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New Vacancy: Antiquarian Cataloguer
Antiquarian Cataloguer
The Angus Library and Archive
2.5 years, full-time
£32,000 per annum
We are therefore looking to recruit an experienced, highly
knowledgeable and motivated person with formal experience in cataloguing
procedures and practices to fill this important and interesting post. This
position will focus on cataloguing the backlog of works in The Angus and
developing a plan to catalogue, conserve or dispose of items using Aleph DCRB/AACR2
cataloguing rules. The role will involve being responsible for all the
cataloguing undertaken as part of the HLF project and will be the direct point
of contact for all other cataloguing roles. The role requires knowledge of
antiquarian cataloguing standards and experience in the use of external
bibliographic databases (RLIN, OCLC, CURL, LOCIS). Knowledge and experience of
Heritage Lottery Fund projects, and a knowledge of Latin or Greek or at least
one modern European language would be desirable but not essential.
For more information regarding this
position or to request an information pack please contact the Project
Administrator, anja.clark@regents.ox.ac.uk or (01865)288142.
The Beasts in The Angus: The Heraldic Pelican
PRO LEGE REGE ET GREGE: For the Law, the King, and the Nation.
“Love kepyth the lawe, obeyeth the Kynge, and is good for the Comm’n Welthe.”
This image is from the final page of the New
Testament in English, edited from the Tyndale version and printed by the
London-based printer and bookseller Richard Judge or Jugge (d. 1577). Judge’s
printer’s device is prominently displayed: in the medallion is a pelican feeding
her children by pecking her chest.
The Medieval tale of the pelican states that when
the chicks begin to grow, they rebel against their father and incite his anger.
The provoked male bird kills his chicks; when the female bird returns to the
nest and discovers her dead young, she pierces her breast and feeds her blood
to her brood. The mother’s blood revives the chicks, the mother pelican is
therefore often depicted as an emblem of piety and charity.[i]
Naturalists observed that the pelican had a red
tip to its beak and small areas of crimson plumage; they therefore reported
that the pelican fed its young with blood flowing from its breast. The reddish
tinge on the pelican is in fact natural colouring, and the behaviour of the
pelican which may have resulted in this legend is part of its ordinary feeding
process. The pelican has a sack which acts as a container for the fish that it
feeds to its young. When feeding its chicks, the bird presses the sack back
against its neck in an action which mimics opening its breast with its bill.
As Jesus Christ set forth the redemption through His
blood, which he willingly shed for His children, early Christians adopted the
pelican as an emblem of Jesus Christ.[ii]
“Then sayd the pellycane
When my byrdts be slayne
With my bloude I them reuyue (revive)
Scrypture doth record,
The same dyd our Lord,
And rose from deth to lyue.”
Skelton, Armory of Birds
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