Society Of Antiquaries Research Articles

Reading the NationKaestle, Carl F., and Janice A., Radway, eds. Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880–1940. (A History of the Book in America, vol. 4). Chapel Hill, NC: Published in Association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvii, 669 pp. Illus. Cloth, $60.00 (isbn 978-0-8078-3186-3186-1),

Reading the NationKaestle, Carl F., and Janice A., Radway, eds. <i>Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880–1940</i>. (A History of the Book in America, vol. 4). Chapel Hill, NC: Published in Association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvii, 669 pp. Illus. Cloth, $60.00 (<scp>isbn</scp> 978-0-8078-3186-3186-1),

Townend, Matthew 2009. The Vikings and Victorian Lakeland: The Norse Medievalism of W. G. Collingwood and His Contemporaries. Kendal: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.

Townend, Matthew 2009. The Vikings and Victorian Lakeland: The Norse Medievalism of W. G. Collingwood and His Contemporaries. Kendal: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and their Museum: Scotland’s National Collection and a National Discourse

Founded in 1780, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland began immediately to form a museum that has survived remarkably intact within the National Museums of Scotland. Their initiative marked a significant point in the evolution of material culture studies between the “cabinet of curiosities” of the Renaissance and the large public museums of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. An exploration of the Society’s work and ethos in its early years points to the emergence of a distinctive “Scottish History” of collections and a greater significance for the evidence of material culture than has been conventionally accorded it in conventional scholarly discourses.

A History of the Book in America, vol. iv: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880–1940. Ed. by Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway.

Journal Article A History of the Book in America, vol. iv: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880–1940. Ed. by Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway. Get access A History of the Book in America, vol. iv: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880–1940. Ed. by Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press in association with the American Antiquarian Society. 2009. xvii + 669 pp. $60. isbn 978 0 8078 3186 1. David McKitterick David McKitterick Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Library, Volume 10, Issue 4, December 2009, Pages 430–432, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/10.4.430 Published: 15 December 2009

Book reviews - Holyrood Archaeology Project Team. Scotland's Parliament site and the Canongate: archaeology and history. xxviii+306 pages, 125 b&amp;w &amp; colour illustrations. 2008. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-0-903-903-45-5 hardback £40 (Fellows £35).

Book reviews - Holyrood Archaeology Project Team. Scotland's Parliament site and the Canongate: archaeology and history. xxviii+306 pages, 125 b&amp;w &amp; colour illustrations. 2008. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-0-903-903-45-5 hardback £40 (Fellows £35).

STONE STELE BEARING A “SUN-HEADED” DEITY ON THE TUIM RIVER, KHAKASSIA: (In commemoration of the Finnish Antiquarian Society Expedition to the Yenisei headed by J.R. Aspelin 120 years previously)

The present article gives a description of a stone stele discovered during a Finnish Antiquarian Society Expedition to the northern Minusinsk Basin in 1887–1889, and cites the research conducted previously. The article presents the author's view that the stele serves as an example of early Okunev art (late 3rd millennium BC). The article particularly focuses on the possible meaning of the representation. An interdisciplinary approach is considered most fruitful based on philological and semiotic approaches to interpreting ancient verbal ritual texts rich in epithets and metaphors. The stele is interpreted as a “visual hymn” conveying eulogy to the deity in which mytho-poetic clichés of an extinct oral tradition are reproduced graphically.

Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic , and: The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (review)

Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic. By Susan Branson. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Pp. 182. Cloth, $39.95.)The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York. By Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press in Association with the American Antiquarian Society, 2008. Pp. 278. Cloth, $50.00; Paper, $20.00.)Reviewed by Wendy A. WolosonAmericans' insatiable appetite for sex and violence is nothing new. Long before 24-hour cable networks and the Internet, printers and publishers served up the crude, lewd, and criminal. Indian-captivity narratives, truecrime accounts, confessions of the condemned, sex manuals, and bawdy verse have enjoyed a steady audience since at least the Colonial era. Meant for personal and public consumption, they were tacked to tavern walls, sold in plain wrappers from under the bookseller's counter, folded in coat pockets, traded among friends. Two new books contribute to our understanding of the more sordid side of print culture in the first half of the nineteenth century.In Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic, Susan Branson brings us an account of sex and violence in an era marked by political unrest, social instability, and economic uncertainty. It is a story centered on Ann Carson and Mary Clarke, two women who, like many others, struggled to be good wives, support their families, and simply survive in a society especially inhospitable to women. The book reconstructs the biographies of Carson and Clarke (no easy task, given the relative anonymity of even well-known women) and recounts the series of events that ultimately led to their notoriety. The narrative is multilayered, detailing the perilous economic existence of many women at the time, how the lives of Carson and Clarke became inextricably intertwined, and the role print culture played in sensationalizing their stories.In some ways Clarke's and Carson's lives were extraordinary, captivating the public for nearly two decades, and their stories remain just as interesting nearly two centuries later. Yet in many other ways these women's lives were all too ordinary, reflective of the social and legal strictures that hampered women at the time regardless of pedigree or personal achievement. Ann Carson spent her early years living in comfortable gentility, the daughter of a respected sea captain. By the time she was 15 years old, her parents' accrued debts were such that they were no longer able to care for her or her older sister. Relinquishing their role as protective parents, they married off their daughters to ease their financial burdens.Ann Carson's husband John (a seaman like her father) drank away his commissions and had nothing to show for his service upon returning after long absences. The enterprising Carson was able to support herself, her three children, and her parents by opening a shop selling chinaware and supplementing her income by sewing military uniforms during the War of 1812. For a while, she was able to make a go of it, not only maintaining her family but repaying all of her husband's debts. By the early spring of 1815 it had been almost three years since Carson had seen or heard from her husband. Rumors were that his ship had been lost at sea. Believing he was dead, she moved on with her life, choosing for a mate Richard Smith among her many suitors. The couple made a life together in Philadelphia, that is, until Carson's first husband returned and insisted on reclaiming what was his - his wife, his house, his family, and the china shop. Carson struggled to keep the peace and keep the men apart, but an argument one night ended when Smith fatally shot John Carson in the face. Smith was charged with murder, and Ann Carson as an accessory. Thus began her descent into the criminal underworld and a career in the public spotlight.Like Ann Carson's, Mary Clarke's life once held personal and professional promise. …

The Society of Antiquaries, 1707–18: meeting places and origin stories

AbstractThe genesis of this paper lay in the 2007 Tercentenary celebrations of the Society of Antiquaries and the challenge of compiling a tour of the premises used by the Society for its meetings prior to the Society’s move into a permanent home at Somerset House in 1780. The first part of the paper deals with the competing claims of the Bear in the Strand and the Young Devil taverns as the location for the foundation meeting of the Society of Antiquaries in 1707. The second part examines the evidence for the precise locations of these two taverns, a subject curiously neglected by antiquaries, together with an attempt to determine the character of the taverns. The paper then considers the demise of the 1707 Society and examines the evidence for the claim that 1707 marks the foundation year of the present Society of Antiquaries. Reference is also made to the other known meeting places of the Society up to 1718.

Tomb Destruction and Scholarship: Medieval Monuments in Early Modern England (review)

