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Atlas : a world of maps from the British Library
From the publication in 1595 of the first 'atlas' by Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator, the term has become a universally adopted title for books containing accurate, uniform, and evenly spread maps of all or some of the world. This is an atlas with a difference. Few of the maps in this book could reasonably be called 'accurate' in the modern sense and could almost certainly not be used to plan a journey. Yet this atlas can help us to travel in a way that regular atlases do not, because by looking at old maps and getting to know their stories we can be transported back to the times in which they were made.The generous, full-colour illustrations of each map in this book range from the Klencke Atlas to Hokusai's Map of China, from a 1682 pirate map of Guatemala to 20th-century cartographic postcards featuring maps of Australia. Atlas is the definitive printed showcase of the British Library's extensive and unparalleled map collection.-- Publisher description.
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A Country So Interesting
A vital part of A Country So Interesting are the annotated catalogues of all the maps known to have been produced by the Hudson's Bay Company: 838 maps and 557 sketches. While most are in the Company's archives in Manitoba, Ruggles has tracked down maps in other collections, particularly in various libraries in London, England. Also included are sixty-six reproductions of the most important maps and map details.
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Descriptive Metadata for Digitization of Maps in Books: A British Library Project
Hidden special collections are increasingly being made visible and accessible by small digitization projects. In the project described in this paper, the British Library employed existing library standards and systems to accomplish key functions of a project to digitize a selection of maps contained within rare books. The integrated library system, using the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) and Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) format, acted as a lynchpin, linking directly bibliographic descriptions of both the original and the digital copies of the map, the book containing the map, the digital image, and preservation data and strategy, making the items widely searchable and visible while uniting them with the broader collections. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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The John Murray Archive at the National Library of Scotland
Among the library's treasures are the last letter of Mary Queen of Scots, written six hours prior to her death; the Order for the Massacre of Glencoe 1692; Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns collections; Thomas Carlyle manuscripts; Robert Lewis Stevenson's papers; a Guttenberg Bible (1455); the Murthly Hours (late thirteenth century); the earliest surviving detailed maps of Scotland; and collections of modern Scottish writers. Project plans to the value of £2.7 million will see the National Library of Scotland deliver innovative programs of digitization, education, and outreach workshops, a permanent exhibition highlighting individuals and ideas contained in the Archive, and collaborative projects with a range of cultural organizations.
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Did Chaucer Live at 177 Upper Thames Street? The Chaucer Life-Records and the Site of Chaucer's London Home
Bestul examines Chaucer's life-records and the site of his London home. In 1873, E J. Furnivall discovered an important document bearing on the life of Chaucer in the Guildhall Library, London. This was a quit-claim deed, dated June 19, 1381, in which one Geoffrey Chaucer names himself as the son of John Chaucer, vintner of London, and releases his interest in a tenement once owned by his father located in Thames Street in the City of London. The significance of the deed is twofold. In the first place, of the more than four hundred documents relating to Chaucer's life known today, it is the only one giving any information about his ancestry. The deed is also important because, as is conventional in such deeds, it gives in some detail the boundaries of the property; thus pointing to a specific part of London where Chaucer is likely to have resided, almost certainly in his youth.
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Conrad in the British Museum Reading Room
Michael and Daniell provide a listing of Joseph Conrad's borrowed books, manuscripts, and maps in the Reading Room of the British Museum, together with the slips he needed in doing it. Detailed information is presented.
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Narrative Markets, ca. 1850
In the course of the nineteenth century novels were read all over Europe-from London to Wolverhampton and Penzance, and from France to Denmark and Hungary. But were they the same novels? Yes and no, answers Franco Moretti on the basis of commercial libraries' records and national bibliographies. Yes, because European cultural markets were indeed unified by the extraordinary success of the Anglo-French narrative modeL But no, because most of Europe was left with a very narrow range of choices, whereas the larger \"core\" markets were morphologically richer and more flexible. The article is an unusual attempt to apply quantitative methods to the history of literature, and to assess how the size and international position of each market acts as a constraint on aesthetic form.
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRE-1801 SCANDINAVIAN PRINTED COLLECTIONS IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY
Around half of the British Library's 20,000 early Scandinavian items were published before 1801 and at least 80 per cent of these were acquired before 1914. That such a collection exists (it is unequalled outside the Nordic countries) is due to a handful of private collectors (Sloane, Banks, Thorkelin, George III, Grenville and Hannas) and to the collection policy established by Panizzi with the support of Watts and his successors as selectors in the Department of Printed Books of the British Museum and subsequently British Library. (Quotes from original text)
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Rare Map Materials Made Digital: Scanning and Metadata to Archiving and Access
Creating access to cartographic images via digitisation, and maintaining the integrity and authenticity of the digital objects and associated metadata, is a current preoccupation of map curators. Format-specific information about the complete digitisation process can aid in planning for scanning projects to ensure reliable access, active management and long-term preservation. The recent experience of The British Library with a small project to scan maps held within rare books can contribute to this literature. Using a variety of skills and systems throughout the institution, a methodology was developed to manage each aspect of the process, from image capture and metadata creation to providing access and preserving material via digital archiving. The outcome is a unique application of existing library standards and systems, and illustrates an alternative to project-specific software programs or web pages for managing and providing access to digitised collection materials. Adapted from the source document.
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