Recently added articles from The La Trobe Journal:

From the editorial chair.

Sep 22, 2008; Kratzmann, Greg ... I was deeply honoured to have been asked by my friend and colleague John Barnes, in the year of his retirement as editor of The La Trobe Journal, if I would be guest editor of an issue devoted to medieval subjects, planned to coincide with the State Library's The Medieval Imagination ...

The hand in the machine: facsimiles, libraries and the politics of scholarship.

Sep 22, 2008; McKitterick, David ... I In almost exactly twenty-four hours' time, the Premier of Victoria will open the largest exhibition of medieval illuminated manuscripts that has ever been shown in Australia. These manuscripts that will be on display at the State Library of Victoria to the middle of June have ...

'The last thing one might expect': the Mediaeval Court at the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition.(Critical essay)

Sep 22, 2008; D'Arcens, Louise ... In his preface to the Guide to the Intercolonial Exhibition of 1866, the exhibition's commissioner John George Knight concludes by underlining the event's principal significance as a showcase for colonial commercial and industrial achievement: <Pre>The great aim of an ...

'Thingless names'? The St George legend in Australia.(Essay)

Sep 22, 2008; Lynch, Andrew ... The English poet Geoffrey Hill in his Mereian Hymns addresses the eighth-century AngloSaxon ruler Offa as 'King of the perennial holly groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of the MS'. Hill readily summons up familiar places and local images to accompany the medieval name. It can not be so ...

An iron maiden for Melbourne--the history and context of Emmanuel Fremiet's 1906 cast of Jeanne d'Arc.

Sep 22, 2008; Gott, Ted ... Arrival In February 1905 Bernard Hall, the Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, arrived in London to undertake the pleasant task of selecting the first works to be acquired for Melbourne with the funds granted to the Gallery by the recent bequest of Alfred Felton. In ...

Flood, fire and war: fragmentary manuscripts in The Medieval Imagination exhibition.

Sep 22, 2008; Melzer, Libby ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Introduction Fragmentary manuscripts make up the majority of the surviving illuminated medieval material in existence today. The circumstances of how and why manuscripts are broken are as variable as their contents. However, their stories are ...

The rebinding of de Guileville's Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhode and Pilgrimage of the Sowle.

Sep 22, 2008; Cox, Ian ... I One of the treasures of the State Library of Victoria is the Pilgrimage of the Lyre of the Manhode, an English medieval manuscript produced in Lincolnshire in the mid-fifteenth century. (1) Acquired in 1936 through the Felton Bequest for 600 [pounds sterling], (2) the volume ...

William H. Robinson, booksellers and the Public Library of Victoria.

Sep 22, 2008; Carmody, Shane ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] We have never before made such an offer to any library in the world and it springs from a genuine desire to assist you, to obviate the disadvantages of distance, and to share with you the unique opportunity which our great Phillipps purchase affords. Lionel ...

The injuries of time: Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Speght and Wade's Boat.(Critical essay)

Sep 22, 2008; Trigg, Stephanie ... The State Library of Victoria holds a wonderful collection of early Chaucer editions: two leaves from William Caxton's editions of The Canterbury Tales (from 1478 and 1483), and a more substantial group of relatively rare sixteenth- and seventeenth-century editions. Starting with this ...

Ptolemy's Almagest: its dates and the dating of Oxford, All Souls College, ms. 95.(Critical essay)

Sep 22, 2008; Crossley, John N. ... The Almagest of Claudius Ptolemy was the dominant work in astronomy for over a thousand years until the publication of Copernicus's De revolutionibus in 1543. The State Library of Victoria owns a beautiful thirteenth-century manuscript of the translation Gerard of Cremona made from Arabic ...

Why study Ptolemy's Almagest? The evidence of MS Melbourne, State Library of Victoria, Sinclair 224 (1): intelligens est qui semper linguam suam refrenat nisi ad hoc ut de Deo loquatur He ys wise that settithe his tunge to speke of God Ptolemy Alexandria (2).(Critical essay)

Sep 22, 2008; Burnett, Charles ... Ptolemy's Almagest, written in Alexandria a little after 150 AD, is rightly regarded as Classical Antiquity's greatest monument of mathematical astronomy. It remained the key work for understanding and measuring the movements of the heavenly bodies in the Western and Islamic world until ...