Reviewed by: Tomb Destruction and Scholarship: Medieval Monuments in Early Modern England Stefanie Knöll Tomb Destruction and Scholarship: Medieval Monuments in Early Modern England. By Phillip Lindley. (Donington, UK: Shaun Tyas Publishing. 2007. Pp. x, 257. £35.00. ISBN 978-1-900-28987-0.) In Tomb Destruction and Scholarship, Phillip Lindley, reader in the history of art department of the University of Leicester, deals with the destruction of medieval tomb monuments in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The study, which resulted from Lindley’s 2007 Leverhulme Research Fellowship, offers new insight into the mechanisms of earlymodern iconoclasm in England. At the same time, Lindley points to the side effects of destruction—that is, the increasing number of cultural tourists visiting tomb monuments as well as the growing historical scholarship. In his first chapter, Lindley recounts the fate of funerary monuments during the sixteenth century. Often parts of tombs were sold for the sake of the material. However, Lindley is able to show that tomb defacement was nothing more than “collateral damage” under King Henry VIII and that active defacement of tombs started only under King Edward VI. Now, images of saints as well as phrases requesting prayers for the dead or—for the most zealous reformers—representations of clergy in their traditional vestments were regarded as offensive. These attacks also influenced the design of new monuments. We might think of the ensuing concentration on the virtues of the deceased and the celebration of his bloodline through the display of heraldry. Lindley is convinced that it was the sixteenth-century experience of the fragility of material heritage that created a particularly strong desire to study and document tomb monuments. Chapter 2 thus analyzes the genesis and development of Tudor antiquarianism, which differs from late-medieval antiquarian attempts in various aspects: the introduction of formalized networks (Society of Antiquaries), a more critical evaluation of historical sources, and the wider dissemination through printed records. Many quotations from the works of authors such as John Leland, Sampson Erdeswick, or Ralph Brooke give a sense of the discussed antiquarian writings and point to the scholarly debates going on at the time. A good example of such debates is the argument between Camden and Brooke, which demonstrated that the knowledge of heraldry had to be supplemented by a knowledge of the stylistic development of tomb monuments as well as by archival research. Consequently, the preservation of medieval texts and the inclusion of illustrations in antiquarian works was afforded more and more importance. Significant examples such as Sir Robert Cotton’s library and John Weever’s Ancient Funerall Monuments (1631) are discussed in chapter 3.Weever’s publication was the first nationwide collection of epitaphs. The inclusion of illustrations in this work shows an awareness of the fact that images possess an authority distinct from that of texts. Chapter 3 further deals with the fate of tomb monuments during the Civil War, when Parliament actively encouraged iconoclasm. The Puritan iconoclast William Dowsing even kept a journal of the destructions he carried out in various churches between 1643 and 1644. [End Page 613] The first three chapters, which offer a broad overview of the attacks from the time of Henry VIII to the 1640s, are followed by three chapters with detailed case studies: Lindley employs antiquarian accounts to reconstruct the appearance of King Arthur’s tomb at Glastonbury (chapter 4), to draw conclusions about the original functions of the Percy tomb in Beverley Minster (chapter 5), and to analyze the attacks and reconstructions of the Herbert monuments at Abergavenny (chapter 6). However, considering that this is a book dealing with the development of research into tomb monuments, it is disappointing that the book does not include an overall bibliography of the large number of primary and secondary sources consulted. In his conclusion, Lindley concedes that he might have exaggerated the extent of tomb destruction in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Indeed, many scholars have already shown that a lot of damage was inflicted only in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Still, Lindley has achieved his aim—namely, to show that early-modern attacks were endorsed by national authorities on a scale unprecedented in Western Europe...

‘Banks is the villain!’? Sir Joseph Banks and the governance of the Society of Antiquaries

AbstractThe name of Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) is well known in scientific and exploration circles – he is undeservedly much less well known as an antiquary. This study considers his roles in relation to the premier antiquarian society of the time, the Society of Antiquaries of London. Using the Society’s records, Sir Joseph Banks is considered as an ordinary Fellow, as a member of Council, as an auditor of the finances and as a scrutator at elections. The relations between the Royal and Antiquarian Societies on first moving into Somerset House and the contemporary question of whether they might have merged is also examined. Joseph Banks’s role in the circumstances of the three contested presidential elections of 1785, 1799 and 1812 is especially considered, and these are seen not just to represent internal squabbling amongst the Fellows, but to reflect the wider social and political strains of the time. In producing the narrative of these elections, significant past mistakes are corrected. Lastly the relationship between George iii and the Society of Antiquaries is touched upon.

Sunday School Libraries in Halifax and Huddersfield before Public Libraries

Before the end of the nineteenth century, when municipal public libraries were beginning to proliferate all over the country, working-class children had few outlets from where to borrow educational books. Sunday school libraries, which rapidly increased from the 1820s, helped to fill that gap. Sunday schools, which were established by Anglican and Nonconformist churches and chapels alike, brought elementary education to many children, and their libraries provided useful books, though often of a religious or moral nature. This study considers the area covered by the parishes of Halifax and Huddersfield in Yorkshire, which had one of the highest concentrations of Sunday schools. This article has been compiled, and inevitably reduced, from material contained in the author's unpublished Ph.D. thesis, A history of libraries in Halifax and Huddersfield from the mid-sixteenth century to the coming of the public libraries (University of London, 2003). Sadly, the author died only a few months after the thesis had been accepted and the degree conferred. She was Librarian of the Princess Alexandra College of Nursing, London. The editor of this article is grateful to Linda Parr's mother for permission to draw on the thesis, and to her supervisor, Dr Elizabeth Danbury, formerly of University College, London, for her co-operation. The author previously published two articles related to the theme of the thesis: 'The library of Halifax Mechanics' Institution 1825–1857', Library History 7 (1987), 177–186, and 'Ye olde Luddenden Library, c1776–1917', Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society new ser. 11 (2003) 82–97.

