMARC members will receive full details of settlements and buildings that no longer exist or to meetings separately. In brief, they will be as show how a building altered many times once follows: appeared. Topographical evidence can be used to 7 July, The Library, University of Durham confirm or enhance existing documentary evidence Provenance and Durham’s Collections but it does have its own unique problems: is an (preceded by the AGM) illustration on a map to be taken as a record or as a This meeting is scheduled to occur in the same symbol of the building?; can a drawing be taken as week as the Early Book Society’s conference in an accurate record of re-building or is it more Durham, to make it more convenient for the representative of the owner’s aspirations? These participants of one to also attend the other. The list problems notwithstanding, the great importance of of speakers and their papers is on the AMARC topographical drawings to the VCH’s work was website, and is being mailed to AMARC members illustrated by the example of a map of Essex which on a separate sheet with this Newsletter. is the only evidence of a large house which once stood on a farm.

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 2 5-6 Jan. 2004, London allocated where they can be expected to provide Manuscripts in London Exhibitions the greatest benefit to the greatest number of To take advantage of opportunities presented by people. Often this will be achieved by making manuscripts appearing in two major concurrent several small awards, rather than a few larger exhibitions in London, the ‘Christmas’ meeting awards. Funding levels may vary from year to will be moved to early January. Details are year, but it is anticipated that the Committee will tentative and subject to revision, but it is planned make awards of not more than £500 each, and of that papers will be presented at the Society of not more than £1000 in total each year. Antiquaries on the afternoon of 5 Jan. by speakers Applications should comprise: a brief outline of involved with the exhibitions. The hope is to the project, conference or work; its overall cost; arrange for attendees to then be able to move next the grant being sought; the names and addresses of door to the Royal Academy for a private view of two referees; details of the addressee for the the ‘Illuminating the Renaissance’ exhibition, and cheque. to have a private view of the V&A Museum’s ‘Gothic Glory’ exhibition from 9-10 a.m. the Applications should be submitted to Dr Michael following morning. Stansfield, AMARC Treasurer (Durham University Library, Palace Green, Durham DH1 AMARC Grants 3RN, or [email protected]) at any time during the year. They will be considered at At the meeting of the AMARC Committee on 4 the next Committee meeting (usually held in April April it was decided that the Association can and November), and successful applicants will be currently afford to offer modest funding to informed soon thereafter. enterprises that both (i) bring AMARC and its activities to a wider audience and (ii) support the stated aims of AMARC: AMARC-Sponsored Projects AMARC inherited from SCONUL (the Society of ‘to promote the accessibility, preservation and College, National and University Libraries) study of manuscripts and archives of all periods in sponsorship of the British volumes in the Dated libraries and other research collections in Great and Datable Manuscripts series, and Medieval Britain and Ireland’. Manuscripts in British Libraries (MMBL). AMARC therefore now invites applications from The fifth and final volume of MMBL, containing fully paid up individual or institutional members addenda and indexes, was published at the end of for sterling grants in areas such as the following: 2002 (see the ‘Recent publications’ section, Help in defraying the costs of holding conferences below), bringing to completion the project first and workshops. proposed by Neil Ker a half-century ago, in 1953. (Details of the histoy of the project are given in the Support for small projects such as the web- Preface, pp. v-x). A review is forthcoming in The publication of unpublished catalogues of Library. manuscripts. Volumes in the Dated and Datable series have Assistance to scholars in obtaining reproductions been published covering manuscripts in the British or undertaking essential travel as part of projects Library (1979) Oxford collections (1984), and whose aims are in line with those of AMARC. Cambridge collections (1988); the publication of a Funds will NOT be made available towards the volume covering London collections other than the cost of commercial publication but will be British Library is imminent. Personal

Martyn Wade is Scotland’s new National Ronald Milne has been appointed to succeed Librarian; he took up his post on 30 September. John Tuck as Deputy to Bodley’s Librarian; he was formerly Director of the national Research Ian McGowan, Librarian of the National Library Support Libraries Programme, and before that of Scotland since 1990, retired in September. Deputy Librarian of King’s College, London. Richard Ovenden, Head of Special Collections Christopher Wright was appointed Head of and Acting Deputy Librarian at the University of Western Manuscripts at the BL, effective from 1 Edinburgh Library, has been appointed to succeed Jan., in place of Hugh Cobbe, who retired in Mary Clapinson as Keeper of Special Collections November. and Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library.

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 3 Hilton Kelliher retired from the Department of Information Society Team will stand in as her Western Manuscripts at the BL in December. replacement until a new Chief Executive is appointed. Pamela Porter, who joined the British Museum in 1969, retired from the Department of Western Barbara Shailor, Director of the Beinecke Rare Manuscripts at the BL on 12 Feb. Book and Manuscript Library, has been appointed Yale University’s Deputy Provost for the Arts. Anna Southall has resigned as Chief Executive Frank Turner, the John Hay Whitney Professor of Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives of History, will serve as interim Director of the and Libraries. Chris Batt, Deputy Chief Beinecke until a new Director is appointed. Executive and Director of Resource's Libraries & In Memoriam

Brian Cron, collector of manuscripts and was nearing completion, and will be published in sometime assistant to Sydney Cockerell, died in due course. A brief obituary, and a list of her February 2002. An account of his life and publications is in Early Book Society Newsletter, collecting is in The Book Collector, 51 (2002). 8 no. 2 (2003). She may be remembered by Seven of his manuscripts have been acquired by sending contributions, in her name, to Dr. Colin the Beinecke Library, Yale University; two (both Eisler, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York formerly owned by Eric Millar) have been University, 1 East 78th St., New York, NY bequeathed to the British Library; one has been 10021-0178, USA. acquired by Trinity College, Dublin; the others Sir Hans Sloane, whose manuscripts formed one have gone to public and private collections in the of the foundation collections of the British UK, continental Europe, America and Japan. For Museum Library, died aged 93 on 11 Jan. 1753. a handlist of his manuscripts see www.manuscripts.org.uk/provenance/Cron.htm Laurence Wood, former Keeper of Printed Books at the British Library from 1966, died on Sir Paul Getty, collector of the manuscripts at the 13 Dec., aged 93. An obituary appeared in The Wormsley Library, died on 17 Apr., aged 70. Times, on 8 Jan., as did an obituary of John Myra Orth died of brain cancer on 30 Nov. Her Drefus, typographer, academic printer, and work on the final volume in the series of A Survey printed book historian, who died on 29 Dec. of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles Lectures

Cambridge will learn our art”: early bookbinding manuals’, III ‘Image and reality’. Cambridge Bibliographical Society 22 Jan. Cristina Dondi: ‘Meeting the needs of the local community: printers, guilds, and books of Edinburgh hours in fifteenth-century Venice’ Edinburgh Book History Seminars 31 Jan. Richard Ovenden: ‘Antiquaries or 5 Mar. James Carley: ‘A rich and copious haul of Connoisseurs?: Collecting Medieval Manuscripts information on highly memorable matters: John in the 16th and 17th Centuries’ Leland’s Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis and its stages of production’ London 23 Apr. John Craig: ‘Purchased by the parish: The Medieval Manuscripts Seminar books in English parish churches, 1530-1640’ Hosted by the Centre for Manuscript and Print History of the Book Seminar Studies, University of London. See 6 Feb. Katie Eagleton: ‘Illustrations of www.sas.ac.uk/ies/centre.htm instruments in manuscript and print culture: how 15 May. Ralph Hanna: ‘The real and imagined 16th-century books redefined a medieval sundial’ end of Anglo-Norman’ The Sandars Lectures Institute Of English Studies 20, 25, and 27 Mar. Mirjam Foot: ‘Description, With the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, image and reality: aspects of bookbinding King’s College London history’: I ‘Bibliography and bookbinding history’, II ‘“Make haste but slowly … and you

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 4 25 Feb. Seminar: Mise-en-Page: ‘The Artifactual Oxford Book in the Digital Age’, with Willard McCarty, Lyell Lectures Simon Eliot; David Ganz, Warwick Gould 30 April, and 7, 14, 21, 28 May. Nigel Wilson: Instituto Cervantes London ‘The World of Books in Byzantium’ 11 Feb. John Lowden: ‘The Toledo Bible of St. Oxford Bibliographical Society Louis: a facsimile edition’ 27 Feb. David Rundle: ‘The wanderings of 19 Feb. Michael Michael: ‘The English manuscripts once owned by Humfrey, Duke of Apocalypse and its origins’ Gloucester’ 12 June. David Skinner: ‘The Arundel choirbook’ Los Angeles Magdalen College Auditorium, 5.15 pm J. Paul Getty Museum Seminar on the History of the Book 1450-1800 Three lectures organised to coincide with the 24 Jan. Brian Richardson: ‘Print or pen? Modes of ‘Illuminating the Renaissance’ exhibition are: written publication in sixteenth-century Italy’ 26 June. Thomas Kren: ‘Burgundian Rulers, 28 Feb. Martin Kauffmann: ‘Le livre de la vigne Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, and a Fresh nostre Seigneur and 15th-century Carthusian Perspective on the Renaissance’ apocalypticism’ 24 July. Janet Backhouse: ‘A Taste for Flanders: 14 Mar. Florike Egmond: ‘Coenen’s book on Manuscript Illumination and the English Elite’ fishes: printed and other sources for pictures and 7 Aug. Margaret Scott: ‘Illuminating Dress at the text in a Dutch natural history manuscript of the Burgundian and Hapsburg Courts’ sixteenth century’

Manchester Paris Manchester Bibliographical Society 24 Feb. Patricia Stirnemann: ‘Une Histoire 13 Jan. Roger Norris: ‘Early manuscripts at d’amour sans paroles, le ms. 388 du Musée Condé Durham: an illustrated talk’ à Chantilly’ 18 Sept. Richard Sharpe: ‘The mediaeval librarian and his legacy’. Sorbonne, at approx. 5.00 p.m.

Conferences and Other Events

25-26 March, Villejuif, France 6 May, London Le livre au Moyen Âge: approches matérielles Sir Frederic Madden Society: et connaissance historique Sir Hans Sloane - 250th Anniversary Meeting Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de The Sir Frederic Madden Society is an informal Paris. For further details see: group drawn mainly from the British Museum and http://lamop.univ-paris1.fr/W3/journeelivre.html British Library, which meets to discuss and research the history of the collections. The 3 May, Belfast Society is also engaged in transcribing the diaries Image and Text: The Theodore Psalter and of Sir Frederick Madden (1801-73), the former Related Middle Byzantine Manuscripts Keeper of Manuscripts. To commemorate the Robin Cormack: ‘How to look at psalters’, Jeffrey 250th anniversary of the death of Sir Hans Sloane, Anderson: ‘Liturgical strata in the psalters the Society met to discuss the early collections of revisited’, Patricia Finlay: ‘Not another lost the British Museum Library. psalter! Implications of the fourteenth-century marginal psalters for the relationship between There was a display of early archive material Theodore and Barberini’, Maria Evangelatou: organised by Christopher Date, followed by five ‘Biblical scenes as a metaphor of contemporary papers: Marjorie Caygill: ‘Sir Hans Sloane and life in the Byzantine marginal psalters’, Barbara the Foundation’; Alison Walker: ‘Lost and Found: Crostini: ‘The Theodore Psalter and the Jews’, a virtual reassembly of Sir Hans Sloane’s Printed Dirk Krausmüller: ‘A crisis of authority? Poems Books’; Colin Tite: ‘Cotton’s printed books’; and illuminations concerning the installation of Marion Archibald: ‘The Cotton and Sloane coin abbots in eleventh-century Studite manuscripts’. cabinets’; John Goldfinch: ‘The Old Royal For further details see: www.qub.ac.uk/ibs Library’.

