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Thomas Tallis at Dover Priory, 1530–1531
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Early Music
Early Music, Volume 44, Issue 2, May 2016, Pages 197–205, https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caw043
Published: 23 June 2016
... career. Meanwhile, the appearance of his antiphon Salve intemerata Dei mater in London, British Library, Ms. Harley 1709 shows that even before his appointment to Dover Tallis was already a composer of some considerable accomplishment. The association of Dover Priory with the chapel...
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The James Joyce Archive and Hans Walter Gabler’s Edition of Ulysses: A Personal History
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Michael Groden
Published: 01 October 2010
... collections were established. One is at the British Library, which possesses
materials that Joyce gave to Harriet Shaw Weaver, who supported him financially with
monthly payments for years. Harvard University Hayashi Tetsumaro Joyce James Anglo Irish War Manuscripts for Ulysses Prescott Joseph Random...
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Published: 15 November 2022
..., Plimpton MS 255; a student-driven digitization of Victoria, University of Victoria, Ms.Eng.1; the British Library’s Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts and London, British Library, Harley MS 1766; and Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis and Philadelphia, the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Rosenbach MS 439/16...
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Text, Authorship, and Dating
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Michael Haren
Published: 11 May 2000
... Library, MS. Harley 3120; and Cambridge University Library, MS. Mm. v. 33. The Corpus Christi College manuscript, the earliest, is dated palaeographically to the first half of the fourteenth century. The early-fifteenth-century manuscript in the British Library, containing frequent corruptions...
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Coda: The Jurisdictions of Form
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Jennifer Jahner
Published: 03 October 2019
... Scribe,” responsible as well for copying the famous Harley Lyrics of London, British Library, MS Harley 2253. 7 From this trove of documents, he adduced a schematic biography of this clerk and copyist: trained up in letter writing and accounts, his numeracy and trilingual literacy earned him...
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Published: 10 October 2024
... of The Ring and the Book , now in the British Library, is the longest extant manuscript by Robert Browning. Although described as a ‘printer’s fair copy’, in many places it is anything but ‘fair’, and it contains some of the most interesting and revealing evidence of Browning’s method of composition...
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Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England
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Jessica Brantley
Published online: 21 March 2013
Published in print: 15 December 2007
... literary criticism and art history to illuminate Additional MS 37049, an illustrated Carthusian miscellany housed in the British Library. This revealing artifact, the author argues, closes the gap between group spectatorship and private study in late medieval England. Drawing on the work of W. J. T...
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Herder’s Hexameters, and Beethoven’s
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Richard Kramer
Published: 20 October 2022
... Gottfried Herder Ludwig van Beethoven poetry of the Middle East Nachdichtungen Die laute Klage Der Gesang der Nachtigall song cycles Stefan Zweig manuscripts British Library An die ferne Geliebte If, in 1815, Schubert was a young composer finding his stride and a voice of his own, Beethoven seems...
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Published: 15 August 2013
... Diction in the Constitutions Flemyng Richard Nighman Chris Scase Wendy Willoughby James Little Katherine Middleton Anne Olson Glending vernacular Kerby Fulton Kathryn London, British Library, MS Additional 24062 Memory Character Formulary Privy Seal John Carpenter Liber Albus Melancholy...
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Published: 22 September 2022
... antiquarians Britain British Library fantasy Irving Washington James VI I King Scotland Spenser Edmund criticism critics British Museum lists Melville Herman personal libraries American Civil War bibliophilic habits school libraries Beecher Catharine Boston Christianity Gothic lending...
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Manuscripts without Readers? Perspectival Obstacles to the Study of Syriac Ascetic Reading
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David A. Michelson
Published: 13 October 2022
... studies field of Wright William Stock Brian London British Library Dadishoʿ of Qatar Egypt ʿEnanishoʿ of Adiabene monasticism Scetis translation Stewart Columba colonialism Curzon Robert Assemani Elias prayer liturgy Scripture Johnson Christopher D L Orientalism Eastern Christian Africa...
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Published: 15 August 2024
...This chapter considers the interpolative capacities of images. It provides an overview of the Bayeux Embroidery (ca. 1080) as a theoretical lens through which to interpret an unusually illustrated verse Brut found in British Library Egerton MS 3028. Due to the woven temporalities...
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Introduction: the pioneers of social research study
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Paul Thompson and others
Published: 01 July 2020
...This chapter explores the account of British social research. It serves as the frontispiece, the doorway, for a remarkable set of life-story interviews. These 58 interviews are all available in full as both audio and transcript online, through both the UK Data Service and the British Library...
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Published: 18 October 2013
...In Chapter 2, Timothy Lenz compares British Library fragments of Kharoṣṭhī manuscripts with parallel texts. The British Library collection contains seven or eight different scrolls with numbered series of avadāna , which collectively contain approximately fifty-two different stories...
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Introduction: The Poetics of Jurisdiction
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Jennifer Jahner
Published: 03 October 2019
... of the written Middle English lyric tradition. Its only extant version 13 appears in London, British Library, MS Harley 978, a late thirteenth-century manuscript best known for preserving the most famous of the early Middle English lyrics, Sumer is icumen in , as well as the Lais ...
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Coda: Closing Years and Afterlives
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Susan David Bernstein
Published: 28 March 2013
...This chapter offers a more personal glimpse of the last decades of the Reading Room at the British Museum before its doors closed to readers in 1997 and the new British Library opened in 1998. It follows a few women readers in the later twentieth century for whom this spatial exteriority made...
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Performing South Asian American Histories
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Christine L. Garlough
Published: 19 February 2013
... from archival research at locations like the University of Berkeley’s South Asian Library, the British Library, and from the fieldwork of progressive activist groups like South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) with the purpose of revealing a range of performances that were directed...
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Varieties of Religious Publishing, 1800–50
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Heidi Hansson
Published: 01 September 2011
...This chapter surveys religious publications in Ireland in the first half of the nineteenth century. The British Library, then a division of the British Museum, was the central depository for Irish publications in the nineteenth century. Of the Irish-published material kept in the British Library...
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The Curious History of the Conway Papers
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Daniel Starza Smith
Published: 30 October 2014
..., ‘a man who would go a hundred miles through snow and sleet on top of a coach to search a parish register and prove a man illegitimate or a woman older than she says she is’, and on the formation of collections at the British Library and UK National Archives. Beal Peter Conway Papers Heaton Gabriel...
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Conceptualizing the Conway Papers
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Daniel Starza Smith
Published: 30 October 2014
... British Library Cecil William Lord Burghley Charles I King of Scotland England and Ireland Conway Sir John 1535–1603 Dudley Robert Earl of Leicester friendship friendships early modern Petty William Marquess of Lansdowne Privy Council Trumbull Papers Verney Papers Beal Peter Devereux Robert...
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