Welcome to this double issue of Christ Church Library Newsletter, to conclude Volume 12 for 2020-2021. As always, the journal aims to document and interpret aspects of the collection at Christ Church, but not only. All aspects of descriptive and historical bibliography come within its scope, including the history of the production, distribution and reception of books, provenance, the history of collecting and of libraries, paper, printing and binding.
The journal is available in both printed and electronic form. To receive a hard copy of the printed version, please email the Editor. Alternatively, the issue is available in PDF format as well.
Articles
New Acquisition for Special Collections: Erasmus' 1522 Moriae Encomium
Gabriel Sewell
Christ Church Library Newsletter, Volume 12, Issues 2-3, 2020-21, pages 1-2.
A Closer Look at Henry Aldrich's Borrowings in Music and Architecture
Dean Jobin-Bevans & Micah Pawluk
Christ Church Library Newsletter, Volume 12, Issues 2-3, 2020-21, pages 1; 3-7.
The Story of the F.B. Brady Collection
Katie Noble
Christ Church Library Newsletter, Volume 12, Issues 2-3, 2020-21, pages 8-12.
Play-Texts in the Brady Collection
Willow White
Christ Church Library Newsletter, Volume 12, Issues 2-3, 2020-21, pages 13-15.
Japanese Woodblock Prints, Utagawa Kunisada and the Brady Collection
Pia Jolliffe
Christ Church Library Newsletter, Volume 12, Issues 2-3, 2020-21, pages 15-18.
Two Examples of Catalogued Japanese Prints in the Brady Collection
Pia Jolliffe & Kiyoko Hanaoka
Christ Church Library Newsletter, Volume 12, Issues 2-3, 2020-21, pages 18-19.
The Oldest Manuscript of the "Chronicle of Ioannina"
Transcription of MS 49 (Supplement*)
Brendan Osswald
Christ Church Library Newsletter, Volume 12, Issues 2-3, 2020-21, pages 19-30, and Supplement.
Three Obscure Greek Authors
Georgi Parpulov
Christ Church Library Newsletter, Volume 12, Issues 2-3, 2020-21, pages 31-32.
Katheryn of Berain and the Welsh Codex: More Provenance Notes Regarding MS 184
Helen Williams-Ellis
Christ Church Library Newsletter, Volume 12, Issues 2-3, 2020-21, pages 33-40.
A Case of Moonlighting: Notes on the Richard Goodson Collection of Scores
Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Christ Church Library Newsletter, Volume 12, Issues 2-3, 2020-21, pages 41-42.
Music from a Christ Church Tudor manuscript discussed in New York Times
Treasures from the Library at the V&A and Hampton Court
Gifts of Books and Women Making History
Dante in Christ Church
Newly Digitised Treasures at Christ Church
Cristina Neagu
Christ Church Library Newsletter, Volume 12, Issues 2-3, 2020-21, pages 42-52.
Image selected for the Header: Miniature detail in MS 93, fol. 14v, a fifteenth - century manuscript containing the Hours of St Denis. It is one of the finest examples of the French style of illumination, attributed by Otto Pächt to Maître François. The text on the banderole is linked to Dyonisius Areopagita, who, when seeing the strange Eclipse of the Sun and Moon at the hour of Christ's Passion is said to have stated: "Aut Deus Naturae patitur aut Mundi machina dissolvitur" (i.e. Either the God of Nature suffers, or else the Frame of the World is Dissolved). The manuscript has been recently digitised.
Illustrations for Volume 12, Issues 2-3, 2020-21 are from material provided by Christ Church Library and Archives, University of Bristol Library, National Museum of Wales and National Library of Wales. Photography by Alina Nachescu, John Barrett and Cristina Neagu. Proofreading by Lynda Sayce.
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