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 5 8-11 May, Kalamazoo miscellanee greche dell’età dei Paleologi’, M. 38th International Congress on Medieval Reeve: ‘Dionisio il Periegeta in codici Studies miscellanei’, S. Gentile-S. Rizzo: ‘Per una APICES sponsored two sessions: ‘Writing tipologia delle miscellanee umanistiche’, H. Beyond Words: The Medieval Invention of Schneider: ‘Der Antichrist im Doppelpack. Zur Hypertext’, and ‘(Hand)writing and the Rezeption Engelberts von Admont (+1331) in Individual’. Sammelhandschriften des 15. Jahrhunderts’, M. Caucouros: ‘Manuscrits miscellanées (grecs) de The Early Book Society sponsored six sessions: contenu philosophique ou scientifique dans ‘Humanist Books: a Re-Evaluation (In Memory l’empire de Nicée et sous les Paléologues (1024- of Tilly de la Mare)’; ‘Scribes and Limners’; 1453): typologie et fonctions’, C. Opsomer: ‘Le ‘Medieval Childhood: Portraits and Texts in MSS codex miscellaneus chez les Frères Croisiers: and Printed Books’; ‘Second Thoughts: Variants, technique de copie et vie spirituelle (XVe-XVIe Piracies, and Later Editions’, ‘Picturing the siècles)’, O. Merisalo: ‘Le manuscrit de London, Codex in Pop Culture: Medieval Books in Royal 15.E.VI: miscellanée pour Marguerite Modern Contexts’, and, co-sponsored with the d’Anjou’. IRHT: ‘French Cartularies’. Other sessions included: ‘Medieval Texts in 14th- 21 May, Oxford and 15th-Century Manuscript and Early Print Renaissance MS seminar: Settings’; ‘Scribes, Scripts, and Scriptoria in Early Modern Women’s Dramatic Anglo-Saxon England’; ‘Topics in Medieval Manuscripts Librarianship: Libraries, People, and Their Diane Purkiss, on Jane Lumley; Marion Wynne Materials’; ‘Vita Benedicti in Italy: Texts and Davies, on the Fitzalan sisters; Deana Rankin: their Illustrations’; ‘The Image in the Text: Papers ‘“Responsible for nothing but the English”: in Honor of Sandra Hindman’, and ‘The Future of Katherine Philips and the staging of Pompey: A the Academic Library’, consisting of three papers: Tragedy’; Heide Towers: ‘Biography and Politics Madeline A. Copp: ‘From Feast to Famine and in Lady Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victorie’. Back Again: How Do Libraries and Librarians Manage?’, David Ganz: ‘Putting the Quest Back This half-day colloquium at St. Hilda’s College is into the Question: Library (Re)Search Activity’, free but participants should register in advance. Stuart Lee: ‘Libraries of the Future: A Twenty- For further details, or to register, please contact: First-Century Ashburnam House’. [email protected] or [email protected] There were also roundtable discussions of ‘The Study of Manuscripts and Reproduction Rights’, 22-24 May, Paris and ‘Archival and Research Resources in Britain La reliure médiévale for Medievalists’. International colloquium organized by the IRHT (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des texts) and 14-17 May, Cassino, Italy the Istituto centrale per la patologia del libro. Il codice miscellaneo: tipologie e funzioni J. P. Gumbert: ‘Unit and unity-towards a typology For further details see: of the non-homogeneous codex’, D. Muzerelle-E. www.irht.cnrs.fr/reliure_colloque2003.htm or Ornato: ‘Recueils, mélanges, volumes contact: Geneviève Grand / Guy Lanoë, CNRS- composites: essai d’approche codicologique’, M. IRHT, 40, ave. d’Iéna, F-75116 Paris. Maniaci: ‘Il codice ‘non unitario’ nei cataloghi di Tel. +33 1 44.43.90.95, Fax. +33 1 47.23.89.39 manoscritti greci: tipologie e terminologia’, E. [email protected] or [email protected] Crisci: ‘I più antichi codici miscellanei greci. Note ed ipotesi’, F. Ronconi: ‘Per una tipologia 25-29 May, Vatican City del codice miscellaneo greco tra antichità tarda ed MSS and Libraries in the Carolingian World epoca mediobizantina’, P. De Paolis: ‘I codici Conference sponsored by the Institutum miscellanei grammaticali altomedievali: Patristicum Augustinianum and by the Medieval caratteristiche, funzione, destinazione’, R. Black: Institute, University of Notre Dame. ‘The school miscellany in Medieval and Nick Everett: ‘Scripts and manuscripts in Renaissance Italy’, J. Hamesse: ‘Les recueils de Lombard Italy’, Birgit Ebersperger: ‘Editing textes philosophiques universitaires medievaux’, Bernhard Bischoff’s Katalog of Carolingian A. Cartelli-M. Palma-S. Ruggiero: ‘I codici Manuscripts’, Michael Allen: ‘Scribes, scholars miscellanei nel basso medioevo’, D. Bianconi: and texts at Frechulf’s scriptorium at Lisieux’, ‘Testi e mani. Sulla formazione di alcune Wesley Stevens: ‘Pal. lat. 1447 and Pal. lat. 1448: AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 6 Tempora unde dicta sunt?’, Elke Krotz: 3-5 July, London ‘Tironisches Wissen turonischer Schüler’, Under the Influence: the Concept of Influence Martina Pantarotto: ‘Un manoscritto della and the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts collezione canonica pseudo-isidoriana nella Hosted by the Research Centre for Illuminated Brescia carolingia, B II 13’, Harold Andrew Manuscripts, at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Siegel III: ‘The Library and Manuscripts of Emperor Lothar I’, Natalia Lozovsky: ‘Education Cecily Hennessy: ‘The Lincoln Typikon: The and Ideology in Carolingian Geographical Influences of Church and Family’, Justine Manuscripts’, Laura Pani: ‘Alcuni codici di Andrews: ‘Crossing Boundaries: Byzantine and presunta origine italo-settentrionale dell’Historia Western Influences in a 14th-century Illustrated Langobardorum di Paolo Diacono’, Vladimir Commentary on Job’, Virginia Brilliant: ‘From Mazhuga: ‘Trois fragments carolingiens peu Monument to Miniature: The Relationship connus à Saint-Pétersbourg’, Paul J.E. Kershaw: Between a Fresco by Maso di Banco (1336-1338) ‘Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica and Berne 363’, and Two Miniatures by the Maestro Daddesco Michael Gorman: ‘ Manuscript books at Monte (c.1330s-1340s)’, Lawrence Nees: ‘Godescalc’s Amiata in the Eleventh Century’, Arianna Ciula: Career and the Problems of ‘Influence’’, David ‘I codici dell’abbazia di San Eugenio di Siena’, Ganz: ‘Problems of Influence in the Utrecht Donatella Frioli: ‘La biblioteca di Vallombrosa Psalter’, Michelle P. Brown: ‘An Early Medieval nell’XI secolo’, Ernesto Stagni: ‘Manoscritti, Outbreak of ‘Influenza’? Concepts of ‘Influence’, biblioteche e tradizioni da ricostruire: sguardi sul Medieval and Modern’, George Henderson: passato dalle postille di un erudito francese del ‘Insular Art: Influence and Inference’, Dei sec. XIII’, Kevanne Kirkwood: ‘An Irish Jackson: ‘A Work Like No Other: Alfonso X’s theological miscellany from Bobbio, Milan F 60 Cantigas de Santa Maria’, Kirstin Kennedy: sup.’, Heather Pulliam: ‘The Decorated Initials of ‘Evidence for the Islamic source behind the the Corbie Psalter’, Barbara Baert: ‘The miniatures in Alfonso X of Castile’s 1283 Libro Iconography of the Discovery of the True Cross: de Ajedrez, dados y tables’, Elina Gertsman: ‘Vir Gellone, Vercelli and Wessobrunn: Identity, iustus atque perfectus: Saint Louis as Noah in the Context, Function’, Fabrizio Crivello: Miraculous Recovery of the Breviary Miniature ‘Manoscritti e legature preziose alla corte di from the Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux’, William Eberardo del Friuli’ Diebold: ‘The Anxiety of Influence in Early Medieval Art’, Helen C. Evans: ‘‘Under the The conference fee of €250 per person covers five Influence’ and East Christian manuscripts’, Donal nights and six days (all meals and a room) in Villa Cooper: ‘Franciscan Art and Mendicant Barberini in Piazza San Pietro. Further details Manuscript Illumination in Italy: A from: [email protected] Reconsideration of Iconographic Primacy’, Robert Gibbs: ‘Under the Influence of Bolognese 16-20 June, London Legal Illumination: Artistic Sources for Ambrogio Palaeography Summer School Lorenzetti’s Allegory of Justice in the Good A series of day and half-day courses: Commune’, Lucy Freeman Sandler: ‘Illuminated ‘Introduction To Palaeography’, ‘Carolingian in the British Isles: French Influence and/or the Manuscripts’, ‘Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts In Latin Englishness of English Art, 1285-1385’, Rowan And Old English’, ‘Tudor And Stuart Documents Watson: ‘Fit for a King? The Alfonso of Aragon In Latin’, ‘German Palaeography: 18th - 20th Hours and Baronial Patronage in Late 15th- Centuries’, ‘Manuscript Culture: Reading, century Naples’, Ursula Weekes: ‘The Interplay Writing, Record-Making’, ‘The Dating Of between Prints and Illuminated Manuscripts in Medieval Manuscripts’, ‘Bestiaries’, ‘Records Of Brigittine Convents of the Low Countries, c.1475- Cloister And Church: 12th To 21st Centuries’, 1525’, Sophie Denoël: ‘A 16th-century Book of ‘Medieval Musical Notations’. Hours at a Cultural Crossroads’, Brigitte Dekeyzer: ‘The Art of Illumination Versus the Art For further details contact Jon Millington, Centre of Panel Painting: The Case of the Maximilian for Manuscript and Print Studies, University of Master’, Paul Binski: ‘Gilbert of Limerick and London, Room 304, Senate House, Malet Street, Lincoln: Edification and Influence around 1200’, London, WC1E 7HU. Tel.: (020) 7862 8680, Fax: T.A. Heslop: ‘Authority and Imagination in the (020) 7862 8720 or [email protected]; Illustration of Terence’s Comedies’, Patricia www.sas.ac.uk/ies/centre/palaeography/home.htm Stirnemann: ‘Cultural Confrontations’, Suzanne Lewis: ‘Spheres of Influence-Then and Now: The Bibles Moralisées and the 13th-Century English Apocalypses’, John Lowden: ‘Influence on/of the

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 7 Bibles Moralisées’, Scot McKendrick: ‘Between establish a Chronology for Anglo-Saxon Square Flanders and Normandy: A Case of Influence Minuscule Script?’, Catherine Karkov: ‘Writing within Collaboration between Flemish and and Having Written: Word and Image in the Norman Miniaturists?’, Joyce Coleman: ‘The Eadui Gospels’, Susan Rankin, On Anglo-Saxon Chevrot Cité de Dieu, Jan van Eyck, and the music manuscripts from Winchester, Jane Irrelevance of Influence’. Roberts, On the colophon to the Lindisfarne Gospels, Richard Emms: ‘Books and Writing in For further details see: www.courtauld.ac.uk Seventh-Century Kent’, David Dumville: ‘Archbishop Wulfstan and the Replacement of 7 July, Durham English Square Minuscule Script’, Timofey AMARC Meeting and AGM Guimon: ‘Annalistic writing in England 1043- See above, under ‘AMARC News’, and the 1077: Palaeography and Textual Criticism’, separate announcement. Alexander Rumble, On 11th century vernacular script, Donald Scragg, On 11th century spelling in 7-9 July, Leicester vernacular manuscripts, Elaine Treharne: New Technologies, Old Texts ‘Manuscript Production at Worcester 1000-1100’, David Parker with Luc Herren, On the Münster Tessa Webber: ‘Informal and Rudimentary and Birmingham electronic editions of the Greek Handwriting in Eleventh-Century England’, New Testament; Peter Robinson, On interactive AHRB Project, Manchester Centre for Anglo- models for scholarly electronic editions; Mike Saxon Studies: demonstration of database for 11th Malm, On an electronic edition of Ezra Pound; century vernacular spelling and script , Elizabeth Martin Foys, On editing medieval historical Coatsworth, On inscriptions in textiles, Carole materials; Lou Burnard, On cross-searching of Hough: ‘Numbers in Manuscripts of Anglo-Saxon TEI-encoded text corpora; Jennifer Marshall, On Law’, Tatjiana Nikolayeva: ‘Res Gestae: Inter- an electronic edition of Brunetto Latini; Barbara pretation of Universal History (from Bede Vener- Bordalejo, On electronic editions of the abilis to Saxo Grammaticus)’, Elisabeth Okasha, Canterbury Tales and of Dante’s Commedia; On non-runic inscriptions. Chris Howe/Matt Spencer, On developments in Further details from: Alexander Rumble, the use of techniques from evolutionary biology Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, and DNA analysis in manuscripts studies; Linne Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL or Mooney, On a digital archive of scribes; David [email protected] Moreno Olalla, On a new proposal for word- concordancing in Old English corpora; Rafael Schwemmer, On a digital edition of Wolfram’s 9-12 July, Birmingham Parzifal; Vincent Neyt and Dirk Van Hulle, On 3rd International Piers Plowman Conference visualization in genetic editions of modern Hosted by the University of Birmingham manuscript materials; Edward Vanhoutte and Roy Further details from: Wendy Scase, Dept. of Van den Branden, On the digital editing of English, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, modern correspondence material. For further Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK details see: Tel. (0121) 414 6207, Fax (0121) 414-3288 www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/projects/ctp/confprog.html [email protected] www.yls.cornell.edu

7-11 July, Alcalá de Henares 10-14 July, Durham VII Congreso Internacional de Historia de la ‘To se, and eek for to be seye’: Cultura Escrita Circulation and Influence of MSS and Early Hosted by the Universidad de Alcalá (near Printed Books, 1350-1550 Madrid). For details see: Sponsored by the Early Book Society, and hosted www2.uah.es/historia1/Congreso2003/ by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, at the University of Durham. 9-11 July, Manchester Further details from: Jennifer Britnell, Dept. of Writing in Anglo-Saxon England French, University of Durham, Elvet Riverside, An interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Durham DH1 3JT or Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. www.nyu.edu/projects/ebs/ A provisional list of papers is: Nicholas Brooks: ‘Literacy and Gender in Ninth-Century Canterbury’, Julia Crick: ‘Imitative Hands in Anglo-Saxon Charters’, David Ganz: ‘Can we

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 8 14-17 July, Leeds Speakers include Joyce Coleman, Martha Driver, International Medieval Congress Derek Pearsall, Peter Robinson, and Jeremy Sessions include ‘Writing in the vernacular’, Smith. ‘Parchment, ink, and gold: economics of Further details from: [email protected] mediaeval book production’, and ‘The Making of Medieval Parchment, Ink and Pens: a Reconstruction’ sponsored by APICES. 2-3 Aug., St. Albans Christina of Markyate and the St. Albans Papers include: Terry O’Connor: ‘Skin and Psalter Bones: Parchment, Animal Husbandry and the Interdisciplinary conference examining Christina Zooarchaeological Record’, David Ganz, On the of Markyate and the St. Albans Psalter in their cost of mediaeval parchment, J. Antoni Iglesias: historical, literary, and artistic contexts. ‘Writing, Illuminating and Binding in Late Medieval Catalonia (14th-15th Centuries)’, Peter Papers include: Rodney Thomson: ‘The St. Worm: ‘From Subscription to Seal: Forms of Albans scriptorium under Abbot Geoffrey’, T.A. Authentification in Early Medieval Charters’, Heslop: ‘Recycling picture cycles: the case of Robert Gibbs: ‘Roman and Canon Law Christina’s Psalter’, and Margaret Jubb: ‘The Manuscripts at Durham Cathedral, 1140-1298’, Alexis Chanson and its text in the St.Albans Susan L’Engle: ‘Imaging Boniface: ‘Medieval Psalter’. Illustrations of the Liber Sextus’, Annalisa Rossi: For further details see: ‘Latin and Vernacular Manuscripts of Ovid’s www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/historic/stalbanspsalter/ Metamorphoses’, Simon Forde: ‘Integrating conference/index.htm or contact Jane Geddes Electronic Resources for Manuscript Studies: The [email protected] Brepolis Project’, Andreas Fingernagel: ‘Digitization Projects at the Austrian National 5-6 Sept., Los Angeles Library’, Dominique Poirel: ‘Bibliothèque Illuminating the Renaissance: virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux de France’, Burgundian Identities, Flemish Artists, and Theresa M. Vann: ‘Electronic Access to Medieval European Markets Manuscripts: The Hill Library’s Catalogue’, To coincide with the close of its ‘Illuminating the Warren C. Brown: ‘Lay People and Documents in Renaissance’ exhibition, the Department of Carolingian Europe’, Pascal Collomb: ‘Exempla: Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum will From the Pulpit to the Internet’. For further details host a symposium with the following papers: see www.leeds.ac.uk/imi/imc/imc.htm Elizabeth Moodey: ‘Historical Identity in the 26 July – 1 Aug., Keele Burgundian Netherlands: the Role of Manuscripts’, Chrystèle Blondeau: ‘Un héros grec Annual Latin and Palaeography Summer très bourguignon. Présence et représentations School d’Alexandre le Grand chez les ducs Valois de Seminars include introductions to medieval Latin, Bourgogne’, Anne Korteweg: ‘Adolph of Cleves to medieval documents, and to Tudor and Stuart and the Politics of Collecting Flemish documents; more advanced courses cover Latin Manuscripts’, Lorne Campbell: ‘Rogier van der grammar, ‘The Anglo-Saxon World’, ‘Scenes Weyden and Manuscript Illumination’, Gregory from Provincial Life’, ‘The Medieval Town’, Clark: ‘The Master of Fitzwilliam 268: New ‘The Crown Pleas of the Lancashire Eyre in Discoveries and New and Revisited Hypotheses’, 1292’, and ‘Hesesy and Revolt in Late Medieval Elizabeth Morrison: ‘Narrative in the Art of the England’. Master of the David Scenes’, Judith Testa: The week-long courses cost from £339 (non ‘Source or Resource? Simon Bening’s residential, half-board) to £540 (residential, full Transformation of Workshop Patterns and other board, en-suite room), including tuition and a Pictorial Models’, Catherine Reynolds: ‘The field trip. For details contact: Latin and Undecorated Margin: The Fashion for Luxury Palaeography Summer School, Centre for Books without Borders’, Kate Challis and Continuing and professional Education, Keele Dagmar Eichberger: ‘Marginal Decorations, University, Staffs, ST5 5BG. Tel. (01782) 583244 Precious Objects, and Private Pursuits’, Bodo Brinkmann: ‘Gerard David and his 1486 Escorial 28-30 July, London Hours’, Nancy Turner: ‘The Suggestive Brush: Towards a Gower Hypertext Painting Technique in Flemish Manuscripts from Institute of English Studies, University of London the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum’, Lieve Watteeuw: ‘On the Techniques of Flemish

