Consort Music Manuscripts in Archbishop Marsh's Library, Dublin

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 27-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Charteris
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
The Press ◽  
Music Manuscripts ◽  
Music Books

Archbishop Marsh's Library, otherwise known as the Library of St. Sepulchre, is adjacent to St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and was founded in 1704 by Narcissus Marsh D. D. (1638–1713), Archbishop of Armagh. Today the library contains over 20, 000 books and 300 manuscripts; the manuscripts and special books, including some music books, are located in the manuscript room, which is on the main landing before entering the first gallery of the library - all items in the manuscript room bear the press mark ‘Z’. To be found among the general holdings is a small, but valuable, collection of music manuscripts and printed books on music; some of the items were collected by Marsh himself, and date from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Among the seventeenth-century manuscripts is a group which contains instrumental consort music, and these are the ones which will be discussed in this article.

A Typographical Odyssey: The 1505 Constantinople Pentateuch

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-351
Author(s):  
Nigel Allan
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
The Press

Although the Wellcome Collection of Hebraica does not constitute one of the larger and more distinguished collections of oriental material in the Wellcome Institute, it nevertheless comprises a number of important manuscripts along with early printed books representative of several sixteenth and seventeenth-century Hebrew presses. One of these is a fragment of a larger work printed in Constantinople in 1505 at the press of David and Samuel Nahmias. It is the second earliest example of printing in Turkey, the first also coming from the press of the Nahmias brothers.

scholarly journals Prosthesis: From Grammar to Medicine in the Earliest History of the Word

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon W. Hawk
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Early History ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Study Of Medicine ◽  
History Of ◽  
Medical Treatises

This article provides an examination of the earliest history of the term prosthesis in English, re-evaluating other such histories with previously unrecognized archival material from early printed books. These sources include sixteenth- and seventeenth-century early printed books such as handbooks of grammar, English dictionaries, British Latin dictionaries, and medical treatises on surgery. Such an investigation reveals both a more nuanced trajectory of the early history of the word in English and fuller context for a shift in meaning from usages in the study of grammar and rhetoric to the study of medicine and surgery. This narrative, then, speaks to the growth of medical knowledge and discourse in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as concepts about disability that remain part of disability studies even in the present field.

Cultures of collecting

2021 ◽  
pp. 138-164
Author(s):  
David Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Medieval Manuscripts ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Book Collecting ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Material Evidence

Studies of private libraries and their owners invariably talk about ‘book collecting’—is this the right terminology? After summarizing our broadly held understanding of the evolution of bibliophile collecting from the eighteenth century onwards, this chapter considers the extent to which similar behaviours can be detected (or not) in the seventeenth, drawing on the material evidence of bookbindings, wording in wills, and other sources. Do we find subject-based collecting, of the kind we are familiar with today, as a characteristic of early modern book owners? Some distinctions are recognized in ways in which medieval manuscripts (as opposed to printed books) were brought together at this time. The relationship between libraries and museums, and contemporary attitudes to them, is explored. The concluding argument is that ‘collecting’ is a careless word to use in the seventeenth-century context; just as we should talk about users rather than readers, we should use ‘owners’ rather than ‘collectors’ as the default term, unless there is evidence to the contrary.

Music Manuscripts Missing from the Staats- Und UniversitäTsbibliothek, Hamburg

2002 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
Richard Charteris
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Early Music ◽  
Small Component ◽  
Full Extent ◽  
Music Manuscripts ◽  
Music Books ◽  
Second World

A vast quantity of rare music books and manuscripts were lost during the Second World War, and while a substantial number has been rediscovered, many items remain untraced. In some cases the only information we have about such losses is found in early music catalogues. One library with invaluable information of this kind is the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Hamburg (in 1919 the library's name was changed from ‘Stadtbibliothek’ to ‘Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek’, and in 1983 it acquired its present name ‘Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky‘). The full extent of the Hamburg Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek's music losses has yet to be revealed in print, and it is in respect of a small component of these losses, namely, its music manuscripts, that I am concerned here.

scholarly journals Membra disiecta from a Transylvanian Antiphonal in Budapest and Cluj

Fragmentology ◽  
10.24446/tk50 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 5-34
Author(s):  
Gabriella Gilányi ◽  
Adrian Papahagi
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Hungarian Academy ◽  
Medieval Music ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Romanian Academy ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
First Time

This article discusses four fragments from a fifteenth-century antiphonal with Hungarian chant notation. Two of these membra disiecta are kept at the National Archives of Hungary, and at the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, and are well-known to scholars of medieval music and liturgy. Two further fragments have recently been identified in the bindings of printed books at the Library of the Romanian Academy, in Cluj, and are studied here for the first time. The authors suggest that the original choir book was used in Transylvania and was possibly dismembered in the former Benedictine abbey of Cluj-Mănăștur in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century.

Foundations of Religious Reform (Islah) and Cultural Revival (Nahda)

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-67
Author(s):  
Dyala Hamzah
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Cultural Revival ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Islamic Reform ◽  
The Press ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the foundations of hegemonic reform and cultural revival discourses in the Arabic-speaking lands of the modern Middle East from the perspective of the most recent forays in scholarly fields such as Islamic and Ottoman studies. Teasing out periodization and geographies, it grounds the thought and practice of canonical and less canonical actors in the historical public sphere in which they operated, questioning the relationship between the Nahda and the Tanzimat, the Nahda and eighteenth-century revivalism, the Nahda and the seventeenth-century Arab-Islamic florescence, as well as the special status accorded “Islamic” reform within the Nahda. Finally, it probes the larger questions of modernity, subjectivity, and citizenship between the onset of the protectorates and the termination of the mandates, as these became encrypted within the major ideologies (pan-Islam, pan-Arabism, territorial nationalisms) and enacted through the most significant technologies mobilized by the actors (the press, the associations, the parties, and the schools).

scholarly journals The Biblioteca de Catalunya – National Library of Catalonia

1993 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinyet Panyella
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Role ◽  
National Library ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Constitutional Government ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Music Manuscripts ◽  
National Libraries ◽  
Late Starter ◽  
Made In

Like all national libraries, the Biblioteca de Catalunya is being affected by change. Founded in 1907, it had a difficult time from the mid-1930s until constitutional government was restored, but received full recognition of its status and role as the national library of Catalonia in 1981; this was reinforced in 1993. It receives Catalan material on legal deposit, is responsible for the Catalan national bibliography and union catalogue, and acquires additional material by purchase, donation and exchange. Its collections, mainly of printed books and music, manuscripts and prints, number over 2 million items and include many rare and valuable documents. It also has an accepted leadership role among Catalan libraries. The changes afoot are mainly in the automation of acquisitions and cataloguing, where the library was a late starter but where much progress has already been made; in the progressive introduction of managerial methods into all procedures; and most conspicuously in a radical rebuilding programme which reflects the revised functions and redesigned procedures. The present medieval building is being reorganized internally to provide better reading and working areas, and previous additions to it are being removed and replaced with larger purpose-built storage areas. Some of the work is now completed, without any disruption to the library's operations, but the whole programme is not due to finish until 1996.

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