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Malena Bower
Comfort and Barret "tend to claim an earlier date for many manuscripts included in their volume than might be allowed by other palaeographers."[7] The Novum Testamentum Graece, a standard reference for the Greek witnesses, lists ?4 and ?64/67 separately, giving the former a date of the 3rd century, while the latter is assigned c. 200.[8] Charlesworth has concluded 'that ?64+67 and ?4, though written by the same scribe, are not from the same ... codex.'[9] The most recent and thorough palaeographic assessment of the papyrus concluded that "until further evidence is forthcoming perhaps a date from mid-II to mid-IV should be assigned to the codex."[10]
The most comprehensive source of information about this manuscript is Kathryn King's The Poems of Jane Barker: The Magdalen Manuscript, Oxford, Magdalen College Occasional Paper 3, 1998. I am indebted to Kathryn King for much of the information provided in this catalogue entry.
The Magdalen manuscript appears to have been prepared largely while Barker was in exile in St Germain, France, following her departure from England after the Revolution of 1688. The manuscript is divided into three sections. Parts One and Two are comprised largely, although not exclusively, of poems which demonstrate Barker's commitment to Jacobitism and which comment on her conversion to Roman Catholicism. These poems are referred to below as "religious-political" texts in that they reflect Barker's belief that the Stuart cause was divinely sanctioned and that events in British political history were manifestations of a greater struggle between the forces of good and evil.
Part Three of the manuscript contains a selection of the poems that had appeared in Barker's printed volume Poetical Recreations. This volume carries the publication date of 1688. However, Kathryn King has demonstrated that it was in fact published in 1687 (King, Jane Barker, Exile, 31). The poems in this volume, a number of which emerged from Barker's coterie exchanges with a group of Cambridge students, were written in the 1670s and 1680s.
The Magdalen manuscript appears to have been used by Barker as a working text; the poems it contains are not fair copies but are heavily revised and altered. Many of the poems are also glossed and annotated. As Kathryn King remarks, this makes the volume a particularly valuable resource in that it enables us to observe the processes by which Barker reworked a body of poetry composed over a period of approximately twenty-five years. In addition, the manuscript is the only significant extant source of biographical information about Barker's life from the 1680's to the early eighteenth-century.
Kathryn King has discussed the dating of the manuscript as follows: "We can conclude ... that the verse copied into the Magdalen manuscript was composed over a period of roughly a quarter of a century, from 1675 through 1701 or 1702: Part One between 1685 and 1700, with all but the final poem having been begun probably by 1692; Part Two between 1689 and 1701 (or so); Part Three between 1675 (or earlier) and 1687 at the outside. Given that Part One was probably prepared near the end of 1700 and that Parts Two and Three were probably copied while Barker was still in France, it seems likely that the preparation of the Magdalen manuscript occurred in at least two stages between late 1700 and 1704, when Barker returned to England, presumably taking the volume with her."(King, The Magdalen Manuscript 17).
David Rundle is an intellectual and cultural historian of the Renaissance across Europe, including the British Isles. He is Lecturer in Latin and Palaeography in the Centre of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Kent. He is the author of The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain, and is working on the catalogue of the manuscripts of Magdalen College, Oxford. He is also Managing Editor of Medium Ævum. Post-nominals are not his thing but if you insist, they are MA DPhil (Oxon), FSA, FRHistS, SFHEA.
Two original features of this book should be singled out: its use of sermon literature and of visual images. Jansen exposes the potential of sermons as a mirror for society's religious, social, and cultural aspirations, demonstrating how sermon literature could be used effectively in order to illuminate cultural issues. She uses a variety of unpublished sermons, exposing their content for the first time. A special merit of this book is its employment of diverse visual sources, such as fresco cycles, altarpieces, panel and predella paintings, and manuscript illuminations. Jansen was able to trace some rather obscure images that portray the Magdalen in an unexpected manner, and she has combined them with works by more celebrated artists such as Giotto and Botticelli. A case in point is the choice of the fresco "Mary Magdalen with Bishop Teobaldo Pontano" for the handsome and attractive cover page. This fresco effectively demonstrates the centrality of the colossal figure of Magdalen, the humble position and diminished size of the Bishop, and the imitatio Magdalen discussed in the book. It is one example of Jansen's unusual sensitivity and clever usage of art.
A copy preserved in the Bodleian Library (Crynes 701) has auction prices recorded in the margins. Lot 674 (p 217), which fetched 10s from an unknown buyer, was a folio-sized manuscript of tragedies by Charles Bernard's ancestor, Samuel Bernard, containing:
A second item, lot 925 (p 218) which fetched 2s, was a quarto-sized manuscript containing three tragedies and other poetical works by 'Sarmueli Bernardi': since the plays are not named, it is uncertain whether or not these were the same three plays. Neither volume has been traced.
N2 - The activity of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) in collecting manuscripts from Latin America and in publishing Juan de Tovar's 'Historia de los indios mexicanos' is studied in the context of his private correspondence. The impact of his Middle Hill Press edition of Juan de Tovar's text on Mesoamerican studies in the second half of the nineteenth century is examined. The study contains as an Appendix a detailed bibliographical description of the incomplete Middle Hill Press edition of Tovar's text.
AB - The activity of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) in collecting manuscripts from Latin America and in publishing Juan de Tovar's 'Historia de los indios mexicanos' is studied in the context of his private correspondence. The impact of his Middle Hill Press edition of Juan de Tovar's text on Mesoamerican studies in the second half of the nineteenth century is examined. The study contains as an Appendix a detailed bibliographical description of the incomplete Middle Hill Press edition of Tovar's text.
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Historical documents relating to the university, colleges and town of Cambridge, to Cambridgeshire, and to the diocese of Ely, chiefly copied from the manuscripts of Thomas Baker (1656-1740), in seven volumes.
A faint pencil note on the flyleaf of vol. 1 reads: 'These 7 volumes folio I bought at Dr Webb's (Master of Clare Hall) sale for 10 . Much competition for them. J. Hailstone.' William Webb (1775-1856) was Master of Clare 1815-56. John Hailstone (d. 1871) was a graduate of Trinity and an antiquary and archaeologist. These manuscripts were at one time acquired by Robert Forsyth Scott (1849-1933), Master of St John's, whose widow, Jenny gave them to the Library in 1934 (book label).
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