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 9 Manuscript Illuminators’, Ronda Kasl: ‘Arts of studies in the past half century. The registration Power: Castilian Patronage and the Burgundian fee (to include tea, coffee, two lunches, and a Model’, Jan van der Stock: ‘Manuscript dinner courtesy of the Beinecke Library, Yale Publishers in the Netherlands: Assessing the University) is €50 if paid before 1 Aug., €60 Cases of Lieven van Lathem, Goswin Bernardus, thereafter. and Others’, Roger Wieck: ‘French and Flemish Further details from: Pamela Robinson, Institute Approaches to the Production of Books of Hours of English Studies, University of London, Senate for the Mass Market’, Dominique van House, Malet St., London WC1E 7HU Wijnsberghe: ‘Marketing Books for Burghers. Tel. (020) 7862-8674, Fax (020) 7862-8720 Jean Markant’s activity in Lille, Tournai and [email protected] Bruges’, Anne-Marie Legaré: The Reception of the Master of the Dresden Prayer Book in the Hainaut’, Summation by Jonathan J. G. 10-11 Oct., Saint Louis Alexander. Annual Saint Louis Conference on MSS Studies Further details from Brandi Franzman: Hosted by the Vatican Film Library/Manuscripta, Tel: +1 (310) 440-7034 or [email protected] at Saint Louis University. 19-20 Sept., Enghien-les-Bains Guest speakers are Jonathan Alexander and Lucy Freeman Sandler. Further details from: Gregory 14th International Colloquium of Latin A. Pass, Vatican Film Library, Pius XII Memorial Palaeography: Library, Saint Louis University, 3650 Lindell 1953-2003: A Palaeographical Jubilee Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108. [email protected] The Comité International de Paleographie Latine Tel. +1 (314) 977-3096, Fax. +1 (314) 977-3108 was founded in 1953; to celebrate its 50th www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl/events.htm anniversary, papers will be devoted to a critical survey of palaeographical and codicological Exhibitions

Until 8 June, London great innovators of his day, whose art profoundly influenced 15th-century French painting. The V&A Museum exhibition aims to be as exhaustive as possible, The Adventures of Hamza and illustrates the variety of his artistic activities. The Hamzanama (Story of Hamza), It includes paintings, drawings, an enamel, stained commissioned c.1557 by the Mughal emperor glass, and numerous manuscripts, by Fouquet and Akbar, took more than 100 illuminators, gilders, his followers, from public and private collections calligraphers and binders more than 15 years to around the world. complete. It originally contained 1400 miniatures, though fewer than 200 are known to have Open Mon.-Sat. 10.00-19.00; Sun. 12.00-19.00 survived. except holidays. Entrance fee €5 / €4. For further details see: Until 15 June, London http://expositions.bnf.fr/fouquet/ British Library Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) Until 22 June, Chantilly A small exhibition of books and manuscripts Musée Condé focusing on Pepys as naval administrator and L’Enluminure en France au temps de Fouquet diarist. It looks particularly at how the famous The Fouquet exhibition at the Bibliothèque diary, which transformed our knowledge of Stuart nationale lacks one of the greatest surviving England, came to be deciphered and published. works of the artist: the 40 miniatures executed for the Hours of Etienne Chevalier, which are Until 22 June, Paris permanently on display in the ‘Santuario’ of the Bibliothèque nationale de France Musée Condé. Because of the terms of the will of Jean Fouquet, peintre et enlumineur du XVe the duc d’Aumale, they cannot be loaned from the siècle château at Chantilly that he bequeathed to the Famous in his own life as both a painter and an Institut de France. illuminator, Jean Fouquet (c.1420-?1478), native A review of the conditions in which the of the Touraine, is recognised today as one of the miniatures are displayed and their state of

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 10 preservation is being undertaken, and a 7 June – 31 Aug., San Francisco programme of conservation has been initated. The Fine Arts Museum Didactic panels explain the problems posed by the Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript planned conservation and restoration. Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance The duc d’Aumale also owned another miniature This exhibition will present for the first time the illuminated by Fouquet, executed for the Hours of collection of Italian illuminated manuscripts Adeliade of Savoy, which is exhibited in the formed by Robert Lehman (1891-1969), which Cabinet des livres. An overview of contemporary originally comprised 145 pieces from the 13th to Parisian illumination is provided by a display of the 16th century. It includes 101 single leaves and other manuscripts from the duc’s collection: these two bound volumes, including works by Duccio, include a number of books of hours, the Stefano da Verona, and Cosimo Tura. The celebrated Rustican of Pietro de Crescenzi, as exhibition was at the Cleveland Museum of Art well as exceptional literary manuscripts such as from 23 Feb. to 4 May, and will be at the the Roman de Tristan and works of Boccaccio. Metropolitan Museum, New York, from 30 Sept. – 1 Feb. 2004. For further details see: www.chateaudechantilly.com/pdf/fouquet.pdf or contact Emmanuelle Toulet, Conservateur en 9 June – Dec., Aberystwyth chef de la Bibliothèque. National Library of Wales [email protected] Tafodau Celtaidd / Celtic Voices Tél. +33 (03) 44.62.62.69 A changing exhibition of manuscripts, archives, printed books, visual and audio-visual material 16 May – 28 Sept., London reflecting the six Celtic languages and their cultures. British Library Painted Labyrinth - the World of the Lindisfarne Gospels 17 June – 7 Sept., Los Angeles Including jewellery, coins, sculpture, textiles, and J. Paul Getty Museum manuscripts, exhibits will be drawn from the Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of British Library’s collections and other collections Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe in the UK and Ireland. As well as being on For further details see AMARC Newsletter no. 38, display in the original, the Lindisfarne Gospels or see www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/ will be presented in the form of a new facsimile, A catalogue edited by Thomas Kren and Scot and as a ‘Turning The Pages’ digital display. McKendrick will be published in time for the For further details see: opening of the exhibition: ISBN: 0-892-36703-2 www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions.html (hb) $125.00. ISBN: 0-89236-704-0 (pb) $55.00 Other forthcoming Getty Museum exhibitions of 1 June – 31 Oct., Edinburgh items drawn from their own collection are: National Library of Scotland 20 May – 28 Sept. Wish you were here!: Travellers’ Tales from The Making of a Medieval Book Scotland, 1540-1960 The changing face of Scotland seen through the eyes of visitors to the country. Everything from 17 June – 7 Sept. 16th-century travel notes to home movies of the Picturing the Natural World 1960s. 23 Sept. – 30 Nov. For further details phone (0131) 226-4531 or see Transforming Tradition: Reflections of www.nls.uk/wishyouwerehere Ancient Art in Medieval Manuscripts

3 June – late July, London July – Oct., Cherbourg British Library Musée Thomas-Henry George Orwell L’art anglais en Normandie au Moyen Age A display to coincide with the centenary of Tel. +33 (02) 33.23.39.30 Orwell’s birth on 25 June 1903.

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 11 30 Sept. – 1 Feb. 2004, New York 25 Nov. – 22 Feb. 2004, London The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Royal Academy Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Illuminating the Renaissance Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (See above, 17 June – 7 Sept, Los Angeles) (See under 7 June – 31 Aug., San Francisco) 23 Jan. 2004 – 2 May, Liège 9 Oct. – 18 Jan. 2004, London Museé de l’Art Wallon Victoria & Albert Museum L’age d’or de la Meuse Gothic Glory: Art in England, 1400-1547 19 Mar. 2004 – 4 July, New York 23 Oct. – 18 Jan. 2004, London Metropolitan Museum Hayward Gallery Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557) Centenary exhibition of the National Art Collections Fund 25 Mar. 2004 – 12 July, Paris Palais Royale / Louvre L’art parisien sous Charles VI News

Two M.R. James Catalogues Online images in due course. Post-medieval manuscripts, which James dealt with in rather summary Trinity College and St. John’s College, Cambridge, have made M. R. James’s catalogues fashion, have been re-catalogued in greater detail, of their manuscripts available on the Web. and descriptions of the College’s 50 oriental manuscripts are also provided. See: The Trinity catalogue—one of James’s greatest— was scanned, proofread, and is presented with www.joh.cam.ac.uk/Library/special%20collection s/Medman.html minimal alternation, except for some re- formatting, correction of obvious errors, Cambridge-wide manuscripts and archive online incorporation of new information brought to the resources can be searched via ‘Janus’: attention of the Library by scholars, and by the http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/ addition of a variable amount of bibliography, gleaned mainly from standard reference works AHRB Funding for MSS Projects such as Gneuss’s Handlist and Ker’s Catalogue of The AHRB (Arts and Humanities Research Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon, and by Board) of the British Academy has made the trawling the indexes of Scriptorium. It is intended following recent grants: to add images in due course, including samples of script, press-marks, etc., and to enrich the XML Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Charters (eXtensible Markup Language) encoding, to Simon Keynes (Cambridge University) has been allow greater accuracy in the searching of, for awarded £142,653 for ‘A revised and augmented example, personal names. It is therefore still edition of P. H. Sawyer’s catalogue of Anglo- work-in-progress, but can be consulted at: Saxon charters’. www-lib.trin.cam.ac.uk/~jon/James/home.html The standard corpus of surviving Anglo-Saxon (this URL may change, but the catalogue is charters was published over 40 years ago, in always likely to be reachable via the Library page 1968. Of immense value to all those who work on at http://library.trin.cam.ac.uk/ all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history, its The shorter St. John’s catalogue—James’s publication both stimulated and facilitated further penultimate Cambridge catalogue, and therefore work on this significant body of material, with the benefiting from the experience gained in writing result that new discoveries were made, new all the previous ones—was re-keyed by hand, and research was undertaken, and the book quickly has been provided with a convenient overview list became out of date. Prof. Keynes’s project will of contents. For the medieval manuscripts, the update and augment the data in the original text of the original catalogue is presented more- publication by providing a complete list of known or-less as it appeared on the printed page, to Anglo-Saxon charters (including later copies), which is added further bibliography and other with updated bibliographies for each of them. The corrigenda/addenda. The Library hopes to add results will be published both in conventional book form, and on the internet, the latter with AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 12 (where available) links to other online resources importance for any understanding of the area's including editions, translations, and digital literary and cultural history. images. It is anticipated that the ‘complete’ digital Unlike the sparse descriptions in some printed and edition will formally be published in 2006, and web based catalogues, it is hoped that the detailed the hardcopy edition in 2008, though of course it nature and sophisticated search capabilities is anticipated that the digital edition will continue allowed by the database, along with the inclusion to be updated and revised thereafter. For further of digital images, will facilitate more systematic details see: www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/. and large scale studies of the manuscripts thus Editions of Anglo-Saxon Charters enabling the links between the books and their Nicholas Brooks (University of Birmingham) has social and cultural environments to be made. The been awarded £168,384 for ‘Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, for example, are valuable sources of Charters of St Paul’s, Malmesbury, Canterbury, information for the study of specific individuals, West Midlands and Peterborough’. The award texts and social groupings and their links with will fund the next four years of a British local, regional, and national textual networks and Academy/Royal Historical Society joint research communities. The database, along with other project, which will provide a scholarly edition of congruent projects such as the University of the entire corpus of Anglo-Saxon charters, York's Urban Manuscripts Project and the including those in Old English as well as in Latin, Traditions of the Book project at Queen's and those that only survive as fragments. University, Belfast will allow research into these Specifically, the grant will enable the project’s regional and national links. Again, given the Coordinating editor, S. E. Kelly, to see through detailed nature of the descriptions, the catalogue the press her edition of the Charters of St Paul’s, will provide data and starting-points for linguistic, and of The Charters of Malmesbury Abbey, to palaeographical, codicological, and literary complete (with Prof. Brooks), the edition of The investigations. For further details see: Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury and to www.english.bham.ac.uk/medievalstudies/ undertake The Charters of Peterborough. She will MWMcat/ also edit the charters from about a dozen archives The Durham Liber vitae in the West Midlands. For further details see: David Rollason (University of Durham) has been www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/ awarded £291,966 for ‘Durham Liber Vitae: a Catalogue of Middle English Manuscripts Digital Analysis, Interlinked Texts, Images and Wendy Scase (University of Birmingham) has Research’. BL, Cotton MS. Domitian vii is one of been awarded £156,884 for ‘An electronic the earliest surviving English examples of a catalogue of vernacular manuscript books of the ‘memorial book’. It originated in the mid-9th Medieval West Midlands’. century, and originally contained several hundred names of people associated with Lindisfarne or Rebecca Farnham writes: Wearmouth/Jarrow, which were added to The project aims to create a fully searchable web sporadically until c.1100, by which time it seems based database, accompanied by digital images, to have passed to Durham. There it was regularly of some 180 manuscripts produced between supplemented until the 16th century for the c.1350 – c.1450 and associated with the medieval recording of thousands more names, principally of Midlands counties of Gloucestershire, monks of Durham, but also of laymen and Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, women. Warwickshire, and Worcestershire. The project aims to produce a digital facsimile The West Midlands was an important area in (and hopefully also a printed one), accompanied terms of literary production during the medieval by a diplomatic transcription, a transcription with period, producing traditions of Old-English normalised spellings, translations of the Latin and writing, of early Middle English prose and vernacular documents included in the codex, a alliterative poetry (La3amon), and of later Middle full palaeographical and codicological description English religious texts such as the South English and analysis, philological and biographic studies Legendary and Piers Plowman. The material of the personal names included, and a volume of evidence of this rich tradition, its manuscript introductory papers. books, some of which are among the most The project will not have its own website until important witnesses of medieval vernacular June; in the meantime, the AHRB Centre’s site is: literature (Bodleian, MS. Eng. Poet. a.1 (the www.dur.ac.uk/neehi.history/homepage.htm Vernon manuscript), Bodleian, MS. Digby 86, London, BL, Harley MS. 2253, and the Winchester Malory) are therefore of singular