The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York. By Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 278 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 978-0-226-11233-6. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 978-0-226-11234-3.)

Mindful through my own work of the puffery antebellum reviewers unleashed upon their often unsuspecting readers, I have become reticent to heap praise upon even today's deserving books without leavening it with some criticism. The first exception in my reviewing career is a book that I believe should be on the shelf of every antebellum sociocultural historian: The Flash Press, by a power trio of nineteenth-century American public sexuality scholars, Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. Each has previously written cutting-edge books featuring masterful in-depth research in primary sources on sexual topics so controversial in their own time and so censorship-worthy after the 1873 federal Comstock Law, that it is a miracle that any documentation has survived. Sifting through the evidentiary haystack for proverbial needles, the three authors (coming from different directions—a cultural history of a prostitute's high-profile murder [Cohen], an urban microhistory of prostitution [Gilfoyle], and an analysis of sexual knowledge [Horowitz])—converged on a remarkable find, the flash press that flourished in New York City from roughly late 1841 through early 1843. In the book's introduction, the authors fascinatingly recount their individual discovery and uses of these newspapers dedicated to limning the demimonde, alternately by celebrating or critiquing it, at times in the same paragraph. Some incomplete runs of these scandalous sheets have come down to us through a fortuitous if ironic turn: they were collected by a New York district attorney as evidence for possible prosecutions against their publishers (p. 227n7). Other issues apparently wended their way through hands of sports journalists, whose main interest seems to have been the coverage of past sporting events (pp. 5–6). Those different preservation streams resulted in 104 issues, representing about three quarters of what is thought to have been printed (p. 5), now housed at the American Antiquarian Society.

WPW syndrome: the 'Rosetta stone' of rhythmology. The history of the Rosetta stone

Prior to the 'discovery' of the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, interpreting the respective phenomena was akin to reading hieroglyphic characters; thus a clear pathophysiological understanding and practical clinical diagnosis were impossible. The epochal work by Wolff, Parkinson, and White, which resulted in the electrophysiologically correct interpretation of circus movements as the cause of tachycardic rhythm disorders, can therefore indeed be compared to the deciphering of hieroglyphic writing by Champollion in 1822 with the aid of the Rosetta stone. After intensive archaeological and graphological examinations by the Society of Antiquaries, the Rosetta stone finally made its way to the British Museum, where it can still be viewed and admired today.

American Antiquarian Society Fellowships

Anthropology NewsVolume 35, Issue 9 p. 30-30 American Antiquarian Society Fellowships First published: December 1994 https://doi.org/10.1111/an.1994.35.9.30.2AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume35, Issue9December 1994Pages 30-30 RelatedInformation

&lt;i&gt;A History of the Book in America, Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840–1880&lt;/i&gt;, and: &lt;i&gt;A Companion to the History of the Book&lt;/i&gt;, and: &lt;i&gt;Books on the Move: Tracking Copies through Collections and the Book Trade&lt;/i&gt; (review)

