Alnwick Castle Research Articles

A Reconsideration of the Dialectal Provenance of the Prick of Conscience in Oxford, St John’s College, 57

Abstract This paper is a linguistic study of the copy of the Prick of Conscience in Oxford, St John’s College, 57 (SJC). The principal aim is to determine the provenance of the text’s scribal language. SJC was made by a professional scribe, also responsible for copying other popular contemporary works. These include manuscripts of the prose Brut Chronicle, some of the stories of the Canterbury Tales and the unique Tale of Beryn in Alnwick Castle, Duke of Northumberland, 455, the source of the designation of this scribe as the ‘Beryn Scribe’. In LALME, only the language of the last-mentioned of this scribe’s productions was analysed, and localised to South Essex. It has been assumed that the Essex localisation of Alnwick Castle 455 is valid for all this scribe’s texts, including SJC, and that he was a ‘consistent translator’ into his own scribal dialect. Nevertheless, the language of SJC shows features whose distributions are not characteristic of Essex. The original Prick of Conscience was composed in Northern Middle English. The retention of a deal of Northern features in SJC casts doubt on the idea of its scribe as a ‘consistent translator’. The exemplar used by the SJC scribe is unknown and was not necessarily written in the same variety as the original. Still, some information about it can be gleaned by comparing SJC’s language with those of four other manuscripts to which it is closely related within the stemma of the Prick of Conscience.

Peran Movie Image Terhadap Pemilihan Destinasi

Abstrak-Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji apakah film sangat penting dalam pengembangan Empathy, Nostlagia, Perceived Risk, Place Familiarity, Place Image yang dapat membentuk Attitude Towards dan Intention to Visit A place. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan Structural Equation Model(SEM) dan diolah dengan bantuan software Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) versi 23 dan AMOS 24. 200 responden diambil dari responden yang pernah menonton seri film Harry Potter lebih dari sekali, masih mengingat film Harry Potter yang pernah di tonton, masih mengingat pemandangan dari sekolah Hogwarts (Kastil Alnwick), dan mengetahui bahwa kastil Alnwick dipergunakan sebagai tempat wisata. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Empathy, Nostalgia, Place Familiarity, Place Image merupakan faktor-faktor yang berpengaruh positif secara signifikan terhadap Attitude dan Intention pada kastil Alnwick. Perceived Risk merupakan faktor yang tidak berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap Place Familiarity di Kastil Alnwick. Para responden yang pernah menonton seri film Harry Potter memiliki Attitude yang positif dan memiliki Intention untuk mengunjungi kastil Alnwick
 Kata kunci: Perception, Movies, Destination Image, Risk, Intention, Familiarity.

The Earl of Hertford, Handel, and the 1742–1743 and 1743–1744 opera seasons

This article presents documents hitherto unknown to Handel and opera scholarship from the archive at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland. The correspondence between the Earl and Countess of Herford and their son, Lord Beauchamp, in the years 1742–4 includes unrecorded reports of Handel’s planning a 1743–4 opera season, and casts light on the opera attendance and observations of Lord Hertford and others in the London opera-going community.

William Tyndale and Erasmus on How to Read the Bible: A Newly Discovered Manuscript of the English Enchiridion

British Library MS Additional 89149, newly discovered in 2015 at Alnwick Castle, is a previously unknown translation of Erasmus’ Enchiridion militis Christiani into English. Dated 1523, it now represents the earliest surviving English translation of any work by Erasmus. This article presents detailed verbal evidence that associates the vocabulary of imitatio in the translation with William Tyndale’s hermeneutic work on scripture, including his New Testament of 1525–1526. It thus offers the strongest evidence to date of Tyndale's hand in the English Enchiridion, long the subject of scholarly enquiry. It also provides a fresh interpretation of Tyndale’s engagement with Erasmian humanism, and his position on disputes over literal and figurative senses in early Protestantism. At the heart of this is the distinctive English word ‘counterfeit’, the meanings of which are traced through a range of medieval and Renaissance sources, from Chaucer onwards.

