scholarly journals Ms Ethiopic 4 of the Collection of the India Office: A strayed Manuscript of Gadla Lālibalā

Aethiopica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nafisa Valieva
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Library

In all likelihood it was the German missionary Johann Ludwig Krapf who commissioned a manuscript with hagiographic texts about King Lālibalā in the first decade of the nineteenth century, in Šawā. This manuscript was eventually used by August Dillmann for his Lexicon linguae aethiopicae published in 1865. More than eighty years later, the manuscript was catalogued by Enrico Cerulli in 1946 and was later lost somewhere on one of the numerous shelves of the collection of the India Office. It has recently been traced and is now to be found in the British Library under the shelf mark Ms Ethiopic 4.

scholarly journals Children, Emotion, Identity and Empire: Views from the Blechyndens' Calcutta Diaries (1790–1822)

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-201
Author(s):  
PETER ROBB
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Family History ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
The Self ◽  
British Library ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Imperial Identity ◽  
History Of

The voluminous Blechynden diaries, in the British Library, offer incomparable opportunities for studying (among other things) domestic life among middle-level British residents of Calcutta around the start of the nineteenth century. This paper is concerned with a small part of the history of the Blechynden household, focusing on Arthur Blechynden, son of Richard and his successor as superintendent of roads. Richard's diary runs to more than 70 volumes and Arthur's to seven. These sources permit none of the structural analysis that was made the basis of family history by Peter Laslett and others; but they touch several points of the richer canvas painted by Laurence Stone, and those genres that are concerned with individual lives, with emotion, with relationships, and with identity, the kinds of subject approached by the contributors to Roy Porter's collection Rewriting the Self. In this paper some of these issues will be taken up, with particular reference to ideas of individuality and of race. That discussion will then lead on to another, on the construction of British imperial identity outside Britain and in the context of the formation of empire, an aspect that seems worthy of more attention than it has received.

Charles Blacker Vignoles, F. R. S

1993 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-242
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Yellow Fever ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
British Library ◽  
Early Age

Charles Vignoles, who was bom 200 years ago, was without doubt one of the most significant railway engineers of the nineteenth century, ranking perhaps fourth in line with Robert Stephenson, Joseph Locke and Isambard Kingdom Brunei. The descendant of a Huguenot family, he was bornin county Wexford, southern Ireland, in May 1793, and lived until 1875, thus outliving his contemporaries of the early railway era. His life is reasonably well documented, mainly through his diaries and journals held in the British Library and the biographies by his son Olinthus and his great-grandson K.H. Vignoles. 1 Surprisingly few designs or drawings have survived except in Russia, nor physical monuments except in Spain and Brazil. He was orphaned when only eighteen months old: his father, wounded during the storming of Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadaloupe, died of yellow fever soon after, his mother succumbing too. The whole family was taken prisoner by the French, and Charles was released after negotiation by his uncle Henry Hutton. Charles himself was inducted into the Army at a remarkably early age, being commissioned in the 43 (Monmouthshire) Regiment and gazetted on 10 November 1794. He was put on half pay, a circumstance which occurred again later and was significant in his leaving the Army and taking up the career in civil engineering which brought him not only fame and fortune but near-bankruptcy as well.

scholarly journals Layard's description of rooms in the Southwest Palace at Nineveh

Iraq ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 71-85
Author(s):  
John Malcolm Russell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Full Description ◽  
British Library ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Considerable Detail ◽  
Narrative Account

The “Palace without Rival” at Nineveh, built by the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib (704–681 BC), was excavated by Austen Henry Layard in two campaigns in the mid-nineteenth century. The results of the first campaign, in May and June 1847, were published in considerable detail in Nineveh and its Remains (1849). The results of the second, from October 1849 to April 1851, were reported in less detail in Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon (1853).Among the Layard Papers in the British Library are the unpublished notes that served as the basis for the published reports. The notes for the first campaign, in Add. Ms. 39076, fol. 43–54, are in the form of a full narrative account, penned in Layard's best hand. The notes for the second campaign are preserved in two versions. The earlier is a rough incomplete account in two of Layard's pocket notebooks. The first covers the period 17 October to 13 November 1850 (Add. Ms. 39089C, fol. 6–12) and includes notes on Rooms E, I to S, V, Y, and DD (the latter mistakenly labelled “FF” in the notebook). The second notebook, which covers 5 December 1850 to 26 April 1851 (Add. Ms. 39089E, fol. 29v–34v), records Rooms GG, II to LL, part of MM (mislabelled “PP”), SS to WW, YY, AAA, and DDD to OOO. These are very rough field notes, sketchy and almost illegible. The later set of notes from the second campaign (Add. Ms. 39077, fol. 75r–79v) is more complete, covering Rooms I to OOO, all of the rooms excavated during that campaign. This account, which must have been compiled after the close of the excavation, is apparently based in part on the notes in the pocket notebooks. It includes a number of additional rooms, however — T, U, W, X, Z, AA, BB, CC, EE, FF, MM (full description), NN to RR, XX, BBB, and CCC — and therefore it may also have drawn on field notes that have not yet been identified. Unlike the field notes, it is written fairly legibly and in complete sentences, in the same manner as the report of the first campaign.

A New Witness of the Restoration Stage, 1660–1669

1976 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Orrell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Library ◽  
First Time ◽  
Father And Son

Among the additional manuscripts in the British Library is a nineteenth-century transcript of the diplomatic correspondence of the Florentine agents in London from 1616 to 1679/80. The agents – or Residents, as they were sometimes called – were during this period the Salvetti, father and son. Amerigo wrote the dispatches every week until his death in 1657, after which the task was undertaken by his son Giovanni, though there were at first a few letters also from Giovanni's brother, Amerigo the younger. As befitted people with Florentine connexions, both father and son were interested in the Court theatre, and among their voluminous accounts of the affairs of state there are frequent references to the staging of plays and masques, so frequent indeed that they constitute a useful supplement to the calendars of the period published by G. E. Bentley and W. Van Lennep. In this article I print for the first time translations of the dramatic references culled from the correspondence of 1660–9; passages from the letters of 1670–9 will appear in a later issue. The more methodical notes of Salvetti père on the Jacobean and Caroline Court stage will, I hope, be published elsewhere.

Isaac Frost's Two Systems of Astronomy (1846): plebeian resistance and scriptural astronomy

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-177
Author(s):  
FRANCIS REID
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
British Library ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Is Research ◽  
Newtonian Cosmology ◽  
Two Systems

In early nineteenth-century London audiences flocked to a variety of lectures and shows on astronomical topics. While the religious and social positions of the lecturers and showmen varied significantly, the vast majority adopted a Newtonian cosmology incorporating a belief in the plurality of worlds. This paper focuses on Isaac Frost's 1846 book Two Systems of Astronomy in an attempt to gain a fuller understanding of how some thinkers in plebeian London responded to and resisted this emergent astronomical orthodoxy. Central to this analysis is research that reveals how changes in the intellectual world of Frost and his Muggletonian co-religionists prompted this formerly non-proselytizing Protestant sect to become increasingly vocal during the nineteenth century. This research is based upon a thorough examination of the Muggletonian archive in the British Library together with a collection of approximately thirty Muggletonian letters deposited in the Oxfordshire Records Office in 1993 and not examined by previous historians. It is concluded that the unorthodox or anti-Newtonian cosmologies advanced by several early nineteenth-century thinkers were often intellectually coherent and embodied in receptive social contexts.

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