Reviewed by: A History of the Book in America, Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840–1880, and: A Companion to the History of the Book, and: Books on the Move: Tracking Copies through Collections and the Book Trade Susan M. Allen A History of the Book in America, Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840–1880. Edited by Scott E. Casper, Jeffrey D. Groves, Stephen W. Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship. Chapel Hill: Published in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 560 pp. $60.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-8078-3085-7. A Companion to the History of the Book. Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. 616 pp. $158.95 (cloth). ISBN 978-1-4051-2765-3. Books on the Move: Tracking Copies through Collections and the Book Trade. Edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote. London: British Library; New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2007. 180 pp. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN 978-1-58456-219-1. Two of the three books reviewed here—A History of the Book in America, Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840–1880 and A Companion to the History of the Book—do not concern themselves in a major way with the history of libraries. Their focus is the relatively young interdisciplinary field that has come to be called history of the book, and each puts forth essays written by many scholars in history, literature, and librarianship. That said, it is difficult, if not impossible, to decouple book history from library history. The third title, Books on the Move: Tracking Copies through Collections and the Book Trade, proves this point and demonstrates that any [End Page 488] focused scholarship about books, book collecting, and the book collections that are the result of that collecting must touch on the history of both private and public libraries. The scholar of library history will be well served to treat both A History of the Book in America, Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840–1880 and A Companion to the History of the Book as reference tools to be kept at hand for their readable and accessible essays, arranged by topic, and the accompanying notes and helpful bibliographies. The single nod A History of the Book in America makes toward the history of libraries in nineteenth-century America is an essay entitled simply "Libraries" (in chapter 9, "Sites of Reading") by the respected authority on the history of Harvard University Library, Kenneth E. Carpenter. In some sixteen dense pages Carpenter surveys the 1840–80 period during which American libraries of every form grew at a rapid rate. He draws to our attention school district libraries, Sunday school libraries, and social libraries—those nineteenth-century institutions perhaps long forgotten but very important to readers in their day—while not neglecting the origins during the same time period of free public and academic research libraries. Nor does he neglect the story of the founding of the American Library Association in 1876. The endnotes for this chapter provide thorough documentation for the arguments made by Carpenter. The section of the book's concluding "Bibliographical Essay" that relates to chapter 9 names in its first paragraph seminal works in the library history field, including the writing of Wayne A. Wiegand, whose contribution figures in A Companion to the History of the Book. This paragraph also points to further research and writing that should be done, such as updating the surveys of American library history that were published in the mid-twentieth century and providing better access to source materials available to support research in library history. Unfortunately, A Companion to the History of the Book, a broad survey of the field, devotes only one of its forty chapters specifically to library history. In chapter 39, "Libraries and the Invention of Information," Wiegand is forced to condense fifty centuries (3000 BC–AD 2000) of the history of library development into eleven pages of text. By necessity, this is a very shallow overview that traces the growth and history of libraries from those in the ancient world to religious libraries of the Middle Ages and then to the development of national...

Modern Language Association Honored Scholar of Early American Literature, 2008: Philip F. Gura

Earlier this year, when I learned that the MLA Division of Ameri can Literature to 1800 would be honoring Philip R Gura with its Distin guished Scholar Award, the news at first seemed entirely fitting but also oddly premature and even misplaced?at least to the uninitiated. Ordi narily, one would expect that a major award of this kind might be deliv ered with a kind of backward view: into the hands of a scholar who, just on the verge of retirement, receives the honor at the conclusion of a long career after having contributed brilliantly to the profession. But instead, this year's award honors a perennially resourceful and productive re searcher whose energies show no signs of flagging, who even now is pre paring yet another new book for publication, this latest volume a history of the American Antiquarian Society, the learned society whose resources have been so vital to his own research over the decades. The remarkable

Susan Pearce (ed.) 2007. Visions of Antiquity. The Society of Antiquaries of London 1707–2007.

Susan Pearce (ed.) 2007. Visions of Antiquity. The Society of Antiquaries of London 1707–2007.

