Can somebody explain the symbol in the fifth line down left hand column of this old journal? It looks like a c over a 3 or a five.
Don’t know, but a search for ‘howleglas’ in the British Library catalogue (www.bl.uk, now the home of the British Museum’s books) turned up two editions of the book cited with C21 shelfmarks:
http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/HUTAY4FAXNYQAHC5H7YR7HP66GXBU5YQJ5T6AE7JHSHAYNMVVU-10983?func=full-set-set&set_number=043220&set_entry=000002&format=999
http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/HUTAY4FAXNYQAHC5H7YR7HP66GXBU5YQJ5T6AE7JHSHAYNMVVU-10990?func=full-set-set&set_number=043220&set_entry=000003&format=999
I think it’s a c over an old-fashioned z. Don’t know what that would mean, though.
GorrilaMan;
I think you’re right. C21 indicates the “Garrick Collection” in the old British Museum terminology I think.
And I think the other is a c over a 5, to complete that shelf mark in some old school manner? (was C21 c5-- now there’s another copy and so one’s c53 and one’s c57 (the one referred to in your text)?)
C.21.c.5 is a different book: http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/8QTYF9AJ48D59UI3KIYH5LRUHIJKE1JA3CPNDKGI6QGAQIJVQK-10493?func=full-set-set&set_number=048029&set_entry=000001&format=999
BTW, I visit the British Library occassionally - if I can be of help checking anything first-hand, email me via my profile.
SinJin, why are you working on Eulenspiegel, may I ask?
Capybara;
I’m not working on Til E. as such. I’m helping at Distributed Proof-readers to get old periodicals such as Notes and Queries (kind of like the internet of the 19th century) and out of copy-write books onto Project Gutenberg. I’m making an html and ascii document for up-loading that many other folks have pre-proofed and formatted. I couldn’t figure out what that symbol meant so have been looking on the net, and have since discovered, thanks to G-man’s tip, that the British Museum, now Library, has many named collections including the Garrick, which Til E. is a part of. (This is one of the reasons I like doing this, I learn so much new old stuff!!)
Kind of coincidentally, when I was a kid I took a music appreciation class in High School and the only thing I ever remembered was the story of Til. E. put to music.