Management Challenges at Film-Induced Tourism Heritage Attractions

ABSTRACTIn response to an increasingly competitive environment, a number of heritage visitor attractions (HVAs) have encouraged filming, as well as subsequent film-induced tourism, in order to raise their profile, generate revenue and differentiate themselves from other attractions. However, while film-induced tourism may bring benefits, it can also be problematic, especially at HVAs which have conservation at their core. This article identifies a variety of challenges that film-induced tourism has created at Rosslyn Chapel and Alnwick Castle, both UK-based HVAs popular among film-induced tourists. The findings show that film-induced tourism resulted in a number of challenges at both sites not solely related to an increase in visitor numbers but also changes in visitor profile and behavior. Film-induced tourism at both sites has not only influenced visitors’ expectations but also preferences for heritage interpretation resulting in management tensions. This article concludes with a discussion of possible heritage management responses to these challenges.

The Towton Battle — A Reinterpretation

The paper re-interprets the implement known as the ‘Towton Battle Axe’ allegedly found in the river which borders the Towton Battlefield (1461), Yorkshire, England, and which now resides in Alnwick Castle, Northumberland. The paper provides parallels, in the form of comparisons with other weapons, in order that the Towton implement can be shown to be a modified former halberd dating from the early sixteenth century. It is, therefore, highly unlikely that the implement was used in the famous battle.

More Manuscripts by the Beryn Scribe and His Cohort

Abstract The Beryn Scribe is the copyist of the unique copy of the Tale of Beryn in Alnwick Castle, Duke of Northumberland MS 455 of the Canterbury Tales. He has been identified as a prolific copyist of the Middle English prose Brut, and he produced single copies of the Prick of Conscience, Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls, and Lydgate's Life of Our Lady. He was recently identified as the hand of the paper section of Princeton University MS 100 (the Helmingham manuscript of the Canterbury Tales). In this article, using paleographical, spelling, and textual evidence, Mosser and Mooney identify him as the copyist of the parchment section of Princeton University MS 100, and also of the “Oxford fragments” of the Canterbury Tales and the Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C.901 copy of the Brut. They also associate this scribe with several other manuscript productions.

The sea monsters in the Madrid manuscript of Ptolemy's Geography (Biblioteca Nacional, MS Res. 255)

The sea monsters in the Madrid manuscript of Ptolemy's Geography (Biblioteca Nacional, MS Res. 255)

A Verse Chronicle of the House of Percy

T NHE hitherto unpublished English verse chronicle printed below survives uniquely in Alnwick Castle MS 79, a roll written in the early sixteenth century. The text records the history of the promi nent northern house of Percy.' The roll was clearly professionally copied and decorated: it has an illuminated border and initial at the start of the text; in the outer margin is a series of roundels depicting the kings of England from William the Conqueror to Henry VIII (with two roundels each for Henry V and VI); in the inner margin is a series of shields de picting various quarterings of Percy arms. The text is set out in forty seven regularly ruled and spaced rhyme royal stanzas. The elaborateness of the form of the roll suggests that it was in tended for presentation, most probably to the person the author des ignates myn awn especall (15) or myn own lorde and maister most deire (309), Henry Algernon Percy, fifth earl of Northumberland (1478-1527). It is designed to rehearse, in verse, a genealogical record of the successive heads of the house, from the Conquest to the early sixteenth century, according to a consistent formula: the names of each head, of their wives and children, their achievements, and their places of burial. No author is identified for this narrative, but the text has been tradi tionally associated with William Peeris, chiefly because he is identified as the author of a much longer (over seven hundred lines) genealogical verse chronicle of the Percies that survives in a number of manuscripts,2

Stanwick, North Yorkshire, Part 1: Recent research and previous archaeological investigations

Following Wheeler's excavations there in 1951–52, the earthwork complex at Stanwick, North Yorkshire, has been regarded as a key site for the late Iron Age in northern England. Wheeler's conclusions remain widely accepted, despite subsequent challenges to certain aspects of his dating and sequence. Since 1981, however, renewed excavation and survey work have been undertaken, along with complementary documentary and cartographic studies. This paper focuses on the nineteenth-century records of Stanwick, including the earliest detailed survey of the earthworks in 1816, and important, hitherto unpublished material from Alnwick Castle, relating to the plan published by MacLauchlan in 1849 and the discovery of the Stanwick hoard.There follow separate papers on the results of a new survey of the earthworks by the R.C.H.M.E. (Part 2), and a report on excavations on the earthworks between 1981–86 (Part 3). Together, these studies indicate that Wheeler's deceptively straightforward scheme for the context and develo...