Undescribed Cyrillic Manuscripts in Britain

SEER, Vol. 86,No. 4, October 2008 BIBLIOGRAPHY Undescribed Cyrillic Manuscripts in Britain RALPH CLEMINSON When the union catalogue of Cyrillic manuscripts in the British Isles was published, itwas stated in the introduction that the publica tion of supplementary descriptions of material not included was envisaged.1 Now, twenty years after the appearance of the catalogue, it is an appropriate moment to publish descriptions of the ten items which have come to light over this period. These are all items which, although already in England at the end of the 1970s, were for one reason or another not revealed by the survey of collections made at that time in preparation for the catalogue. Although a considerable amount of other Slavonic manuscript material has passed through this country since then, notably at the Fekula sale at Sotheby's in 1990, it does not appear that any of ithas found a permanent home here; and indeed, in the present state of themarket, Russian antiquities sold in theWest tend to return to their homeland. Of the ten items here described, seven are Cyrillic manuscript codices, one is a Romanian Cyrillic charter, and two are Greek manuscripts with Slavonic inscriptions. They range in date from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries, and in origin from Russia to South-East Europe. Probably themost important of them isAdd. MS 61747 in the British Library, a fifteenth-century Apostolos lectionary written in north-west Russia, which apparently contains a second redaction text throughout ? the only such manuscript so far recorded in a collection outside Russia.2 It is thus a very significant witness for the text of the Slavonic Bible. There are four other manuscripts of East Slavonic provenance, of which one, the Snowshill Heirmologion, is a musical manuscript which uses the stave notation usual in theUkraine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Two others evidently orig inated inOld Believer communities, and thus although comparatively recent continue mediaeval practice. Ralph Cleminson is Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Portsmouth. 1 Ralph Cleminson, A Union Catalogue of CyrillicManuscripts inBritish and Irish Collections, London, 1988, p. x. 2 The Maticin Apostol in Novi Sad has a text which alternates between the first and second redactions. In general, the second redaction of the Apostolos is very uncommon in comparison with the first and fourth. 686 UNDESCRIBED CYRILLIC MANUSCRIPTS IN BRITAIN Outstanding in another respect is the Illyrian Armorial held by the Society ofAntiquaries. This manuscript belongs to a very different tradition from the others, dealing as it does with Central European heraldry, and while it contains little text, does have 153 full-page full-colour illustrations of coats of arms. The two Greek manuscripts both have an Epirot origin, and are connected in particular with the city of Berat inmodern Albania. They are interesting forwhat they suggest about Greek-Slavonic bilingualism in this area at the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries. Both Berat and Siderokastro, the home town of the scribe of British Library Add. MS 37008, had lain within the borders of Stefan Dusan's empire, and though neither had been under Serbian rule for a generation by the time of these inscriptions, the persistence of a Serbian population and written tradition is quite probable. Such diversity within a relatively small group ofmanuscripts is typi cal of the Cyrillic manuscripts in the British Isles; the addition of these ten to those already described can only add to the importance of the holdings here, as some of themost extensive and significant outside the manuscripts' countries of origin. 205. London, British Library Add. MS 61747 Acts and Epistles, Russian, 15th century (last quarter) Paper: Watermark: Gothic p, similar to Piccard P IV 338 or 340 (1488, 1489). iii + ii + ii + 97 + i + iii leaves; modern (19th- or 20th-century) foliation, [i?vii], 1-97, [98-101]. Previous foliation on ff. 2-3: 33-34 and on ff. 5-71: 35-46, 48-62, 64-69, 71-104. Size of leaves: 270 x 190mm. Collation: all leaves had become detached before restoration, and there are no signatures, so the original composition is indeterminable. Layout: 2 cols./p., 29 11./col.,written area 225 x 155mm...

Archaeology from the wetlands. Recent perspectives. Proceedings of the 11th WARP conference, Edinburgh 2005. J. Barber, C. Clark, M. Cressy, A. Crone, A. Hale, J. Henderson, R. Housley, R. Sands and A. Sheridan (eds). Publisher: Society of Antiquaries, Edinburgh, 2007 ISBN: 0‐903903‐40‐7

Archaeology from the wetlands. Recent perspectives. Proceedings of the 11th WARP conference, Edinburgh 2005. J. Barber, C. Clark, M. Cressy, A. Crone, A. Hale, J. Henderson, R. Housley, R. Sands and A. Sheridan (eds). Publisher: Society of Antiquaries, Edinburgh, 2007 ISBN: 0‐903903‐40‐7

Why Not Ephemera? The Emergence of Ephemera in Libraries

There are multiple ways of approaching the topic of ephemera in libraries. I want to begin with some personal comments that reflect on my experience with ephemera, demonstrate the potential scholarly interest in ephemera by citing several recent publications that make excellent use of such collections, and share the results of some informal conversations with curators in other institutions. I will close by considering our experiences at the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), where I have been aware of ephemera as a classification of material for over thirty years.As director of the AAS’s new Center for Historic American Visual Culture— ...