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 13 Medieval Petitions in the PRO Cambridge University Library has been awarded William Ormrod (University of York) has been £9,000 for Conservation of the records of the awarded £291,984 for ‘Medieval Petitions: A Commissary’s Court of the University of catalogue of the ‘Ancient Petitions’ in the Public Cambridge. Record Office’. The Court of the Lord Lyon has been awarded Genetic Fingerprinting of Medieval MSS £7,500 for Conservation of the Forman Armorial. Christopher Howe (Cambridge University) has Manchester Metropolitan University has been been awarded £52,428 for ‘Genetic fingerprinting awarded £7,249 for Conservation of the Sir Harry of medieval manuscripts’. The aim is to take Page collection of albums. small samples of medieval parchment, to extract its DNA, and to see if it is possible to identify the Christ’s College, Cambridge, has been awarded animals from which it was made (cow, sheep, £6,000 for Conservation of Coptic manuscripts. goat, etc.), the breed of animal, and perhaps even Emmanuel College, Cambridge, has been the characteristics of individual herds/flocks awarded £5,600 for Conservation of John Foxe’s (which may represent specific farming regions). Letters of the Martyrs (MSS 260 & 261). In this way it may be possible to define the DNA characteristics of parchment from reliably Wisbech and Fenland Museum has been awarded localised manuscripts from specific centres £5,385 for Conservation of the Townshend (Canterbury, Winchester, York, etc.), and then Manuscript Collection. localise the parchment of unlocalised manuscripts Worcester Record Office has been awarded by comparison with these. £1,000 for Conservation of the Worcestershire Liturgical Texts tithe maps. David Chadd (University of East Anglia) has been For further details see: awarded £123,426 for CURSUS, ‘An On-line www.bl.uk/concord/nmct-grants2002.html Resource of Medieval Liturgical Texts’. For further details see www.cursus.uea.ac.uk Panizzi Lecturers 2003-2007 Forthcoming Panizzi lecturers are as follows: Software for Scanning Music MSS • 2003: Anthony Griffiths (Dept. of Prints and David Cooper and Kia Ng (University of Leeds) Drawings, British Museum): ‘Prints for have been awarded a further 3 years’ funding Books, French Book Illustration 1760-1800’. (until 2006) by the University of Leeds for the This year’s lecures will be presented on 4, 11, continuation of their project on ‘Optical and 18 Nov., in the British Library recognition of hand-written manuscripts with Conference Centre. application to film-music scores’. Originally funded by the AHRB, the project aims to help • 2004: Maria-Luisa Lopez-Vidriero (Real create accurate digital archives of written music. Biblioteca, Madrid), on the history of reading Commercial software has been available for more • 2005: W.F. Ryan (Warburg Institute, than a decade to read printed text, but musical London), on British Library collections notation is problematic, and it has proved even relating to Russian folklore more difficult to create software that can cope with hand-written music notation. For further • 2006: Christopher Pinney (Dept. of details see www.kcng.org/omr Anthropology, University College London), on the photography of British India National MSS Conservation Trust • 2007: Jonathan Alexander (Institute of Fine Some recent grants awarded by the Trust: Art, New York University), on British Library The University of Durham has been awarded collections relating to Italian illumination £25,300 for Conservation of Durham Receivers General’s Accounts. ‘Images Online’ at the BL About 8,000 images of items in the British The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Library’s collections, including manuscripts from British Architectural Library has been awarded the medieval period to Lewis Carroll’s drawings £15,000 for Conservation of the Godfrey Samuel for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, have been Collection and RIBA Council letters. made available on the ‘Images Online’ website. University College, London, has been awarded Many have been scanned from existing £12,500 for Conservation of the Bentham transparencies, while some 2,500 have been Collection. recently digitised direct from the originals. The

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 14 intention is to have 17,000 images by the end of enterprise - which shouldn’t be a very heavy the year. Aimed primarily at picture-researchers, burden - we would be grateful if you would get in the site provides searchable images of potential touch with the Secretary. use to non-commercial users. See: However, the basic idea in this project is that it www.bl.uk/imagesonline should be a collective achievement, mainly grounded on spontaneous participation of the Lambeth Palace Library Online members - and possibly any visitor of our pages. The Library’s catalogue of printed books is now Consequently, an interactive form has been accessible on-line via the Library’s website, included in the page, allowing everyone to www.lambethpalacelibrary.org communicate the information he or she may have A new digital resource has been also created by at hand. the ‘Church Plans Online’ digitization project, You are therefore invited to visit these new pages, that offers over 12,000 images and a related and to let us (and the general public) benefit from database from the archive of the Incorporated what you may know. Church Building Society. See: www.churchplansonline.org Private Libraries Day at Waddesdon A ‘Private Libraries Day’ was held at Waddesdon ‘Cotes nouvelles / New Shelfmarks’ Manor on 13 November. A group of about 55 APICES (the Association paléographique inter- specialists from the UK, France, and the USA nationale Culture - Ecriture – Société) writes: were invited to hear a series of papers on the Following the decision adopted in APICES’s theme of 19th- and 20th-century private libraries. General Assembly in Weingarten, the Moderamen First to speak was Giles Barber on ‘Baron of the Association has been working to install on Ferdinand’s Library’, still at Waddesdon; he was the Web an ‘International index of medieval followed by Emmanuelle Toulet on ‘The duc books recently acquired by public libraries’, to be d’Aumale as a Collector’ of the books and known as ‘Cotes nouvelles / New shelfmarks’. A manuscripts now at the Musée Condé, Chantilly; first draft of this new tool is now available at: Christopher de Hamel on ‘The Manuscript www.irht.cnrs.fr/cipl/acquis/acquis01.htm Collections of Baron Edmond de Rothschild’, For the time being, it is still an experimental concentrating on the dispersal and fate of the release, which was compiled from data that could manuscripts, especially as a result of Nazi be retrieved easily. The entries are few, but they confiscations; Leslie Morris on ‘A.S.W. were sufficient to start a database and test the Rosenbach and the Holford Collection’, program that runs it. The pages consist presently concerning the sale of books and manuscripts of lists of accessions by countries, an index of the from the Holford collection at Dorchester house, repositories, a general index, and a list of the to the famous Philadelphia book dealer; and Mark newest accessions. Purcell on ‘Lord Fairhaven and Anglesey Abbey’, touching on several of the libraries in National From the start, it has been judged advisable not to Trust properties, and concentrating on that formed make any backward search and attempt (for in the first half of the 20th century by Fairhaven instance) to list the accessions of each library at his house near Cambridge. since its last catalogue was published. Our list was conceived of as a mere mirror of current Between the morning and afternoon papers were a events. As such, however, it should be a great tour of the Manor, and introductions to a selection help to all. Dominique Coq (Direction du Livre et of its bookbindings, drawings, prints, and de la Lecture, Paris) has agreed to help us in ephemera. Hospitality extended to participants cumulating and formatting these data. Cristina included being met at Aylesbury railway station, Dondi and Consuelo Dutschke have agreed to coffee, an exceptionally fine lunch, and tea. centralize information for Great Britain and the Our host, Philippa Glanville, emphasised that the United States respectively. Franz Lackner and Eef purpose of the day was to give specialists a Overgaauw have been contacted for the German- chance to meet and exchange ideas, and to speaking area and Central Europe, and Marie- reinforce Waddesdon’s reputation as an institution Françoise Damongeot for the Bibliothèque with serious scholarly resources, rather than just a nationale de France. However, there are still large ‘nice day out’, for which it is now perhaps better areas for which we do not yet have a known. She is sure to have succeeded on both correspondent (in particular Italy and Spain / counts: participants came from all backgrounds, Portugal). If you are interested in joining this including museums, libraries, National Trust and

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 15 other country houses, conservation studios, and April or May 2003: The Library closes to the the trade, and encompassed specialists of public; staff are moved to an off-site location. bindings, prints, manuscripts, books of various May 2003: Construction is scheduled to begin. periods, archives, decorative arts, and other related fields. Sept. 2003: The Library hopes to make its rare collections accessible and to reopen its The day was scheduled to coincide with the photographic services department, both on a opening of Waddesdon’s New Library as a new limited basis, at its temporary location. resource for visiting scholars, containing both the working library and some of the rare books in the 2006: The Library plans to reopen at its old Collection. To make an appointment to use the location. New Library, contact Anne Langton: Tel. (01296) For further details see: www.morganlibrary.org/ 653207 or [email protected] and click on ‘The Morgan Expansion Project’, which will be updated as needed. Rylands Library Closure Work on the enhancement of the historic John Appeal for Michael Camille Rylands building in Deansgate, which is the home of the Library’s Special Collections of Early Memorial Printed Books, Manuscripts and Archives, will Jonathan Alexander and Stella Panayotova write: begin in the late summer of 2003 and continue The death of Michael Camille has left the world until the spring of 2005. The work, which will of medieval scholarship poorer. Obituaries lament involve both conservation and restoration of the loss of an original thinker, inspiring teacher, existing structures and the construction of a and generous colleague, and sessions at completely new visitor, secure research, and Kalamazoo and Leeds will honour his life and conservation wing, will require closure of the work. Cambridge would like to commemorate building and removal of the collections for him with an image from Guillaume de roughly two years. Material will, however, Deguileville’s Pilgrimage of the Soul. In 1985, continue to be made available to readers through while a student at Peterhouse, Cambridge, the Main Library during this period. Michael Camille completed his doctoral thesis on For further details see illustrated copies of Deguileville’s Pèlerinages http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/spcoll/closure.html under George Henderson’s supervision. The image that the Fitzwilliam Museum hopes to acquire at Jonathan Alexander’s recommendation Fitzwilliam Museum Closure depicts the Soul escorted by angels to the Due to a major building campaign, the Celestial City and seems a suitable tribute to manuscripts reading room is now closed. The Michael Camille, ad imaginem and in memoriam. curatorial collections (manuscripts, rare books, music, and archival material) and the reference The miniature comes from a mid-fifteenth-century library books are packed away in safe storage; Flemish manuscript and is no. 40 in Philip J. they will be moved to the refurbished premises at Pirages’s Catalogue 47, $12,500. The Fitzwilliam the end of December. The Museum will be Museum has committed $6,250. You may send completely closed between Christmas 2003 and cheques in sterling made payable to ‘The Easter 2004, but the hope is to re-open the new Fitzwilliam Museum’ to Stella Panayotova. US Reference Reading Room in January 2004. If taxpayers may make tax deductible contributions arrangements are made in advance, it will be through cheques payable to ‘Cambridge in possible to consult MSS and rare books there. America’, a US foundation with charitable 501 (c) 3 status. When sending them to Cambridge in For photographic inquiries and orders, contact the America, Worldwide Plaza, 309 West 49th Street, Photo Sales Department ([email protected]). New York, NY 10019-7399, donors should Stella Panayotova is away from the Museum until request their gift to be allocated to ‘The 30 September 2003. Fitzwilliam Museum in memory of Michael Camille’. Pierpont Morgan Library Closure If you have comments and suggestions, please, do The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, has not hesitate to contact us: begun a major construction project that will affect Prof. Jonathan Alexander, Institute of Fine Arts, 1 anyone who plans to visit or work at the Library East 78th Street, New York, NY 10021-0178, in the next few years. USA [email protected]

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 16 Dr. Stella Panayotova, The Fitzwilliam Museum, manuscripts, paintings and other artefacts from Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RB, UK Dunhuang and other Silk Road sites (see [email protected] http://idp.bl.uk). Other BnF catalogues and digitization ‘Journées professionnelles’ at the projects: BnF Virtual Exhibitions and Education: Includes an Matthew Shaw writes: archive of past exhibitions, including Zola and Utopias, the latter in co-operation with The New On 31 March and 1 April 2003, the Bibliothèque York Public Library (see nationale de France (BnF) arranged its second set http://expositions.bnf.fr). Current exhibitions, of ‘Journées professionnelles’, a series of talks which are very stylishly produced, include ‘Au and workshops for librarians and curators. Special bonheur des dames’ and medieval gastronomy. collections, including manuscripts, provided the focus for the two days, and although matters such MANDRAGORE (Iconographic Database): An as copyright and political involvement in iconographic database from the Department of collection policy were raised, questions of Manuscripts, with several thousand images (see digitisation and online access dominated the two http://mandragore.bnf.fr/accueil.html). The days. Representatives from the British Library, database combines extensive digitisation, detailed the Library of Congress, and the Beinecke description and a range of search criteria. Library, provided international perspectives. GALLICA (Digital Library) and Anthologie: Digitisation and Online Catalogues Huge resources have been invested in this digital BN-OPALINE, the BnF Special Collections library, which is an attempt to preserve and catalogue, which includes maps, medals, prints promote France’s heritage and language online. and drawings, theatrical and other materials, was Emphasis has been placed on providing digital used to demonstrate how hyperlinks can provide copies of the French canon, digitising entire access from within a catalogue to digitised collections, such as the French Revolution materials. Some 35,000 images are included in a Research Collection, and providing guided catalogue of over 1.3 million entries. It can be ‘journeys’ through themes such as Africa or reached via www.bnf.fr, the main BnF web site. Utopia (see http://gallica.bnf.fr). A huge amount A project to provide an integrated, retrospective has been digitised and is available on line; much electronic catalogue for all western manuscripts, can also be downloaded in .pdf or .tiff format, including Latin and Greek, was also announced. including entire volumes of out-of-copyright printed works. An online guide to the highlights Barbara Tillett, Chief Cataloging Policy and of the collection, with thematic ‘online journeys’ Support Officer at the Library of Congress, is provided through ‘Anthologie’. showed how the catalogue of the Library of Congress provides access to digital materials, Further information in English about Gallica can including web sites and guides (see be found at: http://catalog.loc.gov), in a similar manner to BN- http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing- OPALINE. The majority of these links are to the lists/exlibris/1998/01/msg00135.html. American Memory projects and Prints and The programme for the two days can be found at Photographic material, but they also include other www.bnf.fr/pages/zNavigat/frame/infopro.htm. material. Both institutions emphasised the desire to create a unified catalogue allowing access to bibliographic records and digitised materials. Italian Archives Need Your Support The following message was posted recently on the John Tuck, Head of British Collections at the APICES mailing-list: British Library, helped to set such developments in an international context, stressing how funding Firenze, 7 aprile 2003 can shape digitization policy. The British Library Chers collègues, focuses on discrete projects, often with commercial partners, such as the Early English Nous vous transmettons le document ‘S.O.S. pour Books Online project. A library-wide digitisation les Archives’ que les directeurs des Archives project, InPlace, will also put a vast range of d’Etat de Firenze, Lucca, Siena, Pisa, Massa, materials on the web, and a new ‘Integrated Prato, Pistoia, Grosseto, Livorno, Arezzo, Milano, Library System’ may in the future allow links to Mantova, Torino, les surintendants archivistiques digital materials from the main catalogue. de Toscana, Piemonte, Puglia, Lazio, et International co-operation includes projects such l’Associazione Nazionale Archivistica Italiana, as the International Dunhuang Project of ont envoyé à l’Onorevole Bono, sous-secrétaire AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 17 d’Etat au Ministère de la Culture, avec la part, sont également essentielles pour assurer la demande d’une rencontre sur la situation dramat- connaissance historique et donc la tutelle de tous ique dans laquelle se trouvent les Archives et les les autres biens culturels, depuis les biens Surintendances dépendant dudit Ministère, archéologiques jusq’à ceux architectoniques et situation qui pourrait amener, dès les prochaines artistiques. semaines, à la fermeture des établissement et à Le sort de ce patrimoine documentaire l’interruption totale de l’activité. d’inestimable valeur est maintenant en danger! Nous vous informons aussi que l’on est en train Les responsables des Archives d’Etat et des d’organiser, en Toscane, une journée Surintendances archivistiques, certains que l’on ‘Obscurcissement des Archives et des peut et que l’on doit assurer la continuité des Surintendances’ (en éteignant les lumières de 10 h fonctions fondamentales de conservation et de à midi), dans l’intention d’informer les lecteurs du tutelle remplies par ces instituts, dénoncent la grave risque de paralysie et de fermeture des gravité de la situation au Ministre et aux organes instituts archivistiques. Tous ceux qui veulent compétents du Ministère afin qu’ils y remédient souscrire le document peuvent envoyer un rapidement; sinon la fermeture des instituts message à l’Archivio di Stato di Firenze archivistiques sera inévitable. ([email protected]) et à la Sovrintendenza Archivistica di Firenze ([email protected]). New Journal Art de l’enluminure is a new quarterly periodical Salutations cordiales. devoted to illuminated manuscripts. Published by Luigi Previti (Sovrintendenza Archivistica per la Art et Métiers du Livre, it invites scholarly work Toscana) that appeals to a broad audience. Each issue deals Francesca Klein (Archivio di Stato di Firenze) with one or more manuscripts in their entirety, with numerous colour reproductions. At the end S.O.S. pour les archives of each issue is a short section of reviews of 31 mars 2003 books and exhibitions, and other news relating to Dans toute l’Italie, des coupes budgétaire illuminated manuscripts. drastiques ont frappé les Archives - Archives Previous issues have examined the Traité de d’Etat et Surintendances archivistiques - bonnes mœurs of the Duc de Berry, and The dépendant du Ministère de la Culture. Les Bologna Evangeliary (no. 1); The Hours of réduction, qui intéressent surtout les chapitres de Jacques II de Chastillon (recently aquired by the fonctionnement, oscillent entre 40 et 60% des BNF) (no. 2); the Histoire des Seigneurs de besoins, déterminés par la consommation Gavre, illustrated by the Maître de Wavrin (no. effective d’énergie électrique, de gaz, d’eau etc., 3); and The Authentique or Passion of St. Quentin et par la manutention ordinaire des établissement. (no. 4). The forthcoming issue will be devoted to Ces réduction amèneront, d’ici quelques mois, à a ‘Histoire d’Amour sans paroles’ at Chantilly. la paralysie totale de toutes les activités The editorial board includes Jonathan Alexander, institutionelles, y compris la prestation des François Avril, Albert Châtelet, Claudine services au public. Chavannes-Mazel, Monique Cohen, Jim Marrow, Sont donc en péril les fonctions de tutelle, de Patricia Stirneman, and Robert Sukale. conservation et de communication de la mémoire Individual issues are usually priced €8 (no. 2, at historiques, publique et privée, dans ses multiples 120 pages almost twice the length of the others, articulations, depuis les archives des personnes, was €11). Subscription rates including surface des familles, des communautés locales, jusqu’à post to the UK are €31 for one year, €55 for two celles des institutions publiques et d’Etat. Cette years. Enquiries and submissions should be sent mémoire, qui constitue le fondement de l’identité to Art de l’enluminure, 110, ave. de Villiers, nationale, couvre une période ultramillénaire qui 75017 Paris, or redaction@art-metiers-du- va, sans interruption, du Moyen-age jusqu’à nos livre.com jours, et pour cette raison notre pays est fameux et http://art-metiers-du-livre.com admiré à travers le monde. Un vaste public de lecteurs italiens et étrangers - Manuscripts In Microform étudiants, chercheurs, historiens, membres de The most remarkable recent set of manuscripts in professions liberalés, citoyens etc.- trouve dans microform is probably Rare Buddhist Sanskrit les Archives un instrument de travail et de Manuscripts from Cambridge University connaissance indispensable. Les archives, d’autre Library issued by Norman Ross Publishing (80

