The Getty Research Institute – Los Angeles
The
Getty Research Institute announced today the acquisition of a rare book that,
through personal entries by the owner’s friends and associates, chronicles
political, cultural, and personal encounters along the edge of the Christian
and Muslim worlds. The book is fully digitized and viewable online.
This liber amicorum (“book of friends”) was compiled by Johann Joachim Prack von Asch, a military attaché of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II’s embassy to the Ottoman court at Constantinople. It is an album containing entries by Prack’s friends and contacts spanning 1587 to 1612. Most were penned in Istanbul and neighbouring Bohemian regions traversed by Prack during his diplomatic travels. The liber amicorum include allegorical scenes, emblems, coats of arms, poetry and mottoes written with calligraphic flourish, as well as figural scenes in watercolour based on Ottoman miniature paintings, which were ubiquitous in the bazaars of Istanbul in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
This liber amicorum (“book of friends”) was compiled by Johann Joachim Prack von Asch, a military attaché of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II’s embassy to the Ottoman court at Constantinople. It is an album containing entries by Prack’s friends and contacts spanning 1587 to 1612. Most were penned in Istanbul and neighbouring Bohemian regions traversed by Prack during his diplomatic travels. The liber amicorum include allegorical scenes, emblems, coats of arms, poetry and mottoes written with calligraphic flourish, as well as figural scenes in watercolour based on Ottoman miniature paintings, which were ubiquitous in the bazaars of Istanbul in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
Cambridge University Library, UK
An
extensive collection of largely British, French and German books, periodicals,
pamphlets and ephemera relating to the 1914–1919 war (classmark WRA–WRE, also
known as the War Reserve Collection), particularly notable for fugitive
material is available to view on microfilm. It includes around 800 British and
Dominion trench journals. It is largely the result of efforts made by Francis
Jenkinson (1853–1923), University Librarian, who wrote numerous letters to
contacts worldwide asking them to send material. An advert was also placed in
the ‘Cambridge Magazine’ in 1915 (“Such flying pieces as those which are
dropped from aeroplanes or posted on hoardings would be particularly welcome”),
and a colleague was sent to France to buy material. Jenkinson’s correspondence
and diaries are now kept in the Manuscripts Department.
The War card catalogue in the Rare Books Microfilm Annexe contains author and anonymous title information for items in the collection. Many of the books in the collection appear on Newton. However, ephemera and a large number of pamphlets and minor periodicals are listed only in the card catalogue. The card catalogue also includes books held elsewhere in the Library’s collections, which are generally catalogued also in the Pre-1978 General Catalogue, Newton or the Supplementary Catalogue.
The War card catalogue in the Rare Books Microfilm Annexe contains author and anonymous title information for items in the collection. Many of the books in the collection appear on Newton. However, ephemera and a large number of pamphlets and minor periodicals are listed only in the card catalogue. The card catalogue also includes books held elsewhere in the Library’s collections, which are generally catalogued also in the Pre-1978 General Catalogue, Newton or the Supplementary Catalogue.
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