Near Eastern Seals in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art, University of Durham

The Near Eastern seal collection of the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art, University of Durham, had a single immediate origin. It was part of the collection of antiquities belonging to the Dukes of Northumberland, formerly housed in Alnwick Castle. Most of the Egyptian antiquities were acquired by the 4th Duke during the first half of the 19th century, and in 1880, at the expense of the 6th Duke, a printed catalogue of the whole collection as it then existed was issued, compiled by Samuel Birch, Keeper of Egyptian, Assyrian and Oriental Antiquities in the British Museum. This describes four Near Eastern cylinder seals, nos. 2016–2018 and 2020, a very modest start. The greater number of these was collected after this time by the eldest son of the 7th Duke, who first came to public attention as Lord Warkworth, but was later styled Henry Algernon George, Earl Percy. He was born in 1871, travelled extensively in the Near East in 1895, 1897 and 1899, and died prematurely in 1909. As noted in the Dictionary of National Biography, Supplement 1901–1911, 904, “true to the traditions of his family, he began to collect antiques, particularly cylinder seals”, and significantly an Akkadian cylinder seal design adorns the front board of his book Notes from a Diary in Asiatic Turkey (London, 1898). This material joined the family collection, and it appears that he was the last of his line to pursue this interest, so that nothing was added after 1910. The collection remained in Alnwick Castle until the 9th Duke deposited it on loan in the British Museum in 1939. The easier access which this move was intended to create was, however, prevented by the outbreak of war. In 1950, when conditions had returned to normal after the war, thanks to the generosity of the present Duke and the initiative of Professor T. W. Thacker of the University of Durham, the whole Northumberland collection, with a few exceptions, was acquired for that University, where it is now housed in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art, close to its ancestral home.

THE BRITISH CARTOGRAPHY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NORTH AMERICA

On four April evenings in the Fellows' Lounge of The Newberry Library, William P. Cumming, Professor Emeritus of English at Davidson College, North Carolina, delivered the second series of the Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures. At the beginning, Dr Cumming explained his interpretation of the general title of the series: 'The British Cartography ofEighteenth-Century North America'. While the overwhelming majority of cartographers Dr Cumming included were 'British', he did not neglect such men as the Swiss Captain Collet and the German De Brahm who were employed on British government service. Neither did he neglect those colonial settlers in America who regarded themselves as British subjects. The 'eighteenthcentury' of the title was likewise neither intended to exclude the important seventeenth-century precursors of maps produced in the following century, nor to include the years after the Treaty of Peace in 1783 when British mapping in North America, south of the St. Lawrence, came almost to a standstill. Again, the geographical bounds of Dr Cumming's lectures, rather than being the entire continent of North America, centered on the British colonies with some reference to the Trans-Allegheny region. The first lecture, 'Mapping the Southern British colonies', was a masterly summary of the development of the cartographic representation of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, with the great improvements in geographical knowledge demonstrated in the contrast of the Lords Proprietors' map of Carolina (1672) with the sophisticated cartographic achievements of Joseph Purcell a century later. In the· second lecture, the area of concentration changed to the northern British colonies, New England, Canada, and the Trans-Allegheny region (although it was pointed out that the last two areas were primarily in French possession until after the middle of the century). The themes of the third and fourth lectures, coastal charting and military mapping respectively, departed from the regional approach of the first two: they provided a new angle on the material in the former lectures as well as contributing subject-matter of their own. The theme of the third lecture was the tremendous improvement in the quality of coastal surveying and cartography from the English Pilot (Fourth Book) 1689, to the work of J. F. W. Des Barres in the Atlantic Neptune. The final lecture, 'The Cartography of Conflict' described the specialised cartography demanded by Britain's involvement in two wars in an unfamiliar continent far from her own shores: the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. Of particular interest was Dr Cumming's description of several recently examined caches of manuscript maps in England, especially the Alnwick Castle and the Royal United Services Institution collections, not previously known or available to historians. Plans for publishing the lectures are now in progress. This will make available to a wider audience the wealth of information Dr Cumming has gathered on the British cartography of eighteenth-century North America, together with some of the important problems and topics which he has identified.