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 18 reels, with guide. $10,000). Collected by Dr. £1570 each). The project focuses on four ‘key Daniel Wright, surgeon to the British Residency areas: Nationality law as it affected women at Kathmandu, Nepal, between 1873 and 1876, following the passing of the British Nationality the collection comprises more than 240 pieces, and Status of Aliens Act; the conditions of and includes ‘the oldest Buddhist Sanskrit and indigenous women, female colonial subjects and Nepalese manuscripts’ extant: two 9th century women of colour; the extension of suffrage and documents. From the same company comes The other civil and political rights to women at home UNESCO Microfilm Collections in the and in the dominions; and the obligations of the National Archives of El Salvador, which makes UK as a member of international bodies and as a available part of the UNESCO Mobile Unit’s party to international treaties’. The Papers of cultural preservation project of 1958 and 1959 in Roger Nash Baldwin (1885-1981) from the Latin America and the Caribbean. The 143 reels Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, are available in six series, four of which are Princeton University; The American Civil manuscript collections from the Biblioteca Liberties Union and International Affairs (26 Nacional (45 reels. $4950); the Museo Nacional reels, with guide) document the life and career of, de El Salvador ‘David J. Guzmán’ (7 reels. a prominent and active American civil libertarian, $840); the Ministerio del Interior (22 reels. a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. $2640); and the Panchimalco Collection (1 reel. For the musical, Gilbert & Sullivan opens with $120). Norman Ross Publishing has previously Part 1: The Correspondence, Diaries, Literary made available the UNESCO films created in Manuscripts and Prompt Copies of W.S. Barbados, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Gilbert (1836-1911) from the British Library, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay and Peru. For London (19 reels, plus guide. £1620). further details see www.nross.com/new/index.asp Amongst the many on-going AMP projects, the Adam Matthew Publications continue their most unusual recent continuation is perhaps stream of new projects with a variety of sets. Alchemy, Chemistry & Magic, which forms Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Parts 4 and 5 of History of Science and Newsletters. Part 1: Newsletters, c.1564-1667, Technology; Series One: The Papers of Sir and Related Papers, c.1607-1794, from the Hans Sloane, 1660-1753, from the British Public Record Office is particularly valuable for Library, London (18 reels, and £1530 per part). news from abroad and includes newsletters of For details of other additions and further Viscount Scudamore, Charles I’s ambassador in information see www.adam-matthew- Paris 1635-1639, and a number of his political publications.co.uk/ and diplomatic associates (18 reels, with guide. Invaluable for scholars interested in imperial and £1570). English Poetry, 1750-1855 opens with economic history, Finding Aids for Dutch Part 1: Recollections, Conversations and Colonial History, sees the publication of three Commonplace Books of the Reverend John important indexes of records of the Ministry of Mitford (1781-1859) from the British Library, Colonies, otherwise available only in the reading London (10 reels, with guide. £850). Mitford led room of the National Archives of the Netherlands a sociable literary life, and edited the Gentleman’s in The Hague. Issued by IDC Publishers, these Magazine and volumes of verse. An intriguing are Index to the Public Archives (verbaal) of literary and gender set is ‘Michael Field’ and the Ministry of the Colonies 1814-1849 (2151 Fin-De-Siècle Culture & Society: The Journals, fiches); Index to the Secret and Cabinet 1868-1914, and the Correspondence of Archives of the Ministry of the Colonies, 1825- Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper from the 1839 (143 fiches); and Index to the Secret and British Library, London (13 reels, with guide. Cabinet Archives of the Ministry of Colonies, £1100). ‘Michael Field’ was the sobriquet of an 1901-1958 (950 fiches). IDC have also published aunt and niece couple who not only published British Intelligence on China in Tibet, 1903- poetry and drama under the single male 1950 (576 fiches) drawn from policy and pseudonym, but lived their lives through it, using intelligence files in the Oriental and India Office the composite single name ‘to represent their Collections (OIOC) at the British Library. For unity as co-writers and lovers’. contact information and prices see www.idc.nl More generally, Sex & Gender: Manuscript Microform Academic Publishers’ recent Sources from the Public Record Office opens projects include Liverpool Custom Bills of with Part 1: Empire and Suffrage (AR, CAB, Entry (1820-1939) (142 reels, with printed CO and DO files) and Part 2: Empire and guide) from the Liverpool Record Office and Suffrage (FO, HO, LO, PREM, T and WO the Liverpool Maritime Museum. A significant files) (18 reels each, with guide to parts 1 and 2. source for maritime and economic history, these

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 19 detail lists of shipping registers, and maritime richest single available source of primary source trading lists of ships docking in to the port of material from the “Age of Discovery” outside Liverpool. Lascelles & Maxwell Letterbooks Spain’. The weight of the collection relates to (1739-1769) (2 reels, with printed guide), a exploration. For pricing or further information see collection of colonial commercial material from www.galegroup.com/psm 18thC London, is valuable for the history of Donald Munro slavery and the sugar trade in Barbados and Institute of Historical Research Jamaica. Their BBC News Broadcasts during the General Strike of 1926 (4 reels) ‘reproduces all of the BBC Radio broadcast transcripts - and Review numerous drafts, news sources … and related material - during the General Strike’. For prices of Three Exhibitions in Belgium, 2002 all these sets contact via As announced in AMARC Newsletter no. 39, the www.microform.co.uk/html/publishing.html Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscripts Primary Source Microfilm’s series of Russian (RCIMS) organised a visit to the ‘Medieval Archives continues with a number of sets. Russo- Mastery’ exhibition in Leuven during the Japanese War, 1904-1905: From the Military weekend of 30 Nov. – 1 Dec. 2003. About 25 Science Archive at the Russian State Military people took part in the trip, ranging from MA History Archive (170 reels) is a massive students to professors and senior curators, and collection of documents ‘gathered … to provide they met up with contingents of students and their the primary source base for the General Staff’s supervisors from Lille and Leuven. Most official multi-volume history of the war’. Whilst participants spent the greater part of the Saturday the primary focus is military, ‘the collection also afternoon in the exhibition, which consisted of contains much important material dealing with around 100 manuscripts, arranged in a politics and international relations, as well as the chronological series of rooms. The exhibition was Trans-Siberian Railway’. Voice of the People crowded (which was simultaneously heartening Under Soviet Rule: From the People’s Archive and frustrating), and the manuscripts themselves of Moscow (90 reels) ‘focuses on materials … difficult to see: most were lit with raking light that from the 18th century to the present, such as cast shadows from the undulations in the page and unofficial social organizations, political parties, did little to make details visible. Labelling—only religious and ecological organizations, and private in Dutch—in the exhibition was minimal, as was documents of individual citizens not normally the information in the multi-lingual booklet acquired by state archives’. Another Russian set handed out to each visitor, so it was often difficult World War II Documents from the State to understand why a given manuscript was Archive of Kiev Oblast documents the Ukrainian included in the exhibition, why a particular experience under German occupation. It opens opening had been selected for display, or why it with Part 1: Postcards Home: Postcards of had been placed next to its neighbours; these and Ukrainian Forced Labor Workers from Nazi other questions are often not answered in the full Germany (75 reels). A new PSM project, The exhibition catalogue. Despite these practical Middle East: A Documentary Resource has difficulties it was possible, with patience and begun with Series 1: Arab-Israeli Relations, stamina, to see a large number of manuscripts, 1917-1970. Drawn mainly from materials in the either well known but not often exhibited, or little Public Record Office, it is projected in 278 reels. known and less often seen. Units 1 and 2 are available, with others expected Similar in scale, but very different as an later this year. Also available is Modern Ireland: experience, was the exhibition ‘Cloistered world, Cabinet Papers of the Stormont open books’ in Bruges, which ran from mid- Administration, 1921-72, “CAB/4” From the August to mid-November, and was therefore Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, closed by the time of the RCIMS trip. About 100 Belfast (90 reels in two parts; with guides). This manuscripts from the Cistercian abbeys of Les consists of ‘Cabinet Conclusions’ files from all Dunes and two of its daughter houses were debates and transactions for the entire period of exhibited in the Episcopal Seminary in one large administration by the devolved government of room (the former refectory), while the other Northern Ireland at Stormont. Publication is rooms around the cloister contained contemporary imminent for the first part of Conquistadors: art exhibits. Here a thematic rather than The Struggle for Colonial Power in Latin chronological approach was taken, based on the America, 1492-1825, from the Department of arrangement of a catalogue of a medieval library, Manuscripts, British Library, London (c.100 with sections on the Bible, patristics, law, reels in three parts). This claims to ‘represent the AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 20 medicine, and so on. The lighting of the exhibits Completely different from the Leuven and Bruges was considerably better than at Leuven, and the exhibitions was a small show based around a design was on the whole far better-suited to close single manuscript recently acquired by the Royal examination of the manuscripts: the vitrines, laid Library in Brussels (now MS. IV.1290), a book of out in a series of parallel rows, were staggered at hours illuminated by Jean Tavernier and two heights, with stools provided for more apparently commissioned by Duke Philippe le comfortable viewing of the lower ones. Labelling Bon, on display in the medieval Nassau Chapel was again minimal, although the guide booklet that forms part of the Library. The exhibition was more informative than that for Leuven. Even consisted of one opening of the new manuscript, without referring to catalogues or labels, it was backlit transparencies of all of its other clear that while the Leuven exhibition had been miniatures, and a number of other manuscripts envisaged as a sort of ‘blockbuster’ show, which illuminated by Tavernier (including the wonderful it achieved with mixed success, the Bruges Chroniques et conquêtes de Charlemagne, copied exhibition was less concerned with by David Aubert, open at the presentation ‘masterpieces’, and therefore provided a far richer miniature). Texts on wall-panels provided a clear sense of the variety of books made during the introduction to the manuscript and its importance, Middle Ages, and a more realistic sense of what while an inexpensive 88-page booklet (listed in survives. It was also interesting for the emphasis the ‘Recent publications’ section below) provides placed on aspects of the books such as their a detailed scholarly description and analysis. In bindings and provenace. It is regrettable, many ways, of the three exhibitions this was the however, that most of the reproductions in the easiest to enjoy: it was uncrowded, the catalogue are uniformly small—even when there manuscripts were of uniformly high quality, and is ample white space on the page—and some there was ample information in more than one exhibits are not illustrated at all. language.

Notable Accessions

Aberystwyth, National Library of Earls of Courtown: papers 18th-20th centuries (on deposit since 1977). Wales A manuscript draft, pre-1822, of Robert Owen, William O’Sullivan (1920-2000), historian and Constitutions, Laws and Regulations of a Comm- former keeper of manuscripts: correspondence unity, perhaps in the hand of his son, Robert Dale and papers. Owen. (NLW MS 23902). Brian Boydell (1917-2000), composer: scores, Papers of Lord Goronwy-Roberts (1913-81), correspondence and papers. former cabinet minister. Thomas Addis Emmet (1764-1827), United A major archive of the writer Jan (formerly Irishman, doctor, barrister, elder brother of Robert James) Morris (b. 1926), including literary Emmet: correspondence, 1810-59. papers, notebooks and annotated printed material, Gabriel Joseph Fallon (1898-1982), actor, 1908-2002. producer, critic: papers, 1927-29. Letters to Anna Wyn Jones from the Welsh poet Harry Clarke Stained Glass Ltd: papers Waldo Williams (1904-71) and from the Breton (financial and legal) and correspondence (1890s- artist and writer Xavier de Langlais (1906-75) 1960s). (NLW MSS 23896-8). Philomena Connolly (1948-2002), historian and Illustrated notebook of Ann Pettitt documenting archivist: research papers and materials. life at Greenham Common peace camp, of which she was a founder (NLW MS 23901). John Stewart Collis (1900-1984), writer: papers.

Dublin, Trinity College Edinburgh, National Library of Seneca, Epistolae. Italy, 14th century, with an Scotland extensive series of marginal drawings. Purchased Cartulary, 15th-17th centuries, of lands of from the estate of Brian Cron (on whom see the Westraw and Pettinain, Lanarkshire. ‘In memoriam’ section above).

