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There has been an upsurge of interest in the British Museum's unrivalled collections and their place in eighteenth-century culture. Concentrating on the explorer and naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820), this book explores the early history of collections at the British Museum, the first public national museum to be established.
Banks travelled around the world with James Cook on HMS Endeavour, making important plant, animal and insect collections. Becoming one of the major patrons of British exploration and science, Banks was a significant trustee and donor of material for the museum. Taking Banks's extraordinary career as its basis, this book examines the changes that took place during a period of transition that led to collecting on an increasingly global scale and shows how these affected the British Museum itself.
The book will appeal to scholars of eighteenth-century science, culture and arts, museum history, exploration and empire.

Collectors and collecting --- History --- Banks, Joseph, --- British Museum --- History.

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This volume presents a new reading of an extraordinary Proto-Coptic magical text. Papyrus British Museum EA 10808 features a unique spell for a victim of divine wrath composed in the liturgical language of ancient Egypt but in Greek script with a few Demotic signs. Sederholm reveals a coherent and distinctive text that contributes to the illumination of Egyptian thought in the Graeco-Roman Period just before the great shutdown of the ancient temple learning. In nine chapters of transcription, translation, and commentary, Sederholm considers such features as taboo, secrecy, and the efficacy of magical words and names. He also discusses the destructive nature of the stars and the role of Fate in the bloody slaughter of divine enemies within the text.

Incantations, Egyptian --- Egyptian incantations --- British Library. --- British Museum. --- Egypt --- Religion. --- Religion --- Incantations, Egyptian. --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Egypt - Religion --- Incantations égyptiennes --- Égypte

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The Mediterranean is an invented cultural space, on the frontier between North and South, West and East. Modern Art and the Idea of the Mediterranean examines the representation of this region in the visual arts since the late eighteenth century, placing the ?idea of the Mediterranean? ? a cultural construct rather than a physical reality ? at the centre of our understanding of modern visual culture. This collection of essays features an international group of scholars who examine competing visions of the Mediterranean in terms of modernity and cultural identity, questioning and illuminating both European and non-European representations. An introductory essay frames the analysis in terms of a new spatial paradigm of the Mediterranean as a geographic, historical, and cultural region that emerged in the late eighteenth century, as France and Britain colonized the surrounding territories. Essays are grouped around three vital themes: visualization of the space of the new Mediterranean; varied uses of the classical paradigm; and issues of identity and resistance in an age of modernity and colonialism. Drawing on recent geographical, historical, cultural and anthropological studies, contributors address the visual representation of identity in both the European and the ?Oriental,? the colonial and post-colonial Mediterranean.

Art, Modern --- Artists --- History. --- Mediterranean Region --- Civilization. --- Art --- History --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Persons --- anno 1800-1899 --- British Library. --- Bible. --- Manuscripts. --- Manuscrits. --- British Museum. --- British Library --- British Museum --- St. Augustine's Abbey (Canterbury, England) --- Hexateuch

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British Museum --- Daiei Hakubutsukan --- Matḥaf al-Barīṭānī --- Museo Británico --- Britské muzeum v Londýně --- Briṭish Muzeʼon --- Ta Ying po wu kuan --- Da Ying bo wu guan --- Museum Britannicum --- Great Britain. --- בריטיש מוזיאום --- מוזיאון הבריטי --- 大英博物館 --- British Library

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L’Hymnaire manichéen chinois offre un ensemble de 25 hymnes destinées à la pratique de la religion manichéenne par la Section des Auditeurs. Mis au jour à Dunhuang (actuel Gansu) au début du 20ème siècle, après être resté enfoui dans une cache pendant quelque douze siècles, ce rouleau écrit en langue chinoise, comprend plusieurs hymnes transcrites de diverses langues courantes en Asie centrale à l’époque de sa rédaction. Cette traduction apporte une vision nouvelle de la Religion de Lumière, telle qu’elle se vit adoptée par les Chinois, ainsi que de l’ampleur du message du prophète iranien Mani (216-276), aspirant à une portée universelle et destiné à relier entre eux les hommes de tous horizons de par le monde, quelque soit leur origine, leur langue ou leur histoire.

Manichaeism --- Persian poetry --- Scrolls, Chinese --- Scrolls --- History and criticism. --- British Library --- Xia bu zan. --- 273.21 --- Manuscripts --- Chinese scrolls --- Persian literature --- Dualism (Religion) --- Philosophy, Ancient --- 273.21 Manicheïsme --- Manicheïsme --- History and criticism --- Christianity --- British Library. --- BL --- 下部讚 --- Xiabuzan --- British Museum --- B.L. (British Library) --- Great Britain. --- Sifriyah ha-Briṭit --- Ying-kuo tʻu shu kuan --- Da Ying tu shu guan --- 大英图书馆 --- Manuscrits de Dunhuang. --- British library --- Manuscrit. Ms. S. 2659.