/ en /node/2600 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2022-12/New%20²ÝÁñÊÓƵ%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20Keynes%201.jpg.webp?itok=o-KE3dHg" width="655" height="435" alt="²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, Keynes 1" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> The Other Samuel Johnson’s English Grammar </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2022): 18</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/422" hreflang="en">Robert Lowth</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/426" hreflang="en">Samuel Johnson</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/423" hreflang="en">Randal Keynes</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/427" hreflang="en">Letters</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>An anonymous grammar was published a few years after Robert Lowth’s <em>A Short Introduction to English Grammar</em> (1762)—<em>The First Easy Rudiments of Grammar, Applied to the English Tongue</em> (1765), attributed to Samuel Johnson. But copies are elusive. Who was this Samuel Johnson, and what was his connection to our ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ scholar and fellow Robert Lowth?</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, Keynes 1</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2022-12/18NCN8%20%282022%29%20Tieken-Boon%20van%20Ostade%20on%20The%20Other%20Samuel%20Johnson.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=267984" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">18NCN8 (2022) Tieken-Boon van Ostade on The Other Samuel Johnson.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">261.7 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:04:42 +0000 Christopher 2600 at /node/2599 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2022-12/New%20²ÝÁñÊÓƵ%20Archives%2C%20Oxford%2C%20NCA%20803.jpg.webp?itok=HrmwJ3QM" width="655" height="435" alt="²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Archives, Oxford, NCA 803" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Identifying the ‘Revd. Robt. Lowth’ in J. Sturges’s Letter to Mr. Cadell </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2022): 18</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/422" hreflang="en">Robert Lowth</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/423" hreflang="en">Randal Keynes</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/424" hreflang="en">John Sturges</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/425" hreflang="en">Thomas Cadell</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>All four of the published books by bishop and biblical critic Robert Lowth (1710–1787) are part of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library’s outstanding Keynes Collection, and, amazingly, in multiple editions and reprints, posthumous ones included. There are as many as 31 copies of his grammar, 13 each of <em>De sacra poesi</em> and <em>Isaiah</em>, and four copies of <em>William of Wykeham</em>. But the Keynes Collection contains much more than these and similar books, and one particular if mysterious little gem is an undated letter by J. Sturges addressed to ‘Mr. Cadell, Strand, London’.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Archives, Oxford, NCA 803</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2022-12/18NCN7%20%282022%29%20Tieken-Boon%20van%20Ostade%20on%20Sturges%E2%80%99s%20Letter.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=379833" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">18NCN7 (2022) Tieken-Boon van Ostade on Sturges’s Letter.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">370.93 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 29 Dec 2022 21:39:57 +0000 Christopher 2599 at