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 21 Antiquarian album, compiled c.1780-1820, of Purchased with additional support from the Adam de Cardonnel (afterwards Cardonnel- Friends of the National Libraries. Lawson, died 1820) containing several hundred prints and drawings. Oxford, Bodleian Library Additional papers of Dame Muriel Spark, 1932- Brian Lawn, who died in late 2001, bequeathed 2001, including research material, manuscript and his collection of manuscripts (western and typescript, of the novel Aiding and Abetting, oriental, medieval and modern), printed books, manuscripts of short stories, and correspondence sale catalogues, as well as his academic working files, 1997-2000. papers. For details of the collection see ‘Bibliotheca Lawniana’, The Book Collector, 48 A major bequest of the literary and personal (1999). papers, c.1950-2000, of Dorothy, Lady Dunnett, (née Halliday, 1923-2001) including research The archive of Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle notes, typescripts and proofs of her novels, of Blackburn. correspondence and papers relating to her An important series of over 550 letters from involvement in various cultural and business Herbert Asquith, written to Venetia Stanley organisations. With further papers of her husband, between 1910 and 1915. Alastair M. Dunnett, c.1960-1980. Literary papers, c.1980-2002, of Emma Tennant, Cleveland, Museum of Art and some family papers, 1910-30, relating to Single leaf with Scenes of the Last Supper and Pamela Glenconner. the arms of the Enrque de Ribiera family. Bequest of the papers, 20th century, of George Illuminated by Simon Bening, c.1525-30. Given Bruce, comprising notebooks, manuscript and by Bruce Ferrini, friends, and associates. typescript drafts of poems and correspondence. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum London, British Library Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Historia de duobus Correspondence of William III with the Duke of amantibus; with 10 miniatures; France, c.1460- Leeds. 70. Ms. 68 (2001.45) Papers of Arthur Henry Hallam and his Family. Leaf from a missal with full-page miniature of Christ in Majesty; illuminated by Antoine de ‘The Charleston Bulletin’. Lonhy. Toulouse, c.1460. Ms. 69 (2001.84). [See Avril & Reynaud, Les manuscripts à peintures, London, Lambeth Palace Library 1983, no. 118B.] Statutes of the Diocese of Carlisle promulgated Leaf with a full-page Byzantine miniature of by Bishop Robert de Chaury, c.1259, copied in Saint Mark; Constantinople, c.1300. Ms. 70 the 14th century. Purchased in memory of Dr. (2002.23). [Sotheby’s, 18 June 2002, lot 9.] E.G.W. Bill, with additional support from the Resource / V&A Purchase Grant Fund. Leaf from a gradual with historiated initial G with The Stigmatization of St.Francis, by Rinaldo da Additional papers of Frederick Temple and Siena?; Siena, c.1275. Ms. 71. (2003.15) William Temple, Archbishops of Canterbury.

Recent Publications

Collection Catalogues Britain N.R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British Austria [Vienna] Andreas Fingernagel, Katharina libraries, vol. V: Indexes and addenda, edited by Hranitzky, Veronika Pirker-Aurenhammer, I.C. Cunningham and A.G. Watson (Clarendon Martin Roland, Friedrich Simader, Press: Oxford, 2002). £150.00. ISBN: 0-19- Mitteleuropäische Schulen II (ca. 1350-1410) 818277-5. Contains: Addenda to vols. I-IV and (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie eleven indexes: 1 Authors, subjects, and titles, 2 der Wissenschaften, 2002). 2 vols, 500 pp text, 36 Names (scribes, illuminators, owners, annotators, colour illustrations, 498 B&W, ISBN 3-7001- etc.), 3 Bibles, 4 Liturgies, 5 Iconography, 6 3085-6. See http://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/ Languages other than Latin, 7 Origins and dates,

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 22 8 Secundo folios, 9 Incipits, 10 Repertories cited, [Paris] Jean Fouquet: Album de l’exposition 11 Manuscripts cited. (2003). 56 pages, 55 col. ills. €7.70. ISBN: 2- 7177-2256-4 Italy [Florence] Sandro Bertelli, I manoscritti della [Chantilly] L’enluminure en France au temps de letteratura italiana delle origini: Firenze, Jean Fouquet. (Somogy éditions d’art, Paris, Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Biblioteche e 2003). 96 pp. incl. 64 col. pls. ISBN 2-85056- archivi, 11 (Firenze: SISMEL: Edizioni del 621-7. €18. Galluzzo, 2002). ISBN: 8884500354 Italy [Florence] Simona Bianchi, et al., I manoscritti [Florence] Giovanna Lazzi, ed., I colori del datati del fondo conventi soppressi della divino, Biblioteca riccardiana, 6 (Firenze: Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze, Polistampa, 2001) [Biblioteca riccardiana, Manoscritti datati d’Italia, 5 (Firenze: SISMEL: Florence, Feb. 20-May 19, 2001] ISBN: Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2002). ISBN: 8884500362 8883042883 [Mantua] Maruo Bini, et al., I codici miniati della [Milan] Federico Macchi, and others, Arte della Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (Mantua: Il legatura a Brera: storie di libri e biblioteche, bulino, 2003). secoli XV e XVI (Cremona: Linograf, 2002) [Milan, Biblioteca nazionale Braidense, 18 April- [Tuscany] Sandro Bertelli, et al., I manoscritti 22 June, 2002]. Includes: Christian Coppens: medievali delle province di Grosseto, Livorno, ‘Biblioteche private tra Cinque e Seicento’, Massa Carrara, Biblioteche e archivi, 10; Angela Nuovo: ‘Les livres de la Biblioteca Manoscritti medievali della Toscana, 3. (Firenze: Colbertina à la Biblioteca Braidense di Milano’, Regione Toscana: SISMEL: Edizioni del Jean-Eudes Girot: ‘Le coperte del libro antico. Galluzzo, 2002). ISBN: 8884500311 Pergamena cuoio e legno: origine, lavorazione e [Vatican] Wolfgang Metzger, Die cause di degrado’, Franca Alloatti: ‘La humanistischen, Triviums- und riproduzione digitale delle legature d’arte della Reformationshandschriften der Codices Palatini Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense’, Guido Mura: latini in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek (Cod. Pal. ‘La legature d’arte del XV e XVI secolo della lat. 1461-1914), Kataloge der Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense’. Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 4 (Wiesbaden: [Modena] Nicola Bono, Angela Dillon Bussi , et L. Reichert, 2002). ISBN: 3895002143 al, Nel segno del corvo: libri e miniature della Switzerland biblioteca di Mattia Corvino re d’Ungheria [St. Gall] Romain Jurot, Katalog der (1443-1490) [Modena, Biblioteca Estense Handschriften der Abtei Pfäfers im Stiftsarchiv St. universitaria, 2002-2003] Il giardino delle Gallen, Studia Fabariensia, 3 (Dietikon-Zürich: Esperidi, 16 (Mantua: Il bulino, 2002). ISBN: 88- U. Graf, 2002). ISBN: 3859512129 86251-52-1. €75. [Parma] Leonardi Farinelli, et al., Cum picturis Exhibition Catalogues ystoriatum: codici devozionali e liturgici della Belgium Biblioteca Palatina, Il giardino delle Esperidi, 14 [Leuven] Medieval mastery: book illumination (Il Bulino edizione d’arte: Parma, 2001). ISBN: from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold 800-1475 8886251440. €72.30. Includes six essays and 60 (Brepols: Turnhout, 2002). ISBN: 2503522114. catalogue entries, illustrated in colour throughout. Includes twelve essays and 91 catalogue entries, illustrated in colour throughout. [Rome] Antonio Cadei, ed., Il trionfo sul Tempo: Manoscritti Illustrati dell’Academia nazionale dei France Lincei, (2002). [Palazzo Fontana di Trevi, [Paris] Trésors de Byzance: manuscrits grecs de 27/11/02-26/1/03] ISBN 88-8290-521-7 (pb) and la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Cahiers 88-8290-520-9 (hb) d’une exposition (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 2001). ISBN: 2717721746. [Rome] Claudio Leonardi, Antonella Degl’Innocenti, eds., Maria: vergine, madre, [Paris] François Avril and others, Jean Fouquet: regina: le miniature medievali e rinascimentali, peintre et enlumineur du XVe siècle (BNF / ([Milan]: Centro Tibaldi; [Rome]: Ministero per i Hazan: 2003). 432 pp., 592 col. ills. €65. ISBN beni culturali e ambientali, 2000). [Rome, BNF: 2-7177-2257-2; Hazan: 2-85025-863-6. Biblioteca Vallicelliana, 2000-2001] ISBN: 88- 86924-14-3. €111.04

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 23 [Trent] Giacomo Baroffio, Danilo Curti, Marco Pierre Chaplais, English diplomatic practice in Gozzi, eds., Jubilate Deo: miniature e melodie the Middle Ages (London: Hambledon and gregoriane: testimonianze della Biblioteca L. London, 2003). ISBN: 1852853956 Feininger (Trento: Provincia autonoma di Trento, Peter D. Clarke, ed., The University and College Servizio beni librari e archivistici, 2000) [Castello Libraries of Cambridge, Corpus of British del Buonconsiglio, Trento, 15 July – 31 Oct. Medieval Library Catalogues, 10 (British Library 2000] ISBN: 88-86602-23-5. €33.57 and British Academy, 2002). ISBN: 0 7123 4773 Spain 9. £145 [Santiago da Compostela] Ex-libris Universitatis: Justin Clegg, The Medieval Church in el patrimonio de las bibliotecas universitarias Manuscripts (British Library: London, 2003) españolas = el patrimoni de les biblioteques universitàries espanyoles [...]: 28 septiembre - 31 Albert Derolez, The palaeography of Gothic octubre 2000, Santiago de Compostela (Madrid: manuscript books: from the twelfth to the early CRUE, 2000). ISBN: 8493081930 sixteenth century, Cambridge studies in palaeography and codicology, 9 (Cambridge [Seville] Julián González, ed., San Isidoro: doctor University Press, 2003). ISBN: 0521803152 Hispaniae (Sevilla: Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y John A. Emerson, edited by Lila Collamore, Albi, Bienes Culturales: Universidad de Sevilla, 2002) Bibliothèque municipale Rochegude, manuscript 44: a complete ninth-century gradual and USA antiphoner from southern France, [Baltimore] William Noel and Daniel Weiss, eds., Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Institute of The Book of kings: art, war, and the Morgan Mediaeval Music, 77 (Ottawa: Institute of Library’s medieval picture Bible (Lingfield, Mediaeval Music, 2002) 2002). ISBN: 0911886540 (pb), 1903942160 (hb) Ole Fenger, translated by Lis Fenger, Notarius [Cleveland, San Francisco, New York] Pia publicus: le notaire au Moyen Âge latin (Århus: Palladino, Treasures of a lost art: Italian Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2001). ISBN: manuscript painting of the Middle Ages and 8772889241 Renaissance (New Haven, 2003). ISBN 0-300- 09879-0. $50.00. (See above, under ‘Exhibitions’, Hedwig Gwosdek, A checklist of English for details) grammatical manuscripts and early printed grammars c. 1400-1540, Henry Sweet Society [Washington, DC] Heather Wolfe, ed., “The studies in the history of linguistics, 6 (Münster: pen’s excellencie”: treasures from the manuscript Nodus, 2000). ISBN: 389323456X collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, Marie-Pierre Laffitte, Reliures royales du 2002) [6 Feb. – 8 June 2002, celebrating Folger’s département des manuscrits (1515-1559) (Paris: 70th anniversary] ISBN: 0295982667 Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2001). ISBN: 2717721657 Monographs, etc. Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Manuscripts in I Salmi: commentati dai padri della Chiesa: Northumbria in the eleventh and twelfth centuries miniature del 13.-15. secolo, Bellezza e fede (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2003) (Milano: Paoline 2000 [printed 2001]) ISBN: 88- Rainer Leng, Ars belli: deutsche taktische und 315-2024-5. €35.12 kriegstechnische Bildhandschriften und Traktate Laurel Amtower, Engaging words: the culture of im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert, Imagines Medii Aevi, reading in the later Middle Ages (New York, 12 (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2002). ISBN: Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000) ISBN: 0312233833 3895002615 Bernard Bousmanne, Pierre Cockshaw, and Mary-Rose McLaren, The London chronicles of others, Les heures Tavernier: [Brussels] KBR, ms. the fifteenth century: a revolution in English IV 1290 (Fondation Roi Baudouin: Brussels, writing (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2002). ISBN: 2002). ISBN: 2-87212-396-2. €5 0859916464 Ardis Butterfield, Poetry and music in medieval Robert K. O’Neill Irish libraries: archives, France: from Jean Renart to Guillaume Machaut museums & genealogical centres (Belfast: Ulster Cambridge studies in medieval literature, 49 Historical Foundation, 2002). ISBN: 1903688280 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). ISBN: 0521622190

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 24 Nicholas Orchard, ed., The Leofric Missal, Henry Facsimiles Bradshaw Society, 113-114 (London: Boydell M. Pastoureau and Michel Popoff, Le grand Press, 2002). ISBN: 1870252179 and 1870252187 armorial équestre de la toison d’or, 2 vols: vol. 1 Neil Parkinson, ed., Poets and polymaths: special facsimile, vol. 2 commentary (Editions de Gui, collections at the University of Sussex (Brighton, 2001) ‘edition prestige’: €320.14; ‘edition cuir’: 2002). 124 pp. ISBN 0850 870 44-5. £5. Includes €533.57 descriptions of the Bloomsbury, Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Lockwood, ed. A Ferrarese chansonnier: Mass-observation, New Statesman, and other Roma, Biblioteca casanatense 2856: “Canzoniere archives; and other collections of manuscripts and di Isabella d’Este” (Lucca: Libreria musicale printed books. italiana, 2002). ISBN: 8870963403 Pamela Porter, Courtly love in medieval Vetus missale Romanum monasticum lateranense: manuscripts (London: British Library, 2003) archivii Basilicae Lateranensis: Codex A65 (olim Richard Sharpe, Titulus: Identifying Medieval 65) / introduzione, edizione semicritica e Latin Texts, an evidence-based approach facsimile (f. 208-f. 327), Monumenta studia (Brepols, 2003). 301 pp. ISBN: 2-503-51258-5. instrumenta liturgica, 20 (Città del Vaticano: €35 Libreria editrice vaticana, 2002). ISBN: 8820973235 Patricia Stirnemann, with Marie-Therèse Gousset, Claudia Rabel and Emmanuelle Toulet, Les Antje Kohnle, ed., Liber Scivias: Farbmikrofiche- Heures d’Etienne Chevalier par Jean Fouquet: Edition der Handschrift Heidelberg, Universitäts- Les quarante enluminures du Musée Condé. bibliothek, Cod. Sal. X 16 / Hildegard von (Somogy éditions d’art, Paris, 2003). In French Bingen; Einleitung, kodikologische Beschreibung and English. 88 pp. incl. 40 col. pls. ISBN: 2- und Verzeichnis der Bilder, Rubriken und 85056-633-0. €15 Initialen, Codices illuminati medii aevi, 50 (München: H. Lengenfelder, 2002). ISBN: Vsiliki Tsamakda, The Illustrated Chronicle of 389219050X Ioannes Skylitzes in Madrid [National Library, Vitr. 26-2] (Alexandros Press, Leiden: 2002). 584 Tatsuo Tokoo and B.C. Barker-Benfield, A colour and 20 b&w ills. ISBN: 90-806476-2-4. catalogue and index of the Shelley manuscripts in €250 the Bodleian Library and a general index to the facsimile edition of the Bodleian Shelley Salvador Munas Vinas, The Technical Analysis of manuscripts, volumes I-XXII, with Shelleyan Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from the writing materials in the Bodleian Library: a Historical Library of the University of Valencia / catalogue of formats, papers and watermarks, Estudio Tecnico de los Codices Miniados Bodleian Shelley manuscripts, 23 (New York, Renacentistas de la Biblioteca Historica de la London: Routledge, 2002). ISBN: 0815311583 Universidad de Valencia (Harvard University Art Museums, 2001). ISBN: 1891771035 Recent publications of the Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile (ASMMF) John William, The Illustrated Beatus: a Corpus of series, published in the Medieval and Renaissance Illustrations of the Commentary on the Texts and Studies (MRTS) series (Tempe, Apocalypse, vol. 4: The Eleventh and Twelfth Arizona): Centuries (London: Harvey Millar, 2002). ISBN: 0 905203 94 1. €130 A.N. Doane, ed., ASMMF vol. 7: Anglo-Saxon Bibles and ‘The Book of Cerne’, MRTS 187 Among the guides recently published by the (2002) Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at the University of Cambridge are: Jonathan Wilcox, ed., ASMMF vol. 8: Wulfstan Texts and other Homiletic Materials, MRTS 219 Simon Keynes, An atlas of attestations in Anglo- Saxon charters, c. 670-1066, I: Tables (2002). (2000) ISBN: 0 9532697 6 0 A.N. Doane and Tiffany J. Grade, eds., ASMMF Rebecca Rushforth, An atlas of saints in Anglo- vol. 9: Deluxe and Illustrated Manuscripts Saxon calendars (2002). ISBN: 0 953267 7 9 Containing Technical and Literary Texts, MRTS 225 (2001) For details of these and other ANSC publications see www.asnc.cam.ac.uk

