Vol.1, no. 1, Spring 1975

Foreword (pp. 1-2)
Viscount Eccles, P.C., K.C.V.O., Chairman of the British Library Board

An illuminator's sketchbook (pp. 3-14)
Janet Backhouse

The ruling as a clue to the make-up of a medieval manuscript (pp. 15-21)
T. S. Pattie

The original reconnaissance map for the Battle of Quebec (pp. 22-24)
J. P. Hudson

The Napier papers (pp. 25-41)
Philip V. Blake-Hill

An illustrated Persian text of Kalila and Dimna dated 707/1307-8 (pp. 42-61)
P. Waley and Norah M. Titley

The Sir Arthur Phayre Collection of Burmese manuscripts (pp. 62-70)
Patricia M. Herbert

A collection of German religious songs of the mid-sixteenth century (pp. 71-83)
D. L. Paisey

Newton in the timberyard: the device of Frans Houttuyn, Amsterdam (pp. 84-89)
Anna E. C. Simoni

Notes on the 1503 edition of Petrarch (pp. 90-92)
Dennis E. Rhodes

Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books
Sandra Brown

Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books: select manuscript acquisitions January 1970 to June 1973

Notes: An Italian imprint identified; Work in progress: Catalogue of German Books, 1601-1700, in the British Library, Reference Division; Work in progress: Catalogue of Polish Books to 1800 in the Slavonic and East European Branch of the Reference Division of the British Library
D. E. Rhodes, D. L. Paisey, Hanna Swiderska

Vol. 1, no. 2, Autumn 1975

A manuscript of poems by Robert Sidney: some early impressions (pp. 107-144)
Hilton Kelliher and Katherine Duncan-Jones

Some illustrated Jain manuscripts (pp. 145-162)
Jeremiah P. Losty

The von Siebold Collection from Tokugawa Japan: 1. Dr Philipp Franz von Siebold's career in the Orient (pp. 163-170)
Yu-Ying Brown

Some occasional aspects of Johann Hermann Schein (pp. 171-180)
David Paisey

English Bookbindings added to the Department of Printed Books, 1963 to 1974 (pp. 181-190)
Howard M. Nixon

Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions, January 1973 to December 1974 (pp. 191-196)

Note: Rosichino and Pietro da Cortona: a correction with notes on the printer Fabio de Falco (pp. 197-198)
Dennis E. Rhodes

General Index (pp. 199-206)