eBLJ 2013

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Cornelius Cardew’s Music for Moving Images: Some Preliminary Observations
(2013)
Gresser, Clemens
Cornelius Cardew’s music for moving images has so far not been written about. This might be owing to the lack of access to primary sources (films and documentaries, scores and other relevant materials). This contribution gives an overview of Cardew’s ‘film music’ projects, and considers sketches, manuscript music and other sources for A Search for Strindberg (1971; British Library, Music Collections, Add. MS 70759), and Sugar (1976; BL, Music Collections, Add. MS 70760).
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The Provenance of the Abreujamens de las estorias (London, British Library, Egerton MS. 1500) and the Identification of Scribal Hands (c. 1323)
(2013)
Ibarz, Alexander
This essay provides an overview of research undertaken on the provenance of a medieval Occitan (Old Provençal) translation of an unedited diagrammatic chronicle of Paolino of Venice (Marciana, Zanetti 399). It confirms the existing suspicion that the manuscript was produced in Avignon, and provides a possible dating of 1321-1323; it reports on the existing hypotheses and makes some further suggestions for research. The main focus of the article is a provisional identification of three main scribal hands. Some attempt is made to order the hands in terms of appearance on the page, and in terms of relative chronology, and this information is connected concisely but speculatively to the working methods of an hypothetical translators' workshop in Avignon.
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Past, Present and Future for Thirteenth-Century Wales: Two Diagrams in British Library, Cotton Roll XIV.12
(2013)
Cleaver, Laura
British Library Cotton Roll XIV.12 presents a rich vision of British history from the perspective of its thirteenth-century maker. Over nearly sixteen metres of surviving parchment, human history from Adam and Eve to the reign of William Rufus is presented through an intricate combination of texts and imagery. This article considers the circumstances in and for which this remarkable roll may have been produced. In particular this study examines two diagrams at the start of the roll as intellectual frameworks for the account of history that follows. These designs bring together ideas about time, justice, familial relationships, human behaviour and theology that resonate with popular texts and iconography of the era, but which, in the diagram on the dorse of the roll in particular, present them in an original way. The roll thus provides a user with an account of history as an ever-expanding chronological and intellectual experience.
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Paris National and International Exhibitions from 1798 to 1900: A Finding-List of British Library Holdings
(2013)
Daniels, Morna
The series of exhibitions which were held in Paris from the end of the eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth gave rise to a rich collection of publications, often illustrated, ranging from maps and guide books to catalogues, official reports and volumes of reflections. This article gives a brief history of the subject and lists publications held by the British Library, with notes on their contents.
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A Place for Music: John Nash, Regent Street and the Philharmonic Society of London
(2013)
Langley, Leanne
The founding of the Philharmonic Society of London (from 1912 'Royal') has long been understood only in the simplest terms: in 1813 thirty musicians started a regular orchestral concert series to present the best classical works for select audiences. Two centuries later, a fresh look at circumstances and documents, some newly discovered, reveals a more vivid picture of action and intent behind the UK's oldest 'music-loving' society. Partnering with the Regency architect John Nash to erect the first purpose-built orchestral concert hall in Britain – the Argyll Rooms, Regent Street – entrepreneurial members invested in prime real estate for an even grander vision: to create an all-embracing national music institution akin to the Royal Academy of Arts, exhibiting top performances, stimulating new works, fostering research, publishing music and training young players, all without patrician interference. In positioning themselves on Regent Street, the musicians encountered multiple problems. Nash’s support was crucial, yielding a stunning multi-purpose building. Although many of their biggest goals had to be relinquished, the Society succeeded brilliantly in establishing world-class orchestral music at the heart of a picturesque and revitalized West End.
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'The Most Important Books which I Would Strongly Recommend to Acquire': Petr Kropotkin and Vladimir Burtsev in Correspondence with the British Museum Library
(2013)
Rogatchevskaia, Ekaterina
The community of Russian émigré intellectuals who settled in London in the 1880s and the 1890s continued their scholarly and revolutionary activities in England, congregating around the British Museum. Two leading figures, Prince Petr Kropotkin (1842-1921) and Vladimir Burtsev (1862-1942), made donations to the Library and wrote to the Library’s authorities pointing out lacunae in the collections. This article prints correspondence addressed by Kropotkin and Burtsev to Library curators such as Richard Garnett over the period 1882-1896.
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Understanding a Selection of Medical, Theological and Poetic Diagrams in a Thirteenth-Century Book of Biblical Commentaries: British Library, Harley MS. 658
(2013)
Corran, Emily
British Library, Harley MS. 658 is a miscellany of study aids for the Bible from the early thirteenth century, bound together with a collection of scientific, poetic and theological diagrams. The texts were written by different scribes probably at separate times and places, but, apart from two texts at the back of the codex, were collected soon after by a single compiler with a clear intention. The collection is a comprehensive handbook for Biblical study, comprising of works on the literal, allegorical and moral interpretation of scripture, as well as models for reading, disputing and preaching. The nine diagrams vary in subject matter; they include a map of the city of Jerusalem, diagrams relating to the study of grammar, medicine and theology, in contrast to the Biblical and moral themes dominant in the rest of the book. Although they at first might appear incongruous, closer examination reveals that they can best be seen as appendages to two works included in the collection, Peter of Poitiers's Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi and the Computus. The contents of the diagrams suggest that their collector was well versed in twelfth-century philosophy and subscribed to a theory of education current in the twelfth century, according to which all aspects of knowledge, including medical and natural science, could be deployed in exposition and contemplation of the Bible.
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A Genealogy of the Kings of England in Papal Avignon: British Library, Egerton MS. 1500
(2013)
Léglu, Catherine
This article examines the use of Anglo-Norman genealogical rolls in Fra Paolino Veneto’s L’Abreujamen de las estorias (Eg. MS. 1500), a diagrammatic world history that was composed in the Occitan vernacular in papal Avignon, circa 1321-1326 (see eBLJ articles by Botana and Ibarz). That such documents were available as a source in an international context raises new questions about the uses to which genealogies of rulers were put. The king list of Britain and England includes passages that were translated from Anglo-Norman French. Its omissions and inaccuracies betray a bias against the Post-Conquest kings of England but in favour of English rule over Ireland. Such evidence supports the idea that a genealogical roll had a political and cross-cultural function outside its insular or dynastic context. In turn, this enquiry leads to further consideration of the intended readership of the Abreujamen.
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Destroyed, Damaged and Replaced: The Legacy of World War II Bomb Damage in the King's Library
(2013)
Edwards, Adrian S.
In the early hours of 23 September 1940, an incendiary bomb fell on the East Wing of the British Museum, damaging an important part of the King's Library Gallery and destroying many of the books collected by King George III. A contemporary assessment estimated that 124 volumes (96 works) had disappeared, 304 volumes (170 works) had been damaged beyond repair, and about 1000 volumes were repairable. This article reviews these figures in the light of an audit of the shelves undertaken in 2010-11, identifies what was lost and describes measures taken by the British Museum and the British Library to replace the books that were affected.
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The Duke of Newcastle's Letters on the Fall of Walpole in 1742
(2013)
Jones, Clyve
Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of Newcastle, secretary of state and effective leader of the House of Lords in Sir Robert Walpole's whig ministry, was accused by Walpole after his fall in 1742 of having failed the ministry, along with Lord Hardwick, the lord chancellor, by not giving the required support. On the contrary, Newcastle's letters to his wife during the last crisis for the ministry show that he was greatly concerned for the ministry's survival and gave what support he could. These letters appear not to have been used by historians of Walpole's administration.
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