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 25 Individual Articles / Chapters (Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, 2002). ISBN: G. Croenen, Mary Rouse & Richard Rouse, 3484108479 ‘Pierre de Liffol and the manuscripts of Froissart’s Chronicles’, Viator, 33 (2002), pp. Caroline M. Barron and Jenny Stratford, eds., The 261-93. church and learning in later medieval society: essays in honour of R.B. Dobson: proceedings Xavier Hermand and Bernadette Petitjean, ‘Les of the 1999 Harlaxton Symposium, Harlaxton livres liturgiques des paroisses de l’ancien diocèse medieval studies, 11 (Donington, Lincolnshire: de Liège au bas Moyen Age: le témoignage des Shaun Tyas, 2002). ISBN: 1900289520. records ecclésliastiques’, Bulletin de la Société Includes: d’Art et d’Histoire du Diocèse de Liège, 65 (2001). Martin Heal, ‘Books and learning in the dependent priories of the monasteries of medieval Paul Tucker, ‘“Responsible Outsider”: Charles England’ Fairfax Murray and the South Kensington Lynda Dennison and Nicholas Rogers, ‘A Museum’, Journal of the History of Collections, medieval best-seller: some examples of decorated 14 (2002), pp. 115-37. copies of Higden’s Polychronicon’ Fiona Kisby, ‘Books in London parish churches Composite Works before 1603: some preliminary observations’ John Barnard and D. F. McKenzie, eds., The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. Peter Beal, ed., Seventeenth-Century Poetry, IV:1557-1695 (Cambridge University Press, Music and Drama, English manuscript studies 2002). ISBN: 0 521 66182 X. £95 1100-1700, 8: (British Library: London, 2000). Anne-Marie Christin, ed., A History of Writing: ISBN: 0-7123-4629-5. from Hieroglyph to Multimedia (Flammarion, Contains: 2002). ISBN: 2 0801 0887 5. £45 Hilton Kelliher, ‘Francis Beaumont and Nathan Vincenzo Colli, ed., Juristische Buchproduktion Field: New Records of their Early Years’ im Mittelalter, Studien zur europäischen Mark Bland, ‘‘As far from all Reuolt’: Sir John Rechtsgeschichte, 155 (Frankfurt am Main: V. Salusbury, Christ Church MS 184 and Ben Klostermann, 2002) [Papers presented at an Jonson’s First Ode’ international conference held 25-28 October, James Knowles, ‘The ‘Running Masque’ 1998] ISBN: 3465030753 Recovered: A Masque for the Marquess of Edward D. Herbert and Emanuel Tov, eds., The Buckingham (c. 1619-20)’ Bible as Book: the Hebrew Bible and the Jeremy Maule, ‘‘To the memory of the late Judean Desert Discoveries (British Library and excellent Poet John Fletcher’: A New Poem by Oak Knoll Press, 2002). ISBN: 0 7123 4726 7. John Ford’ £40 Peter Beal, ‘An Authorial Collection of Poems by John Higgitt, Katherine Forsyth & David N. Thomas Carew: The Gower Manuscript’ Parsons, eds., Roman, runes and Ogham: medieval inscriptions in the insular world and Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas on the continent (Donington, Lincs.: Shaun Tyas, Carew’s Poetry’ 2001). ISBN: 190028944x Richard Charteris, ‘A Newly Discovered Adam J. Kosto and Anders Winroth, eds., Songbook in Poland with Works by Henry Lawes Charters, cartularies and archives: the and his Contemporaries’ preservation and transmission of documents in Dennis Flynn, ‘Donne Manuscripts in Cheshire’ the medieval west: proceedings of a colloquium Keith Walker, ‘‘Not the Worst part of my of the Commission internationale de wretched life’: Three New Letters by Rochester, diplomatique (Princeton and New York, 16- 18 and How to Read Them’ September 1999) Papers in mediaeval studies, 17 Nicholas Fisher, ‘A New Dating of Rochester’s (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Artemizia to Chlöe’ Studies, 2002). ISBN: 0888448171(pb) A.S.G. Edwards, ‘Manuscripts at Auction: Hans-Jochen Schiewer and Karl Stackmann, eds., January 1997 to December 1998’ Die Präsenz des Mittelalters in seinen Handschriften: Ergebnisse der Berliner Tagung in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin- Peter Beal & Grace Ioppolo, eds., Manuscripts Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 6.-8. April 2000 and their Makers in the English Renaissance,

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 26 English manuscript studies 1100-1700, 11: Peter M. Jones, ‘Staying with the programme: (British Library: London 2002). illustrated manuscripts of John of Arderne c.1380- Contains: c.1550’ Peter Beal, ‘Philip Sidney’s Letter to Queen A.S.G. Edwards, ‘Manuscripts at auction, January Elizabeth and that ‘False Knave’ Alexander 2000 to December 2000’ Dicsone’ H. R. Woudhuysen, ‘A New Manuscript The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty Years of Fragment of Sidney’s Old Arcadia: The The Book Collector: an Anthology, with a Huddleston Manuscript’ foreword by A.S.G. Edwards (London: British Arthur F. Marotti, ‘The Cultural and Textual Library, 2003). £35. Importance of Folger MS V.a.8c)’ Includes: Katherine Duncan-Jones, ‘A Feather from the James M. Osborn, ‘Reflections on Narcissus Black Swan’s Wing: Hugh Holland’s Owen Tudyr Luttrell (1657-1732)’ (1601)’ William A. Jackson, ‘Philip Hofer’ Hilton Kelliher, ‘John Mott and The Newe Graham Pollard, ‘John Meade Falkner, 1858- Metamorphosis’ 1932’ Grace Ioppolo ‘‘The foule sheet and ye fayr’: A.R.A. Hobson and A. N. L. Munby, ‘John Henslowe, Daborne, Heywood and the Nature of Roland Abbey’ Foul-Paper and Fair-Copy Dramatic Manuscripts’ Harold Forster, ‘‘Munby Ltd’’ Richard Todd, ‘The Manuscript Sources for Philip Robinson, ‘Recollections of Moving a Constantijn Huygens’s Translations of Four Library, or, How the Phillipps Collection was Poems by John Donne, 1630’ brought to London’ Cedric C. Brown, ‘The Black Poet of Ashover, B.J. Enright, ‘‘I collect and I Preserve’: Richard Leonard Wheatcroft’ Rawlinson, 1690-1755, and Eighteenth-Cnetury Steven W. May, ‘Renaissance Manuscript Book Collecting’ Anthologies: Editing the Social Editors’ Christopher de Hamel, ‘Chester Beatty and the Harold Love, ‘Systemizing Sigla’ Phillipps Manuscripts’ A.S.G. Edwards, ‘Manuscripts at Auction: Arnold Hunt, ‘A Study in Bibliomania: Charles January 2001 to December 2001’ Henry Hartshorne and Richard Heber’

A. S. G. Edwards, ed., Decoration and Thomas J. Heffernan and E. Ann Matter, eds., illustration in medieval English manuscripts, The Liturgy of the Medieval Church English manuscript studies 1100-1700, 10 (British (Kalamazoo, 2001). Library: London, 2002). ISBN: 0-7123-4732-1. Includes: Contains: Jeanne E. Krochalis and E. Ann Matter, Nigel Morgan, ‘The decorative ornament of the ‘Manuscripts of the Liturgy’ text and page in thirteenth-century England: Roger S. Wieck, ‘The Book of Hours’ initials, border extensions and line fillers’ Michelle Brown, ‘Marvels of the West: Giraldus Gazette du livre médiévale, no. 40 (Spring, Cambrensis and the role of the author in the 2002) development of marginal illustration’ Includes: Alixe Bovey, ‘A pictorial ex libris in the J.P. Gumbert, ‘The Pen and its Movement: Some Smithfield Decretals’ [BL, Royal MS 10 E.iv] General and Less General Remarks’ Jessica Brantley, ‘Images of the vernacular in the Paul Bertrand, De l’art de plier les chartes en Taymouth Hours’ [BL, Yates Thompson MS 13] quatre: pour une étude des pliages de chartes Lucy Freeman Sandler. ‘Political imagery in the médiévales a’ des fins conservation et de Bohun manuscripts’ classement’ William Marx, ‘Iconography and meaning in the Mark Clarke, ‘The analysys of pigments: Why, Sherbrooke Missal’ [Aberystwyth, NLW, MS what, and how?’ 15536] Torsten Schassen, ‘Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Kathleen Scott, ‘Four early fifteenth-century Coloniensis: eine digitale Hanschriftenbibliothek’ English manuscripts of the Speculum humanae M. Black-Veldrup and M. Muesch, ‘A Software salvationis and a fourteenth-century exemplar’ Tool for Retrospective Digitisation of Archival