The British Cartography of Eighteenth-Century North America

On four April evenings in the Fellows' Lounge of The Newberry Library, William P. Cumming, Professor Emeritus of English at Davidson College, North Carolina, delivered the second series of the Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures. At the beginning, Dr Cumming explained his interpretation of the general title of the series: 'The British Cartography ofEighteenth-Century North America'. While the overwhelming majority of cartographers Dr Cumming included were 'British', he did not neglect such men as the Swiss Captain Collet and the German De Brahm who were employed on British government service. Neither did he neglect those colonial settlers in America who regarded themselves as British subjects. The 'eighteenthcentury' of the title was likewise neither intended to exclude the important seventeenth-century precursors of maps produced in the following century, nor to include the years after the Treaty of Peace in 1783 when British mapping in North America, south of the St. Lawrence, came almost to a standstill. Again, the geographical bounds of Dr Cumming's lectures, rather than being the entire continent of North America, centered on the British colonies with some reference to the Trans-Allegheny region. The first lecture, 'Mapping the Southern British colonies', was a masterly summary of the development of the cartographic representation of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, with the great improvements in geographical knowledge demonstrated in the contrast of the Lords Proprietors' map of Carolina (1672) with the sophisticated cartographic achievements of Joseph Purcell a century later. In the· second lecture, the area of concentration changed to the northern British colonies, New England, Canada, and the Trans-Allegheny region (although it was pointed out that the last two areas were primarily in French possession until after the middle of the century). The themes of the third and fourth lectures, coastal charting and military mapping respectively, departed from the regional approach of the first two: they provided a new angle on the material in the former lectures as well as contributing subject-matter of their own. The theme of the third lecture was the tremendous improvement in the quality of coastal surveying and cartography from the English Pilot (Fourth Book) 1689, to the work of J. F. W. Des Barres in the Atlantic Neptune. The final lecture, 'The Cartography of Conflict' described the specialised cartography demanded by Britain's involvement in two wars in an unfamiliar continent far from her own shores: the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. Of particular interest was Dr Cumming's description of several recently examined caches of manuscript maps in England, especially the Alnwick Castle and the Royal United Services Institution collections, not previously known or available to historians. Plans for publishing the lectures are now in progress. This will make available to a wider audience the wealth of information Dr Cumming has gathered on the British cartography of eighteenth-century North America, together with some of the important problems and topics which he has identified.

Thomson and the Countess of Hertford Yet Again

Previous articleNext article No AccessNotes and DocumentsThomson and the Countess of Hertford Yet AgainHilbert H. CampbellHilbert H. Campbell Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Modern Philology Volume 67, Number 4May, 1970 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/390190 Copyright 1970 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Two Newly Discovered Manuscript Maps by Christopher Saxton

Not surprisingly, Saxton has been the subject of close interest by students of the history of cartography. Yet he remains a dimly-delineated figure. The date of his birth is not precisely known; he himself in depositions to which two of his manuscript maps are attached makes conflicting statements as to his age which would give the year of his birth as either 1542 or 1544.2 Sir George Fordham made out a good case for Dunningley, between Leeds and Dewsbury in Yorkshire, as his place of birth and his grant of arms refers to him as Saxton of Dunningley, gentleman, but Wakefield has more recently claimed him as one of its sons.3 His death is presumed to have occurred in 1611 but all that can be said with certainty is that he died after 1610, when he was named as a legatee in the will of his elder brother Thomas, and before 1626, when the will of his son, Robert, was proved.4 There is not a single reference by either Saxton or his patron Seckford to his atlas, though admittedly it is possible, as Fordham and Lynam have demonstrated, to follow the general progress of the survey for the atlas and of the printing of the maps. Know? ledge of Saxton's extant manuscript maps has been even more hardly won. In 1928 Fordham could list only six manuscript maps known to be his and the work of the intervening thirty years has culled a mere seven more. Eleven signed maps are recorded and two unsigned maps have been identified as his work; of the signed maps one is lost and another survives only in an eighteenth century copy. The discovery of two hitherto unrecorded manuscript maps by Christopher Saxton among the papers of the Duke of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle is, therefore, exciting on account both of the cartographer's importance and of our relatively scanty knowledge of his career and work. 5

Historical and Lexical Notes on the New Series of Hammamat Inscriptions

tensive use of the eastern desert region for quarrying and mining operations is now well established for the dynastic period, and only recently announcement has been made of a previously unknown series of Old Kingdom texts in a wadi tributary to the Wadi Mueilha.2 Our information concerning the Red Sea ports before the Ptolemaic period remains negligible. A stela of the reign of Amenemhet II records the name of the port of return as S:ww. Since the stela derives from a temple in the Wadi el Gasus the port is not likely to have been far from here (stela Alnwick Castle No. 1934, now in the Oriental Museum of Durham University). In view of the difficulties in coastal navigation on the Red Sea, a longer land route to the south may have been more extensively used, especially for the outbound trip to the coast. On the road starting from Edfu a graffito of a king of Dynasty I is known, and the temple of Sethy I at Wadi cAbbad on this route is the largest such construction in the eastern desert between the Nile and the Red Sea. It is a curious circumstance that the only dated texts of Dynasty XVIII in the Hammamat belong to the reigns of Tuthmosis III and Amenhotpe IV; this suggests that the Hammamat and its quarries were not in their I This article is a review of Georges Goyon, Nouvelles inscriptions rupestres du Wadi Hammamat, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1957. Pp. xi +189; 52 pls. The texts previously known from this region are cited by number and line, according to general usage, as Hamm. 1, 3-4, etc., the numbering being that of the Couyat-Montet edition of 1912: J. Couyat and P. Montet, Les inscriptions higroglyphiques et higratiques du Ouddi Hammdmdt (=-Mgmoires publigs par les membres de l'Institut franCaise d'archgologie orientale du Caire, Vol. 34), Cairo, 1912. Texts not included in this edition are cited according to their source. The new texts are cited by number and line as Goyon. The abbreviations used require no explanation, with the possible exception of el Hudi for the texts made available by A. Fakhry in The Inscriptions of the Amethyst Quarries at Wadi el Hudi, Cairo, 1952. For obvious reasons it has been found expedient to use the spellings Hammamat, Amenemhet, and Mentuhotpe for the

Two Egyptian Antiquities from the Alnwick Castle Collection

Two Egyptian Antiquities from the Alnwick Castle Collection

Babylonian Antiquities from the Alnwick Castle Collection

Babylonian Antiquities from the Alnwick Castle Collection

William Percy: An Elizabethan Amateur

AMONG THE PLAYS of the Elizabethan period which exist in manuA script form and are still unpublished, the six compositions of William Percy have from time to time aroused a mild curiosity. Of these there are three separate manuscript copies, all made by Percy himself, two of which are in the possession of the Percy family at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland. The third has for a number of years been in the Huntington Library, having been acquired with the purchase of the Duke of Devonshire's collection of plays.' It is the purpose of this paper to give a somewhat fuller account of Percy and his playwriting than has hitherto appeared.

Alnwick Castle Antiquities: A Descriptive Catalogue of Antiquities, Chiefly British, at Alnwick Castle . Printed for private distribution. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1880. 11 + 210 p., 43 pl. 4°.

Alnwick Castle Antiquities: <i>A Descriptive Catalogue of Antiquities, Chiefly British, at Alnwick Castle</i> . Printed for private distribution. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1880. 11 + 210 p., 43 pl. 4°.