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 27 Finding Aids: a Project Funded by the German Vlaamse oeuvre van de Meesters van Otto van Research Foundation’ Moerdrecht’ Roger Wieck, ‘Special Children’s Books of Hours Thesis: cahier d’histoire des collections. ISSN in the Walters Art Museum’ 1660-3435. A new journal focussing on medieval Maryan W. Ainsworth, ‘Was Simon Bening a collections and objects. Panel Painter?’ Vol. 1 (2002) includes: Bert Cardon, ‘The Portfolio of a Bruges Brigitte Roux, ‘Le trésor, image de la mémoiré’ Miniaturist in the Mid-15th Century’ Etienne Anheim, ‘Portrait de l’éveque en Alain Arnould, O.P, ‘Boethius op de drempel van collectionneur: Richard de Bury (1287-1345) et een nieuw tijdperk. Van handschrift naar druk en son Philobiblon’ van druk naar handschrift. De productie van Boethius’ De Consolatione Philosophie als «ALS ICH CAN» Liber Amicorum in Memory voorbeeld van de overgang van geschreven naar of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers, edited by gedrukte boek in het laat 15de-eeuws Vlaanderen’ Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock, Dominique Noöl Geimaert, ‘The Bruges Nation of Piacenza: Vanwijnsberghe, and others (Peeters: Leuven, the Social-Economic Context of a pre-Eyckian 2002), 2 vols., ISBN: 90-429-1233-2 and 90-429- Legenda Aurea’ 1234-0. €300. Contains: Anne Dubois, ‘La bibliotèque de Philippe de Hornes, seigneur de Gaesbeek et un Valère Jozef Smeyers, ‘‘Als Ich Can’. A Life Dedicated Maxime exécuté dans l’atelier de Colard to Art and History’ Mansion’ Katharina Smeyers, ‘Bibliography of Professor Albert Derolez, ‘A Survey of the Mercatel Dr. Maurits Smeyers’ Library on the Basis of the Early Catalogues and Kristina Anciaux, ‘An Illuminated Gradual, 1515, the Surviving Manuscripts’ in the Flemish Friars Minor Museum in Sint- Janet Backhouse, ‘The Hours of Charlotte de Truiden’ Bourbon at Alnwick Castle’ Anne S. Korteweg, ‘The Book of Hours of Philip Tine Melis, ‘An Alexander Manuscript for a the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in The Hague and Powerful Patron (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. its later Adaptation’ Bodl. 264)’ Anne Marie Legaré, ‘Les Faits de Jacques de Nicholas Rogers, ‘Patrons and Purchasers: Lalaing enluminés par le Maître d’Antoine Rolin’ Evidence for the Original Owners of Books of James Henry Marrow, ‘The Pembroke Psalter- Hours produced in the Low Countries for the Hours’ English Market’ Katarzyna Plonka Balus, ‘Vita Christi (et) La Gregory T. Clark, ‘Made in Flanders and the Vengeance de Jhesu Crist Nostre Seigneur. Master of the Ghent Privileges: a First Coda’ Remarks on the Decoration of a 15th Century Guido Persoons, ‘Petrus Alamire. Bedenkingen Manuscript in the Czartoryski Library’ bij een belangrijke tentoonstelling: Nieuwe Anne Hagopian van Buren, ‘Dreux Jehan and the Antwerpse Alamire-gegevens en bijdragen tot de Grandes Heures of Philip the Bold’ biografie’ Hanno Wijsman, ‘William Lord Hastings, Les Patrick Valvekens, ‘Some Unknown Miniatures Faits de Jacques de Lalaing et le Maître aux from the Circle of the ‘Master of Mary of inscriptions blanches. À propos du manuscript Burgundy’ and Lieven van Lathem: a français 16830 de la Bibliothèque nationale de Contribution to the Study of Flemish Miniature France’ Art in the Last Quarter of the 15th Century and the Lynda Dennison, ‘The Dating and Localisation of Patronage of Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ the Hague Missal (Meermanno-Westreenianum Alison Stones, ‘A Note on the ‘Maître au menton ms. 10 A 14) and the Connection between English fuyant’’ and Flemish Miniature Painting in the Mid Dominique Vanwijnsberghe, ‘Réalité et fiction Fourteenth Century’ chez le Maître du Livre d’heures de Dresde. Le Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, ‘The Master of frontispice da Cartulaire de l’hôpital Saint- Guillebert de Mets: an Illuminator between Paris Jacques de Tournai (Tournai, Bibliothèque de la and Ghent?’ Ville, ms. 27)’ Saskia van Bergen, ‘De Moerdrecht-meesters Noord en Zuid. Het Evangelistarium in het Koninklijk Huisarchief te Den Haag en het AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 28 Bernard Bousmanne, ‘À propos d’un carnet à Lieve Watteeuw, ‘In de ban van de band. Het écrire en ivoire du XIVe siècle conservé a la Breviarium Mayer van den Bergh gebonden en bibliothèque royale de Belgique’ gerestaureerd. Een historische benadering’ Johan Oostennan, ‘Guilliame van Sconehove, Cyriel Stroo, ‘The Antwerp Infancy Cycle: a Scrivere and Scoelmeester’ Disregarded Masterpiece of Early Netherlandish Sophie Somers, ‘The Varied Occupations of a Painting around 1400’ Burgundian Scribe. Corrections and Additions Ludovic Nys and Daniel Lievois, ‘Not Timotheos Relating to Guillebert de Mets (c. 1390/1-after Again! The Portrait of Godevaert de Wilde, 1436)’ Receiver of Flanders and Artois?’ Kaat Van Wonterghem, ‘Van eenen boecxken te Hilde Claes, ‘An Eyckian prototype for The Fall scryvene. The 16th Century Liturgical Books of of the Damned by Dirk Bouts ?’ the Brussels Collegiate Church of Saint Gudula. Eberhard König, ‘Gossaerts Neptun und A brief Survey’ Amphitrite: eine eyckische Renaissance’ Herman Braet, ‘L’instruction, le titulus, la Marta O. Renger, ‘Did the Braunschweig Riders rubrique. Observations sur la nature des éléments Originate with Van Eyck?’ péritextuels’ Susan Urbach, ‘An Unknown Portrait after Rogier Margriet Hülsmann, ‘Cambridge, Fitzwilliam van der Weyden?’ Museum Ms. McClean 94: Its Decorative Henri Pauwels, ‘Deux fragments d’un triptyque Penwork and What It Tells Us About the Book’s de Petrus Christus?’ Production’ Diane G. Scillia, ‘The Early Haarlem School of Dominique Deneffe, ‘Analysing Border Painting, the Master of the Tiburtine Sibyl and the Decorations: the Case of the Histoires Detroit Crucifixion’ Martiennes, Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, ms. 9069’ Véronique Vandekerchove, ‘A Journey to Jerusalem. The unknown Passion of Christ Elisabeth Moore, ‘The Urban Fabric and (Leuven, Vander Kelen-Mertens Museum)’ Framework of Ghent in the Margins of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Mss. Douce 5-6’ Antoine De Schryver, ‘Le peintre Jacques Lombart de Mons’ Judith Oliver, ‘Chaos in the Scriptorium: the Parc Bible of 1263’ Yvette Bruijnen, ‘Jan van Rillaer (ca. 1500- 1570) als glasschilder’ Anke Esch, ‘La production de livres de Jacquemart Pilavaine a Mons. Nouvelles Hélène Verougstraete and Roger Van Schoute, perspectives’ ‘Des portraits dans l’œuvre de Bruegel l’Ancien?’ Claudine Lemaire, ‘Justifications remarquables Barbara Baert, ‘La Piscine Probatique à dans des manuscrits à miniatures du XVe siècle Jérusalem. Une source thérapeutique dans les conservés à la bibliothèque royale à Bruxelles’ textes et les images médiévaux’ Pierre Cockshaw and Frédérique Johan, ‘Modèle Frans Baudouin, ‘The Elevation of the Cross: a et copie: l’exemple des manuscripts Bruxelles, Woodcut by Altdorfer, a Miniature by Simon ms. 9650-52 et Cologny, cod. Bodmer 160’ Bening and Paintings by Rubens and Rembrandt’ Brigitte Dekeyzer, ‘A Distant Echo of the Anna Bergmans, ‘Femmes saintes, la Passion du Breviarium Grimani: on two separate Christ et l’amour mystique. Iconographie des Illuminations from the Kasteel van Gaasbeek peintures murales médiévales dans les églises des (Lennik, Belgium)’ Béguinages (Pays-Bas méridionaux)’ Greet Nijs, ‘Typology of the Border Decoration in F.O. Büttner, ‘Ce sera moy. Realitätsgehalt und the Manuscripts of the Ghent-Bruges School’ Rhetorik in Darstellungen der Toten- und Vergänglichkeitsikonographie des Jacob Wisse, ‘Two Illuminations by Gerard Stundengebetbuchs’ Horenbout in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’ Klara H. Broekhuijsen, ‘The Legend of the Jessica Dobratz, ‘Conception and Reception of Grateful Dead: A Misinterpreted Miniature in the William of Tyre’s Livre d’Eracles in 15th-Century Très Riches Heures of Jean de Berry’ Burgundy’ Jacques Depuydt, ‘Notes sur l’iconographie du Peter Vandenabeele and Luc Moens, tableau La dernière Cène attribué a Jerg Ratgeb ‘Spectroscopic Pigment Investigation of the (probablement Stuttgart ca. 1480-Pforzheim Mayer van den Bergh Breviary’ 1526)’

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 29 Jos Koldeweij, ‘Servatius in veelvoud en Reiner Nolden, ‘Die Fragmente der Touronischen enkelvoud: Maastrichtse boekbanden, miniaturen, Bibel von St. Maximin vor Trier’ pelgrimstekens en zegelstempels’ Florentine Mütherich, ‘Der ornamentale Schmuck Mireille Madou, ‘‘Die bliscap is sonder eynde der Bibel von St. Maximin’ hier boven in hemelrijck’’ Robert Fuchs, Doris Oltrogge, and Oliver Hahn, Didier Martens, ‘Saint Servais de Maastricht ou ‘Farbmittel und Maltechnik der Bibel von St. saint Eucher d’Orléans?’ Maximin’ Danielle Maufort, ‘Le portait des Duarte, une For futher details contact: Gesellschaft für famille de musiciens d’Anvers peint par Gonzales Nützliche Forschungen zu Trier c/o Rhenisches Coques conservé au Szepmüveszeti Muzeum de Landesmuseum, Weimarer Allee 1, D-54290 Budapest’ Trier. Katharina Smeyers, ‘Un cortège de triomphe chrétien. Jean Germain, Le chemin de paradis Auction / Dealer Catalogues (Bruxelles, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, ms. Christie’s, Valuable Illuminated Manuscripts, IV 823)’ Printed Books, and Autograph Letters, London, Marie-Cécile van Hasselt, ‘Mise en scène du 20 Nov. 2002. 46 lots. Lot 27, an antiphonal voyage initiatique de Dante (Venise, 1544)’ commissioned by Cardinal Bessarion, has now re- Jacoba van Leeuwen, ‘Trajan and Herkenbald. joined its sister-volumes at the Biblioteca The Combination of two exempla justitiae in the Malatestiana, Cesena. Medieval Low Countries’ Christie’s, Manuscript Illuminations from the Raymond Van Uytven, ‘Een groepsportret van de Bernard H. Breslauer Collection, London, 11 Antwerpse stadsmagistraat 1523’ Dec. 2002. 16 lots, of which 8 did not sell. Jacqueline Thibault Schaefer, ‘Une tapisserie non Christie’s, The Count Oswald Seilern Collection, identifiée de la Tenture bruxelloise de Tristan’ London, 26 Mar. 2003. 16 lots, of which only the Leo Van Buyten, ‘Naar een hiërarchie voor de first did not sell. Lot 8, a copy of Alcandreus and stedelijke kunstnijverheden in de Zuidelijke Boethius illuminated by the Virgil Master, was Nederlanden 16de-18de eeuw. Methodologie en bought by the Getty Museum. eerste resultaten’ Christie’s, Valuable Printed Books and Hans Vlieghe, ‘Vlaamse kunst en Vlaarnse Manuscripts, including natural History, 4 June identiteit. Voorstellingen uit het Interbellum’ 2002. Lots 1-23 are medieval and/or illuminated Elly Cockx-Indestege, ‘Nogmaals de Passie manuscripts/cuttings/leaves. Descriptions and Delbecq-Schreiber. De illustratie van hs. images are available via www.christies.com 830/1370 8° in de Stadtbibliothek Trier’ Finarte Semenzato, Libri, incisioni, manoscritti, Erik Duverger, ‘Les menuisiers et les sculpteurs pagine miniate: asta a Roma, Rome, 25 Mar. gantois Van Dickele au dernier quart da 2003. quinzième jusqu’au debut du seizième siècle’ Finarte Semenzato, Eccezionali libri e pagine Robrecht Lievens, ‘De ‘heidense’ Dirc van Delf’ miniate. Rari manoscritti. Importanti disegni di antichi maestri, Venice, 5 May 2003. Included Reiner Nolden, ed., Die touronische Bibel der numerous medieval and early modern manuscripts Abtei St. Maximin vor Trier, Faksimile der from a single-owner collection, many of which erhaltenen Blätter, Farbtafeln mit den Initialen, failed to sell. The extensively illustrated catalogue Aufsätze. (Gesellschaft für Nützliche can be downloaded from: www.finarte- Forschungen zu Trier: Trier 2002) 252 pp. ISBN semenzato.com/ inglese/venezia.asp 3-923794-11-8, 49 Written and decorated at Tours during the abbacy Jörn Günther Antiquariat, Miniatures and of Vivien (844-851), the Bible was dismembered illuminated leaves from the 12th to the 16th in the 15th century, many of the leaves being centuries, Catalogue 6 (Hamburg, 2002). ISBN: reused in the binding of the abbey’s printed 3980745511 books. This volume includes black and white Maggs Bros. Ltd, Illuminations, Catalogue 1319 photos of the fragments in Trier, Berlin, (London, 2001). 112 items, most of which are Bloomington, Bonn, Koblenz, London, Los cuttings and single leaves of manuscripts. Angeles, Walberberg and Vienna (p. 3-172); 8 colour plates of the initials; and four chapters: Maggs Bros. Ltd, Illuminations, Catalogue 1340 (London, Mar. 2003). 45 illuminated leaves and Michele C. Ferrari, ‘Bibelhandschriften im Frühmittelalter’

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 30 cuttings, from the 13th century to circa 1900, all Sotheby’s, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, illustrated in colour. 3 Dec., 2002. 30 lots, of which 11 did not sell. Lot 74, a Cluniac Breviary, was last seen at the Osenat, Exceptionnel Livre d’Heures, Fontaine- Burlington Fine Arts Club exhibition in 1908 (no. bleau, 30 Mar., 2003. A book of hours, Use of 127), when owned by Andrew Lang. Sarum, in Latin with some French, apparently dated 1328, illuminated in England, with large Sotheby’s, Beethoven’s Manuscript of the Ninth historiated initials, and borders with English Symphony, Prepared for the Printer and Used for heraldry. Bought by a German dealer. the First Edition, London, 22 May 2003. [Estimate £2-£3m] Philip J. Pirages, Catalogue 47 [McMinnville, Oregon, Nov. 2002]. Includes 3 medieval codices, about 150-200 cuttings/leaves with miniatures/ CD-Rom Publication historiated initials, and a similar number without The Hengwrt Chaucer Digital Facsimile: illustration. The catalogue illustrates about 80 Standard Edition, edited with an introduction in items in colour, and about 200 more in black and English and Welsh by Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan white. (Scholarly Digital Editions, 2003). £15. Sotheby’s, Fifty Magnificent Illuminated Manuscripts, London, 3 Dec. 2002. 50 lots, of which 32 did not sell.

Websites

Australia [Various libraries] The ‘Illuminated Middle Ages’ The State Library of South Australia has put database presents several hundred digitized pages digitised images of an entire late 13th-century of illuminated manuscripts, from the 6th to the Bolognese(?) Antiphonal on their website. One 15th century, in French libraries. The full can page through its 180 leaves one page at a collection is available on DVD-ROM. The time, or jump between the ‘highlights’ (pages French-language galleries of the website have a with major decoration). The text of the dozen texts from each of the ten themes presented manuscript is available alongside the images as a daily. To see every image at high resolution, you Latin transcription or in English translation. See: will either have to visit the site daily or buy the www.slsa.sa.gov.au/treasures/antiphonal/ DVD. The search interface allows you to perform full-text searches across the complete database. England See www.moyenageenlumiere.com [Cambridge] Trinity College and St. John’s College have scanned the catalogues by M. R. [Various libraries] ‘Ménestrel’ is a French portal James: see above, under ‘News’. for medievalists. Among numerous other pages, it provides a list of French libraries with online [Vindolanda] An online edition of the writing manuscripts: tablets excavated from the Roman fort at www.ccr.jussieu.fr/urfist/enestrel/medenlum.htm Vindolanda in northern England. Includes the following elements: ‘Tablets’: a searchable online The list includes the following: edition of the tablets (volumes I and II); A large selection of images from the ‘Exhibition’: an introduction to the tablets and Bibliothèques Mazarine and Ste Geneviève, their context; and ‘Reference’: a guide to aspects Paris: http://liberfloridus.cines.fr of the tablets’ content. See: http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk:8080/ The IRHT’s ‘INITIALE’ database of nearly 20,000 images, largely of manuscripts in France municipal libraries: www.enluminures.culture.fr [Paris] Note that the IRHT’s web address has changed to www.irht.cnrs.fr The BnF’s iconographic database of 80,000 images (of which about 8,000 are digitised), [Paris] The IRHT has a new interface for indexed using a thesaurus of 15,000 terms: searching the ‘MEDIUM’ database of their http://mandragore.bnf.fr holdings of microfilms at www.irht.cnrs.fr/medium_frame.htm, as well as Lyon’s ‘Enluminures’ database of 12,000 images an online price-list and order form. photographed by the IRHT

AMARC Newsletter no. 40, May 2003. Page 31 Valenciennes has digitised a large number of online: www.dartmouth.edu/~speccoll/ westmss/ microfilms of manuscripts in their entirety: westmss_intro.html www.ville-valenciennes.fr [Syracuse, NY] Syracuse University has online Germany descriptions and images of 10 illuminated [Cologne] Codices Electronici Ecclesiae manuscripts at Coloniensis (CEEC): over 350 of Cologne http://libwww.syr.edu/digital/collections/m/ Cathedral’s manuscripts, in their entirety. See MedievalManuscripts/mainpage/ www.ceec.uni-koeln.de Wales (Go to the right-hand toolbar labelled ‘Optionen’ [Aberystwyth] Watercolours, sketchbooks and at the top of the screen to change to a partially manuscripts of the artist Thomas Jones (1742- English-language version of the site.) 1803), Pencerrig, a virtual exhibition on the website of the National Library of Wales: USA www.llgc.org.uk [Hanover, NH] Dartmouth College has put an illustrated checklist of its manuscripts and leaves AMARC membership

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Acknowledgments

The editor would like to thank all the contributors To contribute to the next newsletter or comment to this issue of the Newsletter, especially Kurt on this one, contact: Barstow, Rebecca Farnham, Martin Peter Kidd Kauffmann, Richard Linenthal, Bernard Dept. of Manuscripts Meehan, Donald Munro, Mark Nicholls, British Library Richard Palmer, Pamela Robinson, Matthew 96 Euston Road Shaw, Michael St John, Jonathan Smith, London NW1 2DB Patricia Stirnemann, Jenny Stratford, Hanna Vorholt, and Rowan Watson. [email protected]

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